Chapter 402. Complicated Thoughts

DOVE

The words echoed in my head. Larry’s voice had always seemed ominous to me, but now it was even worse. It was a voice that made me face my worst fears. I didn’t want to face them, I didn’t want to face that knowledge I never asked to have.

I let out a sigh as I waited for the doors to open. Inside that room, the doctor had attended to a group of travelers from my kingdom.

I felt my eyes well up with tears of emotion again. I had the pain piercing me, the nostalgia, everything melted away when I saw them.

“Your Majesty.” They knelt before me. They made me feel like their queen again.

Two of them were middle-aged men and three were women. One of them was pregnant like me.

“Your names, please,” I murmured, my voice muffled by everything that had happened.

I could see, as I observed them, that despite their fear, there was a glimmer of hope in their eyes. A hope that here, in Fabricio’s palace, they would be safe. After traveling so far. I