The Alpha Prince's Purchased Maid
Chapter 391: Inescapable Deadline

Chapter 391: Inescapable Deadline

“Don’t act so sad, it’s not like we’ll never see her again. Let’s go visit her sometime after she’s settled down and maybe I can invite her here to visit us in the palace as well,” I said as I tried to maintain a positive attitude.

“I guess you’re right. Maybe I can even go and sleep over with her when I can take my leave,” Jessie said with a wistful look in her eyes. I stared down the road where Selena had departed, while silently praying for better things to come her way.

...

“Let’s have dinner together when I get back or do you want to go out for dinner somewhere else?” Prince Leonard asked before he left for work.

Apparently the prince had official matters to attend to since early in the morning and would only be back in the palace at the end of the day.

“Maybe we should just have a simple dinner here, you might be tired by the time that you get back,” I replied while thinking of the prince’s wellbeing.

If he went to work outside for the entire day, I was certain that he would be exhausted by the end of the day, so I didn’t want to bother him to take me out for dinner.

“If that’s why you want, I’ll see you later,” the prince said before he leaned in to plant a soft kiss on my forehead.

I wanted so badly to pull him into my arms but I was afraid of wrinkling his suit. Instead, I got up on my tiptoes and kissed him softly on his cheek.

By that time I had gotten used to spending my day alone in the palace without the prince’s company. It wasn’t like I didn’t have anything to do because I actually had many activities that I could choose to enjoy. I could meet up with Duchess Flavia or practice dancing alone. I could go to the gym and exercise, or I could take a stroll in the garden to pass the time and relax. I had also wanted to pick up some new skills, and upgrading my cooking skills was one of the things on my to-do list. I had many plans on what to do on that day when the prince was away, but that was until a letter arrived for me out of the blue.

I stared down at the letter after removing it from the envelope while I felt my hands shaking. Even though I had been expecting a similar letter bearing similar news for a while now to the extent that I thought that it was already long overdue, I still found myself feeling shocked and terrified now that the news had finally arrived. I bit down on my lower lip hard as I tried to control my emotions as I reread the short letter over and over again. I let out a loud sigh when I realized that no matter how many times I read the letter, the meaning behind the words would never change. The timing of the letter’s arrival seemed perfect and convenient and that was probably because the committee had waited for the prince to be out of the palace before summoning me to meet them. Knowing that there was no point in delaying this discussion any further, I quickly got dressed before heading over to the appointed place.

...

“We will give you three months, and nothing more,” A man that looked to be in his 50s or 60s spoke in a stern voice as the representative of the committee that had summoned me on that day.

The topic of discussion that they wanted to talk to me about did not surprise me at all and did not escape from the boundaries of my lack of inability to conceive the prince’s child. I had thought that I was prepared to hear whatever it was that they wanted to say or whatever suggestion or command that they had in mind. I honestly thought that I was resigned to my fate, and that I could take the meeting with the committee with a certain degree of grace and acceptance. Instead, I found myself shaking uncontrollably in my seat and that made me realize just how intimidated I was by the situation and everyone else in the room now that I was alone without Prince Leonard by my side. The committee probably knew about this and had chosen this time while the prince was away to give me their conclusive verdict, knowing that the prince would not be here to defend me from their decision.

Three months felt like no time at all...

After emotionlessly describing the situation of my relationship with Prince Leonard and arriving at the fact that I had failed to conceive the prince’s child, the committee had decided to give me another three months with the prince. Within that time period, if I were unable to conceive the prince’s child, I would have to either leave the prince for good or come to peace with the fact that Prince Leonard will be mating with other women in order to fulfill his duty of producing an heir.

“Three months...” I murmured softly while I felt like the entire world around me was on the verge of collapsing.

There was no way that I could optimistically think that I could manage to conceive the prince’s child for sure in the period of only three months. After trying relentlessly for quite some time, I could tell that it wasn’t going to be an easy feat. I had taken the prince’s advice not to stress about it and not to rush it in order to focus on both my mental and physical health, but it seemed like the prince’s plan did not at all align with what the committee had in mind. Time was clearly of the essence, and the time that they had allotted to me was clearly running out. If I couldn’t get pregnant within 3 months, I would have to somehow live with the fact that Prince Leonard will be spending his nights with other women. The thought made my blood run cold and for a moment I found it so difficult to breathe.

–To be continued...

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