Chapter 205 - 204

Only Xan with Aleron walked in, the crown prince instructing the teen to show Olivia out and Soran left too, deciding it would be best to be with his friends. He greeted the royal family and kissed his sister on the forehead before he walked away. Soon after Ash took the young girl away leaving the two siblings with their parents.

"Where is Kai?" Nelia asked, looking at the door, wondering where her youngest brother had gone. 

"He said he didn't want to come in. He is simply ungrateful." Xan commented, earring a sharp stare from his father. Cecilia just smiled though. She was laid on the bed, the wound completely healed and wrapped with a white gauze. 

"We will contact a witch to fix up a prosthetic hand for you." the king told her but she didn't reply. "At least Kai is freed from his curse."

"Yeah, he is free from his curse to cause even more trouble for us. Like he always does." Xan mumbled, gaining another stare from the king.

"Don't talk about your brother like that. He has gone through rough already."

"Yeah because our lives here were simply a rose path. He has been pampered and left to do whatever he wanted ever since he was young. Even now he still gets special treatment. Mother still let him live, she allowed him to leave and have the life he wanted but no one talks about that."

"The life that he wanted?" Aleron asked. "What kind of life could he want after his lover died, Xan? How can you say that?"

"Well, at least he knew he was going to return, some of us did not have that luxury."

"You're jealous." Nelia said, looking at her older brother in the eyes, shamelessly exposing him. 

"What are you even talking about?"

"You're jealous because even though Kai's lover died he would come back eventually while Kiula would remain dead. That's why you stopped getting along with him. Because he has what you always wanted, a second chance to fix things." 

"You are being ridiculous." Xan told her, fists forming on his sides.

"Both of you, shut up." Cecilia said, her voice hoarse and her eyes fluttered open. She felt slightly better now and tried to sit up, the three of them hurrying to help her. Nelia was the one who got to  fix her pillow and raise her slowly, and rearrange her posture to be more comfortable. "I do not care about your lovers. I do not give a damn about your drama. All of you, you need to grow up, not all of us have the same experiences in life, we do not get the same chances and the difficulty is different from everyone, life's a bitch that way. It is not Kai's fault Kiula died and hating your brother will not bring him back."

"So you are defending him too?" Xan asked his mother, offended by her words. 

"You don't get to have the ideal mother but you do get to at least have each other. Now leave me, I wish to be alone and send a gift to Soran's sister, a necklace or something, also make sure she doesn't talk about this to her parents." she ordered them, her face strict.

"Mother, you don't have to think about that right now. Just get some rest and then we can all sit down and talk, I am sure there will be a solution, things can be fixed." Nelia proposed, her green eyes looking at her mother with a sorrowful stare. The queen snorted, disregarding her daughter's words and shook her hand, telling them to leave.

"There is no going back now. One day, probably only  you…" she said, looking at her oldest son. "...will be able to understand. Now go, fix things with your brother. That is actually possible. Your nagging is giving me a headache." she said. 

Nelia was the first one to obey her orders while pulling her brother outside. He was unwilling at first but in the end he retrieved, leaving the couple alone.

"When I said leave I meant all of you." Cecilia told Aleron who after hearing her words sat down next to her on the bed. "Am I speaking in another language and I am not aware of it?" she asked, her white eyebrow raised. 

"I am sorry." Aleron said. "For threatening you. You know I would never leave you, I would never take the children away from you either."

"Well, you don't have to take them away from me, they already are away. About you leaving me, you already did that too so why do you feel guilty? What is done is done, now leave me alone to rest. I have a ton of things to do tomorrow." 

"You don't have to do anything."

"Yeah, right. I have to prepare for the event. I have four wolf packs coming and all of those braindead pureblood men that will start bickering about their wived because the poor women dared to breathe. Just the thought of them drives me insane so don't talk to me any longer, I just want to be alone."

"Cecilia, you know I love you, right?" Aleron asked her, his blue eyes meeting with hers as his heart raced with worry. The woman didn't answer, just stared at him, her lips sealed, making him even more anxious as the seconds went by. "And all this time, I did really miss you."

"You only married me because you felt sorry for me. For what had happened to my family and for the guilt I felt that I had to be the one to slit your brother's throat. You've never truly loved me, maybe you've liked me, in the start when I was young and not so rotten even though I did have the tendencies."

"You are wrong!" Aleron said, his expression changing. He felt angry, he felt wronged because it was as if Cecilia was ignoring his feelings. It was as if he had never managed to make her see how much he loved her. "I loved you for the very first moment you stepped inside the palace. Yes, I could see how sad you were, how depressed you were, how the spark had died in your eyes but I did not pity you, I simply loved you and that's why I wanted to help you, be with you, even now, I want to save your relationship with Kai because I am sure, I know you regret what you did." 

"I do not regret anything." The queen said. 

"You know, you can be weak in front of me. I am not like my brother, I am not like these men you hate. I love you and even if you try to hide I can see it. The pain…everything."

"Simply leave Aleron. It's too late for love, it is too late for understanding and it's too late for you to try and make me believe that you love me when I've spent most of my life away from you and not with you. So do what you do best, get up and leave. You saved Kai, there is no reason for you to be here any longer."

"I hope one day you won't regret this."

"I do not regret anything."