Chapter 333

Rose staggered a step back. Her breath was coming faster now. She shook her head. No. No. Women were not allowed to rule. No woman had ever ruled. That was what the books said. She then gasped as she realised that they said ‘No woman had ever ruled Ashenmore,’ not ‘No woman can ever rule Ashenmore.’

She had misunderstood all along.

“Do you remember your thirteenth, fifteenth, and eighteenth birthdays?” King Cain asked, stepping beside his wife.

Rose gazed at him, going deathly pale. How could she forget? She nodded slowly, tears brimming.