19-All Part Of The Plan

~Christian’s Point of View~

I’d never put much thought into “pampering” a female, it was certainly not something I’d never seen my fathers do. My mother was lucky if they actually helped butcher the meat they brought home for dinner. In our younger years she did nearly everything on her own. I remember it well. She hadn’t wanted help. But as she had more babies she finally let others in. Royals were supposed to have servants, though she’d never call them that. I knew Daphne would be the same. It was clear she was used to doing it all on her own.

I both loved and felt pity for my mother at the same time and I wasn’t at all sure if that’s how my brothers saw her. In some aspects she chose this life but not in others. Not all the males she bred with were like our fathers. Well, for starters they weren’t kings even if the babies they had would be princes or princesses. They weren’t stuck up: they were much more hands on and involved with raising their offspring like they should be. Shift