TypedConfessions
- Reads 1,153
- Votes 81
- Parts 16
Eliza Riorson is twenty years old.
The war is over.
The names Mia and Xaden Riorson are enough to make the highest ranking nobles shake in their boots and plead forgiveness for crimes they hadn't even comitted.
For Eliza, they're simply, Mom and Dad.
And oh, she longs to be like her mother. To Eliza, Mia Riorson is not a legend to be examined. Not a myth. She is a mother who chose love in a world that demanded cruelty. A woman who did what was necessary. A protector. A saviour. The woman who single-handedly prevented Navarre from destruction.
And Eliza intends to be just like her.
Aren has never belonged to the world of queens and councils. Sharp-tongued, freckled, and perpetually unimpressed by authority, he is known more for his irreverence than his influence.
He laughs when he should bow.
He questions what others accept.
He notices what powerful people overlook.
And he fell in love with Eliza Roy the moment she grabbed him by the ear and demanded answers. Or maybe when she tackled him for pulling her into the fountain. Or maybe a million other times.
But Aren knows where he stands.
Eliza Roy is a queen in everything but name.
And Aren is just a boy who doesn't belong in her story.
Or so he thinks.