The Queen Wicked Deeds - Chapter 155

The few next days were dreadful, the gardens, the entrances, and even the secret passages of the mansion were guarded. There was no chance for Lara to come out of the mansion, she was surrounded. Even the maids that came to clean and bring her food weren’t allowed inside, the Duke’s guards prevented them and they sent their own people to do the cores.

“What should we do now, master?” One of her secret attendants came through the door. He was closing the windows and curtains looking nervous everywhere. “The people from the Duke had surrounded us from the moment you arrived. Master, what did you do to him? What is going to happen to us? Should we use the secret tunnel?”​​

The Rosaline Mansion was the most neglected place of the whole Royal territory. One a handful of servants were left there to attend the princess from the day she was born, as her mother died the moment she gave birth. However, it seemed that the King didn’t care about the death of that woman, a lowly maid that dared to climb his bed and have an illegitimate daughter with him.

The people scorned the little girl without even knowing her, the servants neglected their duties and chose to steal the goods in the mansion. Not caring to be caught as they were the only ones inside.

However, only two siblings were the only ones that took care of the little girl. She was, after all, the daughter of Miriam, the head maid that was once in charge of the palace, and the one that took them in. If not for that fateful night, she would still be alive…

Sarah and Eliot were the names of the siblings who took care of Lara for so long and gave her the bit of affection a little girl alone in the world, needed.

“Eliot, take Sarah with you to the town, tell the others to stay still and don’t do anything stupid, do you understand?”

“But…”

“Go… I will be fine, trust me.”

The boy that was still a few years older than her, looked worried. He trusted her, after all, she was a genius. Even from her younger days, she had made impressive achievements that only Sarah and Eliot knew about. They were careful not to reveal their true identities to the servants around.

Eliot nodded and went out, leaving the poorly furnished room alone.

Lara sighed and sat on the table near the balcony.

‘It is time,’ she smiled, ‘It is time for the story to begin.’

From the moment she came back inside the book, Lara knew she was fated with a terrible future. The doom of a villainess. However, she won’t let it go to that. She won’t stand and do nothing.

For many years she had prepared and now it was time to change her fate.

She only waited for the knock on the door.

“Right on time,” she whispered. She was about to answer but the three women had already stepped inside.

“Who are you?” Lara said while the three maids looked at her with disgust. “What do you want?”

She was calm in her words and didn’t seem to have any fear in her eyes.

“The announcement of Princess Mina’s engagement will take place in a few hours, all the family members are required to attend.”

The woman in front spoke and signaled to the two maids behind, “clean her and make her…”

“Go away, I will get there when the time is…”

The maid ignored her and still signaled the two others that were carrying an awful black dress with them. “Make her clean…”

She didn’t disguise the hatred in her voice. However, Lara didn’t care.

“Are you not listening?” Lara moved forward and before the two maids could grab her. She moved back. “Are you purposely ignoring me?”

The older woman shouted with annoyance in her voice.

The two maids’ faces darkened and moved forward more violently. Their eyes didn’t conceal their mockery and disgust.

However, Lara only chuckled and with a swift move of her hand a sword came from behind her and some cuts on the dresses of the maids appeared.

“Ahh!”

“I guess, you are so incompetent that you dare to ignore my words,” Lara moved forward with the sword swinging. The three maids tried to move back but the door suddenly closed.

“Open the doors and call the guards right now!”

The head maid hit the door and shouted, but she didn’t know that the people out there were no more people from the King, nor from Lara. They were all from the Duke and he didn’t like his things to be mistreated.

“Now… are you going to ignore my words again?” Lara walked slowly and looked at the three frightened women.

“You can’t do this, I am the head maid of the Princess castle…ah!”

“Shall I repeat the words again?”

“No…” the three maids with tears in their faces shook their heads.

“Go away now, I will get there when I need to.”

The doors opened and the three maids went out running. However, Lara knew that they won’t go further. Even when she didn’t want to go further in her attempts to bring harm to them. The obsessive Duke won’t let anyone go when trying to harm her.

After all, Lara had made sure to tempt the Duke to the point of madness. Now, he was head over heels for her. Even if they had only met three times in the past, she knew that he had taken a strange fixation with her. She had managed to allure him to the point of him going through those extreme measures to have her.

She couldn’t wait to see what will happen next.

The book she read in her last life was, in fact, the story of her first life. She recognized the story as she had lived it, however, she was depicted as the villainess. The princess was discarded but because she had a secret power, the Ministers took notice of her and she rose in power.

However, she was never welcomed in the palace of her father, they hated her, but they couldn’t discard her because of her enormous support and fear. She was even amassing a huge army behind their backs. All because of revenge.

She found out that the one who killed her mother was the Queen, she had drugged her mother because of jealousy and brought her into the bed of the King. She was jealous because Miriam, was beautiful and caring, the King had taken a liking to her and even the Crown Prince was more attached to her than the Queen, who liked to spend her time at parties. However, with the Queen’s schemes, she was taken to the chambers of the King. And the rumor of her wanting to get power through disgusting means, she was shoved to the Rosaline Mansion with the scorn of the King.

Even after she waved her revenge, and led her men to war, she was trapped and defeated in the cruelest way. They took her most important people and tortured them in front of her. Then they trapped her inside an isolated tower till she grew old and died.

However, the book story was wrong… she read it when she was in her second life and almost burn it up from desperation.

Those bastards… this time she will make them pay.

***

“Did you hear?”

“Yes, the Duke is proposing marriage to the Princess!”

“This is a national event!”

The country of Airon was in great spirits, the news about the engagement between the most impressive bachelor of the Kingdom and the Princess was a big event.

The streets were bustling with vendors and people cheerfully sharing the news as a great event. They thought of the Duke as someone with an indifferent and cold aura, difficult to approach and they believed he will raise his hand towards the Crown, but he, suddenly, chose the princess.

On the other hand, the houses of the nobles were in a strange frenzy. Mostly because of the young daughters that were making a ruckus. They never thought that such a princess would land a marriage with the notable Duke.

She was so outrageously dumb and out of style. Her spoiled nature was famous around the high society. Even with the most impressive tutors and the guidance of the Empress, she was never conscious of her stupid remarks. It was humiliating for the Royal family.