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

After her lunch with her mother, Adela went to her next appointment and then called her father's secretary. She needed to talk to him. She did not need to delay their conversation and draw things out. This was what her family needed of her. She would do her duty.

"Is my dad available?" she asked the woman.

"He has an opening in fifteen minutes," came the reply.

"Okay," Adela said as she mentally went through her agenda for the next hour.

"How long does he have?" she asked, "I need to talk to him."

"Let me talk to him and come back to you," the woman said.

"No problem, sweetie," the woman replied.

Adela smiled. Her father's secretary treated her like her own child, even though she was just fifteen years older. She did the same with Leroy, who liked to flirt with her, but her brother flirted with everyone.

Burning Adela