ElizabethMy eyes slowly widened and it was as if the silence has deafened me with very high intensity. The villagers that surrounded me barely touched me, but they are nearing their faces with worried expressions. I could not hear nor focus on them anymore because my eyes are fixated on the face of death – Prince Ronald.For a while, shockness prevailed over his face. He furrowed his eyebrows firmly and blinked hardly before he exchanged them with a worried one. He moved through the villagers and attended to me.“My lady! What happened to you?” he asked me with concern and sat in front of me. “Are you okay? Where have you been?”When he tried to grab me, I abruptly retreated my head and glared at him. Sweats formed on his forehead and the darkness in his eyes just like what I saw him that night emerged.“Go away from me! Don’t touch me!” I exclaimed and moved away from his hand.“My lady,” he called me and smiled weakly as if almost innocent. “Come with me. I won’t hurt you.”The san
Elizabeth I started to retreat from where I was on the ground when Nikita has already turned her back and vanished from my vision. I tried to control my steps slowly when Prince Ronald shifted his weight and turned around to face me. I swallowed hard, making sure that the lump on my throat would disappear, but it did not, especially when the prince glared at me with his eyes void. “Why do you look like you just have seen a ghost?” he said and smirked devilishly. “Don’t you think I should be the one that must be shocked that you are here in front of me, alive and breathing so fast after I stabbed you with a dagger?” Ire rose to my head, pissed off by his sarcasm and insensitiveness. I clenched my fists, being brave and disregarding the fact that he will kill me if I try to do something stupid. “I trusted you,” I firmly said and inhaled sharply. “I thought you were my friend.” He remained deadpan. “I can’t treat you like a fried when you saw me that night-“ “-and heard you making c
Elizabeth I never knew where my mother was. After she was fled by the overwhelming number of bats, the villagers helped me find her around the forests not far away. It took two nights before we gave up looking for her. Instead, I just placed a picture of her just outside our house. Currently, I am looking at her smiling face with her sweet eyes and beautiful smile. This time, she was now on a frame. I would never see nor hear her voice again. I breathed in and out as I watched the rays of the sun rising from above, hitting its glass. “I do not understand what you were trying to say, mother,” I said and tears stung my eyes. “I still have not met the werewolf that gave me a bite mark. And I do not have the intention and aspiration to meet him anyway.” For a weird reason, I kept dreaming about the night the werewolf has bitten my neck. I did not want to overthink it, but it must have something to do with the voice of my mother emerging in my mind. She wants me to marry Prince Ronald.
ElizabethThe teapot was already boiling, but my hands were too slow to remove the embers of fire. It was hot when I touched the pot, but the physical pain I felt on my hands never matched the emotional damage I am feeling right now."Oh, dear!"I just heard Her Majesty approaching my back and forcefully pulled the hem of my dress for me to step back. I watched her get a dirty rag without even minding that that was filthy and used it to cover the body of the teapot. She placed its bottom on another rag and said things."You should not be touching hot things like these, darling," she said worriedly, and while wiping her palms on her black wool dress, she confronted me while shaking her head. "Are you alright?"I nodded slowly. "I apologize, Your Majesty," I said and gulped."Come here. You are hurt."When she said that, I entertained the pang on my palms when I looked at them. They were reddening and looked bad. And Queen Jonah could also see them when I lifted them up. They are also pa
Elizabeth "Elizabeth! Hey!" I heard Nikita's voice from afar while I was getting water from the well. When I looked at her, she was running towards me. My eyebrows furrowed when I saw that she was with Diego who was smoldering while his hands were on his pockets. I sighed and remembered that she left me with Prince Ronald on the day my mother died. But I have the knowledge that she just went away and did not believe in me since I am gravely accusing a prince. And of course she would be tentative to believe in me because I am her best friend. I understood it in the end. I am afraid that she'll be killed if I try to push the truth through. "There you are!" she said worriedly and held my shoulders. "My father said that I should visit you because you are mourning about your mother's death." I smiled weakly. "Thank you, Nikita," I said. "I am fine." "Oh, goodness. I am very sorry!" She pulled my hand to embrace me with a hug. I closed my eyes briefly to feel the warmth of a friend b
Elizabeth The afternoon was approaching, so the sun's rays became hot as the minute passes by. I could even feel through my skin the sultry weather that is prevailing over the kingdom. Yes. My body is being affected by the weather, but my emotive aspect is monopolized by Diego beside me. Different from the first time I met him when I was hyperventilating, right now, I just felt so comfortable. Maybe it was the breathing pattern he makes, his breath hitting barely my skin but making me electrified; his handsome appearance that takes my breath away would also be the beautiful death of every lady, but the utmost thing that is conspicuous to me is the way he stares. He does not just only stare. Using his dark eyes, he was searching my soul. For some reason, my cheeks heat up, and got goosebumps when I remembered how he touched me down there. “U-Uhhh…” I mumbled while stammering. “What do you say? Do you agree with me?” he asked me, a ghost of smile plastering on his lips. My mouth o
Elizabeth I tried… not to look at the two princes who were side by side with the queen. Queen Jonah was in the center of the wooden sofa. I felt flustered by the fact that they are all royalties and they are sitting on a hard surface of a long chair. “U-Uhh, do you want cups of tea?” I asked them and gave a constipated smile. “I would love to serve you.” “No need, darling. We are fine,” Queen Jonah said and reciprocated my smile. “To be honest, we are all here to check on you and to invite you for a special dinner tonight.” “Huh?” Elizabeth mumbled, slightly confused. “What special dinner?” Prince Vio was the one who answered. “Today is my mother queen’s birthday, my lady. She remembered you, so she would like to indulge herself in inviting you,” he said. “If that is okay with you, of course.” Of course, it is not okay! Even smiling and making everything okay even if it is not, I looked at Prince Ronald. And bloody hell, he is looking at me! Shit! Don’t look at me like that! “M
“Have you not understood that I want you gone?” I asked Diego the moment I stepped outside my room and saw him lounging himself while sitting on the wooden sofa.“The only thing I would like to understand is me escorting you to the palace,” he said and smirked. “Do you think I would want to get you hurt?”“What do I look like to you? A kid or a toddler?”“You are my most precious treasure,” he said, taking my breath away. “So even though you won’t like me around, I will still follow you.”I blinked many times after watching him for a while. Why is he like this? And why does it feel like I like it? I do not definitely like him. Except for the fact that he is not my type and I barely know him, he is weird, seemingly arrogant, and invasive! How could I hang out around him?!But, yes, he was bloody stubborn that he kept convincing me to ride his horse so he could escort me to the palace.“Be careful. You don’t want to fall,” he said as he helped me mount the horse.I grunted and rolled my