The queen smiled as she saw the signs of pain in her stepson's eyes. For as long as she could remember, she had been a footstool to both Aziz and his mother. She had waited for a day like this when she would look down at her dying stepson, knowing that she had killed off the last heir of the Hassan lineage.

"Your mother never treated me like a sister; in fact, she was not even supposed to have been in the picture in the first place!" His stepmother yelled; this time, her anger was displayed on her face. "Oh, my son, you look confused." The queen taunted King Aziz...