Let’s just go back to Felix and Cordelia for a quick moment…Perhaps it may dot some I’s and cross some t’s for you…

  ***

  Felix pulled further back from Cordelia and took her hand in his.

  Looking at his bride, he didn’t know what to say to her to make her feel better.

  Having had to experience her night, in what she had thought about him but then finding out ter that it wasn’t him…How desperate she had been back then to get him to understand…How desperate she had been to hope it hadn’t happened at all!

  “Is it? Is it our st chance?” With a watery face Cordelia asked him, “Will you still love me?”

  Felix showed a rare smile and picked up her hand to kiss it. “You…Have always been…”

  That was it, for some reason he was unable to say anymore.

  Cordelia let out a sob and suddenly leaped at him, kissing him!

  Felix held her, as she had pretty much jumped into his arms, and after a stunned moment, excepted her kiss.

  They had never shared such a kiss before!

  It was normally like a peck…A quick moment…

  This time it was messy, it was sometimes hard and sometimes teeth were wrongly involved!

  But it seemed that they both found the other’s want something to gain more momentum to deepen their amateur kiss!

  A natural instinct went through Felix as he pulled her to him and put a hand into her hair.

  Cordelia moaned out and greedily kissed his cheeks and chin, then his eyes. She wanted her lips everywhere, like that was her stamp upon the man…Her man!

  “Felix…Felix…”

  Felix felt more hot blooded then ever as the woman of his desire moved wantonly on top of him.

  “Cordelia!” Finally, he let loose that desperate need inside him…

  Heavy breathing was heard as they stopped and stared at one another.

  “Time to be husband.” Felix muttered, lightly touching her face as his eyes showed their lust.

  Cordelia smiled at him, having dreamt about this for so long yet having it happen was beyond her imagination!

  “Time to be wife!”

  It wasn’t like Matilda had fixed their retionship. They still had issues, they still had pain. It wasn’t easy to forget or forgive, it wasn’t easy to…Let go.

  But now…Since they now could see their obvious wants and were ‘forced’ to touch one another, they accepted another type of road that could help to recovery.

  It was like a war wound upon their retionship…A scar perhaps…

  With a quick step some clothes were removed and then Felix found his pce…

  He wasn’t sure how to proceed, the books or people telling you and the real thing just…

  Before Felix could struggle to overcome his virgin practices, Cordelia helped bring them together in her obvious need to have him.

  They forgot where they were…What room they were in…They forgot what time it was. They forgot they were a Crowned Princess and Crowned Prince…

  Finally, Felix found what it was like to be with the one he loved, and he could only have more fondness for his master…He would have never known if she had not come to him on this night!

  ***

  Just like the emperor’s obtaining the letter, the Golden Heir’s were next…

  There were some interesting responses, that was for sure!

  One didn’t even know that they were a Golden Heir, and another was tempted but since they were next in line to rule and knew that there were others that would probably go, he felt like he should keep his ‘identity’ a secret and stay where he was instead.

  Nate was angry!

  Angry!? Why the anger?

  Well, he had not wanted anyone to fight him for it! He didn’t want this ‘meeting’! Being told that this was how it was going to happen, without him being a part of those instructions whatsoever made him, indeed, angry!

  He had no power over this and well, it was a pretty good pn!

  If it really did happen, where the emperors would go…But he didn’t want the others to come! And as far as he was concerned if others were going to attend this so-called meeting, then they were his adversaries! Even if they were his son!

  All Nate had to do was concentrate and see if any other Golden Heir was to decide to go, and if they did…Well, he would do his best to stop them from showing up!

  If there was no one there, except himself, then no one but himself could be the emperor!

  Matilda sighed and wished that Nate would stop being the murderer for just three months! Three months! He would be cheating if he killed them on the way here!

  There was just so much work to do and now she had another job of making sure the other Golden Heirs made it, since she had given them the letter, shouldn’t she at least keep them alive if they were going to attend!?

  If they were to stay in their haven it seemed that was ok, so…Matilda wished that they all stayed home!

  Less work was good but really, how in the world was that good!? If Nate, a tyrant and a dam right bully, became the Golden Haven Emperor…

  What a mess!

  So…How was she going to help prevent Nate from killing any other Golden Heir from dying on their way to Golden Haven!?

  In thought, Matilda looked up and then down…Side to side…

  Putting up her hands all of a sudden, Matilda let out a groan, “This isn’t fair!”

  “Tilda?”

  Matilda looked at Katherine and smiled in jest, “It’s going great! It’s fan freaking tastic!”

  Katherine watched Matilda with keen eyes and Matilda shook her head, “Nate wants to kill the ones that will come, so that he’s the only horse in the race!”

