204 - ADONIS / EMMA

ADONIS

I open my arms and she walks across the balcony and into my arms. I wrap them tightly around her as I say,

“Why do you call me that? We grew up together, we are family… How many times must I tell you to call me Adonis or Don like you used to?”

She returns my tight hug and then steps back. She smiles, not answering my question but asking one of her own.

“What were you thinking about?”

“Mother, I know my father has her, but I am worried. She hasn’t been gone long, but I don’t trust him and I have never not been able to find her, especially with my gifts.”

“Have you tried outside the kingdom?”

“No… Why would she be outside the kingdom?”

“The villages and towns that have been attacked and destroyed are all outside the kingdom, so it would be an appropriate assumption that if your father was going to take her anywhere,