"No! I cannot allow you to harm my wife and my child!"
"Gregor!"
The loud voice of King Tredor echoed inside the study as he stood up from his chair and faced his enraged son.
"Do not forget I am the King of Valor! My words are the heaviest in this kingdom, and what I decide to do, no one in this land can ever disobey. You are nothing but just a Crown Prince. How dare you go against the King?!"
"The King that I know is a wise man! He will not take the life of a person after listening to mere words without evidence!"
"Those words are uttered by the High Priest who always said the right thing for the wellbeing of our kingdom."
"Father," he said through gritted teeth, veins protruding through his skin, "that's my wife and child you are planning to kill. How can I agree to this madness? I will never allow you to do it."
"Gregor, you…"
A/N- For the readers who are confused about what is going on, this is the back story of when Ember was born and how she ended up at that haunted mountain as a cursed child.