Chapter 314
Anne and Beth walked out of the throne room in silence. Beth occasionally glanced to her side at the woman who looked nothing like Anne. This new appearance gave off a creepy feeling and Beth was starting to wonder if it was a joke that this woman was Anne. How certain was Amelia that this person was her mother?
"Stop sneaking glances at me and just say what is on your mind. There is no one to make you bite your tongue. Not your father or Margaret. It is just the two of us," said Anne, looking straight ahead at the path that seemed longer now that she walked with Beth.
It was unusual for the two of them to walk alone. Margaret would always be there to push Beth to the side and eventually, Richard would show up and make everyone leave so he could be with his wife.
She was growing bored of Beth just trying to look at her without getting caught.
"You are the one who asked to walk me out," Beth reminded Anne. She would rather leave with anyone but Anne by her side. There was tension from the past that formed in the tiny space between them. She was now reminded of the strange relationship she had with Anne in the past.
They were friendly with each other since Anne was to become the next queen and Beth had no place to be rude to her brother’s wife.
While she was jealous of how Amelia rose to be a queen, Beth was jealous in the past of how close Anne was with Margaret who she wished would act as her mother and how easy it was for Anne to be picked when no one knew nothing of her background.
Beth questioned daily why a nobody like Anne with nothing to her name could so easily become a queen while she had to fight daily to prove her worth only to be shut down by her father and laughed at by Richard who found it funny a bastard princess dreamt of the throne.
She disliked how easy Anne had it and though Anne showed her more kindness than the other Blackwells, she could not bring herself to truly like Anne.