My father's killer

confronting shadows

CHAPTER 5~

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DIANE

"Kira__?" I called, touching my forehead and wincing from the menacing pain. "My Lady." She replied, walking in hurried steps as she stood beside me.

"Take that letter and pass it to the king's right hand man. I need to visit my father for a few days." I said as she nodded.

"I hope__"

"Get going Kira. It's none of your business." I replied bluntly as I rushed to puke in the bathroom.

My eyes widened in shock as I realized I didn't have my monthly flow last month.

"C__could I be pregnant?" I muttered lowly, touching my stomach as another shock hit me.

I just became the mistress two months ago and now am pregnant? But who's the father? Allan or king Owen?

RITALIN

After checking up on Sasha and making sure she was comfortable,I decided to wander around the kingdom. Who knows I might see something interesting.

I must confess, it's more beautiful than our kingdom but all in all,it's for the enemy and there's nothing I can do.

I walked through several corridors, bowing slightly at anyone I see but of course they all kept their distance and some muttered lowly.

The one's who had courage spoke out, saying 'i wonder why she has a mask over her face.' I gritted my teeth and clenched my fists.

If only they know who's behind this mask, they'd flee!

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I walked for sometime before coming before a stream. It looked so beautiful and oddly familiar.

"I see you love staring at the waters too." A voice I can never mistake for anyone besides the prince said behind me.

"Oh am__ am sorry,I didn't know__"

"Oh that's okay besides aren't you supposed to be with the princess?" He asked calmly, tucking his hands behind his back.

"She requested for privacy so I came out for a while." I replied truthfully, staring at him as I noticed his eyes boring holes into me.

"Your name please__?" He stressed as I realized I haven't told him my name. Am I supposed to lie? I asked myself but came up with an answer quickly.

"Rita. Just Rita." I replied as he furrowed his brows and looked at my hands.

"Your name sounds familiar to that of princess Ritalin. The one in lads clothes." He said as my heart skipped.

He knows about me? And I don't really know him? "Oh yes, I've heard about her I heard she's brutal." I stated, wanting to know what he thinks of me.

"She's brutal yes I agree but her father made her be like that. She might be sweet inside her. Who knows." He replied as I felt my heart flutter a bit.

"I think I have to go now. I'll be__"

"Hold on. I'd love to know you more but__" he stopped as I smiled and turned away.

"Am a slave." I completed his statement and walked away.

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ALLAN

"I'd love to meet your recent mistress." I said as dad raised his head from the scroll in front of him.

"Why? I thought__"

"Alright then I'll go ahead and see her." I replied and marched out of his library. Am Allan,the first crowned prince in Mombasa kingdom and I believe everyone fears me, including my father.

I became cold the minute my mother died at the hands of an unknown king. Father got married again and birthed Reese and Jesse,then our little sister Ritalin.

I smiled thinking of her. Father said she's on a mission and he refused to reveal her location but I'd definitely find out and it better not be a dangerous place.

Sometimes he forgets she's a lady and he gives her so many unusual tasks.

"Is the lady in?" I asked the door man as he nodded. "Yes my Lord." He replied as I smiled.

It's time to know the wench who has been sleeping with my father. She better be good or else........

I turned the knob and walked.

"Can't you knoc__" she stopped immediately our eyes locked as tears rolled out of my eyes......

DIANE

"Al__Allan?" I stuttered,not believing my eyes and the tears in his eyes. "Diane?" He called as I moved back, turning around as o heard his footsteps behind me.

He turned the knob and followed me deeper into the chamber. "Diane is this really you? Or am i__"

"You're not hallucinating Allan it's me. Diane the pauper you saved several years back." I replied, holding the tears at Bay.

Why does it have to be so hard? Why did he have to be the prince? The crowned prince? Tears welled up in my eyes as several memories came rushing in.

I was just a little girl, thirteen years to be precise when he saved me from a gang of r****t. No harm was done but I was traumatized.

He took me to his house,a cottage and a beautiful one at that. Nursed my acquired injuries before sending words out to my father to come get me. But I think the force was there from the beginning.

I loved him at first sight. He was my first love,the first man yo know me as a woman and the first man to love me genuinely. My father was a brute and still is.

"So what brings you here?" I asked, after making sure my voice was steady. "I came to see the new mistress and I find out you're the one?" He asked as I nodded.

"It's been years since we saw last apart from the night you mysteriously appeared and slept with me again. You vanished." I accused as he closed his eyes. "And you chose to pay me back by becoming my father's mistress? Because you knew I'd definitely break down?" He asked as I scoffed.

"Am his mistress now. Whatever we had before is in the past now so if you'd excuse me I have to__"

"You can't do this to me Diane. You can't." He begged, holding my hands as I shivered. Gosh only his touch.

I looked into his eyes and saw myself when I needed the love of a father,a Friend. He was all I had. He held me protectively and now what do I do?