Arjun's Heir Part Two: Dhaval & Arjun (special preview)

I see a letter sitting on the table, one with the Brachuss seal on the back. “Did he give you this?” I ask.

“He did,” she stands up and goes over to the globe that serves as a mini bar. She starts to pour drinks for us. “But I don’t have the patience to hear what he says. Just because there is blood between us doesn’t mean it adds up to anything.”

I look it over and then back to my mom. “Are you sure you don’t want to read it?” 

“Not right now.” She returns and places a drink before me. “They brought that scummy lawyer with them too,” she shudders. “Something about him, he looks at me like he wants to sleep with me and murder me.”

“Mom,” I put my hand on her back.

“He’s so full of bile,” she whispers. “He makes me uneasy.” She sips her drink and sighs. “You can open the letter if you want to, I don’t care for it. Maybe if you read it to me, I’ll feel better about things.”

As I’m getting ready to break the seal the door opens and Chiyo comes inside. She has been staying with us after passing out from exhaustion in Bastat. Othet told us she hasn’t been eating or sleeping as of late and has been putting together a militia of Bastet’s remaining warriors.

“What are you doing up?” Mythri goes over to her.

“Whatever I want,” Chiyo scoffs. She sits down beside me and takes my drink. “So, how was you meeting?”

“It was a meeting,” I say with a shrug. I then break the seal on the letter and look it over. As I read it I stand up.

“Dhaval, what does it say?” My mom asks.

I place the letter in her hands. “I have to go.” I say with a calm panic to my voice.

“Go?” My mom looks to the letter then as me. “Go where?”

“What’s the letter say?” Chiyo sits up from the sofa as my mom begins to read the letter in her hands.

I race from the room as my mom tries to stop me. I need to get the royals back together for another more urgent meeting. If what the letter says is true, then it must take precedence now. As much as I want to save Mila, this must come first.

“Dhaval, wait!” My mom and Chiyo come up behind me. “We’ll come with you.”