-You said she was only sleeping, It's been three days, why she hasn't woken up yet?
-I really don't know, Mrs. Rochas, It is also perplexing to me.
-You are a doctor, if you don't know who will know then?
The loud sounds disturbed her sleep, so she opened her eyes with difficulty and drowsiness covered them, sat on the bed and stretched her arms.
Maria was quarreling with someone short, fat and wearing big glances covering half of his face, she searched in her memory for this person, but she did not find him, which led her to surprise (How did a stranger come to her room? And why her maid was quarreling with him?) That's what was on her mind as she continued their raucous conversation, and finally she said what was in her head.
- Maria, who is this person, and why you are quarreling with him in my room ?!
After uttering her questions, she suddenly realized that she was not in her room, but in another strange room; Which prompted the wrinkle to occupy her forehead.
- Oh, Your Majesty, you woke up, thank God for your safety, i felt my neck would be cut at some point.
This was the doctor's confused voice, while Mariah remained silent and kept her head down.
- My Majesty, and thank God for your safety?, Maria, who is this person and why he addressed me like this ?!
Evangeline asked sharply after emerging from her bewilderment at the strange man's voice as he spoke.
Her tone seemed resolute, prompting Maria to raise her head and look at her with regret.
- What is the matter, Your Majesty? Are you okay? How can you forget me when I have been your doctor for the past five and a half years? !!
- My doctor, how that happened!! I don't remember taking a doctor, and I don't remember being sick, Maria, Is what this person saying is true ?!
Maria swallowed her saliva before she looked at the doctor and told him: - Mr. Menteiro, I think you should get out, Her Majesty needs a rest.
- But ........
Maria did not let him continue his words, as she pushed him out of the room and closed the door behind him, she leaned with her back on the door with her eyes looking at her queen with guilt.
- So Mariah, can you explain what that person was saying before you kick him out?
-Well, my lady, I'll tell you everything that happened during those five and a half years. It started with ........
-It is impossible, then you say that I was under the influence of some kind of magic and married this prince suggested by my father, and had four children from him, so now I am a wife and a mother, right?
Maria nodded in agreement.
-Seriously Maria, Do you see that your words are realistic? how can any magic control me?, then what is this talk about the wife and mother game? Have you joined my father's party you too, is this a plan from him to make me agree to his decision to marry that prince? It's not very fun, believe me, if you don't finish this game now, my act is going to be scary for you.
- I am not deceiving you, my lady, the king has already completed his plan, you have been under magic that he placed on you all those years, I couldn't do anything to stop them, I only escorted you here as your lady-in-waiting.
- So you say that everything you have told me is true, and that that old man conspired against me and made me marry that person, only to save his stupid kingdom, which I could easily save only with my relationships, right?
Maria nodded again; which made Evangeline to put her hands on her ears refusing.
- No, all this is just a nightmare, a disturbing nightmare from which I will wake up to find myself still with my grandfather in one of those abominable trips.
- Madame, would you follow me.
- What ?!
She seemed confused not even understanding what Mariah was saying.
- Follow me, please.
Maria repeated her request, and this time she grabbed Evangeline's hand and pulled her out of the room, walked with her until she reached the little prince's suite and pushed her in.
-What are you doing Maria, why did you drag me like this?
- Just look at him, madame, look at him and you will understand everything.
Maria finished her words, then walked out of the room and closed the door behind her.
While Evangeline looked around, it looked like a nursery room for a little baby, there was a cradle in the middle of the room already, Evangeline came forward with her heart trembling inside her ribs, she hardly looked into the cot, there was a very small baby.
the baby looked weak like a newborn with crunchy skin and closed eyes, The child was not at all like his age, his body was emaciated as a child, hours passed since his birth, not a child in two months of age,
Evangeline found herself taken with the baby, she felt her heart swell in her chest as she looked at him, the child cried weakly, which forced her tears to fall on his cry, she felt the trail of tears in astonishment, with her whole life she did not remember that she cried once, not even during her grandfather's harsh training.
But now her tears came out a lot, only to the crying of that little boy, she carried him gently while she was afraid that she would drop him, the fear was a strange feeling on her too.
she was the one who faced the dangers, smiling always and now she feels very afraid in front of this child.
