CHAPTER TWELVE
Sophia wasn’t sure what to do. She’d never set out to be the queen of anywhere, but now that her cousins were telling her that she couldn’t be, that Lucas should be king instead, she felt the pain of losing it.
For his part, her newfound brother watched her intently.
Are you all right?
His voice sounded in her head, sure and strong. Even that was a reminder, in its way, that he deserved this as much as she did. He had the same blood that Sophia and Kate did, and if he’d been the eldest, Sophia would have had no problem stepping aside.
I guess I don’t like being passed over just because I’m a woman, she sent back.
Nor should you, Lucas replied. I told you before how I stand on it.
“I have no wish to be a king,” he said, aloud so that her cousins could hear it. “Of the
