“You need to go.” Dmitrei Massard x Lynessa Beaumont
Lynessa barely heardhim, her chest heaving and teeth gritted as the blood dripped slowly from herfingertips.
“My lady, I insist.You must leave. I will take care of this. We cannot risk what we have built byhaving you locked away or executed for this.”
His hand locked aroundher bicep, fingers pressing in deep. The fire raged within her again as thelioness roared in her heart and anger roiled through her veins.
“You do not touch aqueen.” She hissed, turning her stare upon Dmitrei and yanking her arm from hisgrasp. “I am your mistress, I am the most high, I have been chosen by the godswhen they crowned me with blood the day I was ripped from my mother’s womb. You…Are not to touch me ever again. Or it will be your blood upon my hands the nexttime.”
The man took a stepback from Lynessa, a smirk upon his lips and a crook of his eyebrow as heglanced at the prone body upon the ground.
“I do not doubt yourfire or the strength of your threat, my lady. If anything, you have shown quitea lot more fire in your belly than I ever would have expected, and based uponyour lineage, I knew there was no world in which you would truly be weak. Butthis….” He gestured to the corpse once more. “This is far beyond anything Icould even believe you capable of.”
“It was necessary.”Lynessa snapped quickly. Already she could feel doubt creeping into her heart.Already she felt the cool hand of fate gripping her heart in her chest. “It… Itwas necessary. It needed to be done. She could not be allowed to continue on.She would have kept me from the life I wanted to live and the way I wished to liveit had I let her breathe a moment longer.” Her voice was frantic as the wordspoured out of her, bloodied hands shaking and wringing themselves together aswide blue eyes stared down at the blood-red body of the woman on the floor.
Slowly, Dmitrei cameup just behind Lynessa, a hand settling gently upon her waist as he leanedforward to whisper in her ear. “You’re right. This was necessary. She had yourlove murdered before your very eyes. She needed to suffer as you had suffered.Perhaps she would have even grown jealous of your victory once you had ascendedto the throne she had prepared for you. Would have struck you down as well totake your place. She may have bred you and molded you for this world but whoknows if she truly wished to see you within its clutches. ”
Lynessa swallowed thelump forming in her throat, beginning to choke back tears as she finally beganto realize the true enormity of what had been done.
“Mother…” She croakedout, fat tears rolling down her blood-stained cheeks. “Oh Mother, what have Idone?” The princess fell to her knees, wrapping herself around theslowly-cooling body of the woman who had done everything for her in the world.The one she had destroyed in all but a true fit of passionate despair.
“My lady… truly, youneed to go. We’ll survive this together. I promise you.”
His words curledaround her like a snake, whispering assurances in her ear and leading her backto her own chambers to wash herself of the damning evidence and await what theworld would do when they learned of the gruesome murder of Avelina Beaumont.