Chapter 225. The One You Loved

DOVE

I ordered everyone to leave immediately and leave me alone. This vision was agonizing, knowing that King Zack was giving me a choice between one option and the other made me feel a cry that I could not hold back when everyone had left, even the doctor.

I could hear Larry outside in the corridors, surely he was telling my husband how inexperienced I was as a queen. They were all saying it, of course, I had heard them whispering. Many in this castle blamed me for the things that had happened in my kingdom. I didn’t want to accept it at the time, but I listened to the comments and tried to ignore them when they took up so much of my day.

They said that my weakness had allowed Zack’s sect to win. The king had returned to his kingdom because a lady did not know which decision would spill less innocent blood. I cursed myself for not acting with Jacob’s coolness. He had no empathy, let alone the one I possessed, but he felt no remorse in killing his enemies and it se