My Royal Story

Chapter 3

After half an hour of yelling, kicking, punching, and God knows what else, I gave up. I sat in the back of the truck playing with my thumbs. How was I going to see Dad? Then I realized something, I can beat the shit out of him! That's what I decided I was going to do.

The truck stopped moving. I heard the voice of my kidnapper, "Princess, we're here! I'm opening up the back!"

He pulled open the back door and put a hand out. I stood up and walked past him. I jumped off the truck, "So where are we going?"

He sighed, "This way."

I followed him up a cobblestone path. There were flowers of all colors and butterflies on them. There was a large, fresh lawn stretching around the area. Fluffy clouds floated in the blue sky. It was so beautiful it was almost a dream.

I looked straight ahead and saw a large castle. It was made of stone and had many large windows and lanterns around it. There were a few small towers. Balconies wrapped around the many floors. There had to be at least five floors.

We approached a large door. My kidnapper pressed in a code on the door and it opened. I peeked inside. There were marble floors and tall ceilings with chandeliers. The halls looked as if they went on forever. I saw grand staircases. There were pots of bright daisies everywhere as well as portraits. Sunlight shown through the large windows onto the floor.

I stood at the door until my kidnapper motioned for me to follow him down a hallway. I followed him. There were many pictures of royalty on the walls. It started in the fourteenth century. The last picture at the end of the hall was from a few years ago. I looked at it, and it was my dad.

My kidnapper opened the large doors at the end of the hall to reveal a large dining room. The large cherry wood table could seat about a hundred people. Three large chandeliers hung from the tall ceiling. I saw four plates at the end of the table. Two men were seated in front of them. One being Dad.

Dad motioned for me to come sit by him and the man. I slowly walked over. I stood right next to Dad and just glared at him. I wanted to hurt him, but I couldn't, he was my father.

"Lilian, please sit."

"It's Lily."

Dad gave a grim look, "Just please sit down." I sat. "Lilian, Lily, I have some news to share with you."

"Yeah, I kind of know, you're King."

"Yeah, but there is more to the story. I was born into the royal family, but I never wanted to be King. When I was eighteen, I moved out of the castle and into the sixth caste. I married your mom. By the way, I'm very sorry to hear that she has passed, but-"

I stopped him, "How can you not be mourning? Wasn't she your only love?"

"Yes, she is my only love, but I wasn't her only one. Your mom and I had two kids-"

"Yeah, me and Ana, I know."

"Lily, please stop interrupting! Actually, you are wrong. Ana isn't my child. Your mother was cheating on me. She made me believe that she was pregnant with our child, when really it was someone else's."

"Wait, so I'm your child, but Ana isn't?" I couldn't believe him. I guess it made sense though, we were nothing alike.

"Yes."

"Then who is the other kid?" I asked looking around the room.

Dad pointed to the boy, "Lily, this is your older brother Dominic. He will be taking the throne in three years, when he is twenty-one."

I looked at the boy across from me. He had the same blonde hair as mine. His eyes were the same green as mine. His mouth and jaw were also the same as mine. He was really my brother! "Wait, why didn't I grow up with him?"

"Lily, when Dominic turned two, I sent him to the castle to live with your grandparents to be the new heir. Your mom never knew I was royal, so I faked that Dominic passed away, so she wouldn't know."

"Oh, but why did you leave us if he was going to be king?"

"I left because your grandparents died and I had to take the throne. Dominic was only a boy."

"Then why didn't you take me with you? I'm your daughter! Why did you leave me for that terrible life! I never did anything to you!"

"Lily, I didn't know how long your mom was cheating on me! I didn't know if you were my kid or not!"

"How did you know Dominic was your son?"

"I had his blood tested. After I found out your mom died and you girls were living on your own, I secretly took blood tests of you girls. When Ana stole the chicken I had her blood tested, and she wasn't mine, so I sent her to jail like criminal she is. I had yours tested when Luke kidnapped you. You were my child."

I turned to the guard, so his name was Luke. I turned back to Dad, "How can you be so evil? To let your daughter go to jail?"

"She wasn't my daughter!"

"She was more of a child to you than Dominic! You raised her as your own!"

"Yes, but she isn't blood!"

"How can you be so sick, to do something like that?"

"She is a criminal!"

"Okay, so we are a family with I dad, his fake-dead son, his daughter, and his criminal not-related daughter?"

"You are forgetting someone else."

"Who?"

"The stepmom."