The Throne Is Mine N Chapter 40

Chapter 40: Chapter 40

"I hope the person Cyrus is looking for is still alive. Once she is found, Cyrus will want to leave and I will help them safely make it out of the kingdom if he does not want to stay. It is my fault he cannot return to the north," Alia sadly beca reminded that Cyrus had pledged his loyalty to her in front of the northern king.

She considered Cyrus more of a friend than her bodyguard and wished to have him stay nearby.

"Cyrus cannot leave the two of us when he finds the woman he is searching for. What kind of friend would that make him?" Gina found him hard to speak to but they were still friends. She would miss not having Cyrus nearby just as much as she would miss Alia.

The three of them created a strong bond over the years that should never be severed even when they had to move on to their own paths.

"Let’s not think too deeply about it. Grandmother has gone to rest her legs for a little while so we can walk around to see what has changed in the anti. It feels nice to get out of the castle," Alia relaxed her shoulder. "There isn’t anyone hiding in the shadows watching to see what they can report to my father."

"We also do not have to see Annabelle. Please take

wherever you go, Alia. Even if it is on a battlefield. It was torture standing in front of Annabelle and her clique of servants while she tried to bribe

to go against you," Gina cried on the inside as she rembered the pain she felt. "I do wish to be thrown into the battle between the two of you."

"I am not in a battle with Annabelle. It is her who has been obsessed with being my replacent mother and now she wants to be my enemy now that she is pregnant. I can only hope my father sends her away to sowhere quiet because he fears for her safety now that Killian is on our land. If only the Gods would answer my prayers to kill both of them."

"Alia!" Gina whined. "It is not right to wish for soone to die. The Gods would punish you for it."

Alia looked at Gina not feeling fearful of what the Gods would do about her request. "Not every God in the temple loves peace. I have been praying to the ones who enjoy chaos. Unfortunately, none of them have been listening to ."

"That is a good thing," Gina sighed in relief. "The priest would scold you if he ever found out that is what you do when you pray. He told

that he looks forward to having a conversation with you soon. That man has gained a lot of power over the years."

Alia agreed with Gina. The priest had beco like a king in the church and had a group of powerful people who could go against the actions of the king. Alia used him whenever she wanted to stop her father from doing sothing but she didn’t wish to personally get too involved with him.

"When I am with my grandmother, do not ntion anything about the castle. We have made a bet that the first person who talks about anything concerning the castle is the loser. She is determined to make

have fun and that is what I planned to do to make her happy. Forget about venturing around, I have a task for you, Gina."

"What is it?" Gina asked with excitent as she was happy she could be useful to Alia just like Cyrus was.

"Mix around with the servants here to learn what my grandmother has been up to. She won’t be completely honest with

when it cos to my question. I want to know if Killian Bune has tried to contact her and I want to know about any other suspicious activity. Do not make it obvious that you are praying for information. Co back to

when it is ti to leave for the festival," Alia ordered Gina.

If you wished to know sothing about a household you simply needed to ask the servants. They worked on every inch of the property and one of them was bound to see sothing odd happening.

Alia rarely visited her grandmother and Margaret was not the type to update her about anything that might be dangerous so Alia had to fish for information while she was there. It was also important to do this now when Margaret had been ntioning death a while ago.

"What should I do to pass ti?" Alia looked around the interior of Margaret’s house for sothing that would catch her eye. "When was the last ti we did a family portrait?" She asked herself as her eyes laid on an old portrait of herself and Margaret.

It was when she had been a little girl and back then, the castle was much more chaotic than it was now.

"We need to have an updated one before it is too late. Can’t life as a royal be easier? There is so much to do that I hardly get to see people I care about. Should I truly give up on desiring the throne that my father wishes to give to soone else? What will I do if I am not trying to beco queen? Simply be a wife? No," Alia shook her head disliking the idea.

With Killian right at their door and other candidates showing up to be the new ruler of the Blackwell kingdom after her father, Alia had to consider an option for what she would do if she could never reach her girl to sit on the throne. She could never picture herself running away to see soone else as a throne and she could never live quietly as soone’s wife.

She only saw becoming queen as her only path in life. Alia viewed herself as the only person to fix the uses her father created in their kingdom.

"Should I find Killian and offer to work together? He puts

on the throne after he gets my father’s head?" Alia started to contemplate it as her last resort should her father na soone else as his heir.