Chapter 27

"Anna!" Leo shouted.

"Leo?"

'What is the prince doing here? Did he perhaps come for me? No! Get yourself out of those strange thoughts!'

While I was thinking, I was then greeted by a tight hug from Leo.

"I'm glad you're alright." He said.

"..."

"Crown prince! Please help me! She's about to do something to me! She even restrained my hands with a rope!" Sabrina shouted.

Leo released me from his hug and walked towards Sabrina.

"Lady Sabrina Seymour. You are under arrest for attempting to kill Moriana Allisson." He stated.

"What?! I haven't even done anything to her!" She argued.

"The festival." He said one sentence that made Sabrina shut her mouth totally.

Sabrina bowed her head.

"The festival, the night of your birthday party, the archer who shoot Moriana, and today's incident. They were all your doings." He said.

She fell silent for a moment.

"Pft-"

'What?'

"Puwahahahahaha!" Sabrina started laughing out of the blue.

"Why are you laughing?" I asked her.

"Hahhh.... acting was my last resort but seems like it failed. I bet this slut was confused earlier. Haha, your face was funny by the way." She said.

"What?" Leo asked in a cold voice.

"It's because you don't know anything! I did all of that because of you! If only you looked my way, everything wouldn't have resulted into this! You're such a stupid prince!"

"How could you not like me? I'm beautiful, I'm a duke's daughter, I have a great body, I'm famous and rich! How can you not notice me?! Instead, you noticed that b*tch!?"

"Enough." Leo said.

"I won't allow you to insult Anna any further. Attempting to murder a noble is treason. Your date of execution will be close in no time." He stated.

"Let's go Anna." He held my hand and walked outside.

"Everything has an ending. This might be the end for me but not for you, Moriana Allisson."

Sabrina muttered something in a low voice but I didn't hear it since I already got outside.

***

-Sabrina Seymour POV-

"Mother! Father! I made this for the two of you!"

When I was a child, I always gave them a card with a drawing of our family.

They accepted it wholeheartedly and we were a happy family.

Unil that one event happened.

"No! This is all a lie! Bring her back to me! Bring back my wife's life to me!" Father mourned.

My mother died.

Ever since that incident, father began to build a wall around him.

He didn't let anyone go inside his heart.

Including me.

I was left alone and I didn't like it.

And so, I started attending parties, social circles and that made me happy. It made me break out of my shell as a lonely person and I loved it.

"Oh my, look at the prince! He's so dazzling!" A lady praised.

I looked at the so called prince and immediately in that moment, a seed of emotion began to sprout.

At first, it was adoration, but as time passed by, it became my true feelings.

But my everything was shattered when he danced with one person.

Moriana Allisson.

I looked at the prince and his eyes were like mine when I first saw him.

'He likes her.'

Maybe if I got rid of her, he will finally look at me.

That was my thinking.

But all those things I did got the worst of me.

I shouldn't have met that person in the first place.

As I walked towards the guillotine with tied hands, I looked around and saw the disappointed face of father.

Now, there was only one thing in my mind.

"I hope this death will be quick."

I cast a last smirk.

Slash!

-End of POV-

***

It's been a week since Sabrina's execution.

It's been peaceful ever since.

*knock *knock

"Come in."

"Young miss, Duke Richard sent another set of gift." Kelly said.

Or so I thought.

The duke has been very persistent these days.

He always sent me gifts, flowers, chocolates, and letters.

'Please stop this already!'

It must be because of the incident last time.

(Last week in the kidnapping incident....)

'It reeks of blood.'

I covered my nose in order to not breathe in the smell of blood.

Walking forward with Leo, I saw many bodies and blood scattered aside.

Justin and Duke Richard were injured.

I quickly went to Justin and asked him if he was alright.

"I'm alright my lady."

"Stop that crap. That won't make me believe it." I said.

The three of them held shocked expressions when I said that.

'They never heard a woman swear before?'

"Oh, pardon me for my rudeness." I apologized.

"Pft- hahaha!" Richard laughed.

"Show me your injuries Justin." I ignored Richard's laugh.

"My lady..."

"Now." I added.

He obeyed after and I saw a bloody hell of injuries.

"Leo, how do I use mana?" I asked.

"..Feel your inner core and make it seem like the mana is an air that's breathing in and out of your body." He said.

I did exactly as he said. I closed my eyes and poured out my mana to heal Justin.

When I opened my eyes, I saw Justin getting healed.

"You did it my lady." He smiled.

I nodded at him and went to Richard after.

"Oh, you can ignore healing me. I have an evil curse on me since a child that doesn't accept healing ability. It will just heal as time passes by." He stated.

"I don't believe it."

I healed him the way I did to Justin but something was different.

There was a strange mana inside of him.

"Don't do it Anna. It's the curse, it might affect you." I heard him talk but chose to ignore it.

I continued to do my work and after minutes of trying, I finally did it.

"Whew." I breathed.

"The curse inside me..... is gone." Richard mumbled.

He then looked at me wirh strange eyes.

"Thank you Anna." He blushed as he smiled at me.

(Present time....)

Was that really it?

I looked at the letters he gave and there was a lot of them.

Poetries, love songs and quotes.

'It feels cringey somehow.'

After looking into the letters one by one, I discovered something strange.

It felt like I saw this same letter before but I couldn't remember it.

I opened it and started reading its contents.

"The reason why we are afraid of death is because we don't know when it will come."

I threw the letter off because I felt afraid for a moment.

'What the hell is going on....'