The Commoner Consort: The Country’s Respected Empress - Chapter 157
Maya stands tongue-tied as she doesn’t want to tell anything about her life to a stranger.
She is in this helpless situation ‘I can’t tell her that he is not really my husband…and none of my words would matter for him!’.
Maya simply states “I heard about the execution only before few moments… As soon as I heard, I didn’t think of anything else than arriving there personally”.
The woman glares at Maya and hisses “A common girl now acts so arrogant, doesn’t she?”.
Maya’s eyes turns dark at her comment and raises her eyebrows mockingly “Why does that bother you?”.
At this point, Maya knew her purpose of visit was a failure.
‘May be Mother was right? I should have waited for a while’
The woman glares still equally and sneers “There is no forgiveness for a murder, woman! Get lost from my eyesight!!”.
Maya has no intention to stay there any longer there and turns to leave.
Without delaying this chance, the woman immediately takes out her hidden knife from her robes and attacks Maya from behind.
Before she could stab Maya’s back, a hand held the knife firmly.
The woman gasps in shock and looks at the hand in anger.
Maya held the sharp knife with her hand which was fortunately prevented by the gloves from getting hurt.
Maya smirks coldly and states turning to face the woman “Only a coward attacks someone from behind. Do you think I could accept such ugly death? With a scar on my back?! Never!”.
The woman’s eyes were burning in rage and spat “You made my life miserable! You made us orphans in a single day! I will never let you leave my house alive!!”.
Maya frowns and senses someone else’s presence in the house and gasps seeing the child watching them hiding in a corner.
The daughter of this woman. She was shivering in fear witnessing her mother turned evil!
Maya glares at the woman “Do you realize what you are doing?!”.
The woman pulls the knife from Maya’s grip with much efforts and starts attacking Maya ruthlessly “You deserve to die too! I will make your husband feel how heart wrenching it is to lose someone you love!”.
Maya didn’t know whether to cry or laugh now. But her concern now was to dodge this woman’s madness.
A wife’s rage can’t be underestimated! Never ever!
Due to Maya’s smart mind and skills, she avoids every attack of the woman by dodging away from her. It was difficult for Maya as the woman attacks her as if her life or death depends on this!
Maya warns dangerously “Woman, you could be executed too for this!”.
The woman screams “I only want you die!”.
Saying so, she runs towards Maya furious than before.
KNOCK!
KNOCK!
“Madam Maya?”.
Maya replies Sarah loud enough for her to hear from outside “I will be out in a moment!”.
The woman grabs Maya’s wrist and sneers maliciously “Yes! As dead!”.
Before she could again stab Maya, her both hands were twisted ruthlessly by Maya and made her kneel in front of her.
The woman groans “You!-“.
Maya pushes her further down harshly and grunts “Enough of your madness, Woman! Do you want to die?!”.
The woman tries her every ounce of energy to free herself from Maya’s hold but all went in vain.
The woman realizes that she couldn’t do anything at this state and starts wailing in defeat “Why?! Why don’t you kill us too?! I can’t live-“.
Maya chuckles “Woman, you are a selfish person, aren’t you?! Instead of taking care of your daughter, you are after me to kill?! Do you think you will be alive after that?! What about your child?! Poor thing… Deserved such a mother -“.
The woman weeps badly hearing those harsh words and bawls loudly “I want my Christopher! I begged him to let me ask your help! Such a proud man he was! But he begged you!!”.
She glares while trying to look bad at Maya and speaks loudly so that Maya could hear her words “He begged you on the Podium for Our sake! He wanted to live for our child! He didn’t want to die so soon..at least not in front her daughter’s eyes…Ahhh!! No matter how long it will take..I will kill you one day! I won’t die in peace until I kill you.. You caused his death..So what I am a weak commoner?! The knife will still stab you! It won’t hesitate just because you are Royal!!”.
The woman falls weakly from Maya’s grip on the floor and starts crying violently “I will avenge for his death! I am not afraid even if you execute me for this! I will not fear you!!”.
Maya steps aside from her and sighs looking at her pitiful state.
‘Who won’t behave in this way? She lost her husband after all… I should be surprised if she didn’t behave this way’.
WEAK SOBS OF A CHILD…
Maya notices the child crying seeing her mother’s devastated state and gestures her to come forward.
The child moves back in horror and shakes her head in fear.
Maya stares at the woman and declares “You might choose to live for your daughter”.
The woman speaks weakly “I don’t w-want your pity..Just disappear from my house! I want to spend my last minutes with my child”.
Maya creases her eyebrows suspiciously “Last minutes?”.
The woman mocks “You almost made three men to be executed just because they disrespected you! I am not mad to not expect this! I should be alone with my daughter before you kill even me! Now leave! At once!”.
KNOCK!!
Before Maya could speak, a deep voice arrives from outside.
“My Lady?!”
Maya and the woman gets in shock hearing the voice.
The woman knows that this was her end and crawls towards her child to embrace her at least before she dies.
“I am entering the house!”.
Maya notices the knife beside her on the floor and kicks it far from her surprising the woman out her mind.
‘Why did she…what is she doing?!’
SLAM!!