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Chapter 21

It feels like hell has broken over. The Queen found out about Mason not being in the dungeons and she got really pissed off. She has all the guards on duty and all of them are searching the palace and the villages near by. No one really know who exactly she is looking for. She has not been there for breakfast and now its past lunch time. I haven't gotten the chance to talk with Dimitri, Eddie, Sasha and the King. But they are all in the palace so no suspicions go on them. I am mad beyond mad at them. They better give me the answers or worse will happen.

I don't know why Mason has been captured and the Russians made it look like he died and why would the king help? What is he up to? He has been acting that it's effected him that someone broke Mason out and he was mad. But I know better. It was him, he was behind breaking him out. He has told all of them Mason is alive. So what is really going on? I better get my answers. I got up and walked out. Guard Anton was still there standing outside my door. "I would like to see His Majesty, " I said to him. He bowed to me and then said,

"Your Highness, his majesty is busy at the moment. He is out of the palace in search for the traitor who has broken out of the dungeons." Traitor? My brother? Hell no! Ok I'll go see Christian then. "Can you escort me to King Ozera's room?" I asked him. "Your highness its better for you not have any kind of meeting with him or any one who has come with you from Turkey. There would be a lot suspicions on you of breaking him out of the dungeons." Anton whispers so no one can hear and I was looking at him with shock in my eyes. He couldn't have known to, or does he?

"You know?" I whispered and all he did was nod. I didn't say anything and walked back in to the room. What is really going on here? I sat in my room just relaxing and not doing anything. I was just so happy to know Mason is alive and now some where safe. Words of Oleana were dancing in my head. She said have faith and good things happen but it takes time.

No matter how mad I am at everyone for hiding stuff from me. I am happy Dimitri is alive. Oleana was right we just have to wait. Maybe the king is not so cruel. Maybe he is a good person

DPOV

Queen Tatiana is going crazy and seeing her like this makes me happy. She has taken a lot from me and from Turkey. Just because of her selfish reasons. We were able to hide Mason in the palace because the only place the queen wont search is the palace because no one would break from the dungeons and hide in the same palace. There are a lot of guards who are working with us. Some are with the queen.

I know Roza is hurt that we hid a lot of things from her but we had to. First she is pregnant and second she would have been happy then being sad and the queen would have known something is up. It hurt me to see her like that but it was for her. We were going to tell her soon but not like this. She walked in on us. But she has been ok I know we will have her tantrum but it will be ok.

I still cant believe how things have turned out I was gonna make living hell for the King but nope today we are good friends. Who would have believed that?

Flashback

I was so mad sitting here in the carriage with the king. He was smoking his argili thing and his lords were bored. I looked out the window and everything just happened to quick for me to react. The king stabbed one of his mans and then the other who was sitting next to me. His moves were so fast and unexpected that I couldn't have save them.

"What the hell?" I asked as I looked at the mens who were now covered in blood and dead. I looked at the king for explanation.

"Don't worry, they deserved it." He said and I raised my eyebrow at him.

"They worked for the Queen and kept eyes on me. So they had to die in order for me to talk to you." He said.

"Talk to me? What about?" I asked. What could the king possibly wants from me unless he wants me to join his army!

"Do you know who you are?" He asked.

"Yes, I am Dimitri Belikov, the captain of the Turkey army." I said to him. How would I not know who I am?

"You know my mom's last name was Belikov before she married my father." He said. I kept looking at him as to where he is going with this?

"You are the son of Oleana and Nathan Ivashkov." My world froze there. What is he in about? This cant be true.

"What the hell are you talking about?"

"Everyone knows that king Nathan Ivashkov's older son was stolen when he was five days old.". Yes, I knew that but doesn't mean I am that son. But the more I look at him, I can tell we look a lot like each other.

"That does not mean I am that son."

"Dimitri Belikov and Oleana Belikov it's a confidence right. Then we both look alike that is also a coincidence." He made me thinking now.

"Look I need your help."

"And why would I help you?" I asked him.

"Because you love Queen Rosemarie." How could he possibly know that?

"How do you know that?"

"I know allot of stuff. Look I cant do anything until I prove Queen Tatiana is wrong and I cant do that alone. Only you and Rose can help me with that." He said. Wait!

"Queen Tatiana is your mom why would you want to prove her wrong?" I asked him. I think there is something fishy in this.

"She gave me birth thats all. I am raised by our mom Oleana. I want to do this for her. She made me who I am today. I have to do what the Queen wants. I can't fight with her alone. I don't have the power." He said.

"I don't trust you." I said.

"You have no other choice then to trust me. If I cant fight the Queen then I marry Rose." He said.

