55. The Name!

Author's POV

Emerald smiled bitterly. 

"You are the first man who didn't need my name to call me by my name... Feels like you were the only one who was supposed to know me."

Egon took a deep breath, realising he had her real name while searching for it.

"Emerald!"

She smiled sadly when a lone tear escaped his eyes while he stared at the Ocean with a heavy heart, that one tear was heavier than the ocean in front of her.

"Mom once said, Love will find me. I don't have to chase anything for that. One day, someone will come, and he will see the little caged girl behind this cruel queen; he will heal me. He will free me... He will know the real me... When you called me Emerald for the first time, it clicked! I knew you were the man I wanted and everything was going perfectly... We were in love, healing and loving each other, but I should have known that the world wasn't pleased about my happiness... Mad King found out about our relationship earlier than he should have... That day we had the biggest fight between us. I almost killed him."

She recalled that day.

#Flashback#

Emerald was in her study. It was midnight, and she was reading an important file when her father stormed inside furiously.

She looked up from her file and caught his cane in midair when he raised it to hit her. She gritted and pushed him, making him stumble back. 

"Have you lost your mind completely, old man? Don't you love your life?"

She growled at him. It wasn't the first time he tried to hit her, but this was the first time since she had taken the throne.

"You slut didn't get any other man to fuck around..."

He had lost his mind, he was fuming in anger. 

"You fucked with that dirty blood!"

"So you found out!"

Emerald shrugged.

"Good, saved my efforts!"

He looked at her in disbelief.

"Tell me you are doing this for revenge. You have some motive behind it... Tell me you are not dumb."

"What revenge?"

She sat back on her chair like a queen.

"He is your enemy, not mine!"

He was shaking in anger.

"I brought you into the palace from the streets. I made you queen from a beggar. Whatever you have now is only because of me and you, ungrateful bitch!"

"I never asked you to cage me here... I never asked for power, you forced it on me... You can take it back if you want."

She smirked, enjoying his hollow rage. 

"That dirty blood is using you... Change my name if he doesn't discard you once he is done with his job... You are digging your own grave."

He warned, realising that a reminder of favour won't work. 

"He wants to marry me!"

She leaned back, satisfied when his face drained of colour. 

He gulped and rubbed his forehead with her shaky hands, he was shaking in anger. 

"They raped and killed our women... Slaughtered children!"

"You did the same with them and not to forget that you did this with your own women also.... Do you even have the count of women you have ruined and destroyed?"

She mocked.

"364 and maybe more than that! It's done by Egon's family, not him..."

He gritted hatefully.

"He will use you like a puppet..."

"You are doing the same!"

She challenged.

"He will destroy you!"

He cursed.

"You have already done that!"

She snapped back. 

"Do you really want me to use my ace card?"

He threatened with a psychotic smile.

She didn't say anything, just replied back with the same smile.

He called his man.

"Bring Martina to the castle..."

He ordered, but soon his smile faded when he was informed that Queen's men killed all his men and took Martina with them. 

"You bitch!"

He growled at her, his face was red with fury. 

"Your reign is over, old man... Now, stand silent and watch mine..."

She challenged, standing strong in front of him.

"Egon will claim me in front of everyone in a few days... Accept it if you don't want to lose whatever you have."

"Before that, I will gift you his body in pieces."

He cursed.

That made her lose her temper. She placed the gun to his head and was about to pull the trigger, but Bertha rushed inside and pushed her hand, making the bullet hit the sofa. 

"What are you two doing? Enough of this madness!"

Bertha yelled.

"Queen, you want to kill your father?... Is this what your mother taught you?"

"Don't take her name!"

Emerald growled at her.

"You destroyed her life... Because of you she is not in stable condition... You two ruined everything for us, and you're still doing it!"

Now it was her who was fuming in anger. 

"I am giving you one chance... Take this marriage as an alliance with Bismarcks, forget rivalry and expand your territory with him or try to ruin my happiness and I'll show you who the fuck I am..."

She glared at her father.

"You love your bloodline and family name... I promise you that one day, each and every person in your family will be dead. People will forget that Kingslayers ever existed... I'll turn this empire of yours into dust even if I have to become dust for it... I am not your heir, I am your doom!"

They looked at her, stunned, while she stormed out angrily. 

Bertha panicked.

"She will ruin everything, you have to do something!"

She pleaded with her husband. 

"She can't marry Bismarck.... It's worse than death, they will shame us every second if it happens... Kill her, do anything you want but stop this crazy bitch.... I told you, I told you that our son is better for the throne but you didn't listen. You brought this psycho bitch."

"Don't worry, I know how to find her weakness"

He pledged.

"It's not her, it's Bismarck who is sitting on her lips... He wants to destroy my bloodline, now I'll destroy his..."

Emerald didn't know things were going to turn drastically against her.