Alessia. I wasn't allowed anywhere near the palace mansion. I could walk to the outer gates, but not the inner gates. In my one year of staying in the palace, I never imagined that a day would come when I would stand at the outer gate, for hours, waiting for the Queen, the King, Prince Kian, Caspian or anyone as long as it was a royalty to allow my entry into the palace. In the months that I had been living in the isolated cottage just outside the palace mansion, I had known my place, never imagining that a day would come when I would lose a sense of who I truly was - a breeder. And yeah, on that particular morning, I had lost it. I was not just a breeder; I was a mother, a sad and desperate mother, standing just a few meters from the huge and intimidating Palace gates, with legs a

