Chapter 50

Celeste shrugged, sitting up. “I don’t know, but what if Celia’s right? What if what my father said about him was true too? I don’t want to believe, he’s so nice and gentle to me, I don’t want it to be true, but what if it is?”

“It isn’t, it couldn’t be. Dad stepped down from his post months ago, if it was something to do with him, why did they not declare a war when he was in power? There’s nothing dad could do to upset them now…he still has power, but stepping down from his title doesn’t allow him to use it.”

“I understand that, but what if…”

“Stop thinking about the ‘what if’s’ think about the facts, dad isn’t evil, if anything, he’s too good and his kindness couldn’t have been what started a war.”

“That’s true…” Celeste answered, giving up on convincing him. She knew his father was kind, she had seen his smiles, heard his chuckles, but last night he was acting different. She had been in Zillon’s room, sure she had been crying while she was reading the let