Chapter 32: She Who Once Was (2)

TENSION SURROUNDS the room as Xerxes looked at his children coldly; his eyes narrowing at Aldrich, who is carrying Alesteria, and Aimilios, who is glaring at him in the same manner.

"I will ask again, where are you planning to take your sister?"

Aldrich and Aimilios avoided their gazes at him as Xerxes still waited for their answer, but a few minutes passed by and they still kept their mouths shut.

Alesteria sighed at the stubbornness between them and just decided to take matters into her own hands.

'If this stretches out any longer, brothers will be punished again.' She thought as her eyes traveled to the two boys.

'Although, they could've just said that we are going to the lake.'

What Alesteria fails to understand in Aldrich and Aimilios' part is that they want to have her all for themselves; no Xerxes, Nicholae, or anyone else but her alone.

It seems that Morgaine's past lecture about 'monopolizin