The Wealthy King Pretended To Be Dying To Test His Wife and Children..What The Did Left Him Heartb….

Chapter 2

King Theron looked up from his desk, and the weariness on his face was not the weariness of age but of a man who had been reading difficult things for too many hours. He was in his shirt-sleeves, his crown set aside on a cushion like a hat he had forgotten to put away, and he looked less like the ruler of a kingdom and more like a tired father at the end of a long day. That, perhaps, was why Alys could speak at all.

“I have wronged you, Your Majesty,” she said, from her knees, her voice breaking in the middle. “I have come to confess a crime I have not yet committed, and I pray you believe me when I say I would rather die than let it be done.”