Chapter 41 THE CAPTIVE QUEEN
Lucian's POV
As we were walking back from that guy's study I was expecting to see Celestia still in the living room. Sitting in that cream dress that flattered her perfectly, though I doubt there are very many dresses that would fail to flatter her; if they did, then they might as well not even exist at all.
There'd be no hope for them
But we got back to the living room and she was nowhere to be found. I looked right back at Raphael, a spark of anger beginning to light up in my eyes before I could hold it back and really I didn't even want that much.
I knew whatever I was going down right now must have something to do with him. This was his packhouse. After all, if somebody had done something to Celestia it would have to be under his command or somebody of such high rank as him.
He had his hands up already picturing what I was accusing him of in my head and was quick to defend himself like the rat that he was.
"I don't know where she is I didn't do anything to her," he looked over to the spot where she was still supposed to be sitting and then said"Maybe she changed her mind,"
If I didn't need to continue this conversation with him I would have released a lot of stress by just swinging my fist in his face right now, couldn't really tell if sometimes he chose to be daft or he wasn't as smart as he made himself to appear to be on the surface nevertheless I told him to bring my future brighter to me he was just about to do that calling the guards when a woman appeared she hoped over to him and wrapped her hand in his.
"Sweetheart, is this a friend of yours?" She said and gave me a slaughter of heart lashes that made my skin instantly prickle with disgust, thankfully she kept most of that for Raphael and I was able to connect the dots and figure out that they were mates, perhaps she has-
"You won't believe it's sweetheart I took care of a really nasty problem before you showed up so you don't have to worry but can you believe that vile woman decided to step into our territory after all this time? I already knew she liked shame but this much of it?"
At first, I had not fully recognized her but now that I was taking a much better look at her face was marching. The one that I had only seen in pictures when I had one of my men do it surface-level investigation of what had happened before in Brazen Park.
I had forgotten about her picture at the moment I came across it which was why it took me a second or two to match the face and picture together but now that I knew the background of this woman and I was fully absorbing what she just said I was afraid that I would do something that everyone else in this room was about to regret.
Raphael apparently had much more sense than she, he pushed her away and came over to me.
"I didn't ask her to do that you heard what she said just now I didn't even know that she was going to do something crazy like that it's my fault I should have informed her that..."
"I don't want to be listening to your blabber right now!" I yelled at him, "Show me to my mate, the punishments for this will come after I make sure that she's all right,"
He swallowed so loudly that I could hear it in my ear good at least see on the studio The severity of what was about to fall upon him but for his mate she didn't have half the sense or maybe she did and she gave it away on a reading day either ways she wasn't acting like somebody who was supposed to even step close to a lunar throne much less be sitting on it.
She jumped in front of me and in what was such a horrible caricature attempt of being cute she propped her hips on her hips tilting her head sideways and saying.
"You just call that woman your mate? There is something that you need to know about her maybe she hid her identity from you and disguised herself but- "
Her mate yanked her out of the way before I would have had to do something about her. Thankfully she was out of my sight and I went over to find the woman who actually mattered to me.
I called on the guards and told them to lead me over to the cells where they kept their prisoners both of them were already shivering but I said that the quicker we had this done the more sooner they could look forward to my anger eventually ending but right now they were not really anywhere close so they took me to the cell and it was much more worse than I expected maybe because I knew she would be inside of it all the place looked like somewhere where you wouldn't even dumb trash.
And yet, Celestia had been brought here not only now, but all those years back she had told me about it. She had a told me about the entire experience tears remain her eyes I knew it's took everything inside of her to talk about it and it's devastated me that I couldn't be of more help to her, that I couldn't say something that could immediately snap away all the pain because I wanted more than anything else to do just that for her to eradicate all of her suffering eventually I reached herself and they opened it up she was sitting on the floor, I went over to her schooling her up from the ground princess style she wrapped her hands around me without me needing to indicate anything and just rested against my chest.