The King's Unbreakable Wife-Chapter 103: Plans for the future (3)

"You must focus on Hazel? You have two daughters that need your attention. I am also to get married this season and I have a good chance of marrying a man with great status thanks to the queen. If I lose any favour with the queen, his interest might dwindle. You cannot do this to me now," Helena argued.

Now was a good time for Hazel to speak up to help her like she always did for Linda. Hazel should want her sister around the palace with her, but of course, there might be a chance she disliked the closeness her sister was getting to the queen when Hazel failed.

"I am focusing on you as well but you sister is in a difficult position. I am focusing on the fact I have a lot of things that I must teach you. Truly, you are not ready to become anyone’s wife. You were not properly prepared and it is my fault for not overseeing the matter properly," Renee said, taking responsibility for this.

Helena was rarely out of their sight or the sight of an escort whenever she left the house. They had never sent her off anywhere to take care of herself and did not have anyone by her side to tell her what to do or what to say.

Hazel was there in the palace, but Helena wouldn’t always listen to her older sister. Not when she felt she was too grown for Hazel to tell her what to do.

Helena needed more lessons on how to behave, especially when she couldn’t get what she desired. If not for the attention that would be their family now, Renee would hold off on letting Helena try to find a husband.

"I am perfectly fine. Hazel being with the prince no longer upsets me. That man is cruel and nothing like I wanted. She can have him for all I care. There are other things that I want and you are getting in the way of. It is an honour for me to be going back to the palace. Hazel," Helena whined, finally turning to her sister for help.

’I should have joined my father in leaving,’ Hazel thought.

"It will still be an honour for you to go to the palace for an hour every day. You are not going to live there and should you argue any more, I will have it that you are never to go there. Enough about the palace!" Renee raised her voice.

Helena clenched her fists, on the verge of tears because no one was standing up for her. "I hate all of you."

Hazel watched as her sister stormed off while her mother stood staring at the dying flowers. "She doesn’t mean that."

"I am trying to do what is best for her. What is best for you. Helena isn’t strong enough to stay in the palace. I see that now. I should have been paying more attention to her so that when the invitation came I would have been more certain that it needed to be turned down. I could have saved you two all this trouble," said Renee.

She’ll never be able to stop regretting both invitations for her daughters to enter the selection. She should have stuck to thinking that sending both of them would end in a disaster.

"What do you think I should do?" Renee asked Hazel, turning to her for advice.

"Well, I understand that you don’t want her there for her actions to affect me. I have always known this side of Helena and have been able to put up with it. It’s a little more than I can bear these days," Hazel admitted as there was a day she wanted to hit Helena. "We are both at an age where we can think for ourselves. You are going to have to let her make mistakes so she can learn from them."

Helena believed that her way was the best and that they were trying to dim her light. They had to let her follow what she wanted and let her mess up or succeed.

"Honestly, there is too much on my mind for me to be thinking about Helena. If she wants to live in the palace and it is what the queen wants, then so be it. I am not thrilled about her being there with me, but it is what she wants," said Hazel.

Hazel knew that she was making this hard for herself by bringing Helena when there was some dislike over her being picked. "I will speak with her. Give me a moment. Then we can come down to have your talk."

"Thank you. I am going to miss having you around," Renee said, trying not to cry because this was not a parting that would last forever. Hazel was still going to be in Lockwood just in the palace which wasn’t the easiest to enter.

"You make it sound as if I will not call for you, mother. You know that I cannot go without seeing you for long. I must hurry before Helena has that idea of running away again," Hazel said, stepping away from her mother slowly and then hurrying to follow Helena.

Luckily, Helena was not far away. She was just out of sight from where they had been standing, rubbing her eyes which had to be filled with tears.

"Helena," Hazel called.

"Go away. You are on their side with not wanting me in the palace with you yet you claim I am the only one acting strange these days. Is it your jealousy?" Helena asked, turning to face Hazel.

Hazel ignored the comment about jealousy. "Mother cares for you-"

"No, she cares for you. She limited my time in the palace because she thinks I will embarrass you," Helena argued.

"I can see why she would do that. You were so quick to be against me when the prince started to show interest. You stopped speaking to me and looked at me as if I were your enemy. I’ve seen your childish outbursts when we are alone. Mother isn’t quite used to it because you were always so well-behaved before her," Hazel said, knowing Helena’s antics must be the shock of their mother’s life.

"Have we truly moved on from how the selection went?" Hazel asked as she had a feeling during Helena’s conversation with her mother that they were still in a bad place.

"We agreed to move on," Helena replied. "You never defend me," she stated her new issue with Hazel.

"I’ve defended you plenty of times. I won’t do it when you are behaving like a child. I can’t make a lot of excuses for you anymore. Mother feels like her hands are tied with what the queen wants, what you want, and what she wants. She’s allowing you an hour. Make it enough," Hazel said because some people never got a second inside the palace. fгee𝑤ebɳoveɭ.cøm

"If you were to speak up for me, she would have let me stay there. Why didn’t you?" Helena asked.

"You do not want the answer to that question. I told mother to let you do as you want. Should you succeed or fail, it will be all on you. I don’t know if she will be allowing you to live in the palace so the queen can finish helping you get married," Hazel said, not wanting Helena to think she changed their mother’s mind.

"When you are finished crying, go back and let her know that you didn’t mean to say you hate everyone."