Chapter 6: The Pregnancy

AVA KILLIAN

Ava's legs weakened as the silent halls murmured all against her, and in anticipation of the kind of excruciating death she deserved.

Alpha Axel stood up and walked towards her, her hearts thudding in anticipation of the consequences of the rage spelt in his eyes, he ran his hands into her hairs and held tightly onto it yanking it back hardly and she could feel it almost ripping off her scalp.

"You are just like your father, mad and a literal animal, today you've turned me to an animal just like you." He said, Ava's heart was thudding fast, as she winced to the pain inflicted to her scalp, the people all stood still, the hall silent.

"Please, I did not do this" Ava cried, Alpha Axel's eyes was with burning rage, he wants to smash her head on the wall and make her bleed to death, then justice would be served, but that'd only cost her a few moments of pain until she gradually escape to the hands of death.

He wouldn't feel satisfaction by that.

Ava saw his face it was with dangerous resolve, he was going to murder her no doubt, nothing could save her from this moment.

"Stab me, kill me, Please" Ava said, her voice hoarse, she just requested for death, it was heavy, it was bitter and she couldn't bring it back.

"That's too easy Ava, I promise to make you grovel for the cold hands of death, imagine what could be crueller than death?" He scoffed to her face, and his huge palm gripped her tiny arm digging Into her skin like he'd break her bone with a single crush.

"Pain! Excruciating pain." He said, and got tears fell down Ava's eyes. "Just kill me, everyone is waiting for you to order my death, A life for a life." Ava said, his words made her weary, she desperately wished this could convince him.

A powerful Alpha losing his daughter whom he loved with passion, and holding back in killing the murderer is a dangerous thing, he would make the murderer feel a thousand pain worse than the death of his daughter.

"I did not kill Alys, to what ends?" Ava said again, her voice tiny, weak and broken, and the glint of her teary ocean blue eyes seems rather manipulative, brought him back from being lost in his rage.

Alpha Axel doesn't know why he felt she couldn't have done it alone, and his courts wants her death, he understood that this kind of decision driven by his thirst for revenge could leave so many stones unturned.

"Your majesty, you need to pronounce her death sentence now" Lord Ashfold walked towards him and said,

"I am not executing her!" Alpha Axel spoke and the room was at once silent in shock,

"What? She murdered the princess your majesty! A life for a life, she deserves to die!" Lord Ashfold, Kaila's father yelled on top of his voice,

"What do you mean my king? There is no way you'd allow this evil wench live! I want her dead she killed our..." Kaila yelled on top her voice as she rushed towards the king and he cut her off.

"Damn it Kaila!" He growled and the whole room fell silent, as he walked towards Kaila, his face like a rageful wolf about to shred its prey into pieces.

"I fucking know who she murdered! My daughter! My only blood and you do not feel half of my rage, just stop!" He yelled and faced Ava again.

Ava's eyes squinted, she knew it was over for her if she leaves that place without them pronouncing her sentence, she knew Alpha Axel was in no moods for further investigation, he'd only inflict pain on her, in his words "excruciating pain" That'd make her beg for the cold hands of death.

"No.. no.." Kaila mumbled, with a tears stained eyes, her hands shivering, She killed her own daughter for payment of having Ava's life, and now it seems Ava is escaping the death sentence,

In an unexpected fast pace of time, Kaila walked towards Axel, so strangely close to him and everyone was clueless, Alpha Axel stared at her oblivion to what her intentions were, and in a very swift move she removed the dagger around Axel's wrist from its sheath and immediately ran to Ava placing the sharp dagger around her neck, yanking her hair back with a strong grip to hold her head in place.

Ava gasped in shock it was fast and unexpected she swallowed, her eyes closed as the cold steel of the sharp blade pressed against her neck, with a single slash she'd be dead.

The hall was in shock, total silence, everyone looked with surprise in their faces, even though they all wanted Ava's execution they didn't expect Kaila to take that resolve,

"Kaila!" Alpha Axel called, "what?" Kaila asked with a smirk, tear blurred her vision, as the king took a step forward, Kaila pressed the knife against Ava’s neck even harder, drawing massive fresh streams of blood on her neck.

"Don't do this it is a royal command!" Alpha Axel commanded as he halted where he stood pointing his hands at her, Ava stared at the king in her hostage.

Asides rage, this was the first time she was seeing other expression in his eyes; she couldn’t put it to words, Alpha Axel who is always unimpressed and expressionless now has this expression that spelt but not spell concern and unease. It was subtle, yet undeniable—a crack in the stoic mask he always wore.

Kaila still so defiant and Ava's heart thudding, she regretted asking for death some moments ago, being under Kaila's hostage makes death looked so scary.

"She killed my daughter, my first and only child, the heiress to the throne! in cold blood, so cut me some slack! I am the queen consort! And this is how I choose to pay back for my daughter's death, A life for a life" Kaila yelled, her voice grating, She called herself a queen consort instinctively even so she has never been coronated.

"Your majesty!!" A tiny frantic voice cut through the tension as a female physician, drenched in blood, stumbled into the hall. The guards tried to restrain her, but she fought with wild desperation, her voice rising above their attempts to subdue her.

"Princess Ava is pregnant—with your royal child!"

The physician relayed at once and the whole hall went into a frenzy of gasps and whispers, as it was filled with indistinctive murmurs of disbelief and surprise.

Kaila's eyes widened, her grip on the dagger tightening, The enormity of the revelation crashed over her like a tidal wave. She needed no one to tell her it was over, not only Alpha Axel's royal order stopping her now.

Slaughtering Ava now meant Murdering a royal child,

“Are you sure?" Alpha Axel asked,

"Yes your majesty!" The physician affirmed,

Kaila's chest heaved, she realized there was no going back. She could taste the bitter edge of defeat—killing Ava now wasn’t just revenge. It was treason. It was the end.

She'd rather resolve to the end, kill Ava and die with her!