Chapter 9
Author: MK20
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King Jerald stood in his garden, which had once been filled with roses and lilies but was now home to the tombstones of all his dead sons. The tombstones stretched miles away, and engraved on each of them were the names of all their sons.

At first, he was memorizing his son's names, but as the years went on, he began forgetting until they finally decided to use the same names. The firstborn was always to be called Nephius, the second Marcus, the third Daniel, the fourth Lotas, the fifth Miguel, and the sixth Barrick, so as not to forget their names.

Rachel always kept to her room and tried every method of suicide she could think of. Sometimes she could go an entire year without eating, but somehow she could feel full. She had tried doing the most despicable thing of suffocating the babies, drowning them, or throwing them down the castle, but on each occasion, the babies came back to life.

The curse took a toll on her and she was always crying. They tried going into the forest to ask
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    Rachel spit on the ground and looked at Clarris with disdain, then turned and looked at Nephius. “Your first rule has a king and you choose to dine with the snake that cursed you!” Nephius only looked down in shame. But his other brothers were right, he needed Omen and Clarris had the Naga to worry about more than them. Marcus walked over to where Rachel was standing and reminded her of the day she defended him when he had betrayed his brothers not once but twice.“Mother, remember when everyone wanted me punished or should I say dead? You said Omen kept me alive because he was in need of me?” “What has that got to do with this snake!” Rachel asked“We need Omen, Omen likes the snake so we will let him play with it until he gets tired or she hurts him and the Naga kills her?” Lotus replied. Clarris couldn't believe what she was hearing, she clenched her teeth and was about to say something but Omen held her hand.Rachel looked at them with spite, turned, and walked back into the cas

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