The Masked prince
Chapter 77: Playing A New Game

Chapter 77: Playing A New Game

The next morning when Evelyn woke up again, she was calmer than last night. She stared at the familiar ceiling and could feel the relief inside her chest.

She was in Mazic.

Looking around the familiar chambers with tear-filled eyes, she tried to sit on the bed, however, a pair of hands immediately held her down.

Surprised she looked at the owner of the hands and whispered

"Miri..."

Miri smiled softly and said

"You should not get up so hastily, Evelyn. Let me help you."

Evelyn nodded her head a moment later and Miri helped her in sitting on the bed. Miri considerately put a pillow behind her back before she led Evelyn to rest against the headrest.

At the same time, two figures entered the chambers and paused when they saw the awake Evelyn.

They immediately put on bright smiles on their faces as they walked hurriedly toward the bed.

"Evelyn, you woke up!"

Hannah said cheerily as she put the tray she had brought from the kitchen and sat on the bed without any hesitancy though she knew very well that the bed belonged to the prince.

The prince had granted them every freedom but in return, their duty was to be around Evelyn. They didn’t have any other jobs now except taking care of her.

Hannah, Miri, and Ami had been shocked when they had been called by the prince and had been told this.

When the prince offered them more salary than usual, they refused immediately.

Evelyn was their friend. How could they take money to take care of her!

However, they have been shocked when they had seen Evelyn. From one glance one could easily tell that Evelyn had been beaten very badly at Royal Palace.

But when Dan explained Evelyn’s situation to them, they were so worried. They couldn’t help but blame themselves.

That day, the three of them had been together in the kitchen. But Evelyn was alone. The guards had not let them outside the kitchen. So even if they had wanted to find Evelyn, they couldn’t do so.

Not only they even Martha had blamed herself when Evelyn had been taken away.

According to her, every girl inside this castle was her responsibility. Though Evelyn had not been appointed by her, Evelyn also lived in this castle.

"Hannah!"

Hannah came out of her thoughts when Ami shook her shoulder.

"What are you doing? I am asking you to pass me the tray. Evelyn must be hungry."

Ami said as she looked at Hannah while shaking her head. Hannah bit her tongue and passed the tray to Ami.

Ami stirred the soup and approached Evelyn with the spoon.

Evelyn was looking at the three of them with confusion wondering what they were doing here. When she saw Ami feeding her, she said

"I can have it on my own."

However, her voice was very weak which surprised Evelyn herself but only for a moment.

Ami could see Evelyn getting lost and said immediately.

"No, I will feed you."

When she saw Evelyn’s unconvinced expression, Ami tsked and said

"Just have it. The three of us are already done with our breakfast. After you will be done, then the four of us will enjoy so much."

Ami said in an excited voice.

Seeing the confused expression on Evelyn’s face, Miri chuckled and said with equal excitement in her voice.

"We have been freed for the kitchen duties for a few days. The four of us will enjoy it so much."

Evelyn was still confused but Ami stuffed the porridge in her mouth and she could only chew.

Indeed, after finishing breakfast, the three girls cleared the bed and then laid out a paper in front of her.

Evelyn looked at the paper in confusion and only saw Hannah taking out a few pieces of stone which were colored.

Hannah clapped her hands when everything was set and said

"Nice, let’s start now. I will play first."

Ami looked at Hannah with a bored expression and silently gave a stone with many dots and edges to Evelyn as she said.

"Evelyn, we will start with you."

However, Evelyn only looked at the stone in her hand with confusion written all over her face.

Seeing her expression, Ami had disbelief all over her face as she said

"Don’t tell me that you don’t know what it is?"

Evelyn looked at Ami and shook her head honestly.

Ami opened her mouth to say something when she saw this but then choose to stay silent.

She was about to say how could Evelyn not know about this game. However, then she pondered over her own question.

Evelyn was different from them. They were maids but they were still ordinary citizens Evelyn...she was a slave.

They were not aware just how a slave’s life is different from theirs but from what they have realized in the past few days while staying around Evelyn that it must be very hard.

Swallowing down their questions, the three girls smiled cheerily and said

"It’s alright. We will teach you."

The next few minutes were spent teaching the game to Evelyn. Seeing that, she looked interested and completely indulged in the game, and the three girls were happy.

Dan had told them that it would be good if they could keep Evelyn busy with some other matter and not let her think about the things which happened in the past few days otherwise she could slip into the depression as well.

On the other hand, Regan looked towards the bed from a few steps away with relief-filled eyes.

Seeing Evelyn busy in the game, he could see that he made the right choice.

After a few moments, he exited the chambers and went to Rex’s chambers.

Rex was yet to return as well as Elias.

Regan called a guard and ordered

"Call a good blacksmith for me."

"Yes, Your Highness"

The guard bowed his head and said respectfully before he left.

Regan stared at nothing in particular silently.

They think that just because she is a slave, they can do anything to her. Then he would see what they will say when she would be no longer a slave.