"Why do you need us to fight the Queen? You are the king of Russia." I said.

"I am the king but whatever goes around only happen because of the queen." He said.

"Why do you want to marry Rose?" I asked raising my eyebrow.

"I don't want to. The Queen wants me to. She has some issues with Turkey that I don't know of. She wants to destroy the Mazur family which to an extend, she has." He said.

"So whats your plan?" I asked.

"Thats the thing I don't have a plan. The queen knows you are the lost son. She wants to kill you."

"Why would she want to kill me?" I asked.

"Lets see. You are the son of Oleana Ivashkov, the oldest of the Ivashkov. You come back in the picture she will have to step down as the Queen and you will officially be the King of Russia." He said.

"What happen to you?" I asked.

"Ill get back to being a prince." Why would he want that? I think this is some kind of trap.

"Look I don't have the time so you know-" he got up and punched me. I was right he was up to something. I got up and punched him back. He kicked me in the stomach and I stumbled back. Before I could do anything he pined me to the side and put something in my pocket and punched me again.

He was about to kick me but I was faster and punched him in the face. The carriage was moving now. I am sure I am going to kill him today. It all happened to fast for us to know what happened. The carriage turned over and rolled down. The king pushed me out of the carriage before it could fall down but I couldn't. I rolled down right after the carriage. I tried to get a hold of some branches but thy kept breaking from my weight.

There was another branch I saw that was coming before I hit the air. Ok I can do this. I jumped a little to get a hold on the branch and thankfully it didn't break. I herd a splash and it had to be the carriage falling in the water. I tried to get on top but it was hard seeing it was not flat surface. There were all rocks. Somehow I managed to get up on it and climbed up taking every step really carefully.

When I was almost up I lost my balance again and rolled down. Shit this was going to be hard. I hit a tree and that tree was in the way of me falling down. I had a lot of bruises now. I sat up and leaned my the tree. I took some breaths in and calmed down a little bit. What the hell just happened? We were talking and all the sudden he punched me. I knew he was making it all up. I could not be that prince. Then why did he push me out of the carriage? Only he would know. I remember he had put something in my pocket.

I took it out and it was some paper. I unfolded and it looked like a letter.

Dimitri, there is going to be a horse waiting for you up at opposite side of the hill. I have a plan in order for you to get in the Russian palace. I had to do this in order for the Queen to believe you are dead. A letter has been sent to King Ozera. He will get you in the palace saying you are a prince of some village in Egypt and you are his cousin. Once you are in the palace I will tell you what I need your help with. Now its up to you to get to the palace.

Adrian

This is just frustrating. What does the king want? I guess I have to go and see. I got up and made my way up. When I got up I could see from there Roza was sitting crying. All I wanted to do was run up to her and hold her in my arms, but not now. I can't. No one was able to see me. I just moved from there so no one could see me. As it was written in the letter there was a horse waiting for me. It was a white beautiful horse. I climbed on it and made my journey towards Russia.

It took me three weeks. I hardly rested thinking about Roza just couldn't let me sleep. I was worried for her. I was in the village now but I just didn't know how to get into the palace. There was so much security a lot of guards surrounded the palace. In the letter Adrian said I was supposed to be the prince of some village in Egypt. I went into one of the shops that had some dresses for men. I tried to find some that will make me look like a prince, and I found it. It was a black pant with a shirt and on top a long coat with buttons and some kind of work done. It looked like royal. Now I need some boots. I looked in the same store and found it. Great! Yeah I just don't have any coins to buy this.

This will all cost me twenty-five coins but I don't even have one. What do I do? I cant steal it. This is not I have grown up and I will feel bad for the poor men if I did that. I looked at my chain. This has been with me since I can remember. It also had some kind of pendant with it. It was really nice. Roza loved it and she always asked me if she could have it but I never gave it to her. But I am doing this for Roza. I have to get her out of there. So I took it off and went up to the men to pay.

"Twenty-five coins." He said. I gave him the chain, he gave me a look asking what is this.

"I don't have the coins on my right now. This is real gold. I will bring you the coins and take it back." I said to him with pleading eyes. "Ok," I thanked him and went off. I went near the some trees and changed. I now had a beard. I pulled my hair back and tied them really tight. Not one single hair was in my face. And I hated this look but I have not choice then hide my true identity. I still look same just with a beard and my hair done differently but one couldn't tell I was Dimitri if they didn't look closely. I cant even wait to see my Roza, hold her in my arms and tell her how much I love her.

I made my way toward the palace on my horse. I was stopped at the gates from the guards.

