Chapter 928 Alexander's Consort- Camelia (End)

Chapter 928 Alexander's Consort- Camelia (End)

As Philips and Alexander came to their agreement, Alexander felt the princess suddenly land her curious eyes on him, as if to see the man was destined to spend her life with.

And sensing the fresh set of eyes fall on him, Alexander at first tried to make some small talk with her. "By the way, how did you manage to escape your room yesterday?" He inquired.

"I tricked a passing maid into opening my room's door by saying someone had mistakenly locked me inside. And I got into the party by simply saying I was the princess." Came the straight answer.

At that specific time, her mother, Queen Parthia, had been in utter shock seeing her daughter's state, and her mind in total chaos over the presumed consequences.

Thus she was quickly left to find Philips at the party, consequently forgetting to station guards at the girl's room, and inadvertently letting the very thing she feared most occur- Camelia escaping.

"Smart!" Hearing the girl's resourcefulness Alexander sounded impressed, as he nodded, before clasping his palms together and saying,

"Now princess Camelia, I understand you seem a little dissatisfied with your status as a concubine. So let me offer you something to help soften her heart."

"I will give you a similar status as your sister. A wife! Just like you wanted!"

As Alexander dropped this, he then strategically paused to see the reaction and did notice the girl's eyes widen by a noticeable margin.

It was not exactly squeaking with joy, because Camelia's primary beef with Alexander was over something much more primal.

But one of the myriad reasons why Camelia hated Alexander's guts was indeed due to being offered such a low status.

So while this was still not enough for her to let Alexander go, at least it was a step in the right direction, and Alexander's generous offer did work to mollify some of her grievances.

The largest reactions however undoubtedly came from those around the princess.

Nautally both Philips and Queen Parthia cheered and thanked Alexander with wide smiles, while Alexander's two wives were stunned into silence.

The announcement seemed to particularly affect OP, whose beautiful face had gone seemingly ghostly pale and her lips started to quiver.

She could not believe this was happening.

It seemed like a nightmare to her.

And it took all her teaching from the temple about not interrupting her master to not just shout out in incredulity, 'What! Have you gone insane master!'

However, an instant later, much to her relief she heard Alexander add the following condition

"But since you have disobeyed your family and me, you will join me as my concubine. And I will make you my wife if you can remain faithful and obedient for 5 years."

Camelia was only fourteen and Alexander did not plan to bed her at least for 4 years.

So it was easy for Alexander to wait one more year, as she would be then nineteen, perhaps even approaching twenty.

"Does that sound reasonable to you?" Alexander thus finished by pointedly asking.

"*Nod*, Yes. I thank you for your generosity, Lord Pasha." And the princess finally appeared docile.

*Your relationship with the Pasha,

*What you do when you are with him,

*Describing the place you live in and how you spend your time

*And the other concubines and wives you meet and interact with.

Rule 3: You are not allowed to talk to the other concubines in any great detail about your intimate relations with the Pasha and what he confides to you. The only time you can do this is if you are given express permission to do so by the Pasha.

Rule 4: You must not have a relationship with any man other than the Pasha. You are not allowed to let any king, noble, citizen, free man, guard, servant, or slave touch you. Neither must you engage in any flirting or passing of messages to any man even if they are based in the harem. All communications with the outside world, except with the Pasha and his official wives must be done through a third party maid that will be assigned to you."

Rule 5: You must not have any kind of intimate relationship with any other concubine, neithermust you ever share a bed with another concubine unless the Pasha is also present or gives you his express permission."

Violations of any of these commandments will bear various degrees of reprisals, from scarcity of everyday necessities like food, warm clothes, and good room, to caning and whipping, to even the administration of the death penalty if the offense is deemed grave enough by the Pasha.!"

As the piece ended, one glaring thing readers might note here was how Alexander did not point to divorce or sending the concubine home to her father's place as a punishment.

And that of course intentional.

Because, one, concubines did not exactly get 'married' as they and their children did not have the same rights as married couples.

So you could not really divorce them.

And two because people of Alexander's high status rarely divorced.

Or more specifically gave divorce.

For it was seen as a very shameful thing for a man, like a loud, trumpet announcing to the whole world that he cannot control his woman.

Especially when that woman was a concubine whose status was usually low.

So a concubine's fate was either to spend the rest of her life with her master or pray that he released you after some years.

And in this case, Alexander wished to follow the customs of the time.

"Is there anything you do not understand? Or something you do not consent to?" After giving the princess some time to read, Alexander then produced this follow up query.

Shake, shake.

Camelia's reply was in gestures.

Nothing here was too overly restrictive, and so seeing this, Alexander finally decided to end the meeting here.

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