Chapter 171

Thallus’s POV

There was something that had bothered me since the day I had become conscious of my existence; it was the mark in-between my chest. I had become worried about it when I had read that children born into the royal family had no blemishes. They had no spot whatsoever on their bodies except they got injured.

However, I had a mark which I believed had been since my birth right in between my chest. I had taken it to mean that either something had gone terribly wrong or I was not the king’s child.

The man standing right in front of me now with his bare chest had an identical mark on his chest. How could that be? Was he trying to say that I was his son and he had defiled the king’s bed? That was one of the highest forms of treason and this man would not be given a chance at trial at all. It was not only him that would suffer; the Luna would be sentenced to death and so would I.

“You have to keep this between us. If word gets out we would die, we