Chapter 12

"Your grace! please forgive me!" Cynthia yelled inside of the prison cell, her clothes are torn down she's covered in bruises and dirt, her hair is all over the place. In short she looks trashed.

Leon just looks at her with a stoic expression.

"Winston, open the cell." Leon ordered. Winston immediately took the key out of his pocket and opened the door to Cynthia's cell.

The moment the cell opened Leon step inside. He took his sword from his sword belt and pointed it at Cynthia's neck.

"I would have believe you if you did everything Leonna did on that table." Leon stated while still pointing the sword at her neck.

[What is this momster talking about?! I did do everything that the brat did!]

Cynthia looked up at Leon with eyes widen in desperation hoping she would get to live another day.

"your grace, I ate everything she ate drank her juice and even tasted the cookies she made.....Im innocent! ha-ha Im innocent!" Cynthia stated laughing in between her sentence like she lost her mind.

"You think Im stupid not to notice the table napkin."

Cynthia's eyes widen in shock [How did he knew where I put the poison?!]

"Your grace I---"

Leon pointed his sword deeper in her neck. Tears began to fall off her face as her whole body tremble. She tried to grab Leon's feet but Leon kicked her in the stomach before she could even touch him.

Cynthia flew a few feet from where she was due to the impact.

"arggh!" Cynthia groan in pain holding her stomach.

[So he noticed. Ha. to think I was so careful in soking the napkin with drugs before drying it and putting in on the table yet this monster still figured it out.]

"If you have done everything the way Leonna has done it I would have believed your innocence but your confidence is what gives you out. The way you ate the food and drink the juice with so much confidence like theres nothing wrong with them, it looks to me you were so confident that you wouldn't get poisoned or is it because you knew were the poison was?" Leon gritted his teeth in anger while continuing to debunked he pathetic scheme.

"Unlike Martha and Rose who were scared to even touch the food because they saw what just happened to Leonna."

[My confidence gave me out?! thats bulls@$!] Cynthia thought.

"The way you ate so confidently despite seeing Leonna just got poisoned is a strong confirmation that you knew where the poison was otherwise you wouldn't have eaten the food, well I hope the food taste good because thats the last meal you'll ever have." With that statement from Leon, Cynthia snapped.

"Have mercy your grace! I didnt mean it!" Scared and nervous she kneeled again and beg the duke for mercy.

"I'll give you three seconds to tell me who ordered you to poison my daughter." Leon said firmly holding his sword against her neck.

[No! I couldn't.....my son] Cynthia thought.

"One...."

"My son he....please." Cynthia beg, her tears falling down her face as she beg the Duke.

"Two." Leon didnt flinch. This is the beast everyone was talking about, the beast side of Leon Viosta.

"Three."

"Ahhhh!!!!" Cynthia screamed when she saw her arms flew at the other side of the room.

Leon swung his sword so fast that Cynthia couldn't follow with her eyes.

"Your son? don't worry. I'll make sure you'll see him in hell." Leon stated with a grin on his face.

[He's a monster! a monster!] Cynthia shouted in her mind while she held her decapitated shoulder.

She crawled back at the corner of the cell histerically screaming.

"HEEELP!!! Monster!!! youre a monster!!"

"Who ordered you to poison my daughter?" Leon asked again with coldness in his voice. Cynthia whimpered in pain as she shook her head refusing to answer the Duke.

"Suit yourself."

In a swing of a sword Leon chopped both of her legs off and her screams intensified.

A scream of agony and fear, "my- my feet--" She said with staggering voice, then she started hyperventilating while looking at her feet what were just chopped off.

"my my son..." Cynthia begged, Leon just looked at her and chuckled.

"Tell me who ordered you to poison my daughter and I'll spare your son from my anger."

[He's asking me to choose side?!]

Cynthia was destraut, she couldnt think. She was panting heavily and slowly losing her conscience.

Leon knew at the state Cynthia is he only got a couple of seconds before she die due to blood loss.

"Let me rephrase that. Even if you don't tell me who it is I'll still come after your family including your son. I wont rest until every single person with your blood is eradicated from the face of the earth or you could save me the headache and tell me who ordered you and I'll spare your son."

[My baby boy...] Cynthia cried in agony although her body hurt beyond words nothing is more painful than a mother not being able to protect her child.

"Im sorry..."

"I don't need your apology, I need names."

[I hope Im doing whats right...my baby Dustin] Cynthia looked up to the window of her cell, remembering her baby, how she held him, the first time she saw him, his smile and even his cries. Everything about her son brings her joy even in this hellish moments when she's infront of the devil himself.

Tears of hopelessness is seen through her eyes.

[know that in my last breath I choose to protect you....I just hope that I made the right choice.]

"Larry Quir."

Then flashes of memories from the time Viscount Larry Quir kidnapped Cynthia's son ran through her head.

"Please have mercy!" The Cynthia yelled, she kneeled infront of Viscount Larry and bowed her head, her forehead almost touching the ground.

Cynthia tremble in fear as her heart beats faster and faster by the second, tears flow down her cheeks. She beg the man with all her heart but the man showed no mercy. He just looked at her with a stoic face.

Cynthia more than her fear for her life is that she feared for the life of her son who was being held hostage by a man she very well knew and even admire for a long time.

Her heart ache for her son, not even being born for a year yet he have to suffer such tragic fate.

"I'll do anything! please! just let my son live!" Cynthia said in anguish tormented by the decision she has to make.

"This is for my child, I'll make sure that no one gets in way...."

The woman looked at the man with a confuse look [What does he mean by---]

"NOOOOOO!!!!!!" Cynthia screamed when Viscount Larry took her child and started walking away.

"Kill the Viosta child and I promise to spare this child." Viscount Larry said, Cynthia looked at him full of hope but that expression quickly changed and was replaced by anger.

"Spare? he's your son! how could you treat him like an object?!" She yelled in anger clenching her fist.

"You told me I would only spy on the duke! thats why I agreed to be a maid in that foresaken mansion! you told me you would give our son inheritance if I do my job well! you never told me anything about killing someone!" Cynthia added in frustration.

"Well....Things happen. I never thought that that beast would have a child and to top it off its a girl! That child would get in the way of Beatrice becoming the crown princess. Kill her or I'll kill this thing."

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With that Leon grinned and Cynthia took her last breathe.

"Wise choice." The Duke said while grinning.

"Winston, sent Viscount Larry Quin a present...."

Leon swing his sword at Cynthia's dead body, decapitating her head.

Cynthia's head rolled to the ground.

"Make sure to wrap it up nicely."

"Yes your grace." Winston answered. He grab Cynthia's head and with blood dripping out of it he wrap it up with white sheet.

[Ughh! why cant he just killed people neatly?! guess who's going to clean this sh@$ up?! me!] Winston complained in his head.

"Well atleast she made the right choice choosing the duke's side." Sebastian stated, Leon just smiled at him a smile so evil it sent chills down his spine.

"wait-- don't tell me."

"The greatest mercy I will give her is to let her see her son in the after life along with evey single one of her lineage." Leon stated with a cold monotone voice.

Sebastian just shook his head in disbelief.

"Well... I should have expected this anyway." Sebastian mumbled to himself.

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[End of Chapter]

PS: were getting close to Leonna's debut! its going to be a fricking granade drop on all of yall! hold on for a little while longer!...