CHAPTER SIX: THE NEW MAID

She summoned all the courage in her before being able to ask. "Yes. Will you confine me?"

"Why should I confine my wife?" He asked as he stared at her with a pale look on his face.

'Is he for real? Will he let her walk freely and oppose the deal he made with her father?'

"I will make you see the stars every night. Sing under the moonlight every night. Water flowers during the sunny days, and stare at the water body every day". With his voice, which sounded promising, he echoed as he squatted beside her.

His words just brought life back to her. She now has many reasons to live. It felt like she was born again. She felt like the heavens had finally answered her prayers!

"Thank you, and I hope you will stick to your words, my husband". She echoed. To him, she is the first person to talk to him without trembling, or scared. He really loves her courage.

"Here is maid Tani. She will be your chief maid, so allow her to take good care of me". He said as he informed Luciana about her new chief maid. The maid immediately bowed her head at Princess Luciana, who swallowed the lumps in her throat.

The lady standing there is much prettier than her. Her green eyes, gray hair, slim, fitted and perfect body of hers is not an exemption of how pretty she is in the royal maid old tache gown. "Is she here to seduce my husband? Is he trying to make her his mistress?"

"I will be at my chamber". Dasya excused himself.

"Is he leaving me this soon? Did he have a mistress? Did he just marry me to gain more power? What is wrong with him? Did he want to abandon his wife?" she asked herself as tiny tears streamed down her eyes.

"Are you new here?" She asked the maid as her face turned from pale to reddened, hard.

"No, I'm a level ten maid. Two levels to become the prince's concubine". Luciana felt like strangling the lady standing before her as the feeling of jealousy took the better part of her.

She did not want her husband to get married to another lady! Not even a female friend is needed around her husband! Except they want their neck to slay off.

"I see". Feeling uncomfortable, she walked up to her changing room only to see tons of ladies arranging piles of heavy dresses and jewels. "Am I the owner of all this?" She asked herself as the imagination of how she would look in them floated in her head.

"You need to look gorgeous so as to beat the other princesses". One of the maids who has the brightest smile among others, said.

"Princesses?" She asked as the word amused her.

"Yes. Princess Taliyah is hosting a beauty show among the princesses in the palace". The other maid said as she finally closed the box.

'For sure, I had failed. They all look pretty, especially Princess Taliyah. My hair is also shorter than the rest, and my eyes are so dull, and no match for them. Is there a reason to attend apart from being the winner?' "Is there a reason to attend the show even if I don't want to?" She asked, staring blankly at her maid, who trembled on her spot.

"Princess Taliyah is a 'no joke' and she orders every lady in the palace to the event and the punishment for disobeying her order is grief". Maid Tani who just walked in, echoed with her head bowed.

"Since you are working here, you must have known her so well". Coming to the conclusion of attending the event in order not to cause more trouble, she walked into the bathroom.

It is a big room with different flowers hung around the walls and two bathtubs in each corner. "Is it for me?" The question popped up in her head as she took off her gown.

'Snow flowers are good for smooth skin. A pink-dew flower is good for hair strength and the rest unknown flowers have this killing fragrance'. She muttered as the scent filled her nose, with water droplets on her skin.

It feels so different. Bathing in cool water, staring at the light room, and feeling what is inside her bathwater is a strange, yet wonderful feeling that she has never felt all her life. The sudden feeling of not leaving the water engrossed her as she felt like staying inside the water, and not coming out, accumulating the fragrances and playing with her hair in it. "What a blissful moment".

"My lady, the event has already started. You need to get dressed quickly to avoid being mocked by others". It is obviously the maid Tani's voice she just heard. The voice seemed to be coming from inside the room even though she did not see the person, she wasn't afraid since she knew which person owned the voice.

"Oh". She immediately stood up from the bathtub and wrapped in a silk gown, which she immediately put on. It looks transparent and beautiful too.

"I am here". Her voice made the other maid walk up to her as they immediately left the room they were arranging.

"My lady, which of the dresses will you like to put on?" Maid Tani bowed her head as she pointed at the clothes hanging on a bamboo curved stander.

They all looked pretty, the colors and designs on them made it hard for her to make a choice. 'How can she make a choice when she feels like wearing all of them?'

"Will you wear this?" A golden-colored gown was stretched over to her by one of the maids. She really loves it because it soothes her skin.

"My lady, please have your seat so that your hair will be styled". Maid Tani's words hit her ear.

She really felt like leaving her hair to fall on her shoulder, but it seems everything done here is based on their 'master's order'

"Okay". She immediately took her seat, and the maid, who was to make her hair, stretched over a mirror to Luciana.

Her heart flutters at the view of how beautifully her hair is styled in a bun. The pretty ocean blue pin which was used to pin both angles of her hair made her happier because it looked so much like her eyes color.

"It's time". The voice of a guard who opened the door made her heart skip.

Apart from the 'Night of Royale', She hasn't gone to any event, and now she is afraid of passing out or blacking out, just like it happens to some people in Azirin stories.