Chapter 17

Cara was wondering why the Queen who had been in such a foul mood for a long time was suddenly in such a good mood that she was even humming as she walked to the dining table for breakfast.

"Good morning, my love. Good morning boys," Jasmine said as she sat down, surprising her husband who was used to seeing the frown etched on her face whenever she came to the dining table, especially these past few days.

"Good morning, Your Highness," her boys replied mindedly.

"Where is Becca?" Jasmine questioned, a frown marring her features and right there, Matt clenched his jaw, realizing that he had indeed made a mistake by informing her about Becca.

Part of the reason why he didn't want to even tell Jasmine was the fact that she might let it slip or somehow, someone was going to find out about her, through Jasmine.

"Don't fucking ask stupid questions!" Matt yelled, not minding his language, even as they were kids at the table.

Jasmine winced at his harsh tone. She was expecting a lot of things, but not this. She had thought that they were settled now and everything was fine, but he had suddenly gone back to his same old attitude.

Jasmine was really tired of him and his own problems. Was there something mentally wrong with Him?

Perhaps, she had been deluded into thinking that he had changed. He had probably just taken pity on her and it could even be that Becca was his lover. It made sense, because how else could she explain his sudden switch?

She kept quiet and ate slowly, taking as much time as possible. She was suddenly not keen on going to Redwave again.

"Get me the green dress," She said to Cara, as soon as she got to her room.

Cara opened her mouth to speak, but couldn't say anything, realizing that something had ruined her good mood. She had gone to the dining table in a good mood and was coming back now in a bad mood.

"Yes, Your Highness," Cara said and nudged the other maids to get the dress ready. It was going to take a while to do that and they dare not complain. Cara knew better than to question her on what had happened.

A few minutes later, she was all dressed up in a deep-necked green dress that flowed as she walked. She looked stunning as her hair cascaded down her shoulder.

She walked out of the main house with Cara walking closely behind her. It was the norm that at least a maid follow her to one of such events and Cara was the only one she allowed to follow her.

She glanced at her watch again. He was still not out of the house and if he didn't come out in two minutes, she knew that they were going to be extremely late.

It wasn't as though she cared about the event, in fact, she would gladly miss the whole event if she could.

Even though it's been so long since she became Queen, she still couldn't get used to big parties and even considered their food and the people horrible. The people only cared about who dressed the best or who was carrying the latest accessories.

They would exchange fake hugs and smiles, but that was just to scurry favors.

A few minutes later, the door opened finally and he stepped out, looking all dashing in his tailored blue Armani suit. Jasmine peeled her eyes away from him, willing her heart to stop racing at just the sight of him.

He didn't even look at her, but even a glance and she decided that two could play this game. She stepped into the limousine without a word. It was weird that they were seated side by side, but didn't exchange even a word.

She rested her head against the back of the seat and within minutes was fast asleep.

"Your Highness, wake up! We have arrived."

The voice woke Jasmine and she opened her eyes to find Cara crouched next to her, shaking her slightly.

She sat up and rubbed her eyes, ruining the makeup that had been put on her face by Cara, earlier.

She stepped out of the Limo and glanced around, looking for Matt. She frowned, but Cara caught sight of her and took pity on her. Her husband had left the Limo without even waking her or saying anything. Cara had suspected that he must've been behind her happy mood and recent bad mood.

"He already went inside, your highness."

Jasmine chuckled inwardly. Just Great. She wanted to keep their marital problems a secret from everyone.

"Here, Your Highness," Cara said, handing her a small clutch that wouldn't be able to even carry anything. She had successfully fixed her face and was ready to walk into the grand hall.

"Thank you, Cara," Jasmine said as she walked into the hall.

"Your Highness, punctual as always," Yulianna, the Luna of Redwave said as soon as she saw me. I smiled as we embraced each other.

"Hey, it wasn't my fault! I tried to come here earlier, but someone else decided that he wanted to be here many minutes late.

Yulianna laughed. Somehow, she had heard the rumor that the Queen and king had a Rocky relationship.

"And how is the sexy devil?" Yulianna questioned and Jasmine caught the hint of curiousity in Yulianna's question. She knew that the woman was somehow aware of her relationship with her husband.

"Still being a sexy devil," She joked back as they headed to her assigned table.

She sat down by her name card, next to her husband. She glanced at the name inscribed on his. It was his name in a cursive style.

She watched the couple that were dancing in the ballroom and swallowed hard. They looked so happy and in love.

"I'll never have that," she thought out loud.

"What?" He frowned and She shook her head. She was going to have to live her own life from now on.