Eve stared, transfixed at Leif, who continued to eat as if he hadn't said something out of the ordinary.
"S-she isn't your mother?" Eve finally asked, gulping down the food she had choked on when he had spoken. She turned to Sebastian, who seemed unfazed by the news.
"No. During one of her walks outside the castle while pregnant, she went into labour. They wouldn't have made it back to the castle in time, so she was taken to a village midwife. Coincidentally, that was when I was being born. She lost her child and forcibly took me from my mother. The Queen couldn't return home without a baby, so she raised me as her own, until my real mother showed up and asked for her child back. She was just a poor woman whose right to raise her own child was stolen. And when she came to claim those rights," Leif paused, pushing his plate away.
