Queen Era: The Monster I Love - Chapter 186

CHAPTER 185

“You have got to be kidding me, Caspian. Do I need someone who needs a throne or to fight for one?”

“I was born with a throne to rule on, I was married into another one and now I am currently sitting on it. What other thing do I want? Does it matter whether it is the king’s throne or the queen’s? What matters is the fact that I rule and you, YOU BOW.”

GAGHAN!

It was like a heavy drum resounded in his ears at her words but what had pained him most was her last sentence to him.

“So now, do you still think I have reasons to kill his majesty?”

He clenched his fist so tight where he stood before lifting his head and looking straight into her eyes. “Yes.”

“His majesty may not see it but I, I see it. You hate him for killing your people and you have the biggest reason to do this. Elides, you are the outsider Etheria has that is closest to the throne. If he dies, you have the sole right to the throne. You still want to deny it?”

“Yes she will,” Kale defended.

“Shut up Kale. You have been wrapped around her fingers and you do not see what we see.”

“Shut up? Lord Caspian as Lord Silas said, you have no right. This is a crucial matter and everyone had the right to voice out their opinions till we find the culprit. I believe her majesty is innocent. Perhaps if I had not seen it happen before my eyes, I would have thought it was a plot to kill him. She didn’t do it.”

“Thank you, Lord Kale.”

“I think you have bribed Kale to side with you.”

“Now you are calling me a liar. Impressive, Caspian.”

“I did not stutter. For all, we know it is only your word and his. We need more than that to believe you. Give us a reason to believe you.”

“Because she loves his majesty.”

“What?” Era was the first person to let out her shock before the others did. Instantly their heads turned in the direction of the person that spoke.

It was Damian. Although she had expected him to intervene, she did not expect him to do so by saying at, at a moment like this.

“Love?” Caspian scoffed. “I doubt that. Her heart is incapable of loving someone.”

“The nerve!” She slammed her hand against her throne handle, glaring daggers at him.

“Lord Caspian. Are you trying to say that his majesty married a monster, a woman incapable of love? Or have you forgotten how worried her majesty was before our arrival and how she lounged at him, kissing him right in front of everyone?”

“Lord Damian, this may be true but have you forgotten that she lost all. How possible would it be for a woman who hated you to love you within the blink of an eye?”

“What are you trying to say?” Kale asked.

“I would say all of this is an act. She acted that way when she saw him return home. She did not want any evidence to be led to her and that was why she did that. Or don’t you sleep with some of those maidens when you want to release some pent up energy? Does it mean you love them?”

Era gritted her teeth in anger. If not for her stupid anxiety and reaction when she saw him.

Although she did not regret kissing him or when he returned it. In fact, since her arrival at Etheria, it was her best moment and she dreamt of it. So she would not allow one idiot to change that feeling just to blame her.

All this while Vidor allowed everything to play out and did not testify for her. If there was anything, the second Damian mentioned did her love for him, though glad seeing as he was closer to Era so he would know, he knew it wasn’t right because of an outcome like this.

“I believe it was all part of her plan and facade and you, you, are with her on this. She may look like the one who has less to lose but she has more to gain if his majesty is dead.”

Without further words, he bowed his head before Vidor and stood his ground at his spot.

“Your sick tongue only proved how vile you are,” Era began.

Are we all forgetting the person from which the warning is from? It’s Meth came from was you, Lord Caspian? Doesn’t that mean if there was a link between City Meth and the Slyerians to the place it would be you?”

“What manner of nonsense are you sprouting, your majesty?” Caspian asked, feeling like he had won the argument.

“It is simple. I am sprouting out nothing but the truth.”

“How can I be the conspirator? Weren’t you in the palace the night of the attack? How sure are we that you did not go to plan with the Slyerians?”

“Haa, I guess where I went to that night was pretty clear. If you doubt me, you can ask my husband, your king.”

Caspian fell silent. All this while he had suggested and not said anything to the king because he did not want Vidor to shut him off but now she was directly throwing him into Lion’s den.

“From what I heard, someone who the king trust, saw me and my maids going out. I did not snick out or anything. And upon returning I bumped into the messenger who had dropped the letter by mistake. Thankfully Lord Kale was there watching, else I would not have been able to deny it. It was also through this letter I got to find out why the soldiers were moving everywhere in the castle and instantly we rushed to look for help.”

“Such a story,” Conrad mocked.

“Indeed it is. Thankfully we met Lord Damian and he too got informed of the situation. That was when the plan came to rescue the king. Would I bother myself with rescuing the king if I was plotting against him? Secondly, if you feel it was my plan and the paper was meant for me, then by the time the messenger had mistakenly dropped the paper, his majesty had gone to battle already and there was little I could have done. Also, saving him would have been the last thing on my mind.”

They could not argue with her. Every those who had promised to support Caspian. She had a great point there. One that was indisputable.

“Secondly, with the little army his majesty went with, he could have met a worse fate but we made plans since we knew you would not release the alpha armies to match into battle,e and save the king.”

“It was my sole duty to protect you and the palace.”

“I see and this is how you plan to do so? I reject, but if anything had happened to his majesty, this would be how the blame would have been put on me?”

“Your majesty please do not say things that are not true.”

“Then you should take your own God Damn advice for crying out loud. Out of the two of us, who had more to lose? At the discovery of my parents’ death, I wanted to end my life because life felt meaningless to me after I heard it. And then even if I kill Vidor, what more to life do I gain? All my loved ones are gone.”

“You could have married again,” Dale, another minister voiced out, not convinced by her last words. “Who knows, you could just have done so much.”

“Well I know in a society ruled by men, your mindset most times are myopic. You think women are loved like you?”

Even though she had insulted him, he could not say anything to dispute that fact. They were indeed lost and if they were in her shoes, a man would already have had a mistress. It was just so that Vidor did not fancy ladies.

“However,” Era continued. “Ever since my appearance in Etheria, you and your daughter Diona lost everything about power here. At first, you reigned but after the death of my parents and the king started treating me differently, you lost your wings and hated me. You hate hated me since the day I set foot in this place.”

Your majesty, why would I bother hating you when I still had the king’s Favour. Your words don’t add up.”

“Simple. I think we all know, my being queen rendered Diona’s chances to be the future queen of Etheria use. was and the only way that could happen was to get m south of the way. Unfortunately, I did not die with my people do now you plan on pinning this on me.. You hate me and that is why you stand to lose more than I do.”