47. Options!

Author's POV

Egon smirked evilly after looking at the information which told him what Emerald was hiding. 

He got the ace to control her. 

"Anything else, King?"

His man asked. 

"You know what to do!"

Egon ordered. 

"On it... It will be done tonight."

He assured and walked out. 

Egon chuckled while shaking his head. 

"You are so naive, Emerald... Really thought that you could hide it from me?"

Meanwhile,  Emerald was talking to Ruby. 

"Are you sure that there is no one who has similar DNA? Did you check properly, Ruby... You can't be ignorant, your life is dependent on it."

She was restless. Her assumptions never go wrong. 

"I checked, and there is no one in this world who has the same DNA. Egon is the only Bismarck, Queen."

Ruby was stressed. 

"I tried my best!"

Emerald was losing hope. 

"He will make me crawl to the aisle, Ruby... You don't know how crazy he has become."

"But you are the Queen... Why are you so scared of him, you can fight with him."

Ruby tried to calm her down. 

"I can but my fight will only hurt me... I can fight, but Egon will not lose. He will target you... I can't risk your life."

Emerald grabbed her head. 

"Can I ask you something?"

Ruby hesitated and Emerald looked at her. 

"You love him, you had a special place for him in your life, and everything was going fine, then why did you kill his family?... I know you are hiding something. And it's something big or else you wouldn't be putting yourself in hell for all of this..."

Emerald sighed. 

"There is no use in talking about the past when you can't change it... The thing is, no matter how genuine the reason I had, Egon will never accept it... For him, I am the villain of his story."

"I am so sorry!"

Ruby hugged her. 

Emerald didn't hug back but she didn't push her away either. 

"Queen, the master has asked you to shift to his room."

Layla stood in front of the door frame. 

Emerald's eyes snapped towards her. 

"The audacity of this man!"

Her blood started boiling. He was ordering her like she was a slave.

"Queen!"

Ruby tried to stop her but she had stormed downstairs by then. 

Egon was in the dining hall, and plates of savouries were kept on the table. 

"Umm, Emerald... Come, taste these and let me know which one you want in our wedding."

She glared at the plates angrily and shattered everything on the floor. 

"What do you think of yourself?... You are getting on my nerves, Egon... I told you to stop!"

She growled at him. 

He was calmly watching her, he loves it when she growls like this. 

"Why would I stop?"

She gritted, looking challengingly in his eyes. 

"You can force me to marry you but how are you going to control me?... Do you really think that I'll let you live a peaceful life?"

"Why do you think that I love a peaceful life?"

He mocked while smearing cream on her lips with his thumb. 

She wiped her lips disgusted. 

"You can't control me... Ruby might be a ticket to aisle, but you will regret it."

Egon was calm. 

"We will see! Now go to my room, I'll join you soon."

Her stomach churned. 

"I am not your whore!"

She grabbed his collar furiously. 

"You can't treat me like this!"

Angry tears escaped her eyes. 

Egon grabbed her wrists and removed the hold from his collar. 

"You don't want to know how I treat whores. Don't disrespect yourself."

She jerked her hands back from his hold frustrated. 

"Egon, what will it take for you to end this... You have to put this to an end before I do, and if that happens, then only one of us will be alive... I killed your family and you killed mine. We are equal, we are done!"

"No, we are not done!"

He growled back and she flinched. 

"I loved my family and you didn't... That was not your real family; you didn't even have the slightest love for them. Then how are we equal?"

"Yes, I didn't love them... I don't give a fuck about how many you made me kill, so what?... They were still my family, you can't change it."

She yelled back. 

"I don't give a fuck... You tell me, what do you want from me... What will you take to set me free?... This is enough, you have given me pain and tears which would last me for life... Now let me go, please!"

"You are a selfish woman, Emerald... There is no heart in your chest..."

He gritted. 

"Prove it to me that you have a heart and you really know how it feels to lose a loved one... Tell me that you had a reason to kill my family and my love for you... Tell me that you didn't do it just to destroy me and you had other intentions..."

She frowned. 

"How does that matter, you are not going to set me free after that."

"I will!"

He declared and she looked at him in disbelief. 

"If you had a valid reason then I'll let you go and we will not see each other's face again. Just prove that you had a reason! I'll end this."

She was still looking at him in disbelief. 

"You are lying. Stop playing with me. You know that I can't prove it... Stop playing with my emotions."

He took a deep breath. 

"Fine, let's make it easier... You were going to find my family member. Bring them in front of me alive and I'll set you free... You have two options, and if not, then get ready to walk to the aisle because after that I'll be the only monster you will worship... I am giving you a fair chance to save yourself."

Emerald closed her eyes as everything spun for her. She couldn't prove herself innocent, and there was no one alive in his family. She was trapped. 

It was feeling suffocated. It felt like someone was choking her. She wasn't thinking straight; confusion and anger had gone to her head. 

She wiped her angry tears and glared at him. 

"You want to play with me?"

She gritted. 

"I'll tell you how to end this... I'll end this pain for good!"

The pain was clear in her eyes. 

Egon grabbed her arm but she pushed him away and ran out of the castle. 

He closed his eyes and released a frustrated sigh.

"Wrong move, my love... You won't see the sun after this."

He followed her into the woods as she ran errands. 

Both were unaware of what was going to happen next.