Chapter 17 (End)

How did he figure it out?! He couldn't have! He hasn't seen me in ages! This can’t happen! What will I do? He is a mass murderer. He will kill me! I have to pretend not to know what he is talking about.

"What the hell are you talking about!?" I try and act unfazed by this whole situation.

"Don't act dumb with me princess!" He shouts. I definitely made him angry.

"Well well well. So you figured it out. So what! Are you going to rat me out? I wonder what the Prince will do once he finds out that you framed his fiancée." I smirk. I try to intimidate him as much as I can. He scowls. He is definitely intimidated.

Just I was thinking. How the hell did he find out?!

"How did you know?" I ask and his face turns from scowling to smirking. I am definitely not going to like this answer.

"A little birdie told me that someone informed her whereabouts of the previous general of the northern kingdom." Eve? No, it couldn't be! Why would she tell him? Unless! I stare at him with wide eyes.

"No. It can’t be!" I whisper scream because I couldn't breathe once again.

"That's right! I am the devil's angels." He smirks.

It all made sense now. The marking on the key, DA that stands for devil's angels. The way he always seems to know my whereabouts. He made the gang that tried to kill me and possibly my parents! Why!?

"Why would they help you? You are responsible for all their family members’ death? They are after me because my parents let you go!" I couldn't wrap my head around these questions.

"They haven't seen me. They don't know that I was the general. For all they could care I could be a peasant and they will still follow me. Making them do my dirty work and them thinking they are avenging their family members. Everything becomes so much easier with just a little bit of manipulation"

I can't believe it. The people in that gang are working for the very person responsible for their family's deaths. This is madness. This is too cruel.

"Why did you want me dead? It's not like you will rule the kingdom so why? It is handed over to prince Reece in two months." I need to fill in the blanks.

"Well, darling. What is the power of hierarchy?" He asks.

"King, queen, princess, prince, duke, duchess... “I don't understand?!

"What the hell has this got to do with you?!" I couldn't wrap my head around it.

"Well Princess, the Duke is Aiden the third who is also a very good friend of mine. He wouldn't suspect a thing. I can just let him do all the hard work while I just sit back and rule this kingdom without him even knowing it."

"How long before he figures everything out? You can't possibly think you are getting away with this?"

"If he does I guess I have to just kill him." He smirks. He is psychotic.

"The duke can't possibly rule unless..." No!

"You're going to kill Prince Reece!" This can’t happen!

With what I know now, I have to tell prince Reece! I can't let him die! I won't!

"You are quite smart. Too bad you will have to die with all the secrets you found."

With that, he leaves. Die? I’m not going to be sentenced to death. That's not the law! Then that means that he is sending someone to kill me! I'll stop him and get out of here! I'll have too. If I die here there will be no one to save Reece!

I have to get out of here... I have an idea but it can get ugly fast. Let's just hope that it works. The ground of the prison cell was mud. I dig around to find a rock or anything that's hard and can do a lot of damage.

I hid it under me and pretended to sleep. That's when murderers or assassins strike right?

I closed my eyes and tried to stop shaking. I was terrified. Someone who probably has killed thousands of people will surely be able to kill me as quickly as lightning. Do I have any hope of surviving tonight? If not... Do I regret the way I lived my life?

The answer was yes, yes I do. I regret being mean and ruthless like my parents. I regret not opening up to the people I loved like Reece and Elena. Elena was the only person who cared for me more than my parents. She treated me like I was her child.

I miss her so much. If I had known that I might never have a chance to meet her again then I would have done so much more for her. I would have given her so much more love than I did. I would have talked to her more and would have opened up to her about everything.

As for Prince Reece, I would have told the truth then maybe none of these things would have happened. I would have loved him more. He thought me so much about life in mere weeks. I could never be too grateful to him.

I loved him. He thought me to be kind and caring and just be myself. He broke down the ugly walls of me and showed me a greener way of life. I wish I could thank him for all that he has done for me and I regret not telling him the truth. He deserves more than me.

My thoughts were disturbed by a noise heard from the window. It was already night time. I didn’t know so much time had passed. I knew that someone has come to kill me and I knew this was my last chance to get out. He crept towards my bed and since it was pitch black I opened my eyes very little.

He had a knife in his hands and he raised his hands. Before he could strike me, I hit him as hard as I can with the rock in my hand. He held his head and he was bleeding. He fell and screamed.

"You bitch!" That was the end of him.