Chapter 211: Kragen… that’s his name. My son...
Selene POV
I watched quietly as their eyelids fluttered severally as the girls struggled to stay awake to listen to their favourite bedtime stories.
The storm had passed...Noah was back to me again; Nora would be punished and her accomplices and I had finally put an end to whatever it was that I had with Xavier but why does it feel like a punishment? Where was the joy... the ecstasy that came with victory? And where was Kragen?
I sighed for the thousandth time, as Faustina gently closed the bedtime story, and walked noiselessly to their shelf to return it. "I’ll be off, Your Majesty," she whispered to me.
"Sure!" I nodded with a smile "Thank you for everything today and also thank Brenna,".
"It was nothing," she murmured, turning loving eyes to the girls "To say the truth, your majesty... when I first came here to work as a Nanny after you lost Linda... I had a lot of reservations. Back then, the royal family felt like another planet and I was bothered that the children would be spoiled silly but I feel like this is my consolation. The moon goddess’s gift to me...".
"The moon goddess’s gift to you?" I turned to look at her perplexed "What do you mean?"
"I had just lost my husband, a few moons before I came to work here and it felt like my whole world was void. I had no child to console me and Brenna was the only person that could understand my pain. When I started taking care of the girls, they showed and taught me what it means to love and I’ll do anything..." she paused and raised her eyes to meet me. The first since she started working here. "Even if it means laying down my life for theirs...".
"Faustina..." my lips trembled as fresh tears sprung to my eyes.