Chapter 86. Anything Was Possible

“...That she’s human...” Three words, one phrase, but it was more than enough to send the whole courtyard into pandemonium.

The elders yelled, swore and cursed at each other. Ava was extremely embarrassed, as she knelt there on the ground, watching Lancelot’s secret openly humiliate her in open. In front of her family, and most of her friends.

Madeline was petrified, she could not bring herself to close her eyes which were widened in horror. Lancelot stood, stoic, unsure of what to say, or what to do. He knew his secret would come out one day, but he had never imagined it would be on the day of the one thing he had kept his secret to protect; his coronation.

“Is it true?” Lancelot heard Edward whisper. There was no point in lying or trying to cover anything up anymore. His secret had been revealed, and he just had to tell the truth.

“It is father.”

Edward’s heart squeezed in his chest. He pressed his hand to his chest to ease the pain as his facial expr