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8 Months later at Istvan royal Palace.
Laura's content is getting bigger and soon she will give birth. The estimated time is two weeks away. Eugene and Laura were looking forward to the birth of their baby into the world.
One afternoon, Liliana visited Laura's palace and saw a married couple sitting in the garden. Eugene stroked Laura's distended stomach happily, lovingly.
Why did his heart catch sight of that sight? Unknowingly she was holding her still flat stomach. The desire in her heart wanted to be like Laura. Liliana was uncomfortable with Freya's last words relating to her pregnancy. Does this have anything to do with his words?
Everyone talks about it in the back because she's not pregnant yet. There were even some people who urged for Liliana to quickly give offspring to Max, the heir of Istvan kingdom. Yeah, who else if not the ministers and the upper class nobles. But Max brushed it off by saying that he did not want any offspring yet.
A lie! It was all a lie and Liliana knew it. He just wanted to protect Liliana.
Liliana walked towards Laura and Eugene.
"Honor to Her Majesty!" eugene Laura said at the same time. When Laura was about to stand saluting, Liliana directly asked him to just sit down.
"It's okay to sit down, you're pregnant." Liliana understood the situation of Laura whose stomach was already big.
They sat three of them in the garden. A lady-in-waiting serves tea for the newly arrived Liliana. "Daughter Laura how much longer will it take for you to give birth to your baby?" liliana asked Laura and Eugene.
"According to the doctor's estimation, there are only two weeks left, your majesty." replied Eugene.
"Thank God, I can't wait to see my first niece. Healthy always yes, for you Laura and you too Prince Eugene." said Liliana sincerely prayed.
"Thank you brother-in-law!" laura said with a smile.
Liliana could not help her curiosity. "Daughter Laura, can I touch your stomach?"
"Oh! Please your Majesty the Queen," Laura gladly welcomed.
The woman, who was queen, approached Laura and her hands began to caress Laura's distended stomach. Unknowingly her tears trickled down, leaving Eugene and Laura flabbergasted.
"Her Majesty the Queen!" peekit Eugene's.
"Ah.sorry, I have to leave immediately. May you always be healthy" he said, wiping away the tears that fell down his cheeks.
Liliana directly left from there, she tried to hold back her cries. Laura and Eugene pity to see Liliana sad. After that Liliana went straight to the physician Chris in the palace treatment room and asked him about his condition, but the answer he received remained the same. There's nothing wrong with him.
"Tabib Chris, I know you lied to me! You must know what happened to me,"
"I'm not lying to your majesty" replied Chris.
"What are you telling me this has to do with the future of the kingdom? If you keep lying, then I have no choice but to force you."
"Your highness..."
Liliana stared intently at the middle-aged man, her face looking sweaty. Chris could hardly bear it because Liliana kept asking him the same thing during the first half of this month, she also felt sorry for Liliana who knew nothing about her own circumstances.
If it wasn't for his promise to the King's Majesty, perhaps he would have already told Liliana everything.
"Alright if you don't want to say it, but please answer me this one..."
The deg!
Chris looked up at Liliana.
"Does your Majesty know what happened to me?" tanyanya seriously.
Long unable to get an answer from the physician, Liliana again asked the same question. Chris answered Yes briefly. Indeed it should not be enough for Liliana to hear that answer, because in fact she was eager to find out what was happening to her body. Why is she not pregnant yet? But Liliana knew that the healer was ordered by Max to shut up. He valued the middle-aged man in keeping secrets.
"Yes, although I'm not satisfied with your answer, that's enough. Let my husband, who answers later." Liliana said with a bitter smile.
"Once again, please forgive me, Your Majesty the Queen!" as he bent down, he never intended to keep all of this a secret from his queen.
"It's okay, I understand how you are."
After meeting Chris, Liliana and Max were in their room that night. Liliana sat on a chair while sipping coffee.
"My soul, aren't you asleep?"
"No," he replied.
Max approaches Liliana, leading her to the bed. "Darling, what really happened to you? Are you sick?"
Both are now sitting on the bed. The man's eyes looked at Liliana, while the wife simply lowered her head and turned her face away. "Darling..What is it? What makes my Queen so nervous?"
"Then?"
"Why am I not pregnant? In the past, it was very easy to get pregnant. Does all this have anything to do with Freya's last words? Does this have anything to do with the gnawing poison I was drinking at the time?" liliana asked as she looked at her husband's face wryly.
