Chapter 218

Joshua remained mute, he couldn’t say a word, his mother was right, refusing to marry Carmella means he would be stripped of his royal title, after all in their village it was an abomination for a man to sleep with a woman who he isn’t married to how much more a king, he knew that saying no to marrying Carmella would push his mother into telling the elders what he had done with Carmella and that was a shame he couldn’t stand to bear, people would talk and call the king “a man who can’t control himself” some might even say he raped her, he covered his hand feeling so ashamed of himself and at the same time helpless, his mother was going to make the announcement after all, he just had to keep quiet else everyone would hear of it, he shook his head sadly moving back to his chair, he bowed down his head burying his face on his hands and sobbed like a child, the queen stared at him, she felt so sorry seeing her son so broken but she believed that everything was just happening for his own g