#Chapter 222: The Kingdom Reacts

Amelia The first thing I heard after Simon cleared me for public release wasn’t congratulations or relief. It was a rumor that traveled faster than any official update. The leak had already spread across the capital, carving its way through headlines and private messages before I even sat up. It was everywhere now, crossing every feed in the kingdom with a kind of inevitability that made it impossible to ignore. Someone had exposed the scan. Enough of it had surfaced to trigger panic and speculation. People reacted without context, bending the story into whatever shape best suited their fear or agenda. Some claimed I was carrying the heir to a new hybrid monarchy, a symbol of rewritten power. Others described me as an unstable biological gamble, a vessel for something too dangerous to predict. I scrolled past it all, news threads, video clips, long opinion pieces. No one seemed interested in how it felt to be the one lying in a clinic bed, still sore from battle, carrying a f