Chapter 44 – Meeting with Sophia [3]
Happiness makes even wicked people good.
A bold statement, but one none could deny watching Sophia speak with Cassius as if he were her lost son.
The happiness of having secured the Last Born of Desdemona's attachment to her daughter, and through that opened doors that few in the entire Empire could even comprehend, was overwhelming.
But Sophia could.
She understood the tangled relationship between the Desdemona and the Hood Royal Family, with Sefira Hood Desdemona being the half-sister of the current King.
But if it were only that, Sophia wouldn't be this pleased. Because the very mother of the Desdemona Matriarch was the actual Queen of the Kingdom, having married her own son after the death of the previous King.
