Chapter Thirty

I ran out of my room as fast as my leg could carry me towards the queen and king's room. Just as I ran through the hall, I realized I had never really met the king before. I had only seen him once or twice. I had heard a few times that he was sick, which was why I had to be called to the palace, because Rueben can’t be pronounced the king without a queen by his side.

As I got closer to the room, I saw the guards all around the bedroom with a few maids around and their expressions were very sad. I continued to move forward as I was more than sure that the other royals were in there and it would be bad if she was excluded.

I paced slowly into the room and Rueben looked like someone who had a lot of tears in his eyes but couldn’t let it out and then I looked at Demetrius and he wasn’t even shading a tear. His face was just stiff like he was angry with his father for some reason but the Queen was putting on a great show with her loud tears and wailing, pleading for the king to come back