“I trust you had a good night,” the queen all but sneered the following morning during breakfast.
“Great,” Emily beamed at her.
“A wild one is more like it,” Theodore retorted. “Thank you, mother.”
“Yeah, wild indeed,” she quipped. “I believe the whole palace heard you two. What happened to being discreet?”
“Ah well, s**t happened,” Theodore chuckled.
“Language,” the king admonished his oldest in a tone that bordered on the annoyed.
“I’m not a kid, father,” Theodore told him tersely.
“No, but you are a prince, darling,” his mother supplied.
The royal couple sure had some weird way to show how they cared for their offspring, Emily reasoned inwardly, but didn’t dare to point it out out loud.
She had learned a few lessons from Serena already, and she didn’t want to put Theod
