Chapter 156
"I’m sorry," Madeline apologised.
"You do not need to. I understand why you were with him but I just cannot believe the king is my father. His orders made it impossible for me to go to the town guards. For others like me trying to find our way home to get help. He does not want it to be revealed that there are slaves in his kingdom and for that, I could not help from the guards," Rose explained.
If not for how the king wanted to portray his kingdom to outsiders, Rose would have been bold to try running to the town guards. Many of the other women would have had the confidence to try running away.
Rose didn’t care that the king didn’t know he had a daughter lost somewhere. He was the king. In a way, they were all his children to be protected by him but how the kingdom looked was more important than fixing the problems right under his eyes.
"He has always cared about looks and been a fool that is why he has so many advisors in the background. Still, James will do as he wants. I was once to be one of his advisors when we were younger," Victor revealed.
Victor remembered James as an eager prince ready to make a difference in their younger days but when the years drew closer for him to take the throne and the former king took James under his wing, James changed. Or maybe, his real personality started to show more. Victor had just missed it before.
"I did not want to tell you this. I knew you would be disappointed but I also feared that you would be curious. The queen will either trap or kill the children she has not birthed. There must only be a few alive to be used," Madeline said, knowing how cunning Lilian was. "You mustn’t go there or something terrible would happen to you."
"I have always thought about seeing the inside of the palace but after Zayne warned me of the dangers there, I lost interest. I am satisfied with seeing it from afar and with what I know now, that interest has not come back. I do not want to see the king," Rose declared.
Rose didn’t want to see the king unless it was to throw something at him.