~ Flash Back ~
“Mrs. Na, I regret to inform you that you were not blessed with the gift to procreate, you cannot have a child, since... you are sterile” Spoke the town doctor, who after doing the necessary studies gave the reason why the Na's could not conceive.
“What...? It's... a lie, isn't it? You're not mistaken with the studies or...?”
“No Mr. Na, your wife can't conceive, I'm sorry to have given you this news.”
Those words of the doctor shattered the hearts of the couple, who dreamed, longed, and wished with all their hearts to have a puppy.
Mrs. Na was shattered, hurt, hurt, and hurt, her wolf howled in pain, she dreamed of carrying a puppy in her womb, raising it and see it grow every day with her beloved husband, who was no better than her, the Beta was also shattered but only he could be the only strength of his wife.
The doctor left the Na's house, leaving a couple, with their illusions destroyed, they cried and mourned for hours, their greatest dream and longing would never come true.
Hours later, the Beta's mother, who was also a Beta and a healer from the Kingdom of Seoul, and a midwife as well. She entered the Na's humble home, who greeted her with red and irritated eyes from crying and mourning the news.
“What happened? Why those faces?” Asked the lady, with no more than 60 years old.
“Mother...” Said her daughter throwing herself into her mother's arms, who took her in her arms and in the middle of crying told her what happened: “I… No... I can have… Puppies... Mother moon did not bless me with it, I am.... blessed me with it, I'm... sterile.”
The elder Beta was astonished by the news her daughter gave her, she never perceived that misfortune in her daughter, she was a healer and she also had a gift that let her know many things that not everyone could, but apparently, she failed with her own daughter.
“My beloved child... Is that... true?” She asked her son-in-law. who was with a look full of pain.
“Yes... the doctor himself confirmed it to us now.” The man answered.
“Don't worry my daughter, I... I will do everything possible so that you can have your beloved puppy.”
At that moment the Betas couple had not understood the words of the old lady, they were so immersed in their pain that they ignored the true meaning of those words.
The couple suffered their pain for a month, where they tried to assimilate the fact that they could not have a little puppy, they tried to go on with their lives, although their longing was greater, little by little and with their love they were achieving what they thought they would never achieve.
Until that day when Beta's mother appeared with a little newborn baby in her arms, giving it to the couple and saying that this little one would be their baby and that they would love it with all their hearts. But demanding that to have him they had to go to another kingdom, none of the three could stay there.
“Mother... Where did you get this baby?” Spoke the Beta with the little one in her arms, so tender, innocent, and cute.
“I... A woman didn't want it and I... Decided to bring it to you daughter, I couldn't let that bad woman get rid of the puppy when you and your husband are longing for one, do you want it, or did you take it back?”
The couple could not refuse and clearly decided to keep him, not allowing the puppy to suffer in the hands of a woman who did not want him.
So the couple decided to go to the town of Busan, not wanting to meet the bad mother who had had the baby. They were from Seoul, but when they had their baby they went to Busan, receiving help from the good people of the Kingdom, and having a humble and nice home, where they raised and educated their little Jung-Su decently, as the Beta's mother told them she would like him to be called, she immediately gave the couple the name.
When little Jung-Su was 8 years old, the healer lady came to visit the Na's home, in poor health, telling them that she had had to flee Seoul, having been persecuted and condemned to death for committing the greatest of sins to her Kings.
The Na family did not understand what Mrs. Beta was referring to, they were more than sure that the old lady could not have committed any fraud of any kind, she was essential for the kingdom of Seoul, and the Kings themselves.
However, they never imagined that Mrs. Beta had committed such an atrocity.
“Daughter... I... I... I made a grave mistake and now they are after me...”
“What did you do, mother? Please speak.”
“Jung-Su, where is he?”
“With Mrs. Minji, he likes to be with her, why mother?”
“Daughter... it's just that... Jung-Su, I...”
“You what mother?! Speak up!!!!”
“Jung-Su is the son of the kings of Seoul.”
Before that confession the couple did not know how to feel, they did not know whether to believe or not, but the guilt-filled look in the eyes of the healer confirmed that she was not lying.
“What...? Is this… A joke right?” The Beta felt her heart shatter into a thousand pieces again after so many years.
“No daughter... forgive me please, I beg you...”
“Madam let's say that all this is a real joke, please.”
“I wish I could say that... I, when you...”
“Speak mother! What the hell did you do?! How come my Jung-Su is a Prince?! No... He's the King of Seoul!!! Do you know the atrocity you committed?!!!” The healer's daughter was upset, furious, but nothing compared to the pain and disappointment she felt for her mother.
“Forgive me, I... I didn't mean to but...” The old woman tried to excuse herself.
“But you did it, mother. Tell me... How did you manage to kidnap the future King of Seoul? How did you manage to make sure no one noticed? And what's the even worse mother... How did you have the heart and nerve to dare to kidnap an innocent life? Because that's what you did mother... you kidnapped a creature, who could have had a magnificent life, not one of poverty with us...”
“No daughter you are wrong, it is not like that, he would have suffered from the Kings, they could have forced him to do something he did not want to do and...” The old woman tried to explain.
“You do not know if he would have wanted or not... that does not give you the right to take it away from a mother, I know perfectly well what it feels like not to be able to have children, but I do not doubt that the pain of the queen is less, she has suffered for years the loss of her first son...”
“But they have another and...”
“And nothing mother! That did not give you the right to snatch a child from a mother's arms!”
“How did you...?” Began to speak the Beta, who had kept quiet all the time: “How did you... take Jung-Su out of there?”