Chapter 9: A Forbidden Garden
Dorian's mind drifted to the past as he started recalling the countless nights he had spent in the dark room, alone without any food and pity. There was always one thought in his mind at that time, Why did his father marry Selene, when it was not even a week after his mother's death?
Queen Selene will often come to his room in the guise of concern, only to spite him with her venomous words and mentally torture him, making his already wounded heart bleed. At one point he had started hating his father. Become he was the one who had brought her into their home and their life.
But with time he understood her intentions, she intentionally agitated him so he would hate his father and rebel against him.
And she was right because he rebelled against his father's wishes and even tried to tell them about the true nature of Queen Selene but no one believed him only dismissed him as a child who could not accept a stepmother in his life.
One time the fight between him and his father escalated to the point, his father banished him from the palace and let him join the barracks at the tender age of just Eleven. He was still a boy at the time and his resentment for his father grew with leaps and bounds.
He did not come back to the palace again for ten years, not even the time of his adult ceremony, which should have taken place on his eighteenth birthday.
But those days are in the past, and with his growth, the realization came to him that this is nothing and he can rise to the power and above her in fractions of minutes. And he had to thank her because of her, he got the opportunity to get in barracks which changed his life and he was no longer a headstrong prince, but a powerful general which the entire kingdom respected.
As the meeting with his father finally came to an end, he stood up and bowed to his father and said, "If you'll excuse me, Father and Queen Selene. I have to attend to some matters."
"Of course, my son," King Aldric said with a nod.