Chapter 35. Do Spare Me Your Greetings

She staggered back.

This had to be one big joke..

Arthur rose his eyes to meet his mother. She stood, fixed to a spot, vibrating with anger. She had a horrific look in her eyes, as though she was going to kill somebody. Perhaps, she was.

He made a move to hold her, but her furious glare warned him against it.

She turned away, without a word and stomped out of the room.

‘I should have just kept my mouth shut’ Arthur thought to himself, as Madeline slammed his own door at his face.

Madeline couldn’t believe her ears. Fourteen years, fourteen good years was how long it took her to raise Lancelot and groom him for this particular day. And after all these years, he still went ahead to make such a stupid mistake?!

She walked briskly to Edward’s study. She would go to her husband and Lancelot and demand an explanation for what he had done. There was surely no way that Lancelot would have been stupid enough to associate himself with a human female,