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"For Princess Around my teeth at the word "princess" She was only a princess by association to the Kendrick line and nowithvery hard at disassociating all of us with Monarchial terainst Airl

"Well, I’m sure whatever you come up ill be fine," I nodded to let hi with hiain He scurried from the room

Yep, I needed to practice that some more

"Somebody please explain toetarian options?" I demanded when it was finally just my board of advisors and me alone in the throne rooue from her place in between Silas and Gabriel She was ure than an advisor, but when I decided to choose one from each kind I knew there was no Witch I trustedertips

"You don’t have a headache," she scoldedon the other side of the room and that was how I knew she orried about et a physical headache Her hair had turned a blinding shade of white and I could swear it was fro battle with Lucan She was still stunning for a grandentle beauty, but that year was hard on all of us

"Trust me, my head hurts," I complained

"Only because you refuse to use it," Gabriel snapped I sat up, ready to argue, but he was already on his way to a lecture, there was no stopping hiht now you don’t have a choice This was the future you wanted for your people; tyranny is dead, they are free, and the ain Granted it’s not exactly hoe iined life after Lucan, I understand that, but this is what your people want And by acting like this… this… petulant child you are refusing to give them what they want, what they deserve You are as bad as Lucan at this point"

"Don’t co’s throne to distance myself as far from his memory as I could "We are not comparable"

"What he means is, you’re as bad as Lucan today," Silas clarified in his thick Ja about I would have laughed

"Oh, now I feel better," I rolled elica for help I could always count on her

"Maybe if you got s wouldn’t seem so difficult," she offered and I realized sharply I couldn’t count on any of them today "Maybe if you had sos wouldn’t feel so iruain!" I sighed "I already have someone to share the throne with Actually I have two somebodies to share the throne with, they are just never here! Although, maybe I should follow their exao on a two year honeynored the pain shooting up my back from my childish tantrum

"Sure, if that’s the kind of incentive you need, then by all means et no arguhed hudo, not even Eden’s, not without a stable government in place to fillmarried I hated it when he called my bluff

"What do you want fro he would tell e eyes flashed with gravity and he rubbed his hand over his closely shaved head "I want you to be the leader you’re destined to be You’ve done an adequate job so far, but we knohat you’re doing Avalon and the Kingdo to dis to prove to them they don’t need you They want you, and your sister and her husband So, instead of pouting around and not paying attention, why don’t you try taking your role seriously? Why don’t you explore all the good that could come out of that?"

I opened my mouth to respond, but then closed it Gabriel had a point Who was I kidding? I knew he had a point; I just didn’t want to give hi him so Which I also kneas very i at eighteen years old

Now at twenty-one I was very worried resentrowth

Talbott’s phone beeped, interrupting the pregnant pause and saving h by the look Gabriel sent me and the dull suppression of his eye color, I knew he knew I thought he was right

"That was the front gate," Talbott announced after clicking off his cellphone "Jericho is here I told the room"

I rolled my eyes at Talbott’s formal behavior I was the one that appointed him head Titan, so I really couldn’t co roo room I needed to meet Jericho wherever I daet the hell out of Dodge, or uh, the Citadel in this case

Gabriel glared atright now" looks and I sed back the leftovers of a Rebellion I was supposed to be done fighting

"Thank you Talbott," I replied formally

I started to leave the room before I made myself turn around and act like the responsible ruler of a nation I kneas "You’re right Gabriel I need to stop pouting The people want a king and I aue with them since I killed their last one Besides, Eden will be back in today and she can share the responsibility I will do my best to embrace this position and do what I can to better the existence for our people" I finished a little bit draht it was a very diploelica piped up

And I needed to get out of the room I could try to be diplo with the rest of the Kingdom how love turned ood way… There was absolutely no way in hell I was going to get sucked into the rabbit hole called Love

It wasn’t worth it

Chapter Two