Khione thought she was not hearing correctly, Ares didn't literally mean that he was going to abolish the entire monarchy, right? Just that he was going to remove his father from power, right?
"Abolish the monarchy...?" she repeated questioningly, her eyes meeting Jasper's eyes. He too looked as if he had heard the Beta Prince incorrectly.
From all of the royal stories they had ever read, it always involved someone wanting to take over the monarchy and being the reigning monarch. Never had she heard of someone who wanted to abolish the entire system.
"You don't want to become the Emperor but you want to abolish the Kingdom instead?" she asked again, still in shock.
"I do not believe in the system," he told her truthfully. "It is in our nature to have alphas as our leaders, we're co
