**** Alyssa ****
"How did they work out their differences? Your father insisted on cutting my mother from the line of succession, didn't he? Was it a condition that he cut my mother, and me, off completely?" I ask.
"Yes," Adrian answers, and I sit in silence for a moment processing this new information. My mother must have thought her father had given up on her. He must have felt awful for pushing his daughter away. Or at least I hope so.
"Why would he agree to that? He's the King. Why not tell his brother to go frack himself?" I ask.
"My father was a master politician. He was charismatic and managed to sway a lot of supporters. He used that influence to undermine many of your grandfather's decisions which crippled the government.
"The King, busy and distracted, didn't realize the fu
