Chapter Sixty Two

Leon

"He's your brother?". I stared at the boy in front of me. "What do you mean he's your brother?".

Christian sighed and looked down at his feet. "My father got his mother pregnant and left her to marry someone else. That was before he came to Mercia eighteen years ago." He said. "I didn't know about him until last year when I heard my parents talking about him."

"Let me get this straight." I lifted a finger. "You watched those men beat up your brother and you didn't do anything?".

He looked up at me then but briefly. "They were armed sir."

"But my daughter stopped them from killing him." I said.

"She's the Princess. They have no choice but to listen to her... Sir." He replied.

"I see." I nodded. "Anything else you know about him?".

"He has two sisters and their mother died three months ago." He said. "My father threw him out when he came to ask for help."

I glanced at Georgina who was staring at him as if she was just seeing him for the first time. She was probably as stunned as I