All Chapters of Stay Dead This Time: Chapter 11 - Chapter 13

No matter what Stellan said, it would end the same way. He slumped back inside the coffin, his face the color of ash.Edmund waved his hand. "Guards, seize this man who dares impersonate General Montclair."The officers moved in and dragged Stellan out of the coffin. He thrashed against them, but his body was too weak to break free."Elara Renworth!" He craned his head back to stare at me as they hauled him out of the chapel, his voice scraped raw enough to sound barely human. "You'll rot for this! You'll rot for this!"I stood where I was and watched him go without a flicker of expression."My lord." I turned to Edmund and bowed. "Despicable as this man is, he did use my late husband's name to carry out his fraud. If I may be so bold, I'd ask that you release him into my custody. It would be a way of... putting the matter to rest on my husband's behalf."Edmund considered this for a moment, then nodded. "Very well. He is yours to deal with. Consider it a courtesy to your late hu

Every day, Vivienne wept. Every day, she begged. She said she knew she had been wrong. She said she should not have favored Daphne, should not have enabled Stellan's scheme.I just smiled and said nothing.In my last life, she favored Daphne for 20 years. For 20 years, she watched Ansel suffer. She watched me be humiliated. She watched Daphne strip me of everything I had, one piece at a time, and never once said a word against it.She knew she was wrong now? Well, it was too late.…The days passed, one after another.Stellan's body deteriorated. No medicine, no proper food. Coupled with the tendons in his hands and feet severed, he broke down quickly. He started coughing blood, running fevers that would not break, and talking to people who were not there.I did not send for a doctor.In my last life, when Ansel was burning with fever, Daphne would not allow a doctor to be called either. In this life, consider it a debt repaid.Finally, on a night one month later, Stellan died