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“He’s come to rest and have some peace because he’s sick and needs help,” he snapped despite talking to a Queen. “If you’d bothered to check on him instead of assuming he was pouting, even though he’s a grown man, maybe you’d notice he’s severely emaciated. He needs some peace so he can rest and try to put on some weight.”
“He doesn’t need to put on weight.”
“How would you fucking know?” Felix hissed as his face prickled with anger, and he grew hot all over. “I don’t see how you couldn’t notice he was so thin before, and he’s not healthy. You don’t let him eat in peace-”
“I never starved him!”
“You don’t have to! It’s the way you act. He told me what happened with his Father, and Addy, and-”
“You have no business barging into our family affairs!” She stepped closer to the gate, and even in the dying light of the day, her diamond jewelry twinkled accusingly. “You’re just a whore who does sick shit and sells your ass for coin.”
He lifted his chin. “My ass has earned me a decent savings, and my Mother and Grandmother will always have a roof over their heads no matter what happens. I take care of those close to me, and that goes for your son now too. You can go home or whatever, but I’m taking care of him, and if he wants to stay here, he can. He’s a grown man, he’s twenty-five, and he doesn’t need his prude Mummy breathing down his neck.”
The guard holding the door open scratched his face and seemed to be hiding a smirk at that.
“From what I’ve heard, you’ve been constantly on his back, and he’s damn near driven himself into the ground trying to be whatever you expect. You let out Lance even though he attacked me, and you dragged in some guy that you wanted him to marry becauseyouapproved. Why can’t you let him be and accept him for who he is instead of focusing on the stuff you don’t like? He doesn’t have to alter himself to make you happy, and he definitely shouldn’t have to hear the way you insulted him. You’re his Mother, and you’re supposed to love him and want what’s best for him!”
The Queen leaned over the gate. “I do want what’s best. My husband was overweight and died of a heart attack.”
“Rainier is nowhere near overweight.”
“Even if it doesn’t lead to a health issue, weight is a measure of self-control. Your appearance is noticed first by everyone before you even open your mouth. No one likes a ruler who sits in their home and gets fat off the backs of their people and lazes around.”
He wondered if she thought he was chubby. He knew what he looked like naked, and he was fine with his body, so her opinion wasn’t about to have him scrambling to lose weight or anything.
“No one likes a Queen who abuses her son either.”
The accusation slid out before he could tell himself to shut his mouth, but it was pure truth. Even if she didn’t beat Rainier, she had verbally abused him and tried to break him down.
The Queen’s face darkened, and her hand twitched like she wanted to reach out and slap him into next week. Her body grew rigid as she stepped back. With the daylight fading, he could still see the way her collarbones jutted out, and he wondered if she saw herself as overweight too. Natalie had mentioned her giving something to Betty to help with weight.
“Do you like trying to bust his mind or have you got some kind of insecurity that you think can be fixed? I really don’t see how a Mother can look at her bony kid and hound him to lose more weight. You even did it to your own daughter, and then you blamed him for her death. Maybe if you’d shut your mouth years ago, you’d still have Addy, and he wouldn’t be blaming himself for something that happened when he was a young teenager who didn’t know any bett-”
She stepped forward before her hand flashed out, and he barely stepped back in time to avoid the slap.
“How dare you make up such lies!” She pointed at him. “If you don’t get out-”
“I’m not going anywhere unless he wants to.”
“You’ve got a mouth and some guts to interrupt and disobey your Queen.”
“You might be my Queen, but he’smyPrince, and I’m not leaving him unless he truly wants me to go.”
The Queen whirled to the guards. “Arrest him! I’ve had enough of his mouth and lies.”
Felix took a shaky step back, and the guards simply stood there.
“Did you not hear me?” she demanded.
The carriage driver was watching everything and trying to make it look like he wasn’t. The guard still holding the door open scratched his head, and the other standing by the side rubbed his chin. “He didn’t do anything.”
“I said to arrest him.”
“But he didn’t break a law. There aren’t any laws against speaking your mind.”
“Did I stutter? Who knows what he’s doing to my son in private?”
The guard yawned. “There’s no rule against sucking a man’s dick either.”