She held the child with a trembling hand, he was crying hard and his crying seemed weak and barely heard from the severity of his hunger.
she felt her dress wet, the milk had flowed from her breast soaking the dress, and she was surprised as she looked at the place of the wetness (Did her baby feel close to her so he cried and demanded to breastfeed him, and her milk did descend suddenly because he is hungry ?!)
Sadness flashed in her eyes as she looked at her crying baby, she did not know how to breastfeed him, it was strange for her, but she decided to try.
She would not leave him hungry and cry like this, she dried her dress with magic and then removed its front and approached the child, and put his mouth gently on her breast.
The child began to suckle voraciously from it, her forehead wrinkled painfully, she did not know that it would be so painful, but this was nothing in front of the joy that she felled later while seeing him, her eyes were moist from her tears and the calm smile was on her lips.
She bent over and printed a long kiss on his head, she was in her private world with her baby and did not want anything to keep her away from him, so she kept him in her lap even after she finished breastfeeding him.
She felt as if she wanted to hide him inside her ribs in the place of her heart, so that no harm would befall him or harm him, her child was smiling, which pushed the smile to cracked face as well, the tears of joy were sparkling in her eyes, her child looked so beautiful even with his eyes closed, but wait a minute;
Why his eyes were closed all the time? what if he had a problem with them both ?!
Suddenly, her heart was filled with fear, and she placed the little boy in his cradle, and decided to perform magic to recover on him, but nothing changed, perhaps the child became healthier and slightly different in size from what he looked like the first thing she saw, but his eyes remained closed.
-What now? Do you not want to open your eyes? do you do this yourself?
A small smile struck her mouth.
- What a stubborn child as your mother.
She heard loud banging on the door, followed by Maria's voice.
-My lady, you should go out now.
She kissed the little boy several times, she did not really want to leave him, but Maria's voice came to her again with urgency, she finally left the room with her eyes turned to him, she closed the door behind her and remained holding it and a long sigh went from her.
- What's the matter? why did you get me out ?!
She went to Maria and asked her in distress; and Maria answers:
- The nanny is coming, we have to leave now and I will answer your questions later.
Maria quickly pulled her back and took her to her room and closed the door behind her.
- So what is all this fear of the nanny ?!
- She is a follower to Duke Stefano.
- who is that, and what effect does it have on me ?!
-Well, it has no effect on you, but it is on your husband, he is the biggest opponent to him, in fact it was him who suggested removing him and appointing your son Alfred in his place.
- Appointing my son? Is this a joke? my child is still four and a half, so you told me, so this bastard wants to use him like this in front of everyone's eyes, and what does my esteemed husband do in front of this ?!
She said it mockingly, so Mariah answered seriously.
- He is doing everything he can to stop him.
-Yes, but as I see all his energy is still not enough, why not get rid of him at one and finish from him?
- I do not think he can, this Duke has most of the country's economy in his hands, the kingdom may collapse if the king speeds up, and this is what he does not want.
-I see that you are defending him, have you become one of his followers, you too ?!
-Of course not. I am always loyal to you, I was only monitoring the situation in case you woke up from this magic.
-Well, well, stop talking, now I want to see the rest of my kids, where are they ?!
Evangeline spoke hard and firmness appeared in her eyes; Maria answered with hesitation.
-I don't know, perhaps we won't be able to. Both of the two great princes'nanny are ruthless.
- Two nannies allow me !! Maria, take me now to my children, you understand ?!
Evangeline was on fire, causing Maria to surrender quickly.
- Well let's go to them.
Evangeline's smile looked great clear after Maria's sentence.
Maria took her first at the elder Prince Alfred, which made them face the first nanny, who stood firmly without seeing the Prince.
- He is in art class, you can't see him now.
The nanny said her last sentence sharply with pressure on each word, as if to hint to the fact that Evangeline had never visited her child, Evangeline was about to get into a quarrel with the nanny but Maria pulled her out and left.
The nanny was stunned by the scene in front of her and entered the room, shaking her head disapprovingly.
- Let me Maria, why did you pull me like this ?!
Evangeline said angrily, so Maria sights.
-We don't want to create a problem in order not to draw attention to you, everyone knows that the Queen is powerless and this will be in your interest later, so until you prepare your plan - and I know that there is one on your mind now - We won't change anything of your behavior.
