KING’S LUNA CHAPTER 82. ESMERALDA STONE (RANIA)’S POV. It was not until the fifth day that someone finally came to see me for questioning, officially. By then, I would like to believe they have put me through any form of torture they can but I know it is just wishful thinking on my part. Perhaps, every single thing I have went through is just small compared to what awaits me, and though I dread what is to come, I will like to think I have resigned to fate and what will come. I do not know what I am waiting for, but I know help has to come some way, and the one hope I have the most right now is that, Kai will wake up and get over this, and then they will know that I did not do it, that I could not have done it. By the time that the person to question me came, I was exhausted and beaten to say the least, figuratively, and literally. I had just endured around round of beating and was feeling nauseating to say the least. I cannot help but wonder how I have managed to still stay awake
KING’S LUNA CHAPTER 83. ESMERALDA STONE (RANIA)’S POV. “Why did you poison the Crown Prince?” He asked once again, repeating the same question that I have heard from him one too many times already since he started this official interrogation, that is, after he had given me the back story of my life which I did not ask for, but was forced to sit through entirely just for whatever sick reason he has in his mind. A heavy breath escaped my lips, and I could still taste the steel like taste of blood from my busted lip, thanks to the beating I had gotten from the guard he invited in just so he would not taint his pretty hands. He decided to get someone to do the dirty job, just so he could force an answer out of me. But, it is not working, not in the slightest. Yes, my body hurts like hell and every piece of my body is aching, but still. I still have refused to spare him a glance just less, respond. I have plead the fifth and I have earlier realized it is better for me to keep shut.
KING’S LUNA CHAPTER 84. ESMERALDA STONE (RANIA)’S POV. His words, the stirred something in me, a confusion and a bubbling question. My brows drew in, and though I still had not raised my head, my attention has been piqued in a way that he has gotten a hold of my curiosity without knowing it. What is he talking about? What does he mean by I am not just incriminating myself alone and that it is not just me involved in this? Who else is involved? I guess he must have known that he had my attention to a certain extent as well, because from the corner of my eyes, I could see the smug smile that took over his features and it was evident in the humor in his tone as well. “You surely do not think we would believe you are the only one involved in this? Everyone around you of course is a suspect too. Do you not care about them?” He taunted, and something about him and his tone, maybe because I am a living witness if his cruelty tells me he’s is not just spewing empty threats any how, t
KING’S LUNA CHAPTER 85. ESMERALDA STONE (RANIA)’S POV. I have resigned to fate. I guess it is the fact that I have not seen or heard any thing from Kai in days, but I had slowly come to accept that he will not come, and that nothing and no one can help me escape this horrendous fate. I do not know what situation he is in and what exactly he is going through, but I have faith in him that he will over come it and not succumb to their plans. What I have given up on in particular though, is that I will live to witness it happen. I do not know what the exact reason is, but they gave me a little bit more meal compared to the usual that day. Normally, I would have been wary of it but I am starving quite a lot, and knowing I would die in just a matter of hours does not quite make me fear the prospect of being poisoned to death. If anything, it is easier compared to dying by hanging so I would choose that really. As such, I sat and devoured the entire food, my appetite bigger than usual and
KING’S LUNA CHAPTER 86.CROWN PRINCE ALEXANDER MALAKAI LUIS’S POV.My whole body hurts, the pain excruciating. I have no idea how long I have been living in this state, but I know it has been a while because I have tethering somewhere in between the line of being conscious and the line of being unconscious. But I could feel it as the time passes by, that I am slowly getting it out of my system. I could feel the black magic in my system, and its dispel.It was like poison running through my veins—slow, scorching, burning, relentless. Black magic isn’t something you fight; it fights you. Especially when it gets into your system, it slowly Wa Tayyu up from the inside. That is how it kills one. And I knew that, I know that it is supposed to kill one, but I know it would not kill me. Rather, my body would fight it. Every muscle in my body, every nerve, felt like it was on fire though. Days had passed—maybe more, I couldn’t keep track, not since I am not exactly in my right track of mind.
KING’S LUNA CHAPTER 86. CROWN PRINCE ALEXANDER MALAKAI LUIS’S POV. No one poisoned me. If anything, I poisoned myself. When I was told that Esmeralda might not have long to live, given the black magic had already seeped into her body and was starting to eat her from the inside, I knew I had to do whatever it takes to save her from that. So, I found out the only way to save her was if I could transfer the black magic from her body, to someone else’s. I could still remember the Royal Physician’s words. “I am afraid the black magic is already in her system, Your Highness, and her body is not strong enough to fight it. At this rate, she only has a couple of days left, and then she will be gone.” Those words, I hated those words to the core—the thought that I would lose her, in just a couple of days to be honest, terrified as much as it angered me. So, in a desperate attempt to look for any way out, I found myself asking. “Is there really no way to save her?” I asked, fighting back m
KING’S LUNA CHAPTER 88. CROWN PRINCE ALEXANDER MALAKAI LUIS’S POV. I have never been scared in my life before, never. Fear is not an emotion I have ever attributed to myself. Even when my mother died and I was blamed, when my father took in the devil as his new mate, or when my sister abandoned me to be with her mate, I was never scared. Instead, I took it as it came, and moved on with my life. There was no need to be scared, what is the use of it? It is an emotion that would not benefit me with anything, so, I never caved in to the feeling of such ever.How ever, for the first time in my life, I was scared.As the royal physicians rushed into my room, where Esmeralda lays, fighting for her lives while they fought with their own lives on the line just to save her, I was scared internally. On the outside. I was composed and raged, because I had told them that their own lives will depend on hers. Whether she lives or dies, their own lives depends on it.I know they are not responsib
KING’S LUNA CHAPTER 89. CROWN PRINCE ALEXANDER MALAKAI LUIS’S POV. For a second, I was frozen, unable to believe the words. Did I hear him correctly? Are my ears playing tricks on me or have I gone through so much that I have begun to hallucinate and imagine things? My questions and doubts were proved to be wrong when they all fell in their knees as well, and their collective voices came, all chanting the same thing. “Congratulations, Your Highness!” “Congratulations, Your Highness!” “Congratulations, Your Highness!” “The Kingdom has been blessed!” Since the olden days, receiving the news of a royal child is considered a blessing for the Kingdom entirely, because it symbolizes a blessed future for the Kingdom, and stability as well. Especially if it is the child of a Crown Prince, having an heir is basically like securing one’s position to becoming the King. However, my elation is not because my position as the next King has been secured, and not because I have an heir. No. I