She cared for him.

Her apology took Ahmar by surprise but then his gaze softened several degrees as he looked at her lowering her head and looking anywhere but him. When Xander told him that Bree was feeling guilty towards him, he thought that his aide was looking too much into it but now that he was looking at Bree's expressive face which was different from the cold, blank and expressionless one —- he came to a sudden realisation that Bree was indeed guilty towards him.

"What was that your majesty?" Though he heard it clear the last time, he still asked Bree to repeat it causing the latter to glare at him but nonetheless, she still sucked in a breath and said, " I shouldn't have punished you by sending you to the dark tower, I —- I never intended to hurt you, just scare you a little so that you will not be as ribald as you were in the afternoon. That wasn't acceptable to me." 

" But your majesty used to like it before—-"