AnotidaMandemwa

[WSA 2024 Entry]
Everyone is playing a regal game. Everyone except Lucia (who probably should).

After her father faced accusations of trying to seize the throne from his father and king, he was exiled along with his family. They were no longer royalty, but his wife would not have it. She was friends with the queen of Vershia and used that to her advantage. Her two older daughters were the right age to marry the two princes, and she would make that happen come what may.

That became a problem when the oldest daughter was ignored by the crown prince, who formed a friendship with the youngest of the girls. There was still hope; Lucia could become the future queen. But Lucia was not groomed for this role. She did not want to live for the type of marriage she could snag. She did not want to take the man who had been planned for her sister.

But that’s the thing with plans, isn’t it? She never planned to fall in love with the man, and there she was: an unwilling participant in the regal games. Would she capture the crown? How would everything affect her relationship with her sister? Was there ever pleasing her mother?

Regal Games

Lucia walked out of the restaurant and tried to pretend that the people holding up their phone cameras were invisible. She was on one arm of Prince Alexander and her sister was on the other.

"How do you like it thus far, Lucy?" Caroline leaned across her future husband to ask.

Lucia thought about it for a second.

Prince Alexander threw his head back and laughed.

"She says it's alright," he chortled.

Lucia raised a brow at her sister who was grinning at her.

"You really are the Queen of understatement," Prince Alexander gurgled.

"It's alright," he mocked as he opened the back car door for her.

Queen Of Understatement