Rise by Jeanne Reames
Author:Jeanne Reames [Reames, Jeanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781626499003
Goodreads: 45719797
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
Published: 2019-07-15T00:00:00+00:00
Philippos granted Amyntorâs request for a private audience, and the two men faced off in the kingâs study the day after their sons had fled the city. âWhat do you want?â Philippos asked.
âAn explanation.â
âShouldnât I be asking that of you? You gave them supplies.â
Amyntor propped himself on the table edge. âOf course I did. Would you rather Iâd let them go hungry? I wasnât the drunk fool who pulled a sword on his own son.â
The kingâs face went red, then purple. âYou are insolent.â
âSometimes.â
This blunt response made Philippos laugh. âDoes Hephaistion have any idea how much heâs like you?â
âI think he might.â Amyntor looked down at his nails. He was more nervous than he pretended. Philippos wasnât arbitrary, but he did have a temper. âShould I worry for my land and horses?â
âWhatâs that supposed to mean?â
âDid you set up my son to fall with yours so you could take my wifeâs inheritance?â
Laughing again, Philippos sat down at the table. âHerakleis!â He rubbed his dead eye under its patch, then abruptly slammed a fist into the table. Against his will, Amyntor started. Philippos was a master of theatre as sure as any actor; the mask he wore was the mask of command. âMaybe you should tell me just who set up whom here?â
âSuspicious to the last, arenât you?â
âI have good reason, I think.â
âYou have no reason!â
One of the Pagesâbanished outside the doorâknocked on the wood, calling, âSir?â
âIâm well, Neoptolemos.â
âI suppose,â Amyntor said, âI should be grateful you let me in here alone with you at all.â Then he stood. âYour son trusted you, played your game. But when he heard you were marrying that stump Amyntas to KynannÄ, it made him suspicious; and I fail to see why you didnât just tell me about it when we spoke two days ago. I asked you bluntly.â
âIt wasnât settled yet.â
âWell, confound it! If you canât trust your own son with plans before theyâre chiseled in stone, how can you expect him to trust you? Then, at the feast, you supported Attalos against him, even to drawing a sword . . . Philippos, what possessed you? Dionysos?â
Philippos sighed. Morning sun leaked in the high window to slide across the big oak table. âAttalos was a guest, under hospitalityâs protection. If the boy had given me a moment to collect my thoughts, Iâd have rebuked Attalos myself, but heâs always so ready to doubt me. His motherâs fault that, may she rot up in her foggy highlands.â
Amyntor crossed arms over his chest. âIâve no doubt Olympias didnât help matters but itâs you he imitates: his manner of speaking, his gestures, even his swaggerâitâs all yours.â Amyntor could see this pleased the king, so he sank his barb. âIf youâd been freer with your praise and less free with criticism, he mightâve attached himself to you instead of to her.â
Philipposâs expression altered profoundly. He looked like a man whoâd taken a mortal thrust. âWho are you to censure me?â
âA father. Youâre a king. The best Makedonâs ever had, to be sure, but you never learned to be a father.
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