A king born to rule against the girl who lives for the fight...
Kitt Azer's story is known by many: a king's most prized son, the future king of Ilya, the elemental Elite who grew amongst the riches untouched by what his father has done to his own p...
I hear the iron box smash against the wall of the king's study.
It is done.
Kitt Azer is now the king of Ilya.
Matthew glances at me as we make our way to the stables, "Why did you do it, Corrine?" The guard already had the note written by the late king ready for my death, the box and rose. It was not only Lain sent to kill me, it was anyone who would get there first. The moment I faced Matthew his sword clattered to the ground and so he spared my life. "You could have let him know you're alive."
"I am a walking death sentence, for how long would I have lived?" I say quietly from beneath my cloak.
"He is the new king, he would have spared you."
"I don't want him to spare me, Matthew. I don't want to spend another moment here."
"In this castle?"
"In Ilya."
We reach the stables and I mount the horse I had already saddled with my things.
"How far will you go?"
I contemplate the question for a second, landing on the answer as hard as I feel the thumping in my chest, "As far as it takes to feel something again."
My heart aches: for my dead brother, for a lost prince who is no longer my prince.
But Ilya's king.
"If he is to be the new crown and rule as himself he can't have the past haunting him at every step. A heartless king will build a heart of his own. No secrets, no lies, no betrayals." I look down at my friend who only nods once, understanding what I am trying to say, "Thank you for everything, Matthew." And so I kick my horse into a gallop past the gates of the palace.
I look back once, memorising this place as if it's not already carved into me. Every kiss shared, every tear shed at an equal measure to each other now. There is nothing here for me anymore.
Only pain.
'Past and future have no say in the matter' The prince once said.
It looks like the present is no longer ours either.
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