~ Chapter Five - Season II ~

I bit my inner cheek as I avoided her gaze.

I knew that look on her face right now and she wasn’t amused.

“Robert?” a stern voice came out from her lips.

I sighed in defeat, looking at her apologetically.

“Would you mind explaining to me why Gonzalo entered your room with a stack of reports?” she asked as she gestured at Gonzalo briefly.

“As I said, Mother, I’ve been feeling better since last week. And instead of staying in bed or doing nothing the whole day, I figured I could go back to my reports,” I explained.

“Robert, your father and I already gave out orders for you to be exempted from royal duties until we see fit,” she scolded. “Why do you keep defying our orders? Is that hard to follow?”

“Mother, it’s not that I want to disobey your orders,” I protested. “But what you want me to do will just keep me sick for a much longer time. If I continue to do nothing, I will never truly heal.”

“But do you have to do an immediate stack of reports on your first day out of