Queen Era: The Monster I Love - Chapter 177

CHAPTER 176

“Ah.” She let out a bit of a small sound but in actual fact, it was a sigh of relief.

“Hmm. That was the beginning of my whole problem,” she let out another sigh. “Mum, I miss you so much. I wish things were different. I wish my marriage had saved you just the way it was designed to.”

She let out another sigh as closed her eyes.

This time around, she. Was not afraid to recall again and recall, she did.

Her mind drifted to the first-time she ever saw Vidor. The look in those monstrous cold eyes of his had given her the chills but she braced up and accepted her fate. Back then it was to save her kingdom but now…

She enjoyed the thoughts seeping because it thought her one thing, she saw the changes in Vidor from the time he met her to when he married her to his other behaviours down toll her family’s death and now.

Things were different. Speaking of family’s death, her mind decided to throw her in the abyss of her chaos. The one thought she hoped she wouldn’t have to see but funny enough, even when the thoughts came she could not push it out, she found herself wallowing it in.

Somehow the suffering of her people called to her and she watched the gruesome slaughter happen all over again. It was both a mental torture and an almost irreversible heart ache and pain.

Their wailing wear ear killing, the pain and fear in their eyes, woke up her feeling of being lazy and useless to them.

Regardless, Era did not let it end. At least not until the sight of her father being beheaded replayed in her mind, that finally drove her out of her mental torture. Her chest rose and fell with a much greater force than before as she sat up straight in the bath breathing harder than before.

Her eyes remained wide open for quite some time before she relaxed again in her bath and began lathering herself up.

It had been an eventful day, hadn’t it?

Once she was done scrubbing her body clean, she returned to her previous position and relaxed her head again.

Honestly, she was way too tired to do anything at all, except to think and even that was doing more harm than good to her body.

But deep in that mental turmoil, she was trying to appease, she soon found her hope, her light in the dark, her survival, when her mind briefly flashed before her the memory of their kiss together.

Surprisingly, she had expected to cringe at the thought after the kind of goodbye they had but she didn’t.

Instead her furrowed bros relaxed and the wrinkles that had began to form around her forehead, relaxed as well.

She found comfort in his kiss and enjoyed his presence but she was too hurt to see it that way.

In the end, Era spent the remaining thirty minutes in the bath, changing her water as relaxing in it to think about all those feelings she felt when they kissed and the way fire burned in her bones at his every touch.

By the to e she came out, her levs felt wobbly and her eyes skinned in their sockets. She was a tired mess all of a sudden.

Luckily, Aeverie was there waiting for her with her towel and some fruits.

Once he stepped out, she offered her the towel to dry her hair with and then took the damp towel, then offered her a plate of grapes, apples and strawberries.

“Thanks. I guess this what I need.” she smiled at her and proceeded to have a cha he of clothes.

That night she slept well, even though the chaos that awaited her the next day was inevitably, unavoidable.

***

“Aaahh…” a lovely gentle yawn escaped the sweetness of her rosy lips as she stretched forth her body, getting ready for the day’s activities.

No sooner had she women up, she saw Aeverie moved to her bed chamber, bowing to her and when she lifted her head, a smliel was registered on her face.

“Good morning, your majesty.”

“Morning.”

“I twist you slept well.”

“Sure did and wish I could have some more.”

“Well perhaps later in the day. First course of action, breakfast with the king.”

“Seriously? Who made the schedule?” Era questioned, running her eyes to wash off the remaining sleep hanging around in her eyes.

“His majesty’s eunuch on strict orders from his majesty,” Aeverie explained.

“Fine. I really need to get that Evans. He is testing me and my patience right?”

“Your majesty, the suffering of an attendant to the master cannot be comprehended by another person but of the same kind…”

She did not even get to finish her statements when Era shot her a warning gaze, “You do not know Vidor and Evans can be that is why. Anyways Is everything set?”

“Yes, your bath, clothes, food, dress, make up and all. Oh sorry excluding your , real which you would have with his majesty.”

“Yeah, the constant reminder is not helping, Aeverie.”

“But why your grace? I thought you would be glad though.” Era arched her brows at her before pouting her lips to the side. “Umm, what I meant your grace was that, you two were betting close a bot. I mean you did kid him.”

That was it. Her kiss with Vidor really went viral, didn’t it? She could bet everyone in the kingdom would be talking about it by now and the kingdom would be buzzing with news of it.

She facepalm led herself whilst shaking her head at her.

“Oh, my apologies, your grace.”

“Forget about it. I guess I was impulsive. Now I have to face the consequences of my actions.”

“No, your majesty, you should not feel this way. I am sorry. It is just that your actions were affectionate and cute.”

“Yeah, speaking of affectionate, I did dream.”

Immediately Aeverie heard that Era had a dream, her antenna of an ear stood up straights and she smile at Era. “So you dreamt about him?” she arched her brows severally at Era, giving her the chills of gossip ad a scary Aeverie.

“What are you doing?” Era questioned, turning her head away to avoid her knowing gaze.

“You had a dream. Tell me, was it about his majesty?”

“Never said so. I just had a dream. I do not recall the content of the dream. So basically no dream.”

“What? How and shy would you forget?”

She had already started becoming emotional with the news. Era shook her head and tsked at her Lady Royal, getting out of her bed and walking past her towards her bath chamber.

“Stop starting in co fusion, Aeverie. I need to prepare,” she announced, drawing the last part out for her to come back to reality.

“Ah, yes.” she shook her head, snapping out of her reverie then smiled. “If you say so, your grace. We do have a breakfast to prepare for.”

“Now that is the spirit,” Era giggled.

Honestly, she did not want to say but she did recall her dream and it was so vivid but why let anyone know, right? After all it was her dream, hers alone.

****

Once she arrived at the table, she was surprised to see the ever early Vidor had not yet arrived but surprisingly, one of her nemesis was seated there with a suspicious knowing grin on his face.

Without looking at him directly, Era arrived at the table, waved her hand briefly as she nodded her head, a coating their greeting, before her chair was pulled out for her to sit in.

She did not eat and waited alongside the others for the star of the morning to arrive.

On a normal occasion she would not have bothered to be here this morning but for the fact that she wanted to keep up the appearance, they had yesterday, till they could conclude and figure out who the traitor was.

If she slipped a bit and her enemies saw, they would feel she had fallen out of favour with Vidor and push more blame to her to make her look like the bad person. That was what she could not accept.

While her thoughts plagued hr mind, Caspian cleared his throat and some up, breaking the silence that ensued previously.

“Your majesty, I see you are radiating today. Any particular reason?”

Raising her broad at him, Era didn’t bother to tilt her head in his directionnand just looked at Vidor’s seat instead.

“Why? Is Lord Caspian trying to insunate something or are you trying to say that every other day my appearance was worse than your daughter’s?”

The second her words came out, Caspian gulped. He had intended to poke out suspicion on how in terms of the battle but Era easily saw through his plan and redirected his words elsewhere.

“Umm… Heh he, your majesty, that was not what I meant.”

“If that isn’t what you meant, so it is safe to say that I was tattered before the battle and only after did I radiate?”

“NO ONE CAN EVER COMPARE TO THE BEAUTY OF MY QUEEN?”