The Commoner Consort: The Country's Respected Empress

Celina looks at Sarah who was warning her.

Maya asks Celina harshly "Didn't you hear me lady?".

Celina says in a small voice "T-The Mortal Room".

Sarah tries to change the conversation "Mam. Why don't you have some food? You must be hungry".

Maya asks in a warning tone "What's this Mortal Room Sarah?".

Sarah cringes and answers "The place..where...the prisoners were tortured till they die".

Even though Maya predicted this, she couldn't help get scared.

'Tortured till their death?! Did they even try to investigate?! It should be Stephen... He should have instigated so that the woman could be blamed for all his conspiracy plans!'.

Maya asks "Can anyone of you take me there?".

"No!".

"Yes!".

Maya looked at Celina in surprise as she gave the positive response. She asks Sarah "Why aren't you helping me? You claim yourself as my servant million times but not even doing it!".

Sarah answers hesitantly "Mam..I don't want you to get trapped in this conspiracy allegations".

Maya shakes her head confused "Why would a victim of this incident would get trapped Sarah? Care to explain me?!".

Celina answers hesitantly looking at Sarah "Mam! I suspect that... About this whole incident! Someone is trying to hurt you and put the blame on the Royals!".

Maya looks at Sarah and asks hastily as she has no time "I am asking for the last time Sarah. Will you help me to save the woman?".

Sarah whines helplessly "Mam! Please try to understand. Nothing is so simple as you think in this place-".

Maya looks at Celina seriously "Take me to that place! At once!".

Sarah looks at Maya stunned.

'How could she be so stubborn?!'.

Celina smiles nodding and turns to go out . She leads the way towards her right "This way Mam!".

Sarah sighs defeated and declares "I will take you in a secret way".

Maya and Celina looks at her suspiciously.

Sarah shrugs "It was meant to be a secret. No one in this Pavilion knows about this. Now except three of us!".

Maya nods "Shall we go?".

After nodding, Sarah walks out leading them to the kitchen of the Pavilion.

Celina walks with Maya nervously. She steals some glimpse of Maya's face. Celina checks Maya's height and looks at herself.

'I am too short! And look at her big eyes?! So captivating! No wonder Crown Prince married her right away! But why is she denying to be a Queen?! Did she and Crown Prince quarrelled?! Who wouldn't?! How could he leave his wife right after marrying her?!'.

Maya finds a door in the kitchen which had the similar design of the door that she saw in the Church.

Only then she remembers the woman who sent her from the Harbor.

'She said The Harbor was being under attack. How would I leave this place safely now?! How will I save the woman? In what confidence I am doing all this?!'.

Celina whispers "Mam? Can you tell me how did you kill Stephen?!".

Sarah stops abruptly and warns "Celina! Behave! Didn't I warn you?!".

Celina shuts her mouth timidly and whispers "I am sorry".

Maya decides to not speak at the moment. She herself didn't want to speak about the incident.

Three of them were walking through a hallway. It was larger than the underground path Maya took to reach the Pavilion.

'Why is it kept secret?!'.

Sarah says "Please be quite from now on. If the soldiers hear us, we might end up being framed for helping the conspirator. As I told you, no one knows about this secret path".

Sarah opens the door for Maya.

Maya asks "Can it be opened from that side?".

Sarah nods "Yes Mam".

Maya looks at Sarah "Wait for my call".

Sarah insists "No Mam. That woman would behave crazy. Have you forgotten how she pounded on you that day?".

Maya smiles "Haven't you heard of my scene with Christopher? Don't you worry about me".

Sarah asks reluctantly "Mam? Do you want to do this? If someone finds about this, we will end up in prison!".

Maya says seriously "I had given my words to that woman Sarah. I promised her that I would save her!".

Sarah nods "Please be careful Mam. You just woke up after being sick".

Maya nods and looks at Celina looking at her in awe. She ignores her and enters the room.

Maya gasps looking at the woman chained just how she was chained before in the penalty room. The woman's injures were evident for how she was being tortured.

She forwards her hand to touch her face but stops realizing her condition.

The woman's condition is indeed fatal. She had never made anyone suffer to this end! This woman had gone through this only because of her!.

She looks at the woman already passed out. She looks around the room for her children.

She prays 'I hope those beasts didn't torture this woman in front of her children!'.

She cringes seeing the blood stained wh.i.p.s and some other punishing things on the table. They must have used those cruel things to torture her!.

She gets shocked seeing two little children lying unconscious in a corner of the room.

She calls immediately "Sarah!".

Sarah enters the room at once being an obedient servant "Mam?".

Maya whispers "Lets get them out of this room!".

Sarah gets scared "Mam..But we can't. What if the soldiers -".

Maya declares "I will take care of everything!".

But her mind asked her subconsciously 'How?!'.

Sarah nods and tries to unlock the chain. Celina too helps to break the chain.

Maya looks at the children worriedly and controls her every ounce to not touch them! They are too fragile to be touched by a Cursed person.

'They didn't look like hurt. Did they faint by seeing their mother being tortured?! Poor children...'

Seeing Sarah and Celina struggling to break the chain, Maya shakes her head.

'Are they struggling to unchain her?!'

Maya alerts "Step aside!".