The World Walkers: Unknow World: Thalia: Meeting the King (part 3)

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For a long moment all Thalia could do was stare at the other woman, unable to believe that she was really pleased to have her husband’s bastard daughter in the palace. “Why?” Thalia asked, without really stopping to think about what she was saying.

“Thalia, my husband and I were married for political reasons, as Felix said, and we never fell in love. He was in love with your mother, I was in love with someone else, and yet we couldn’t end the relationship because of the alliance between our two states.” The Queen Mother ran a hand through her hair, sighing. “If we could have done we would. A couple of times I urged him to spend more time with you and your mother, but he told me that she would never accept him in her life when he was still married. She didn’t want to come between us, even though she knew he loved her.”

Thalia bit her lip. “I think he did come once. The memories are pretty blurry, but I think I remember seeing him at the door a couple of days before my sixth birthday and Mum was telling him he had to leave. Hearing about the son he’d had with you made her even more certain that she was going to stay away.” She shrugged. “Even though I understand now why she made the choice she did I was angry with her for days after that, because I realised he must have been my dad and I wanted him to be a part of my life.”

“I wish he could have been a part of your life. Until last week none of us even knew you existed, so she must not have mentioned you if he did visit the house. I know if he had of known about you he would have done everything he could to be your dad, but your mother never gave him a choice, and I don’t like to speak ill of the dead but I hate her for it.”

“I wish you could have been a part of my life too,” Felix said, drawing Thalia’s attention to him and the throne he was sitting on.

“Would I have been the Queen if the King had of known about me?”

Nodding, Felix smiled. “You were his only child with the woman he loved and I know for a fact he would have made you his heir, even though you were a bastard.”

Unable to stop herself Thalia reached out with one hand and touched the throne. “I can’t imagine what it would have been like to grow up knowing I was the eldest daughter of the King.” She shook her head. “It feels a bit like a dream right now. Being here, learning about the family I never knew I had…” She tried to swallow around the emotion that was filling her throat. “A part of me hates Mum right now too, because she never gave me a chance to make my own choice when it came to my dad. She told me it was better for me if I didn’t know who he was.”

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.

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