Chapter 39: Gabrielle's Treasures

Going around the house, Gabrielle could not hide her dismay. 

Her aunt changed a lot of the interiors and sold nearly all their belongings. Some of them, those that her aunt may have thought to have no value, were placed in the basement. 

It was there where Gabrielle had been going through one box after another. 

Cleaning the dust off her mother's book, she sighed, "Oh, my mother loved this." She turned to Kyle and smiled, saying, "She read this to me over and over again."

Showing the book, she told, "It's a story about a girl of royalty who chose a man of no wealth over her crown."

Kyle frowned at the tale. It wasn't exactly a fairytale story. He asked, "How does... the story end?"

Gabrielle shrugged and answered, "She had a humble but happy family! That's what matters, right?"

She flipped through the old book, wanting to find her favorite chapter, and to her surprise, she found writings on that specific page! I