USURPED
"I said stop."
The voice was sharp, cold, authoritative and it cut through the noise. The whole room fell into deep silence, that the sound of a pin could be heard. Guards froze mid motion still gripping her arms so hard. Everyone stared in silence at the man who crossed the room in long furious strides shoving past a man too slow to get out of his way. His eyes were locked on her and never left for once and something in his expression cracked, hope, shock, grief, disbelief all of them at once like he had seen a dead woman breathing right in front of him.