The Secrets of Llawnech

"Jackson wanted some alone time?"

Emma nodded.

"Do you want to talk about it?" She asked. "You look like you need to get some things off of your chest."

"I just don't know what to do anymore."

"Okay, do you have any idea what you would like to do?"

"No. Never expected to be stood here alone so, didn't exactly plan for it. This happened before to, I'm going to start staying at home."

Alicia nodded. "I can only really give you advice," She told her. "Don't take it to heart, I'm queen and Leo still kept things from me, it's what a king does, it's nothing on you it's just what they are trained to do."

"This is why I didn't want to do this, be with him when he was this." Emma whispered. "He isn't him anymore, in any way. He is a stranger to me now."

Alicia nodded. "Then why do you stay?" She asked, more out of curiosity than anything. "It will get better, it just takes some perseverance."

"His mother just died, I can barely leave him, can I?"

"No one would think less of you." She told her. "But things do get better." She promised.

"You mean I get used to him not being him anymore. I don't love who he is right now, and he knows that too so I may aswell end the misery for both of us.."

"No it does get better." Alicia told her. "I remember when Leo first became King, he was the same."

Emma shook her head in the negative, "I've already waited so long, I dont do it anymore."

Alicia shrugged. "Then you have a big decision to make."

"I think I've just made it..."

Alicia nodded. "Maybe wait until tomorrow?" She suggested.

"I'll work out when the best time is, I won't be told." She mumbled

"It was a suggestion Emma." She reminded her.

"I don't need suggestions, I'm not lacking of social skills. I know how to read the room and wait for the right time."

"Don't take offence Emma, that was not my intent."

"This is why I never wanted to go back in the first place." Emma repeated sadly. "Why I begged him to choose me."

"This is why I never wanted to go back in the first place." Emma repeated sadly. "Why I begged him to choose me."

Alicia nodded. "I understand." She told her.

"You do?"