All Chapters of Cinderella, Queen of Rats: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

* * *Charles I went to gather everyone into Maddie's room when the doctor entered the castle to inform us of the progression of the plague. The girls were already in the room with Maddie, and all I needed was Peter for everyone to be present.  Ana suggested that I check the kitchen for Peter, an odd place, I thought, but nevertheless, I left to find him. Not before stopping at the doorway and looking back at Ella, my beautiful fiancée and future Queen of Briarglen. There was some kind of force that told my body every time that I left her that I had to steal one last look at the woman, I didn't mind obliging to this force.  Peter assured the doctor that there had only been two more casualties in the North Village and while that was good news, it was two more than there should have been. Doctor Laënnec then shared that the whole of the West Village seemed to be in

After Maddie had forced Peter and Drizella to get married in front of her, calling it a 'dying woman's last wish,' she felt as if her soul was whole and at ease once again.  The newlywed couple exited Maddie's room, having rice sprinkled on them as they walked, per Maddie's request, and it was a beautiful sight. Seeing two people that she loved dearly so happy together, smiling, hand in hand, Maddie was okay with that being her last sight of those friends of hers.  

* * *Ella After Maddie's death, a cold gloom hovered around the castle grounds. There was less laughter, fewer smiles, and no one knew what to do with their free time now that they couldn't come to Maddie and speak and gossip with her. The King ordered a proper burial for her to be laid to rest with her parents in the West Village. Malcolm had planned to stay in the village that they gr

Years after getting her revenge on her old babysitter, Lucinda returned to normal life as a young woman looking for a future husband. She was fifteen and gorgeous, flowing brown hair and brown eyes like chocolate, curves that caught every man’s eye, she walked around the village with utter confidence. There was only one other woman in the village that Lucinda considered being as beautiful as herself, and her only competition was Malinda Reed. Lucinda loathed the woman, they looked quite similar, except for their skin and eye color. Where Lucinda’s eyes were brown, Malinda’s eyes were blue. They had the same long, dark hair, Malinda's was more black where Lucinda's was

* * *Ana Seeing mother in the ballroom with her eyes full of mischief and how she blamed Ella for the outbreak, I couldn’t help but wonder if it was entirely my mother’s doing and she was only framing Ella for the plague outbreak. Mother never liked El