Chapter 20: Narrator

She wasn’t much worried about the Crown Prince, but his son, her step grandson, he’s the one she needed to control. The father, though difficult, was no match for the son.

She knew that the boy had been wary of her since he was a young child. She’d never been able to fool him, not once.

Just like Dunal Morgana. The boy seemed to see in her what no one else could, what she worked so hard to keep hidden. She’s always hated him for his insight. And now her old nemesis was back making the situation worst. And just when everything she wanted was once again within her grasp.

For even though the Emperor had thwarted her intentions, she still had ways and means of getting her way in the end. Her granddaughter, the Princess Rowena, will be chosen, no matter what.

“We need to learn what his sudden reappearance means. Does your father mean to reinstate him to his earlier position and title? And why now? What is the purpose of all this?”