"Who are you?" One of them asked me as I got off from the horse. What the hell do I tell them? Yeah I am prince but I don't no my name. Let me think. Yes, Christian told me once about his cousin.

"I am Prince Asim Abbasi from Egypt." I said hoping they would believe me. One the heads jerked up and looked at me.

"Why are you alone? Where are your guards?" The same guard ask me again. What can I say?

"King Ozera has already arrived." The other guard who had looked at me when I said I am the prince spoke.

"Yes, I arrived with them here today but I wanted to look around the village thats why I am coming alone. I didn't want any guards coming with me." I said. The guard kept looking at me wanting to know if I was lying.

"Ok, You may go in. Guard Anton can escort you in." He said pointing to the guard who came to my rescue earlier. Maybe he is with the king. We went in and I did not even bother asking him anything. He brought me to my room.

"This is your room and down the hall is King Ozera's room. His Majesty has not arrived yet. He will be here today. The first thing he is going to do is have meeting with you and king Ozera." He said. I nodded at him and went in the room.

Time went by and the King had finally arrived with Roza in the palace. I only wanted to just go and see her but I cant. The guard came and took me with him to see the king. The guard opened the door and I walked in. Christian was siting there. The king sat in his chair as I just stood behind Christian. We both looked at Adrian to start. Explain what does he wants.

"I sew you did some changes to yourself." Obviously he was talking to me.

"We are not here to talk about my look, get to businesses." I was getting impatient now.

"I want you guys to break someone out of the dungeons and I know only you could do that." He said and leaned into his chair. He put me through this just to break through the dungeons? He is the king he can just release the prisoner.

"You are the king. Why don't you just release the prisoner?" Christian asked before I could. I could see Christian was mad.

"If I could I would have. I don't have anything in my hands. I have to follow what the queen wants." I could tell he was frustrated. He didn't really like talking about the queen. But maybe this is his act.

"You are the king. Don't you know when you get the thrown you have all the authority for the country. The queen does cant do anything since you are the king. You have a higher title then her." To My surprise Christian was so calm. I though he was going to rip the King head off. I stayed quit listening to them and trying to think what could the king possibly wants.

"I wish I did. Things here are not like it looks. I may be the king but the queen still has the power on everything and I have to do what she wants in order for no harm. Done to my love ones." I can tell he is being sincere.

"I don't get it. When I was throned my father stepped down. I have all the authority. Yes, his opinions matters but I have to agree with them first in order for anything to happen." Christian does have a point. This is how it is. Even when King Mazur stepped down and crowned Mason, only Mason made the decision since he was the king. I miss him a lot. We were friends then King and a Guard. I wish I could have saved him.

"You don't know what levels the queen can go down to. You have no idea. I have lived all my life here and saw things that still haunt me till today. I know for everyone I am the evil king but I am just a puppet of the queen." He has disappointment in his voice.

"But you are his son" I got in the conversation. Where is this really going?

"She gave me birth and thats all she did. I am not her son. I don't consider her as my mother. Never have. For me Oleana is my mother. She brought me up like her son gave me love while I just lounged for my mother to hold me. When I was five I had to witness he killing my father. She killed Nathan Ivashkov right in front of my eyes. I didn't know what happened at that time but soon I realized what she did."

"Mama was always there for me. When I use to scream in agony at night mama was there for me not the Queen." He finished both Christian and I looked at him shocked. Did he just say that the queen had killed King Nathan Ivashkov? We did hear him right. We didn't know what to say but I knew he was not lying. Before our eyes was torn and shattered person. He was not the king we all thought.

"Who do you want us to break from the dungeons? " I asked really wanting to know.

"Before I want to know why did you write in the letter that Dimitri is the long lost son of Princess Oleana?" Christian asked. And yes I want to know this to.

"I don't know what the real story is behind him being lost only when he was five days old. All I knew he is my older brother who the queen wants to kill. And she wanted me to do that so mama would hate me and I will drift apart from her. Somehow the queen knew that the captain of the Turkey army is my brother. And when I saw him it all got clear. We looked a lot like each other. His last name same as Mama's and I saw the heirloom in his neck that only belonged to the older son."

He had a lot of great points to make his statement right and he was right about my chain and the pendent in it. I had always wondered about that. "You do make sense to me, if Dimitri is the son then I am going to do anything in my power to help Rose and Dimitri." Christian made it clear to the King.

"I do not wish to merry Rose. I am already in love Ilena." I could tell from his eyes he was not lying.

"Who are we going to break out of jail?" I was getting impatient now the faster we get things done the better it is.

"Mason Mazur" he finally told us bringing another shock to us.

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