Unable to control his irritation, he stood up from the dinning table and walked out from the rest of them eating.
Chums stares at him worriedly, while Stephanie placed her hands on hers to calm her down. Queen Melissa only sighs after he left them, and walk back to his room.
Sarah was quiet all thru as he had also refused to drink the herbs she prepared for him and she knew he was sick and only pretending to be fine for all of them.
They silently ate their night meal in peace and after that Queen Melissa stood up first and retires to her room. Stephanie sighed and spoked first, "Don't get yourself worried about my brother's behavior, he has appetite problem and sometimes doesn't like to eat," She spoked to Chums to calm her down.
"Okay" Chums faintly replied.
"Sarah you haven't said anything yet since noon, Are you alright?" Princess Stephanie asked her sister as she was quiet all thru.
"Am fine, just worried about brother" Sarah replied.
"He will be fine, Is just tomorrow" Stephanie offered them a smile.
"Come Chums, let me escort you back to your room" Stephanie stood up first from her dinning seat and Chums sighed and followed her back to the guest room. She wonders if that was how the crown prince behaves.
She has been admiring him and cannot wait to be chosen after the dance festival is over..She has seen some other ladies that will be participating in the dance but none of them is a seductive dancer like her.
She sighs and continue following Stephanie as they got to the guest rooms. Stephanie stopped in front of the room door given to her and turns to face her.
"You shouldn't be worried about my brother walking out from us at the dinning. He doesn't like eating our food, Am just telling you this, so you wouldn't bother going out hunting for him. He prefers cooked food as he's trying to adopt the humans style" Stephanie said.
"Okay, Am just hoping he selects me" Chums stated her worries.
"Why not?. There's no need to worry about that. He will be crowned tomorrow, so let's just wait. Goodnight friend."
"Goodnight," Stephanie replied her and walked back into the guest room.
She remembered the look of disgust in the crown prince's eyes, when he ate their delicious dinner, why would he be irritated eating their food?. She sighs and decided not to worry about him like Stephanie had advised her.
She stood up and went to ease herself and later return back to her room to sleep, as she so love her new bed.
Crown Prince Mark got back into his chamber, he immediately summoned Steve into his chamber.
"Go to the women's quarters and find out what they are doing in preparation for tomorrow activities" he said to Steve.
"Okay your majesty. Anything else you will like me to do?" Steve asked, noticing his distress.
"No, Just find out first and give me their update."
"Yes your majesty." Steve steps out from his chamber and Immediately send a guard to find out what the women quarters where up too.
The guard returned and told him, "They're all sleeping General."
"Hmm" Steve brows furrowed at him.
"You can return back to your post" he dismissed the guard and walk back to guard the prince's chamber. He couldn't understand what was wrong with his majesty as Crown Prince Mark had been behaving strangely of lately to him. He sighs and sat on his guard seat, next to the entrance door of Crown Prince Mark chamber.
Crown Prince Mark pace up and down in his room thinking on how he will confront the human about her affairs. He couldn't just approach her and ask her a stupid question. He thought to pass warning to Lady Annabelle not to allow any of the females go closer to the Labour-house, but that would also be a difficult thing to do, as his mother might find out.
He sighed and walk back to his bed to sleep for the night.
The following morning, Lady Annabelle rang the bell loudly to wake up all the young women still sleeping in their different rooms. It was their dancing festival day and they all had to prepare and assist as many beast and humans would be in attendance.
Some humans were previously married to some of their beast-men and it was more easily to see a lot of human-females married to the beast men, compared to a beast-woman, married to a human male.
Angela sat up on her bed, while Esther was already down, preparing to go out and take her bath with the rest of the girls.
"Finally we will see their so called dancing festival" Esther rant as she undress.
"Hmm" Angela smiles faintly. She was all smiles because she will get to see Alex. She was happy he wasn't killed as she had thought, so she couldn't wait to go and see him.
"Why are you blushing so early?" Esther asked her, seeing her face adorning some bright redder color.
"Nothing. Am just thinking on how the dance will be like" Angela quickly replied as she stood up from the bed to undress too
"Really, or you are thinking about the love of your life?" Esther asked her suspiciously.
"No! Why say that?" Angela quickly pretend. Whereas her heart was screaming out Yes!.
"Don't ask me that, Like you don't have boyfriend with all this God given packages you're carrying on your body. Even me that's not as cute as you're have a boyfriend. Just that I will miss him" Esther smile faded as she said the last word and Angela sighs and walk to sit rightly beside her.
"You don't have to say that. You can still get to see him someday, so long he loves you so much" She advise Esther, using her case as an example.
"No, he wouldn't wait for me. I don't even know when I will be out from here. What if he ends up being caught by other clans. How I just wish there's a way to end all these nightmares" Esther eyes became teary and Angela sighs.
"Someday it will end, let's just be positive okay" Angela held her hands and nods to her.
"Okay," Esther replied faintly as she stood up back to take her bath, seeing most of the girls were already ready to step out
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Angela stood up too and took her bath. Later she went upstairs to the dinning, arriving late with Esther as most of the ladies were all seated in their various dinning seat.
Lady Mandy stares at them with narrowed eyes as they have already served the breakfast and didn't serve theirs, thinking that was all the numbers in the dining hall.
"Why are you two just arriving this minute?" Lady Mandy asked them and they froze almost taking their respective seats.
"Come here!" The beast-woman commanded and Angela and Esther swallowed as they walk up to meet her at the front.
Lady Annabelle wasn't around and the cold aura in the dinning hall spoked otherwise.
"So you two thinks we will sit down here and wait for you to arrive as what?!" Lady Mandy thunders and Angela swallowed, while Esther looked downward already shaking as she couldn't stare at the beast-woman's eyes.
Lady Mandy red colored eyes were making her to shiver.
"Go back to your seats and sit. No breakfast for you two. The next time any of you all arrive late for dinner, forget about your meals for that day!" she warned them all feeling irritated with the scent of the cooked rice they were eating.
Angela and Esther weren't served breakfast as they sat watching the rest eat. Later Lady Annabelle returned and spoked to them about coordination at the event.
"The dancing festival starts by twelve noon today, I want you all to behave like I stated earlier. After the ceremony is over you all are to sweep the whole palace and field where the event will take place, Is that understood?."
"Yes Ma'am" They replied.
"Good, The time is 10:45am now. Lora, select five girls from the second to the last set to go upstairs and prepare the crown prince bath" Lady Annabelle Instruct.
"Okay Ma'am." Lora stood up and did as she was told, while Angela and Esther was all calmed staring at the young ladies selected.
It wasn't Angela's first time of starving so she wasn't bothered about the food punishment, but Esther was really bothered as she was so hungry.
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Angela felt sorry Esther as she knew the young lady was also finding it difficult to adjust like her, but because she loves gossips, she acted so strong and not bothered, but she truly was.
Angela was just hoping to see Alex at the event as she didn't know if the human males held has captive would be allowed, and if she asked about that, it will raise their suspicion. She swallowed and stood up to leave the dinning hall, going out of the women castle with the rest, as she begins to hear the sound of the drummers beating the drums.