Chapter 4: Princess Ava The Cruel

"Stop!" Kaila said, And his guard turned back again.

"We can't act rashly there should be a strategic way to do this, The king would not take it lightly if he finds out I killed her," Kaila said.

"Your Grace, your father is waiting at the chamber for you at this moment" one of her attendants rushed towards her at once,

Kaila immediately headed to her quarter, getting there her father who is a member of the king's council sat waiting for her.

"Father?" Kaila asked, she could see her father was here to scold as the disappointment and anger was apparent in his expression.

"What have you been doing to get rid of that wretch princess!" he growled,

"Father, I assure you the king loathes her with passion and she cannot undermine my positi..."

"You bitch! Do you even realize what's going on in the king council? Half of the council are supporting that the king should claim her since she is his true mate and last pure blood of the Lycan! Soon enough you would be deserted and your position wouldn't even be presumed you'd only end up as his common bed warmer!" He yelled at Kaila's face.

Kaila's hands became numb, her hearts thudding and her eyes blazing.

"What should I do father!" Kaila asked with tears choked voice.

"Prove to the king and the whole council that she is a monster like her father the mad king!" He said,

"But how?" Kaila asked, and her father was mute for a second and he threw her an expression that was hard to dissect.

"A sacrifice from your side to seal your position, a sacrifice that would make the king execute the princess himself.." he said,

As Kaila's heart dropped, her eyes squinted.

"You don't mean I should... I should kill my daughter and blame it on the Princess?" Kaila said with a breaking tone as her legs weakened.

That was the only ultimatum to prove Ava as a monster just like her father,; setting her up for murder of who the king cherished the most.

"Of course, Alys is just a girl and there has never been a heiress who ruled our kingdom once, If the princess became the queen and gives birth to a male child __ her son would become the heir, strengthening her power and all you would do is grovel at her feet for mercy!" He said,

"Father! How can I do that to my own daughter?" Kaila cried,

"This is a palace game, the one who strikes early wins, A great sacrifice for a greater reward, I want the princess's execution trial be at the council table early tomorrow I leave the rest to you." Her father said and walked out.

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"I'd serve you now Princess" a voice said as Ava's door creaked open, where Ava sat in her dark boring room face soaked with tears, she quickly wiped her tears away before the attendant got to her.

"Does the king need me now?" Ava asked as her heart skipped, since they always come by her room to glam her up for the king's bed, where she is to be damaged and punished,

"No, princess the king did not call for you I am your new attendant." She said as she walked towards Ava, "Can you seat before the dresser?"

She asked, Ava thought not much of this as she only follows everything they told her to do here, she sat gently as the maid came behind her and started to brush down her rare long silky silver hair.

Until suddenly, the brush snagged with her hair and the maid harshly yanked it off ripping strands of silver hair from Ava's scalp.

Ava yelped in pain, her hand instinctively flying over her head.

"I'm sorry princess your hair had tangles" the maid apologized quickly, Ava's brows squinted she knew her hair more than anyone, it is always naturally silky it doesn't tangle.

"I'd be more careful now" The maid said as she immediately removed the strands of Ava's hair from the brush, she swiftly hid the stolen strands in a small container tucked inside the grooming kit box, her movement furtive and desperate.

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Kaila held tightly on Ava's hair strands whilst she watched her beautiful daughter Alys asleep soundly on her bed, how could she kill her own daughter? tears welled her eyes,

As Aly's female attendant wondered why Kaila was crying, "are you okay your grace?" she asked since Alys was soundly asleep.

"Did you give her the tea already?" Kaila enquired, and the maid nodded clueless of what the tea contained, Kaila faced welled more with tears at least her beautiful daughter would die painless,

"Should I give her the stab scar now?" Kaila's guard asked.

"I'd do it myself." Kaila replied.

"What? What do you mean" Alys's attendant questioned as she watched Kaila did the most horrific of the sins to her own daughter,

The attendant fell on her butt, she couldn't believe what her eyes just witnessed, frozen to the spot she couldn't move or let out a sound, so abruptly Kaila's bodyguard approached and stabbed the attendants stomach repeatedly as she struggled and gave up.

A chilly, unholy silence filled the room, immediately Kaila slipped Ava's stolen silver hair into the hand of Alys's maid, creating the illusion that the maid had struggled with Ava whilst trying to protect little Alys from being killed, and during the cause she had yanked Ava's silver hair strands.

"Let's go" Kaila commanded as they left the corridor, no guards witnessed their movement since it's past time for guards being present in the royal family corridors and quarters, and the external security forces were focused on potential threats outside.

Believing the interior to be secured, this lapse left little Alys chamber vulnerable allowing Kaila and her bodyguard moved unseen.

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"Take the murderer out! babes slayer!"

Ava heard the noise from her sleep as she jerked up from her it was morning and her door suddenly banged open, four guards marched into her room and grabbed her from the bed so harshly she fell to the ground.

"What is it? What have I done" Ava screamed on top of her voice.