Chapter 69

-Katherine-

I was eating by myself in the dining room one night. It didn’t surprise me that neither Acan nor Silver had joined me. Their boys had, though. They were eating with me, not their parents. A servant had come to tell me they were waiting for their parents to bring them to dinner, but no one had. So I did it instead. They smiled at me as we ate dinner together. They at least didn’t hate me or had been turned against me by their parents. Maybe Silver had tried. I was unsure.

"How are your studies going?" I asked them.

"Boring!" the youngest said, making me chuckle and nod.

"Yeah, they can be, but you will need them to grow up and outsmart everyone else."

"Like you did with Mother?" the eldest asked.

I looked at him, surprised, not sure what to say. So Silver had been trying to turn her boys against me. Making them think I was the evil one who had tried to hurt her. I was not surprised, but I would make the truth clear to them. I would not hold anything back. These young