Married to the arrogant king

“Guards arrest that servant,” Carl growled, pointing at the girl servant.

The guards immediately came and seized her and the servant girl trembled in fear.

Carl stood up, walking to her. “You,” he growled, you were the one who gave my queen that concoction, tell me why you poisoned her…

The servant girl shivered at Carl’s tone of voice, she glanced up, to take a peek at him, but immediately regretted it.

The look in his eyes screamed murder and he looked like a beast, ready to attack its prey.

“Should I tell king Carl that it was lady Gwen, who gave me the drink? Would he believe me? After all, Lady Gwen belongs to a noble family, and is also a close friend of the king,” she pondered.

“Yo… your majesty, I didn’t poison the queen please you have to believe me,” she cried, giving Carl a pleading look.

Carl scoffed, clenching his fist. His blood was boiling, and he was running out of patience. all he wanted to do now was kill her, but he still wanted to know why she poisoned Zara…

“They all say the same thing, even when they’ve been cut red-handed,” he said calmly in a mock tone, gripping her neck tightly, but not enough to kill her, then he said, “I won’t ask you again, so you should tell me now that I’m being nice, maybe I might give you an easy death. but if you don’t, I’ll make sure I torture you in the worst ways possible, by first peeling off your skin, then removing parts of your body, little by little, until you die.”

The servant shuddered. Although Carl spoke so calmly, she knew that he meant every word he said.

“Your majesty, I swear, it wasn’t me,” she choked out, now finding it hard to breathe, because Carl’s grip on her neck, was getting stronger and tighter.

“Yo… your majesty, pl… please, I didn’t do it, I swear by the gods, please don’t kill me,” she let out in a low voice, but he could hear her.

Carl scoffed. “I shouldn’t kill you?” He repeated, flinging her to the ground.

“You don’t want to die, but you have the guts to poison someone else, I’m going to teach you a very good lesson. Guards, take her to the dungeon, I’m sure by the time I’m done with her, she will be willing to talk.”

…

Queen Catherine, lady Anna, and Lia watched everything that was going on. Lia suddenly gasped, when she remembered something.Content bel0ngs to Nôvel(D)r/a/ma.Org.

She remembered that not only Zara took the concoction, but Myla also and right now, Myla was nowhere to be seen.

Did something happen to her? She pondered, looking around. She didn’t want to bother queen Catherine or Lady Anna because, as it is, they were already worried about Zara, so she sneaked away, going in search of Myla.

Myla, she called, going from one chamber to the next. “Guards, have you seen Myla, queen Zara’s other maid?” She asked, but they said no.

After searching for a long time, Lia was about to give up, when she sighted someone lying behind a flower vase. Is that Myla, she pondered, running towards her.

Myla lay unconscious on the floor, and no one noticed her, even if they did they didn’t care because, at the moment they were more worried about their queen, more than anything else.

“Myla,” Lia yelled, but there was no reply. The poison must have also affected her, Lia guessed, trying to help Myla up.

…

The physician gave the concoction to both Zara and Myla. “My king, the poison, has subsided, for now. But you know what happens if we don’t get the antidote,” the physician reminded, and Carl nodded.

“I know sir Thomas, I will get the antidote, I’ve already sent the message to the other nations, asking for the lotus, all we have to do now is wait and pray, but for now, I have somewhere to be,” he muttered, walking out of the chamber.

Carl’s mind was occupied with thoughts of the servant girl. what he was going to do to her, how he was going to torture her, into telling him the truth.

He knew that the servant girl, wouldn’t act on her own, so he wanted to know who she was working for.

…

Meanwhile, Gwen heard that the servant girl she sent to give Zara a drink at the banquet has been arrested.

“Oh, God! What do I do now? she panicked. Could the servant have already spilled the bean, telling Carl that I was behind the whole thing? Will Carl believe her? Gwen pondered shivering slightly.

She knew she was not just going to get into trouble with just Carl, but the whole of Everton, and even Azrael, After all, not only Zara was involved, but her baby, who was supposed to be the heir to the throne.

Gwen thought of what to do, to get out of her situation. If she knew things would turn out this way, she wouldn’t have become allies, with the spy, and for the first time in her life, she wished she had listened to her father.

She thought about asking him for help, but she remembered what he told her the last time they met.

After thinking over it for a while, Gwen concluded, that she had already come too far to turn back now. “she is right, if I want something, I have to go the extra mile for it, I should be willing to sacrifice, and right now, I just sacrifice Zara, and her baby,” Gwen thought with a smirk.

She decided that she wouldn’t let the servant girl, rat her out, even if she had to kill her.

…

Meanwhile, Carl walked into the dungeon, to question the servant. He felt like it was best to do it himself since he couldn’t trust anyone.

When he entered the servant girl’s cell, it was dark and he couldn’t see. So he lit a fire touch to get a better view, but what he saw left him speechless.