I Was The Perfect Queen But He Forgot My Name Chapter 39
If Rowan had grown up with Martin, perhaps he would have had a completely different life.
But when he was nine, Martin was preparing to retire and leave the capital with his family. Evelyn suddenly took Rowan away.
It wasn’t that she couldn’t bear to part with him. She was afraid that once he was out of her control, his identity would be exposed.
Julian had grown up in the royal castle, the cherished heir of the whole kingdom. Evelyn’s feelings had already shifted completely to the child at her side.
She placed Rowan in a covert royal guard training program with no public records.
It trained shadow guards with no identities of their own. Rowan and a group of children were isolated there, trained constantly behind masks. The program director only knew that his bloodline was close to Julian’s and that he could serve as a substitute in times of danger. They did not know his name.
Evelyn visited him once.
At the time, the instructors had released an out-of-control adult rogue wolf into the training field to force the children to learn cooperation. While the others backed away, nine-year-old Rowan hurled himself forward to prove himself to his mother. He gouged out the wolf’s eye and directed the others in subduing it.
Evelyn saw the blood and vomited on the spot.
After that, she never visited Rowan again.
He had become ruthless to survive, and for that, he was loathed by his own mother.