She tried to speak more gently first, hoping that this time her husband could tell her what had happened to her.
"My soul, why are you asking this question again? Have we not discussed this before? Nothing happened to you, everything's fine.wasn't Chris saying everything's healthy."
"Yes, I know because every time I ask the same thing the answer stays that way. I also know that you and she are hiding my situation. Maxim, I need you to be honest with me! Can't I contain it?"
"Lily..my wife.." - Max, with widened eyes, looked at his wife.
"Please be honest with me, your majesty, for this is also related to the future of the two kingdoms." Pinta Liliana to her husband, but the man still remains silent 1000 languages.
He turned his face away as if unwilling to answer the question, as if the question was a difficult test to answer and perhaps even had no answer. Max is agitated and agitated, and he is afraid that Liliana will know everything.
"Maxim, we have not promised to be honest with each other and nothing is covered. Then why are you like this? Are you afraid that I can't accept the truth?"
"Lily, I'll say everything, but you have to promise me not to get mad."
Liliana nodded her head. Max sighed, he was unwilling to hide this for too long anymore. Because Liliana will only be injured later. Finally Max told the truth from his own mouth, take his wife was difficult to conceive, so said the palace healer. It's all because of the toxic effects of gynecologists that damage Liliana's uterus.
"Darling, you calm down.You can't be pregnant, you just have trouble conceiving. We can still have children, maybe not now, maybe later." Max tried to calm his wife's troubled heart.
And in the end, the woman's tears fell as well. Liliana hugged her husband, hoping to get pregnant soon.
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Two years have passed and all means have been done by Liliana and Max for them to get offspring soon. But they did not get it, there is no good news about pregnancy. Until all the ministers began to speak up and criticize Liliana.
"Your Majesty, it's been two years. I represent everyone who is here, before I apologize because I was presumptuous to ask. Me and all the ministers who are here are asking this because we are thinking about the future of the kingdom" one minister said aloud.
"Why? The issue of heredity again? You guys stand here and talk about my descendants?! I've already told you, that me and the Queen have absolutely no problem!" he was strict with everyone in the meeting hall.
"We know your majesty, but in fact. Her Majesty the Queen, has not been pregnant after 2 years of marriage with His Majesty. So, we have the conclusion that Her Majesty may be barren due to the incident of the gnaw poison? Am I wrong?"
Max was aghast and immediately stood up from his chair, he threw a sword at the minister who was speaking rudely. The sword hit his left hand, lucky he just scratched. But he could have died if the sword was a little closer to his other body.
"How dare you, talk like that about my Queen? About the QUEEN of this country!" max's voice blared like lightning striking.
Another minister is speaking. "Your majesty, please forgive me. We just want the future of this kingdom to be assured and have an heir. So, we suggest to your highness to take the concubine."
BRACKET!
Because of his emotions, he stuck a sword on the chest of the minister who dared to talk about the concubine. Max is completely inexhaustible with all his ministers.
"Ugh.Her majesty." the minister held his chest and was in pain.
"No talk of concubines! My only woman is my Queen! If you dare to talk about concubines, then I will kill you!" Show Max to his ministers.
The ministers disbanded from the meeting room after Max's anger could not be appeased, lucky Liliana came and made things calmer.
"Your majesty, you should be that kind of emotion in front of the ministers! What are their responses after this?" Liliana tried to calm her husband who was filled with a fog of emotion.
"But they dare to mention CONCUBINES. They must be out of their minds!" max's grunts are still emotionless.
"What did they say that wasn't wrong? Indeed my flaws have not been able to conceive a descendant for this kingdom, so that's what made them apply about taking a concubine."
"Lily, from then on, now onwards, you're the only woman who can occupy my heart and occupy my life. There's no other woman but you, Lily." Max held Liliana's hand, then gently kissed the back of her hand.
"I know.but--"
The cup!
Max silenced his wife's lips with a short kiss. "Don't you ever tell me to take the concubine, 'cause you know it's never gonna happen. I know enough and feel enough, how your heart hurts when I get close to other women. I don't want it all to happen again. Lily.." lily..."
"Then I have to how is Maxim? 2 Years we've been married and not yet-"
"Let's go see Brieta, I mean die we're looking for her. He must have the answer to all our unrest."
A brieta?
Remembering about the old woman, where was she? For two years he was never seen again.
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