"Good morning Princess, how did you sleep?" asked Malphus without looking up at Valerie, as she walked into his study.
"Good morning sire, it was well.How was your sleep?" asked Valerie as she put his morning tea on his desk.
"Great so, I heard that Mary slept with me. Wonder where that came from." Malphus took a sip of his tea, still not looking up at Valerie.
"I- uh I-" Malphus interrupted Valerie " I didn't ask for you to stutter, I asked how people knew we had sex." Malphus said, finally looking up at Valerie.
"..." Valerie couldn't give an answer, her throat went dry, and fer face went white.
"Mm. Aright then." Valerie snapped back.
"Your highness I-" Malphus burst out in laughter, he didn't care that the truth came out, it was bound to happen. He just enjoyed scaring people.
Once Valerie found out he was just pulling her leg, she shouted 'you demon!'. She was angry that he made her get so nervous that she was about to cry. He apologized, and their day went on as it normally did.
Valerie took her daily hour break early today, so that Alan would be forced to play with the children of his own age. She walked the halls of the castle with a simple gown on, just so people knew she was on a break and not to bother her with work.
Unlike what Valerie hoped for, she didn't have a peaceful break as she soon heard an angry 'Valerie!' come from the other side of the hall, then saw an angry Mary to go along with the voice.
Mary walked faster seeing the dimwitted look on the girls face as her name had been called.
"Don't look innocent you rat! Why did you go about telling people that I, instead of you, slept with the King?" Valerie knew there was no way Mary knew it was her who let the truth out. She picked the maids who were dumb and never remembered much to speak to, and made sure that it was only them who heard her speak.
"What ever do you mean Mary? I told you that it was I who heard the rumor, not who spoke it." Valerie knew it was safe to play the innocent card.
"Then you are also a liar, because I know that it was you to tell the maids that I slept with the King!" Mary yelled at Valerie as two maids walked by, and laughed at the woman because it looked like Valerie was paying her no mind.
"Oh Mary, I know your angry because people think your a slut, but please don't take it out on me." Valerie shook her head slowly as if Mary had done something wrong.
Mary raised her hand and shouted "You bit-" only to have her slapped Malphus' chest instead of Valerie face.
"Oh your highness, I- I-" Malphus interrupted her "Let's take a little walk, shall we?" Malphus put his hand around Mary's waist and forced her to walk the opposite direction of Valerie.
Malphus led Mary out of the castle and walked in the direction of the nearest town, Malphus didn't say a word to Mary while they walked, then Mary finally chalked up the courage to ask him something.
"Malphus... where are we going?" Mary asked in a quiet voice, half hoping not to be heard.
"No where in particular, why? Do wanna go back to the castle?" Asked Malphus in an annoyed voice.
"Uh no, I'm just a bit cold." Mary rubbed her hands on her arms as goosebumps formed on her skin.
"Would you like my jacket?" He asked where Mary nodded her head "Well that's a shame, because you won't be getting it." He said as he saw Mary sigh in disappointment.
After a hour of walking Mary was extremely tired and cold, she wondered if the King was but it didn't seem like it as he was still walking pretty fast.