THALIA

“Let me go, I want to talk to my daddy’s wife,"

Miriam yelled at the guards who tried to take away. I looked away from the king and my eyes rested on the young girl. The king signed to them again and the let go of her.

“Miriam,”

I called with tears in my eyes and she walked to me, she stopped where subjects were supposed to stop so I had to go meet up with her.

Her smile was fake and so was mine, I embraced her,

“Where’s my daddy?”

She asked me the moment we refrained from the embrace, fear gripped my heart immediately. The king had...