Queen Era: The Monster I Love - Chapter 111

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CHAPTER 111

Smiling at himself, Vidor chuckled and opened his eyes.

“What a practice session and all for what? Tsk, Louis would be disappointed once again but what more can I do having heard all that I did?”

He looked down and made his way to a small gazebo with a small fence of about 4 feet and a half. By the time he arrived there, Vidor went straight behind the gazebo and rested his arms on it as his mind took him for another journey.

He had finished his practice with Louis and decided to look for Era first.

At least while the whole air was hot and his practices, zeal and will it was best he went to see her and so he did, asking around for where she was until he came upon her lovely workplace.

He was just about to take a step out and into the open where the door was half closed when he heard her voice precisely.

**Flashback**

“What was she thinking?”

At first, he did not understand but when he calmed down a bit and listened on, he could grasp what she meant.

“That the cold king would succumb to her charms and then she can toy with him into killing me? If that was her plans, she was way out of her league.”

“Your majesty, do not say that?”

“Am I not right? She is out of her league for Vidor. He is too cold and incapable of love.”

“Your majesty, lower your voice, you might be heard,” Vidor heard Aeverie hush her down.

“Hmm.” She scoffed.

“You think at this point I care about anything? Tsk, anyways, I am more than glad she got what she deserved. How dare she go fight for my husband?” he had a bitter sweet smile plastered on his already sad face when she said that.

“Not that I want him, but still” Vidor’s small smile completely faded away. “Has she no shame!” Era ranted again in anger.

“Your majesty, please quiet it down for your own good. The walls have ears,” Aeverie advised her.

As a matter of fact, her lady royal was more concerned for her safety than she was.

“Aeverie do not caution me concerning this matter. I find it amusing and annoying. It is the nerves for me. The guts she had. Wow, she must really have felt victorious after riding me of my people and family and went for her next agenda. What a sore loser.”

“Your majesty, please calm down,” Aeverie pleaded yet again.

“I am calm. I am happy in fact. She got served and I feel pleased. This is just the beginning of her humiliation. I would give back to her all she deserves.”

Before Vidor knew what was happening, he heard Era burst into another peal of laughter recalling the news Aeverie told her.

“This is just the start,” she said after quieting down her laughter. “Mark my words. They would all pay.”

He leaned against the wall close to him as his head raised up a bit, tilting his head back. “I guess I blew whatever chance I might have had in the future with her. All she thinks of me is one scary annoying, incapable of love monster. I really am pitiful, aren’t I?”

Letting out a deep breath, Vidor shook his head and left where she was. It was better he gave her some space.

Perhaps how they had started remained the best.

**Flashback Ends**

He let out a deep sigh, smiling sadly at himself. “I really have lost you even before I began chasing after you, right? Tsk. You would make one lovely queen. I just hope all would end up turning out well.”

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Unknown to Era, Vidor heard all that she had said and felt so bad about it but that was the least of her problems and her worries. If there was anything, she was mega tired of it all.

She still needed to get some of the ministers and Lord to her side and for that, she needed someone who could infiltrate the people’s minds and get them to think her way and in time want to join forces with her.

Seated in one of the chairs in her chambers, Era held a book as she allowed herself to get lost in the pages of the old book.

As time went by she changed the position of the crossing of her legs just to get comfortable without peeling her gaze away from her reading.

“In order to defeat your enemy, you must first study them and know everything there is about them,” she voiced out before shifting her gaze from the book and smiling at no one in particular.

Her gaze seemed to trail off into the distance but the sweet smile on her face told a different thing.

She shifted in her seat, adjusting the position of her right elbow on the chair’s handle while still holding the book up in front of her.

In her simple action, her light green dress swayed beneath her, adding more flare to the charming maiden seated like the queen she was, while engrossed with the tale of her enemies.

“Etheria has such a nice tale, wouldn’t you agree?” Unlike before when her gaze had no particular destination, this time around she directed it at Aeverie who sat down on a chair separate from where the rest were gathered.

“Umm, yes. Indeed. She has one of the best tales ever known.”

“I concur. Even Meribia was lacking in that sort, I must confess. We were a small kingdom living a very peaceful and lovely life.”

She exhaled sharply and then opened her mouth wide as her left side cheek rose up, emitting a burst of small laughter before smiling fully and closing her mouth shut.

“I love this king. He was the thirtieth king of Etheria if I am not mistaken. His principles and his ways were something to live by. Too bad the woman he fell in love with against his parental consent ended up being such a devil who stabbed him in the back and almost made him lose his life and throne.”

“Legend has it that she willingly betrayed him being one not from Etheria but a neighbouring state, Calitrope. His people had once stolen from her, claiming part of her land and inheritance.”

“Interesting.”

“Although then she was but a child when it happened and her father ended up dying in the process. In the end, Etheria won the land but one thing they did not know, they left behind and had birthed a foe from that win.”

“Yes,” Era acknowledged, shutting her eyes briefly. “The sweetness of revenge. I love her and her dream.”

“Your majesty?”

“True. Although she betrayed him when he had nothing to do with what happened, to her, he was king and should know every major dispute with his people. She blamed him for not being thorough and thus putting her father’s death on his head.”

“It was a sweet and painful revenge.”

“How? Left for me I would say it was an act of perfect revenge. She got what she wanted, the land and more while dealing Etheria a big blow.”

“Yes. But if you read further, she lost big time. Unknown to her she had already started liking the genuine king and it was only after her betrayal, she realized this but by then, she awoke the monster in him. It was from his reign that the fighting ensued to conquer.”

Aeverie did not say much and waited for those words to sink into Era’s mind before she continued. “Had she not betrayed him like that, risking his life she would have still been with him.”

“Do you think it is easy to blurt out a certain kind of pain or its betrayal?”

“Not at all, your majesty and so also was what she got from the king. In fact, Vortex dealt her such a terrible blow. He did not allow his enemies nor his people to harm her. Rather he stabbed the sword into her heart himself, destroying the love he once had with her,” Aeverie reminded.

“True, but if she had succeeded, then she would have had the last laugh.”

“Unfortunately, she didn’t and love prevailed in a terrible way.”

“Regardless though they both learnt and he used her before killing her, sourcing out information from her about her people and using it on them.”

“You call it nice?” Aeverie could hardly believe his ears wen

“She betrayed him first. It is not good to pin down the blame on an innocent man and that I bet was what broke his heart the most. So he dealt with her and her betrayal in the best way.”

“Hmm. It is funny that you only chose to gain from that side, your majesty. When you read a story, it is important you learn all there is to learn. It is what makes you a great leader.”

“Yes, Aeverie.. I understand.”