Forgotten Wife: Let the Traitors Kneel Down by Patricia Maradiaga

Chapter 1

1 I don't want to die April was sitting on the bed hugging her knees, the cold winter pierced her bones like sharp thorns, she tried to cover her small and delicate body as best she could, but that abandoned palace where she had been sent to live did not give her the shelter she needed.

April was the first daughter of the king of Venobich, a cruel and ruthless man who saw all his children as mere tools.

In the kingdom of Laios the heir to the throne was always the firstborn, regardless of the gender of the child, however, the king did not want a small, sickly girl as his heir, so he sent her to the most remote part of the palace to die in silence.

April had clung to life with all her might, even though she was only receiving one food a day and that she did not have the proper conditions to survive, she did not give up and clung to life in an admirable way.

In silence and among tears it was repeated over and over again.

_I don't want to die, I don't want to die, God, if you're listening to me, please help me, I don't want to die.

April repeated those words every day, over and over again.

No one could understand why someone as weak and unfortunate as she was kept clinging to life.

One day, one of the maids who brought her food once a day asked her.

_ Why do you still want to live? Wouldn't it be easier to just let yourself die? That way all the pain and suffering you're feeling would disappear.

April was 12 years old, at that young age 6 years had been hell, but she did not give in to the claws of death that whispered in her ear every day to stop fighting.

While eating the thick soup with a voracious hunger, April answered him.

_ Why don't you jump off the highest tower in this castle? _You're crazy! If I did that I would die.

You see, just as your life is valuable to you, my life is valuable to me, so stop asking me to die, because I won't.

in silence, when she finished the maid took the tray with the empty plates, she had not left

she looked out the window she raised her gaze to the sky and said

to die, please God, don't let me

the same

spring of her fifteenth birthday, the servant who always brought her food brought her a beautiful dress, beautiful jewelry,

you bring all that? he asked

bring all this, to make her beautiful, he wants

since April had last seen her father, she still remembered the cruel words he

heir, so just die already." _Do you know why he wants to see me? _No,

pouring over her thin body, she wished it would

ornaments, one on each side of her long reddish hair, then she

maid made her look at herself in a broken mirror that was

April had become a beautiful young woman with reddish hair, with white and pale skin like flour because she almost never received the rays of the sun since she was always locked

brightly and her mistletoe-red

the mirror, the maid placed the last ornament in her hair that was at the bottom of the box she had brought, it was a fine veil, when April saw it she realized what was happening, she was going to get married, since death never came into her life, her

that whatever place they sent her to was a better place to

all, please follow me, his majesty is waiting for

halls of the palace, everyone who saw her murmured as she passed, wondering, Who could she be? And where had she come from? She had red hair, a unique feature of

the murmurs of the people, she was taken to the throne room, she did not bow, nor greet the man who looked at her coldly and contemptuously sitting from

I see

to April, they seemed like

maliciously

of Cosset, due to the constant wars I have decided to send my most beloved

complain or say anything, she simply stood there listening to her father's words,

the shoes she wasn't used to