"Auriela? As in…the concubine? Aurien's mother?" Ezra asks, wide-eyed now, not entirely sure how to process the sudden twist in the conversation.
Kaelis laughs softly at his reaction.
"It's quite a shock, no? As a child, I was shocked too. I almost couldn't believe it."
"I don't believe it at all," Ezra says immediately with a frown.
Because honestly?
It sounded ridiculous.
The queen hating Auriela because they used to be lovers sounded less like reality and more like one of those dramatic noble plays rich people cried over during festivals.
"My mother says that she hears things, and that she heard that the queen was in a relationship before, but the king took her in. Their relationship was supposed to be amicable, the same as with my mother. It was all for show." Kaelis explains as he leaned slightly back against the fountain's stone edge.
Apparently, the queen was in a relationship with another woman, and at that time, it was heavily frowned upon."
