Matias Point of View

Now, now, now, this is unexpected!

Here, I was making every possible move to dethrone Arse and establish a new commercial throne for my own son and there that lucky boy of my brother's got a son with Valentina.

This made things much more complicated!

"Are you certain about the paternity of the child?" I croaked. My eyes landed on the person in charge of spying on my dear nephew and saw him fiddling his hands in anxiety.

How I wish I could give the authorities of Malaga the same anxiety!

"Yes, your highness. Nearly two years old healthy baby boy who shares equal features of both his mother and father." The spy responded.

Hearing about the sudden heir to the throne popping up out of nowhere, my fist landed on the table callously and the whole glass table cracked into pieces.

"An heir is not an issue but an heir with a Bianchi is definitely a checkmate." Piero Regio, Demetri's uncle and the one who raised him giving him his name, spoke with contempt.

Piero and Bria Regio, brother and sister in law of Maya Regio made it possible for us to come this far with our plan to corrupt the throne and make it a playground for the most powerful families in the world.

When Maya was ill and locked in the private ward of the hospital after giving birth, Bria handled all the formalities and made it seem that she was pregnant with Demetri and gave birth to him, giving their name to him.

That was our first step towards having everything that we were refused of.

Piero held my wrist tightly and stopped me from destroying the room while Bria got a clean cloth to wrap my bloodied hand.

It was indeed a shock and a sensitive moment for them as well seeing how we weaved the web together to get the power we always wanted.

But everything fell apart when Valentine married Arsenio. Being a Bianchi, their support makes Arse formidable.

"Cool down, your highness. This is not the time to waste away your wits in the form of anger." Bria spoke waving off to the spy to leave.

The Regio couple sat before me in the large settee while I walked to the small bar and poured myself some strong stuff to calm myself down.

"How can my bastard nephew be this lucky? We were this close to suppressing him forever and his heir with Bianchi blood came to his rescue. Damnation!" This should be a joke.

Heavens and hell must have joined hands to prank me and make me a laughing stock.

Years, decades of hard work, planning and risks all went awry with the arrival of a product by Garcia and Bianchi together.

"Everything went waste, Piero. Considering the influence and power Bianchi's have; with the little boy sharing Bianchi's name, their support will always be with Arse." F**k this is maddening.

"He is just a little boy, Papa Matias. How hard is it to wipe away his existence from the face of earth?" Demetri snicker and boy how can he be so foolish.

He is an accomplished lawyer with no active brain.

"Far from it, it is actually hard, hijo. Do you think the state of Malaga only has a ruling Majesty? Malaga has thirty officials in total that holds the state intact and supports the ruler. If anything were to happen to Arse or his son, your Papa Matias shall be the first person to be taken as a suspect. Not to forget those thirty official subjects supports Arsenio blindly. Do you know that in the centuries history of Garcia rule, Arsenio is the only king who is completely supported and backed by all of his officials?"

I know those thirty officials are just few lowly subjects of the state but the connections and influence they made just to make things easy for their Majesty is far beyond the power even the British used to hold over the world centuries ago.

Those lowly officials were the only reason that Arse is still breathing or else he would be six feet under the very day his parents took off the hell.

"But I heard that Arsenio's father was a tyrant and a selfish ruler and was hated by almost everyone in and out of the state?" It is not wrong for my dear son to get confused over the blind loyalty Arse got after people hating his father.

But he is not aware of the kind of person his cousin is!

"That is indeed true. My brother was a devil in human clothing; much ruthless than me but his Queen, Arse's mom was an angel. She was a kind and good woman. When the news about the Royal King and Queen's death reached the ears of the world, people both celebrated and mourned for it. Celebrated the death of my brother and mourned for their Queen's passing away. But Arse started proving to the world long before his parents' death that he got a heart of his mother by cleaning the mess his father made." I summarized reminiscing over the clever and patient boy who won over subjects with slow baby steps towards the crown.

By the time the previous king and queen were dead, Arsenio already had the trust and hearts of most of his subjects and people.

He was clever. He did not hurry in his journey towards the throne – nay – he took slow baby steps.

I laughed proudly when the boy I thought was a laidback insensitive lad had won the hearts of his officials and rejected the responsibility of the throne in the beginning.

He had the gall to risk it and take a major step of raising a conflict between the officials by his rejection of succeeding the throne.

He made the authorizing officials and the influential families around the world to fight and debate while he left them with an apology that he cannot become a ruler like his father.

A smart move, I say!

The whole debate and the fight went on for seven months and by the end of the period, ninety three percent of the officials and people who were a part of the debate supported Arse to take the throne.

A rival he is, yes; that boy is in between me and the throne, yes; but I learn a great lesson from him at that time.

Patience is virtue.

He craftily went on performing good deeds and damage management to the harm done by his father while he left the world to fight over him.

And that is how he won the hearts of many who were against him.

Does that mean he was a saint? Like hell he is!

It was all his strategy.

A risky yet a wise tactic to make the very people against him offer the throne to him with flowers and smiles.

And that popularity, that reputation is still intact in the market if not more.

Even after the word got out about cheating on his wife and divorcing her, people always thought he was right nonetheless and there is something else behind his actions.

That good is his reputation!

His every decision, every move, even word and every action towards the throne stumped me and it was like a slap on my face. I couldn't believe the notorious insensitive Casanova was so capable.

"That still doesn't answer the question why Valentina did not tell anyone about the existence of her son." Bria posed and we three men just scoffed at her silly question.

"Of course to keep it a secret from Arsenio. If Arsenio knows about his heir who was conceived when Val was his legal wife, obviously he will try to snatch his heir away from her." I answered when suddenly a thought crossed my mind.

"Now what is our next measure to subside the fire? We cannot bring Malaga officials on our side, we cannot kill Arsenio or his son and with a son connecting Arsenio to Valentina, even after Val getting married to Demetri, her loyalty may still lie with her son. It seems like all our active and strong pawns are perfectly locked and countered."

Hearing Bria's worry filled questions, I gave the three Regios a small nod and a knowing stare. If I cannot have the power over Malaga, then none shall have it.

Not Arse or his son at least.

With that in mind, I told them my idea of dealing with the issue. My wife always says that smart mind if powerful than a strong body so killing might not be the only way to stop them.

Indeed dealing with Arse hard, nearly impossible when he has a brain that runs as fast as a rocket but as long as he have those lingering feeling for Val, he is still vulnerable in a sense.

"If the little boy is his strength then we have to make it his very weakness." I mumbled.

"Do you think your idea works, Papa? You know Val is not exactly an easy wager, yes?"

"And that is why we will be getting you and Val married in a week to eliminate all the possible risks in our plan. Once you have your lady love with you, we will have a less bumpy path towards our goal."

Giving him my explanation, I gave the responsibility of implementing the first stage of the plan to Bria who is an expert in doing such stuff.

Now that it has come to it, let's bet everything. It's either all or none, now!

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