Chapter 14
Lexi was so confused. She couldn't decide whether to be happy that her father was going to marry the person that she had always considered a mother, but on the other hand, she had just betrayed her.
Carolina: Lexi? You should be happy.
Lexi: How can I be? You just lied to my father. How could you?
Carolina: Lexi, I'm going to marry your father! This is good news!
Lexi: No! It's not!
Carolina: Yes it is!
Lexi: How?
Carolina: Your mother was my best friend. Unfortunately she was the princess, which meant she got to marry your father. After some time I started to grow jealous of your mother. That eventually turned into hatred. She had you and the hatred grew even stronger. On your second birthday, I slipped a bit of poison into her drink. One week later she died. I tried to get your father to take me as his second wife. Unfortunately, it never worked, until you told me you were in love. I came up with the plan to help you sneak out and lie to your father to convince him that you were some sort of 'lost cause'.
Lexi: And he believed that?
Carolina: No, of course not, don't be stupid. I've tried to convince him for years. After time, he finally believed me. And thinking you would need someone to be of a higher rank to control you, in a sort of motherly way. So he proposed.