SMITTEN - Chapter 145

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“Now that you have seen what I can do for the sake of Gaea, I hope anyone would not even think about betraying me. If I can do that to my wife, just think about what I can do with you,” a look of scorn flashed over Leandro’s face as his eyes blazed on them.

His nostrils flared as he resolved to himself that it would not take Lady Aisha, even just a day in the dungeons. He will find the real culprit, and he will make him pay for the trouble that he caused her with his life.

“Glory to the Great Theos for choosing a benevolent King such as Your Majesty,” one of the royal ministers trumpeted, leading the others to say the same thing, too, which they did.

It seemed as though everything was settled in the throne room, making Leandro finally breathe in properly, somehow. The High Priest, the other royal priests, Lady Marina, the witnesses, and the other royal ministers were also readying themselves to leave the throne room.

However, a royal guard came rushing to the throne room and breathlessly reported, “Your Majesty, we couldn’t find Lady Aisha. She was not in her Chamber, and the other royal guards were now looking all over the Castle for her.”

The royal guard’s trembling hand was on his stomach as he dreaded the King’s wrath. His eyes widened all the more as he saw the cracks on the golden floor, guessing that it came from the King’s outrage just a while ago.

The others in the throne room gasped in surprise. They must have thought that everything was already stable, too.

Due to the length of the meeting, it took them until the evening before everything went back to normal. The night lamps were already lit by the Castle servants, signaling that darkness has already taken over the land of Gaea.

Indeed, Leandro’s heart almost stopped as he heard the news. His lean and sturdy legs went limp, making him fall back on the luxurious jewel-studded throne where he was previously sitting.

With his eyebrows drawn together in a frown, he recalled the last time he talked with her so he could guess what she was thinking.

As he did so, he remembered her serene and ethereal beauty, her raven hair sprawled on her snow-like white pillows, her creamy skin under him as he made love to her. He promised her that everything will be alright because he was there. And she replied with words that expressed her heart. “I love you, your Majesty.”

‘Could she have known?’ His sullen face glowered as he placed it inside the hollow part of his palms. “What have you done, Leandro?” He growled at himself as he scrubbed his face with his cold hands.

Unlike before, where she escaped out of fear. Now it seemed like she did so out of a broken heart. A heart that was broken because of him.

‘She could not have left the Castle,’ he thought in denial. He glanced outside the window nearest to him and the darkness outside it.

It is the night of the new moon and the only bright places are the warm mansions or cottages lit with lamps. The rest including the mountains, the forests, the rivers, and the valleys are all as dark as nothingness.

His cold fingers held on the side rails of the throne as he thought of where Lady Aisha could be right now.

Determined to win her back, he stood up and bolted to her Chamber. Her female servants were all lined up outside her door as if it was just another normal evening. But one could feel the coldness and the emptiness of the room, even from outside.

“Good evening, your Majesty,” they all bowed down, trembling, as they saw their great King marching towards where they were.

Their tails cowered down, fearing that the King would snap his finger and kill them all. Fortunately, the ruler’s eyes were set on what the room contained or not contained as he just passed through them, making them breathe again.

Still, their shoulders were caved inward, ready for the fury of the great and powerful King once he learned that what he was looking for wasn’t inside the Chamber.

Undeniably, the room was as frozen as death. There was no sign of life that even birds could not perch by the window, fearing that its coldness might suffocate the life out of them.

Everything seemed to be clean, neat, and orderly. It appeared as if the room was prepared in case the owner of the room would retire soon, and she could have a good night’s sleep.

But his fast beating heart was telling him otherwise.

He tumbled over her bed, her dressing room, and even her bath area. But there was no sign of Lady Aisha at all.

It was like an arrow just pierced his heart at the moment. He hadn’t thought about how it would feel with Lady Aisha gone out of his Castle because of the presence of the others in the throne room.

But now he was starting to feel it. And Leandro doesn’t like it.

She was his sunshine. The Castle only felt warm when she stepped foot in it. And now that she is gone, it has gone back to the lifeless infrastructure that it was.

Leandro dashed outside to where the poor female servants waited in fear. He clenched his fists as he controlled his power from killing them right then and there. He still needed information from them.

Their arms flailed in the air as they immediately kneeled down and put their foreheads to the ground. Then they all wailed in unison, “We deserve to die, your Majesty!”

Their terrified voices echoed through the hallways.. But Leandro didn’t pity them. “Tell me where she is, and I’ll let you live!”