"Maura, I knew I'd hear from you. You want to stop the fighting and have me reinstate the trade routes in exchange for marrying me right?"

Maura could see Jasmine nodding her head and looking at her with pleading eyes."

Maura ignored her and said, "Would you really reinstate the trade routes if we married?"

Mako laughed, "Maybe…"

Jasmine was shocked to hear him not immediately say yes.

"So are you going to rape me on a table or the dance floor of our wedding? Would your friends get a turn then or later?"

She saw Jasmine glare at her but she simply shot her a glare right back. She knew what she was doing.

Mako, much to Jasmine's shock, laughed, "Don't be ridiculous Maura. It wouldn't be rape. We'd be married."

"That's what it's called when you take someone against their will. You never answered my question."

"We'd do it in a special room after the wedding ceremony. My grandfather would check and confirm that you are a virgin. Me, my father, my brother's and my friends would all be there as witnesses. Then you would be taken and purified before being presented to me. Then after I've deflowered you my father and grandfather would take their turns. After that my brother's will get a turn, then my friends will have their turn."

Jasmine couldn't believe what she was hearing. She started to cry. She didn't believe it when Maura told her this was his plan.

Maura wasn't about to let her off the hook, "So if I agree, would you stop the fighting?"

"Of course, I'm not one who enjoys fighting."

Jasmine looked up, hopeful, apparently everything previously said went out the window. So Maura decided to step it up a notch.

"What happens if I end up pregnant?"

Mako laughed, "We have an object that we will use to determine if the kid is mine. If it ends up being mine, great we move on and you'll keep popping out babies till I tire of you, you can't have anymore, you have one that's not mine or you die in childbirth. If it's my father's or grandfather's then we'll give the kid away to a relative to raise. Then we work on you having my child."

"And if I do have one, that's one of your friends?"

"I will test every child you have. Then the first time you have one that's not mine I send you and the kid back to your step-mother and inform her that you're a little slut and got knocked up by someone other than me. To avoid a war I want to be there to witness your execution. Your step-mother may keep the kid and raise it. I know she's got this delusion that her son from a previous marriage would take over but the council will never allow it. However your child can. Then again she may kill the child too, who knows."

"Fine, but my condition is if I ever end up pregnant by one of your friends, your guards must bring both my sisters to my execution and force my sisters by any means necessary to watch. I want them to see me beheaded! No guillotine, I want an ax man. If my child is to be put to death as well they must watch that as well."

Jasmine looked at her horrified.

Mako belly laughed, "Sure not a problem! But you should know it would be by sword. Ax's are for commoners not royalty."

Jasmine at this point broke down crying. She and Diana had been lucky in getting loving and caring husbands. She had wanted to wait a little longer before having kids. Nitesh hadn't argued with it as he wasn't in any hurry for kids. While Diana felt pressured into having one. Despite what Maura told her she had had a hard time believing it. She felt Maura was lying to get out of marrying Mako. She never in her wildest dreams believed she was telling the truth.

Just then they heard, "Prince Mako, I'm sorry we have a problem. We are being overwhelmed with the Star Kingdom on one side and Kamilah Kingdom on the other side."

Nothing else was heard as the line went dead.

Maura casually hung up her phone, then walked over and hung up a still crying Jasmine's phone.

"Satisfied now? I'm heading to the ball. Clean yourself up and get ready. If after the ball you want to work with me on my wedding and funeral come find me."

After that call she seriously doubted Jasmine would still be so eager for her to marry Mako. She doubted Yami would allow her to go through with it. But she had to teach her sister a lesson she wouldn't soon forget.