- But ....
- Without but, we have to work quietly so that no one notices us.
Evangeline complied with difficulty, she knew that Maria wanted good for her, she had always been a loyal friend, but this did not prevent her from insisting on going to see the second prince Albert, and as Maria had expected, the scene was repeated again with the second prince, the nanny did not accept her visit on the pretext that the prince had classes made previously, and he had to stick to his study schedule.
Evangeline's anger flared up again, but she concealed it with an angry smile and went with Maria, who pulled her out for a time whose number this day is unknown.
-Why did you pull me again? I wasn't going to make trouble.
-I know, but you would waste your time in vain, this nanny is tougher than the first.
- Why do they put such nannies for two children aged four and a half and three years old ?!
- I don't know, maybe this is the kingdom's habit of raising its princes, so where are we heading now ?!
-Of course, to see the third prince, do you think I had given up, by the way, you haven't mentioned my child's name yet.
- It's Cloud, Prince Claude is now two years old.
Evangeline suddenly stopped, causing Maria to stop as well.
- Did you say his name is Cloud?
- Yes, it is.
- Oh my God, Alfred Albert Cloud and Killian, I named them all, right ?!
It seemed more like an admission of reality than a question, but Maria nodded with a yes, and her eyes raging in tears.
-Yeah, you insisted on naming them, maybe your self was regaining a bit from magic at this time, but you all named them.
- Cloud, it's really cool, isn't it, Maria?
- Yes, your Highness, it's amazing.
Mariah's eyes were full of tears, Evangeline wanted to comfort her but she stopped her.
- Let's go now, you have to see your baby.
- Yeah, let's go.
Evangeline said emotionally, as soon as they reached the suite of the third prince, they knew that it was different this time.
The nanny was very welcoming, greeted them with a smile,and she seemed happy that the Queen wanted to see her baby, and even encouraged her to come in.
- Maria, remind me to reward that nanny later.
So Evangeline whispered to Maria in secret.
As soon as she saw her third child, her eyes were filled with tears, it was like a miniature version of her younger brother, Old Evangeline may not have loved anyone in her life as much as she loved her brother, but now her heart was already filled with the love of all her children, whom she had seen and whom she had not seen.
Her baby had dark brown hair and purple eyes like hers, even if they were a shade darker, his childish face looked very beautiful while he was playing with his toys without caring about what was around him.
She approached him like a bewitched woman, but suddenly stopped a few steps away from him, feeling her feet weak and a question in her mind revolving around (How will her child meet her? Rather how will she introduce herself to him? does she say that she is his mother who was absent from him since his birth, or what to say ?!)
All this took place in her mind before the voice of her child removed her from that distraction.
- Mama.
The child left his toy and quickly went to her and clung to her leg, and in turn she bowed and grabbed him in her arms.
-My baby, I am here.
She said it with yearning, a strange longing that filled her chest and left it fragile.
All of her feelings gathered suddenly to broadcast to the little one in her arms.
- Mama, why are you late like that? I was waiting for you every night.
The little boy said slowly, with scattered letters, and she responded with a smile and her tears flowing.
- Mama, is sorry, so sorry for her delay, I promise you that I won't leave you again, mama will stay with you from now on.
The little boy clung tightly to her neck, in turn she hugged him more and brought him closer to her chest, it was a wonderful sight that left Maria and the nanny with tearful eyes.
Evangeline stayed with the little one until he fell asleep and left him with the nanny and did not forget thanking her for her act.
- It's okay, i knew you'd come one day, so they should have known their mother, your painting was right in front of their eyes as they grew up.
This was the response of the kind nanny, which greatly increased her value in Evangeline's heart, Evangeline and Maria said goodbye to her and went.
-So what's the plan now? Is it complete for you?
This was Mariah's question to Evangeline, who smiled cunningly and the sparkle of her purple eyes shone.
-Oh dear Maria! of course it's done in my head, it's a plan that will turn this country upside down, just wait and see.
Evangeline's loud laugh made her look like an evil figure, and Mariah couldn't help but swallow her saliva with apprehension for fear of what her queen intended.
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What is Evangeline's plan ?!
Translated by Ema-rainha