All Chapters of My Mafia Mystery: The Barefoot Princess: Chapter 81 - Chapter 82

Kat POVEvery day before I visited my uncle, I prayed that there would be some sign that he was improving in some way or another. He wasn’t, but it was hard to grasp that I would be forced into the position of Queen when I had barely been on Slovenian soil for more than a couple of months. At least if Uncle Mattias spoke a few words I wouldn’t be forced to take the throne… surely. “Are you well, Katerina?” Councilman Otis asked over breakfast, his snowy white eyebrows knitted together making them look like one gigantic, fuzzy caterpillar. “You have barely touched your food for the past few days. Is there potentially a child on the way?” Enzo looked at me, almost hopefully and I forced a smile as I shook my head, “not that I am aware of, but you never know.” It was hard to miss the looks of horror which some of the councilmen struggled to hide - their contempt for the throne so blatant that the thought of adding an extra heir was borderline unthinkable. Anka chose that moment to be