Queen Era: The Monster I Love - Chapter 141

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CHAPTER 139

Storming angrily back to her chambers, Era allowed her mind to go on a rampage with her thoughts as she put everything in place.

She had been kissed without her permission, had been threatened and warned and undermined all for what?

The way she raged inside of her was like anything she had ever felt before.

Even when she lost her people and parents, she wasn’t this angry. Instead, she was very much devastated and wanted to end it and although she heard what he told Louis, it still did not matter too much to her anymore.

After walking for some time, she found herself not going in the direction of her chambers but towards the garden. Letting out a deep sigh, Era stopped in her tracks and looked around The love scenery was one that was enchanting even at that time of the day.

The wind blowing against her skin, brushed her hair backwards, allowing it to float with the wind making her look like a night angel dancing in the twilight. She spent some time not doing anything but just staring far above into the vast empty sky.

Unlike other nights where it was full of stars and the moon, this time it looked empty, with just a half-moon blessing the earth with its glory.

Not long after she started enjoying the wind on her skin and face, her mind brought back flashes of their argument causing her to cringe at the sights.

Shaking her head, she wished to rid her poor brain of those bizarre images when another kind flashed in her memory and this time stayed longer than the others.

It was their second kiss together and separately. As annoying as that made her feel, it did not change when it came, a part of her still wanted to recall.

And finally that part of her wanting the feeling won over her own fragile mind and her memory being one lovely thing replayed everything about the incident again to her.

Rather than the anger that was surging through her, she began to calm down as she recalled, bringing back all she felt at that moment when those soft lips of his pressed hard and softly on hers or when they kissed her so tenderly, begging for an entrance to give her much more than she was already getting.

Everything about that moment felt so romantic and…

Wait.

She shook her head, prying her eyes open instantly as the memory faded away with the light she focused on from the moon.

“Ahh…” She released her breath with little to no effort and clenched her fist hard by her side.

“Since you wish not to see me, Vidor, I would disappear from your sight but not for long. From what I see, you are brewing feelings. I would wait for that. I would let you come to me and I would warm my way to you, giving you what you want and when I have your full complete trust, I would make my attack and exact my revenge. Just wait and see. I would be your nemesis, Vidor Agnar.”

Taking in more breaths than she could think of, Era did not bother wasting another moment. The second she looked up towards the window of her chambers, her heart skipped, recalling the show she had left Eleora alone all day. It did not sit well with her.

The last thing she wanted was to leave Eleora alone for a long time and make her think something had happened to her and something wrong finally happened.

No. Clenching her fist tighter, she peeled her gaze away from her window reluctantly and dashed away from the garden, racing towards her chambers for her sister.

She knew Aeverie would be there with her but it was still not enough for Era. Nothing bit Eleora seeing her.

She had been alone for months. At least the next two weeks, she should not feel her absence. It would help her stabilize better when she went over to stay with the orphans.

She also needed to test and train her sister on her control again. Leaving Meribia, she knew her mother would not make mistakes in ensuring her daughter’s emotional control was top notch to avoid the secret from breaking out but now that she had no one. The trauma could make a ticking bomb.

“Eleora, wait for me. I am sorry. I’m coming to you.”

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After the left, a shadow came out from behind one of the trees and came to stand at the place where Era was once standing at.

Though the night had come, one look at the person and anyone would know exactly who it was. She looked in the direction in which Era had looked at and saw the Queen’s chambers.

Immediately, the cold look on her face changed as her lips parted showing her teeth and anger that seemed to want to pop out of her brain.

That was not all, she managed to look sideways and her eyes landed on Vidor’s window as well.

She took in a deep breath, her fingers balling into a fist as she gazed with so much hatred.

‘All of… I would make you both pay and kneel before me. Your queen, you would watch and see how she dies and how I take her place with nothing you can do about it. Etheria would be mine.’

“My lady,” a voice called out from behind her, before walking closer to where she was but stopped when she was just some centimetres away from her and bowed her head.

“My lady,” she called out again when she got no response the first time, pulling her master from her reverie.

“Yes?” Though her gaze was still facing upwards, she quickly diverted it from Vidor’s window back to the sky.

“Umm, your father wishes to speak to you.”

“Hmm. I would go later.”

“My apologies, Lady Diona but Lord Caspian sent his guard and said he wanted it to be soon.”

Hearing that, she could tell the urgency in the message and closed her eyes briefly. “Fine.” She reopened them and without a word to her maid, she turned around and walked away with the latter following closely behind her.

***

By the time Era got to her chambers, she knocked but she did not hear anyone’s voice and wondered if Eleora was sleeping and Aeverie too from how stressful her day was.

A second knock and soon she heard light footsteps walking towards the door then a voice rang out from behind the door.

“Your name.”

Her heart pounded louder as the breath she had no idea she was holding in was finally released.

Rather than answering she pressed her forehead closer to the door, placing a hand on her chest as she felt her heartbeat.

Gulping down her saliva, she opened her mouth to answer. “It is I. Era.”

It was a good thing she had always told her guards and entourage to go back earlier since Eleora came in. The last thing she wanted was them always there and would one day find out about Eleora.

It was also a good thing that they were grateful about it else things might have been more complicated.

She heard the lock shift and the door pulled open, taking a step inside her gaze fell down quickly as the person that opened the door for her never showed her face but hid behind it.

And once in, she shut the door behind her, forgetting to close it as she went down on her knees before the little damsel looking at her with longing eyes.

“I’m sorry.”

Before she could apologize even further, Eleora took a leap and dove right into her arms, circling her neck with her smaller arms and hugging her even tighter.

Her action had stunned Era a bit but after some seconds she smiled and wrapped her arms around the child’s smaller frame, nudging her face in her hair as her fingers dove in, smoothing her hair.

The two of them stayed that way for some time before they pulled apart but the sadness and longing in Eleora’s eyes soon changed, shocking Era for a second time.

“Eleora, what is wrong? Why are you? Did anyone do anything to hurt or offend you?”

Rather than answering, she shook her head and pointed at Era.

“Me? What did I do? My absence? I am sorry. Things got out of hand a bit and I needed to go see someone. Didn’t Aeverie tell you? By the way where is she?”

Not giving Eleora time, she bombarded her with questions until finally she calmed down and held her sister’s hand as she led her up to the bed, helping her climb in as she too got in with her.

“Now, where is Aeverie?”

“She left to get me dinner. She said I should open for you when you returned but only if I hear it is you and herself.”

“Alight. That is good. I am sorry I spent the day away from you. I would make it u to you and stay with you all through tomorrow.”

She was expecting Eleora to smile but what she got was an even sadder Eleora.

“Hey, what is it?”

“Big sister is not happy. Who dared to do this?”

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