Chapter 21: Broken hearts and crying eyes
„I didn't eat your little sibling, no," Dedyet answered, trying her best to explain it all. "Your father put it in there."
Nefera gasped. „Father was involved, too?!"
Dedyet bit her lip. „Yes... He-he wanted another child too, so that's why we-"
Nefera got up and yelled at her mother, before she could even finish her last sentence.
„But why?! You have me!"
„We didn't want you to be so alone, Honey!" Dedyet answered, failing at the attempt to explain a reason so good that Nefera would understand it.
„I'm not alone!" The princess responded, still in anger. "I'm with you and Father and Neferet! And the servants and the nurses!"
„But-but you don't have anyone to play with!" Dedyet told her, trying another time to calm her daughter down.
„I do!" Nefera answered stubbornly. "I have enough people to play with! I don't need a dumb sibling!"
Suddenly, Dedyet started to cry in an unexpected moment. She just couldn't hold it back anymore.
She had been so happy to be pregnant again, and everything had went so well until now! Her wish of a big, happy family seemed to be getting destroyed; destroyed by her own daughter.
They hadn't exactly expected her to celebrate, but nobody could have guessed that this would be such a disaster!
„Honey, we-"
"Shut up!"
Dedyet gasped.
"I hate you!"
Her mother sobbed. "But-"
„No! I don't want to talk to you!" The last thing Nefera yelled before storming off was an angry, "You aren't my mother anymore!"
This time, it was the queen who had tears running down her cheeks. And there she sat, alone in her daughter's room, pressing the little Neferet against her newly broken heart.