99 - Desperation Plan

-- Kingdom of Matthias

-- Royal servants' hall

-- 6.00 am.

....

I woke up with an aching sensation across the surface of my joints. The earth's ozone layer, which had recently dropped heavy snow, replaced the unusual suspicion of darkness that surrounded the entire cold room. All I could catch from yesterday was that I was talking to my servant about Arthur.

And the next day I returned to this room, with Matthias beside me. He was still fast asleep, with his naked body bearing witness to our illicit copulation last night.

‘Ha .... What have I done? This is not what you should be doing, Isabelle. Sleeping with Matthias will only make Estella more suspicious,’ I muttered to myself, realizing just how stupid my actions had been last night.

And sure enough, what I'd feared fell before my eyes. Estella realized Matthias' disappearance and broke the door to this room down. A commotion was triggered in the morning as she witnessed her groom-to-be in bed with an Omega maid.

"You stupid