My 8 E-books written over the years by Alina Udrea - HTML preview

Chapter 1

Mark couldn’t believe his dream had finally come true. He was a

knight in the king's army, King Harold's army. But things were way better than he had ever dared to hope for. He was engaged to Lizzy, the young and beautiful sorceress who turned out to be the king's

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daughter. So he was to marry a princess. But she was nothing like her step sister Milly who was cunning and selfish. As for John, he was Milly's step brother and he was in fact Lizzy's brother as king Harold finally revealed after he got his youth back and those things wouldn’t have mattered anymore as he would continue to rule his own kingdom.

Milly knew that John couldn’t have been her brother as her mother

died when she gave birth to her and John was younger than her but it wasn't her business to ask her father. As long as Harold knew and acknowledged John as his son, it didn’t matter that he wasn't the late queen's son.

Now the kingdom of Karaland had a queen once again, Gabriela,

and a young and powerful king, Harold. He was indebted to his daughter, Lizzy, and to his future son in law, Mark, as they had made all these possible.

And let's not forget Gabriela, the once again young and beautiful

sorceress, his wife and queen. But not everyone was happy with how things had turned out. Milly was the least happy. All her dreams of ruling her father's kingdom had crumbled in a heartbeat. And it was all Lizzy’s fault as far as it concerned her. Furthermore, she didn’t have Roman anymore to rely on him for her dirty jobs. She would have to find someone else, she couldn’t get her own hands dirty. Nope, she was a lady.

Now she wouldn’t only have John in the back of her mind, who

could aspire to the throne when their father would eventually get bored with a lifetime of ruling the kingdom, but she had Lizzy to worry about too. Her stepsister.

Why couldn’t her father keep his pants on? Wasn't she enough?

Why did he have to have other children and with another woman. Gabriela, her step-mother. And it turned out that John was in fact Lizzy’s brother. Things were looking bad from Milly's point of view. First of all, her father was young and strong again. And

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now Lizzy could also claim the throne in case something unfortunate happened to the king, their father. It was even difficult to put Lizzy in the same sentence with her father. She couldn’t conceive that they were step sisters.

Step sister with a witch. She hated her. And her future husband.

And everything that had to do with Lizzy. Yes, even her father for putting her through this. She was the most able and wise of all. She should rule….

Gabriela on the other hand was thrilled to be reunited with her son,

John. King Harold had taken him when he was born as Gabriela couldn’t have taken care of him because he was a boy. The sorceresses of her line never kept baby boys. All her ancestors either gave their sons to their fathers or sacrificed them in weird rituals to increase their magic powers. They would only keep the daughters, future sorceresses like themselves to continue the line of magic and witchcraft. But Gabriela was different, too. She could have never sacrificed her children, even if she had a boy. She left him with king Harold while she remained his mistress and his witch, but not his wife although he was already a widower back then. Still he hadn't been ready to marry her as she wasn't a queen and he would have been perceived as weak by the other kings of the world. And he was proud and stupid. Good thing it wasn't too late to make amends. At least now in his old age he saw things clear and wanted his youth back, wanted Gabriela back. And with her help and her daughter’s help, king Harold got a second chance. They both got a second chance. This time Gabriela knew things would be different. He had learnt his lesson…and so had she. Yes, she loved the old fool. And she couldn’t believe they were both young again. They had their whole lives ahead. A life together as husband and wife.

John too was excited to find out that he had a mother and

that she was alive. Gabriela seemed nice but she looked almost as young as himself and she was a sorceress. He wasn't sure what he felt about her, about the whole situation. He tried to understand why she had left him with king Harold, why she had abandoned him. After

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thinking and pondering, not too much because thinking wasn't his strong point, he decided to forgive and accept her as his mother, to her joy and wonder.