Mathayus then turns his full attention to his father, who now has tears running down his face. "He speaks the truth, he's not my biological child, but my wife never cheated on me, when you were three years old she left you with your nannies and went shopping, and the man that is his biological father kidnapped her and assaulted her, after which he left her by the side of the road...
His actions were fueled by his desire to hurt me anyway he could, not to mention she was a rare beauty..." "Wait," Mathayus says, holding up his palm. "Where were her guards?" "Some were killed, and the others injured. Word spread quickly that she was missing. When she was found and returned to the palace, we put out a statement that the culprits were only sending me a warning; we didn't announce that she was assaulted...
And even though I hunted down the one responsible and ripped him apart with my bare hands, it still wasn't enough to console her; her trauma and shame were so intense that she locked herself away for weeks." The king took a deep, shuddering breath before he continued.
"Upon realizing that she was pregnant, she wanted to abort it, rip him from her womb, but a part of me also wondered if the child could be mine, so I begged her to spare his life. She also wondered if the child was mine, but her fear that it wasn't was very great...
I remembered telling her that even if the child wasn't mine, he was still innocent and that we shouldn't punish him for his father's actions. That was so stupid of me, I should've just let her kill him, then we could've had another child later...
But a part of me knew that she wouldn't be able to live with the guilt after taking the life of an innocent fetus, no matter how angry she was, and I didn't want to lose her to suicide, so I persuaded her to carry it...
As soon as he was born, we did a D N A test and it proved he wasn't mine, but because of how he was conceived, she wasn't able to bond with him, so his nannies took care of him and I did my best to raise him right...
I convinced myself that he could become someone of importance regardless of how he was conceived. I have no idea why I even did that. I was so fucking stupid," the king cried, not attempting to wipe the tears that were streaming down his face.
"Seriously? Is that the best sob story you could come up with?" Dmitri sneers with a snort while rolling his eyes. "So lame," "That's the truth, you ignorant scum!"
"My decision to spare his life is the reason I lost my wife and you lost your mother, fiancée, and unborn child, and literally went through hell for the last few months, and for that, I'm truly sorry, Mathayus." Standing, the king bowed sorrowfully to Mathayus.
Closing his eyes and releasing a deep, shuddering, sorrowful groan, Mathayus slowly leaned his head to the left and then the right before slowly opening his eyes again. "Why was this information not made known to me when I became an adult?" He asks his father.
Neither of you was supposed to know any of this. I wanted no division among you; you were raised as blood brothers, both of you were supposed to rule this country and reign as blood brothers, but now that I think about it, that was very naive of me...
But while deciding to spare his life, not once did I ever think that..." A sob cut the king's sentence short.
"That he would grow up to be an overly ambitious cold-blooded ass-hole?" Mathayus ask finishing his father's statement. "But he did father, and the fact that he did is no fault of yours. The people on the Island had a saying, sorry for a marger dog and he will turn and bite you." Mathayus snorts.
"Excuse me! Did you just compare me to a dog?" Dmitri growls through clenched teeth. "I did, you're what they would call a mongrel, which is the lowest breed of dog you could ever be."
"How dare you..." "How dare me?" Mathayus snaps coldly cutting him off. "Ass hole, you killed my mother, my fiancee, and my unborn child, and for what, huh? For something you convinced yourself that you deserved? My father spared your pathetic life and my mother carried you in her womb for nine months and this is how you repay them?
If it wasn't for the fact that you would die too quickly, I would remove your head from your body, this instant, but no, I won't be doing that, a quick death is too good for someone like you, I plan on giving you the exact death you gave my love ones but you will not have the pleasure of being unconscious."
"Bla-Bla-Bla, oh please, spare me your empty threats, I'm the son of the king, your blood brother, remember? Which means you can't touch a hair on my. Pretty. Little. Head." Dmitri snorts a smug smile spreading across his face.
Mathayus shakes his head and growls deep in his throat before fixing Dmitri with a deadly glare.
"How much are you willing to bet on that, brother?" He asks in a tone that immediately wipes the smile off Dmitri's face.
Thank you for reading
word of encouragement
when you give to the needy
do not let your left hand know
what your right hand is doing
riddle from the last ch; who makes the most noise when they do their nails?
Ans: Carpenters
Ha good one, bet you didn't see that one coming
alright here's another
What is more useful after it's broken?
Good luck