Theodore stumbled backward from the force of her shove and nearly fell. He stood frozen, his eyes welling up, completely at a loss.I looked at him. A tangled emotion rose in my chest. This was my son, the child I had carried for nine months and raised for nine years. Yet standing before me now, he felt impossibly far away.Adrian glanced at him but said nothing. He simply took my hand. "Come on, Mother. Grandfather asked for us."I looked away and nodded.As I turned to leave, I heard Theodore's small voice behind me. "Mother?"I did not know who he was calling, so I did not look back.[Some things, once lost, are gone forever.]…It took seven days for the full truth to come out.The Imperial Guards uncovered everything. Lady Quincey had sent people to harm me, switched the crown prince with another child, and passed off a false heir as her own. The evidence was damning.To save his own skin, Roland spent the night writing a full confession. He exposed every one of Lady Qui
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