Chapter 70 - It takes a queen to save a queen.

NEWS OF THE DEATH OF THE OLD KING spread like wildfire throughout the kingdom, and everyone wanted to attend the funeral. The old queen hadn’t come out of her room since the day he died and I was beginning to wonder if she would even make it to the funeral. She wasn’t eating or seeing any visitors. I had hoped that she would at least hear Lorenzo out, but she refused.

I could understand where she was coming from. If someone had killed Lorenzo, I wouldn’t have spoken to them either! But Lorenzo was her son. Couldn’t she at least hear him out? Find out what happened. Find out why he killed his father … I tried to see her a couple of times to let her know how the funeral arrangements were going, but there was no sound from her room.

I was beginning to think she wouldn’t come to the funeral, but when the crowd went silent, I could feel that she had arrived. She walked through the crowd slowly. It had been two days since we last saw her. She looked pale. Her eyes had dark circles around th