Chapter 60

Her hands were clammy, back shivering, legs wobbly. Anyone with a right mind to see her at the moment would straightaway realize one thing... she had committed a crime. Yet the man in front of her remained unfazed.

Lyanna let out a horrified gasp as the image of her husband's dead body registered in her mind.

"You killed him!" Her own voice sounded foreign to her. Her head was spinning, vision blurring.

The man in question simply shrugged as he cleaned the bloody knife with his handkerchief. That made Lyanna's insides churn. What a monster...

"Michael! You were supposed to drug him, n-not stab him!" As fazed as she was, her mind still continued to work. Michael had killed a member of the royals, if someone were to find out...

"He was being a pain in the ass. It's time he visited his dead relatives anyway", Lyanna's lover chuckled, a sinister glow in his Onyx eyes. Lyanna grew exasperated. She grabbed him by the collar, neck veins threatening to pop out.

" We need to frame his death. Or neither of us will make it out alive!" Tears threatened to fall from her eyes. She may not have loved Francis, but he was still her children's father. Well, most of the children's...

Michael gently ran a hand through Lyanna's hair, eyes crinkling in a sickly sweet smile.

"I have it all prepared, love. You just sit back and play the damsel in distress for a while. The reign is all ours now."

He placed a gentle kiss on her quivering lips. The weight of murder settling on the lady's shoulders...

The thoughts and guilt didn't bother her as much when Lyanna received title of the head of the family. The newfound power enhanced her confidence and lessened her weaknesses. In time, she became comfortable enough to laugh about her husband's death with her wicked lover, tangled in the sheets of her husband's bed. But it came back crashing down, robbing her lungs of all air.

When her son screamed into the night...

"Do you think I don't know? You killed father!"

It went downhill after that.

-: End Of Flashback :-