Victoria looked at Allena with a very cruel expression on her face. If she was one of the witches in the fairy tales that Rebecca liked Eugenia to read to her, she would have probably ripped out the young woman's heart and crushed it. Luckily for Allena, that while cruel, Victoria was not capable of that. Although her words were just as damaging.<br/><br/>Victoria sneered at Allena as she pleaded with Alexander. Victoria could see the uncertainty on her son's face. He was a young man and thought love could conquer all. He had never, until this moment, questioned anything between him and Allena. But his mother was wise. She was smarter then Henry and surely many of the nobles in their country. He hadn't seen Allena in weeks, he might not be the only one she wrote love letters to. She could be playing him...Victoria told her son.<br/><br/>"A true maiden waits until her wedding night before she gives all of herself to a man."<br/><br/>Although Victoria was not a loyal wife, she had been a virgin one on her wedding night. Henry had been the first man she had ever shared her body with. He just wasn't the only one anymore. Alexander took a deep breath and balled his hands into fists. He took a step back and said to Allena.<br/><br/>"She is my mother. Why would she lie to me? She has never lied to me in my life."<br/><br/>Victoria could be manipulative and deceptive, but it was true. She had never actually lied to her children. Sure, she had bent the truth a little sometimes and there was nothing wrong with white lies, but a full fledged lie? No, she had never done that to any of her children. If she had ever been caught in one, she would lose their trust and she couldn't have that. Not if one of her children was to become a king or queen someday. She planned to be there to guide them. Thanks to this dalliance with Allena, she would no longer be able to wait long to find Alexander a bride. She had hoped his bride would be a princess, sole heir to a throne. She didn't have the time to for that, just a proper noble girl would have to do. Victoria glanced at Katherine, who was extremely uncomfortable being here, and wondered if her daughter would be the exception to her lying. After all, she couldn't very well tell Katherine that the man she had seen her mother with was Prince Ewan.