CHAPTER SIX: LYRIANA'S POV

I was still in shock of what I had read when Chloe's call came in.

"Hey babe! Just checking on you. I hope everything is well at home?" She said with so much excitement.

“Hey babe, how are you?” I sounded so coldly. I paused. "It’s… complicated."

“Explain to me , please?”

I took a look at the parchment again. “Do you remember the guy from the club that night? Alaric?” I said coldly.

“Yes, I do. The hot dude who disappeared the following morning. Have you found him?

“Chloe, you can't believe what I just discovered.” I said irritably.

“Spill, tell me babe.”

I paused. “Chloe,I just found out that he is the Crown Prince of Ardonia.”

“Are you joking?! Do you mean the Ardonia Kingdom? A rival to your kingdom?”

“Exactly.”

Chloe gasped. “Holy shit, Lyriana. You’re pregnant with the heir to both thrones. This is more than a scandal. This is a looming war waiting to happen.”

I held intensely unto the edges of the windowsill. “I am aware.”

“So what do you want to do?” she asked.

“I am confused,”