  After a moment of Katherine thinking, probably not completely understanding, she nodded, “Seems a good way to win…”

  “It’s giving me more work to do! Now I have to keep an eye on him all the fucking time!” Matilda sighed.

  “You are still using words that don’t make much sense to me.” Katherine stated easily. The princess never used to be so…Angry all the time…These words…

  Rolling her eyes, Matilda just looked away, mumbling, “They are known as swear words. They…At the moment, for me, these words are just emphasizing my anger!”

  “Oh…”

  Oh, oh that would be nice…If only I could end each and every problem with ‘oh’! She really is no help!

  “Ok, you…Keep in mind and remind me often to watch Nate, do you understand?” Matilda stated, giving Katherine a job…Well, another job…

  “Yes, Princ…Tilda…” Katherine said, slightly bowing her head through habit.

  What a mess!

  After doing a couple more Golden Heirs, the rest seemed somewhat close to one another and in that little group was…Matthew…

  Breathing out a rugged breath, Matilda closed her eyes and got ready to give out the st lot of letters.

  It seemed that Christian was easy, as he came in from a busy day out and read the letter, just to burn it up! Matilda couldn’t help but smile to the idiot who doesn’t give a shit about stuff like that!

  Matthew’s sister, Madeline innocently took the letter to Christian who looked angry for a short moment, before it too went up in fire…

  Well, that was two out of the race…

  Another was Madeline’s younger sibling, who was also of age. It had been the baby, back when Sahara had been alive…

  Time really does…

  Nonetheless, the child, who as well obtained this letter by themselves, did not go directly to their father but looked around.

  It seemed they thought they might actually find the person that had left the letter there…

  Oh, what’s his name?

  Matilda then watched as he opened the letter and read it. He quietly contempted and once again looked around, making sure that he was alone.

  It seems a horse may be in the race…A horse by the name of Austin.

  Matilda could see that this young man did have a bit more ambition than that of his father! He wasn’t just about fighting and being with his family!

  There was much more to this padawan!

  But now it was time for her…For Kin and Matthew…The second st ones…

  Putting a letter on top of an outer piece of clothing, having seen Kin take it off earlier, Matilda watched her son.

  He was much older now. He was handsome…

  He took after his father, mostly.

  It seemed though, as she watched him be quiet and finish some tasks that she didn’t look into, that his personality may be a bit like hers though…

  How long was it that she had been watching?

  She wasn’t getting mad because he hadn’t seen the letter yet, she was…Taking it all in…

  His life…Him…

  He grew up rather lonely, not having much attention from his father, who was still a constant in his life. On top of that he had no idea on what happened to his mother. He didn’t understand why, at first, that he was sometimes looked at as though he was strange when he told others that he was from beyond the wild yonder. There were still very little travelers that went from haven to haven and so…He had to keep that part locked up inside as well. It was almost like he hadn’t really been able to become his true self…

  My poor little man…

  There was a time, when Kin was young, that his health took a turn for the worse as well.

  Matilda had done a lot for her premature boy but with her sudden disappearance, it was something that did come back to bite her little man.

  Because being premature and newborn, it was more of a constant worry, a constant struggle to watch and cleanse but without her ‘watch’, Kin had slowly but surely fell sick.

  It hadn’t been a good time, as her disappearance was still quite new at that stage, but Matthew did stop and look after his son, even though he had no idea on what to do!

  Seeing the blurred and somewhat missing old memories of her beloved Matthew fusing hopelessly over his son almost made Matilda cry.

  Did she have a right to cry though? At that time, she was probably still trying to calm the hell down to what had happened to her. She had not looked at her boy and her man at all, to see how they were doing. Seething inside with her anger had completely distanced herself from even worrying about that small, tiny baby that she left behind.

  A tear did escape though…Grief, sadness…She had selfishly just…

  There was no denying though, she still loved this boy that she hardly knew…

  Matilda’s eyes upon him soften considerably and she couldn’t help but give him a spiritual essence pat. Something unseen should be ok…Right?

  Kin moved slightly to the strange feeling, but he did not feel uncomfortable or unsafe.

  Before she knew it, having been engrossed in his thoughts and past, he was reading the letter, having found it, finally.

  “What is it?”

  Matilda was shocked to Matthew’s sudden entrance.

  She wasn’t watching him and wasn’t ready! He was supposed to read the letter too!

  Now what was she going to do!?

  Swallowing, Matilda stopped herself from looking at him and tried to concentrate, hoping to find a pce to leave the letter with his name on it somewhere…

  “A letter.”

  “Is it the Bourne Family? They were very thankful for your help.”

  That voice rolled through Matilda like a fresh breeze, and she dropped the letter…Luckily it wasn’t a bad timing or anything…

  “No...”

  Matilda finally looked upon them both, her family and felt a longing that she had tried to hide…A longing that she thought she was able to endure through holding back…