WILLOCK 58

"What happened?" I asked, as I checked the wounds in the mirror. He surely wanted to break my left side, as I was in bandages due to the glass he beat me with. Oh God, why couldn’t he get over the fact that the princess had a liking for me? Now, I will have to commemorate her with some scar on my left side near my eye; I am sure the cut was quite deep as I still felt the pain even on raising my head. The King, of course, had left; he was always busy for sure, maybe. I was with one of the royal nurses.

"You are lucky the King feels remorse for you. You would end up as his other bastards," the nurse stated, observing me, and made me wonder how many women the King had impregnated in his youthful days. Being polygamous was something Kings always had an advantage in; I sometimes wondered if women had feelings when it came to the man they loved finding love in another human's body. It just felt hurting.

"Are there others?" I asked.