Once the dress was pooled to her feet, she stepped out of it and out of her shoes. She headed straight to the bath and sunk herself into the heated scented water. "If you need me, I will be outside", the maid said, excusing herself and leaving Aria with her thoughts.
As she sunk deeper into her water, she held her breath as the memories she had had with Charlotte replayed in her head when she had been crowned Queen and the pesty woman wouldn't let her breathe in just for a moment.
"I will not watch my mouth. You don't know me and you never will but I know you. You are nothing but a young girl that was hurt by her father. Her mother was so desperate for love that she would do anything but love herself.
You are so used to being a decoy for other people's pain but your own. So be a Queen but his wife. You will never amount to being enough for him", she spat
