Chin The Conqueror

Chapter 7:A Sudden Breathlessness

He had gotten out of the water when a maid servants approached him and shit out her hands to help dress him.He rejected her.

At the very moment,the chamber door cracked open and a pair of foot sound travelled through the place.It was the queen mother. She was a stoic with a remarkable beauty for her age.

She was adorned in a darkened green cotton royal robe that fully accentuated her ethereal look.

Without any care,the woman rushed towards the half undressed king.His white inner garment was wet soaked.It was his bath wear in the presence of the chamber servants and it clung to skin showing his firm and elegant figure.And talking about looks?

it was obvious he got his dazzling look from his mother.

"Your grace......" He said, knowing fully well ...'It' will land.

And there it was—Still maintaining her elegant composure,she swept him with a hard smack and said firmly,"I always wanted you to be confident and not to present yourself into danger! Not for you to pull out something that..that is mad.Get your head straight!

He sighed internally,knowing quite well she was right.But this wasn't his fault at all.He was just doing what a king would do.

Even the servants could not help but swallow hard and exclaim in awe I. their mind over the young king's beauty.In that moment,a beast word used to perfectly characterize him...sexy.

Then his eyes caught the sight of one of the servant maid running towards the queen mother and crying frantically her hands were shaking so hard that she could barely keep her balance as she stumbled over the threshold." My queen,it is His Highness... the prince!"

Chin had already thrown on an upper garment to cover his body adjusting it lightly across his chest while he watched the frantic interruption. Seeing a common servant breach the inner quarters of the exalted ones in such a messy state made his brow furrow and his face immediately darkened with a frown.

"What is the matter, and how is he?"

He was the first one to speak up, his voice low and steady as he stepped forward to study the panicked girl in front of him. She was a young palace maid attached to the royal family's private chambers, she served the high prince.On her face was an inflated level of fear."Your Majesty! His Highness is..."

The maid tried her absolute best to break the news cleanly, but she couldn't.Her stammering and the frustrating delay only caused the Queen Mother's temper to run short. He snarled with a stunted sigh of frustration as the tension in the room grew unbearable.

In her heart, the Queen Mother was hoping that it wasn't her terrible premonition that came through as she had pushed away that thought for long now.

"He... he is not breathing?" she inquired while ger voice dropped to a sharp whisper as her gaze hardened with sudden sadness.

The servant girl nodded with a bit of reluctance while the entire bathing chamber remained dead silent. "Yes, Your Grace," she whispered, her voice trembled and was barely audible in the quiet room.

The weight of the maid's confirmation settled badly over the Queen Mother. A visible stark change overcame her as her face turned pale and her shoulders slumped, her legs feeling numb beneath her heavy silk robes as a weakness took hold of her frame. This bad news was something she had never expected to hear at the moment.

Without pausing to demand any further information or details from the servant, she turned on her heel and hurriedly stormed out of the bathing chamber.She was heading for the high prince chamber.Chin followed closely behind her after he went back to his inner chamber where he got himself dressed in his official imperial gloom robes before pursuing her down the palace corridors.

When they finally reached the inner sanctuary of the deceased, it was with immense distress that the Queen Mother stood over the bed. She watched the breathless, still body of the young man who was meant to rule but didn't, the king who was never crowned.

She did not cry out or lose her dignity, but her rigid posture showed the immense effort it was taking to keep her expressions firmly locked away behind her usual composure.Chin stepped into the room a moment later, and the sight of the first son of the late king made his heart ache with an hollow pain.

It was a distressing experience to see the warmest and most generous person he had ever known lying there looking all pallid, wan, and being unmoving on the bed sheets. His brow furrowed and his face darkened as he stared at his still brother, the shock of what happened managed to break through his usual emotional defenses.

While he stood frozen by the bedside as the stern fact of the situation set in. He tightened his fists at his sides, his knuckles turning white as he tried to process the emptiness in the room. He did not even realize when a silent trickle of tears escaped his eyes, rolling slowly down his cheeks while the silence of the room closed in around them.

This was a truly lamentable turn of events for the people, and the sudden loss left both of them standing in an unpleasant silence as they looked down at the lifeless prince.