Chapter 38. Learning Prince Rhys

RHYS' POV

"Give your mindset a change, then we'll talk."

I was in my room, a girl I just fucked passed out on my bed. A glass of wine in my hand as it swirls to the edges while the moonlit shine shimmers across the edges. I can't see above the railing, because the empty sky makes me remember the words of hers again and again.

Give my mindset a change...?

I've been retrospecting.

I've been a bad man, a pugilist maniac who believed women were pawns in a man's life.

When father died last year and encouraged me to take over the kingdom, I could see the many faces of women being hunted by men.

My minister tells me something which shook me to the core.

Father allowed other statesman to take advantage of their own queen. My mother was thrown around by these men in beds, my father accepted that status to maintain for her.

Unfortunately, mother took her own life and stood as an example to other women to never let a man touch her without h