The door opened, and Vetta walked into the king’s chambers. The personal slave she saw with Danika still troubled her.
Why would the king allow the girl in? Surely, it wasn’t because he wanted to do that monster’s daughter a favor!
King Lucien wasn’t within sight, but Vetta saw the adjoining door of his room was open, so she knew he must be in his library.
Even as a slave, the king loved to read a lot and write, too. Vetta had tried learning the previous, but it was too difficult.
Slaves had no business reading and writing, but now that she was a mistress—the only mistress who owned a king—she should be able to do so.
Unfortunately, it was not so easy.
Vetta entered the adjoining room, and there the king sat in a chair, reading a book. The book was about plantations and how to keep
