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Petra smiled at her first victory. With Eri on her side, she felt more confident than ever. As such having three wives was so common amongst the kings that Petra knew her strategy would work. She just had to convince Lusitania that she had to ask her husband to marry them for strong alliances. She was sure that Lusitania would agree. Which wife didn't want to see her husband getting more powerful?
Petra discussed her plan with Eri. Eri was excited. When she had gone to ask her father about it, he was busy with the concubines. She was highly angered. She was sure that he hadn't asked about the marriage alliance. However, she came to know that her father had asked Eltanin about it, but Eltanin had said that the matter was between his parents. Now, if she went with Petra to talk to Lusitania also, her marriage to the Draka King would be final. Excitement bubbled in her chest. Who knew that she may get married to him before they leave?
"So when do we meet Lusitania?" she asked.
"We must meet her as soon as possible," Petra replied. "I am going to find out whether she is free or not and then we will go."
"Sounds good!" Eri exclaimed. "Just send me a message and we can go together."
"Sure!" Petra said with a smile. Things were going smoothly. So smooth that she was sure that by the end of her journey she would marry Eltanin. Once she was married to Eltanin, she would make sure that his fae mate was sent to the shadows. She would overpower her in all ways.
When she got up, Eri rose to her feet. She grabbed Petra's hands and then hugged her tightly. "Now we are sisters," she said softly. "And if this marriage comes through, I will make sure that the two of us stay together while the little fae is reduced to nothing."
Petra chuckled as she patted Eri's shoulders. They were both pretty excited.
Petra's maid came an hour later to inform Eri, "Princess Petra is asking you to meet her down the hall."
Eri was already waiting. She wasted no time in following the maid to where Petra was.
"We are going to be very brief," Petra said, again swallowing the humiliation.
"Yes, we will be very brief, Lusitania!" Eri added, supporting her newly formed friend.
"Speak," Lusitania replied, picking up a grape from her bowl. "And that is Queen Lusitania for you."
The two princesses gawked at her, but they gave her a thin smile of admission. Then they looked at Flora, trying to tell her silently to leave, but the shameless maid didn't leave. Instead, she went to the bathroom and came out with a bowl of scented oil. She came to sit in front of her lady, lifted her skirt up and applied oil to her legs.
"Well?" Lusitania asked again, getting irritated at the delay.
"Actually, we have come with a small proposal for Queen Lusitania," said Petra, mustering up every courage. It was a now or never situation. "Both Princess Eri and I are deeply interested in the alliance that our parents are forming with the Draka King. But do you know how an alliance can be stronger?"
Lusitania continued to give them blank looks. "Do elaborate," she said in a bored voice.
Petra squeezed Eri's hands for more courage. When Eri patted her, she continued, "The best way is marriage. A marriage seals the alliances forever. If King Eltanin was to marry both of us," Petra waved her hand at Eri and herself, "Then we will have very strong alliances of three kingdoms. Aquila, Eridanus and Draka."
"You have left Pegasii!" Eri interjected.
"Oh yes, Pegasii too!"
Lusitania gave them a sharp and disgusting look. She couldn't believe that these two were so shameless that they had come to talk to her directly about marrying her husband. Anger bubbled in her chest.
"I know that you are angry, but think about it, Queen Lusitania," Eri said. "My father has already talked to King Eltanin about the marriage between us!"
A spark from Lusitania's chest coiled out and--