~Viola~
“What’s the commotion about?” Damien stared at Bianca before taking his gaze back to me.
Bianca walked to his side and stood close to him and she started to cry pitifully in front of him.
Damien held her face and stared at her, asking her what was wrong.
While I was there on the ground with a few bruises on my skin.
“She...” She hiccuped, pointing at me.
“She stole from me, Damien. She took the diamond jewelry. I searched the room after she cleaned it and I couldn’t find it.” She sobs into her hands.
Damien’s eyes darkened at me.
“It’s precious, Damien and it cannot be replaced.”
“That’s enough, stop crying.” Damien wiped her tears. Bianca nodded as a five-year-old stood close to Damien.
“Did you take the diamond?” His voice is cold and devoid of emotion as he speaks to me.
“I did not take any diamond,” I said defensively.
“I kept them on the bed, you didn’t see it?” Bianca questioned.
“It was on the bed, I didn’t take anything from it or opened it.” I tried to make them believe me, but the three men stared at me like I was the guilty one and had taken the diamond.
“Didn’t you touch it?” She asked back at me.
“I did...” I trailed off, how did she know I touched the box? Did she see me doing all that? Or this was her plot to frame me for theft so Damien would get to trust me?
“Why did you touch the box?” Damien icy glare is unmatched, I had my gaze lowered to the ground still on my knees.
“I’m sorry, I was wrong to have touched them.” It was stupid of me not to have been smart about Bianca. I had not thought she would do something like this.
“So you admit, you took the diamond, why?”
His face hardened and his eyes were dark red.
“Tell him you didn’t take them!” Lana yelled at me.
“You better don’t admit that you took them! When you know nothing of what the diamond looked like.” Lana warned me.
Damien faces Bianca when I had said nothing.
“I’ll pay for it.” Damien began saying to Bianca. I tilted my head to the side in shock.
What did he say?
“...or get you the most expensive jewelry in the world, anything you want I can do it for you.”
“There’s...” Bianca stammered. “...that’s the only type, you can find another.” Her upper lips are quivering.
She had not expected Damien to say that.
I thought he was going to call his guards to throw me in the dungeon.
He never hesitates when it comes to that.
“Then I’ll have them make another one. Does that please you enough?”
“Damien...” she called quietly and couldn’t find any other words to say.
I turned and saw Roland piercing gaze, I was afraid of him, he was like Cranon’s Beta Frank Gore, they had the same build and deadly stares.
They would pass as brothers.
I took my gaze to the ground.
He hated me for sure.
“Tell me when you need them and I’ll get the diamonds ready.”
“Ain’t you gonna ask for a search or something?” She spoke quietly and bite her lower lips.
“There wouldn’t be any need for that. I’ve more important things to do.” He walked past Bianca and me, taking the stairs to his room.
His men followed up, but none of them said a word to either of us.
Bianca stomped her feet angrily on the ground and ran after them.
“Damien...” She cried.
“What just happened?” Lana peeped out. I breathed out and remained on the ground, I sniffed, I had learned to hold back my tears for a long time.
“Damien saved me.” I gasped as the thought sunk in.
”He didn’t throw me out, he offered to pay Bianca for it, what do you think that means?”
“That the diamond is now yours, dummy.” She sneered.
Right, the diamond.
I stood up but fell back when I felt a sharp pain at the side of my ribs it could have been when I fell down the stairs earlier.
This hurts.
I grimaced.
Bianca wanted Damien to have a search, which means the diamond was somewhere in my room. I hasten up to my room, I don’t want Bianca to go back in there and get it.
I opened the door to my room and began to search for it, it has to be somewhere, I ransacked my drawers, under the bed and the wardrobe.
And I found it on my dressing table it was kept close to the mirror.
I draw out a chair and sat down.
And held the diamond jewelry in my hands.
“This was your plan, Bianca? You wanted Damien to hate me.” The diamond was glittery, what am I going to do with this now?
I can’t give it back to Damien if I wanted to. He told her he was going to pay for it.
“Hey.” Lucas's voice startled me.
“Sorry, I didn’t mean to startle you, your door was opened so I came in. Is that the diamond?” Lucas came into the room fully, I stood up from the chair and nodded at him.
“That’s it.”
I dropped them in his hands.
“I will call the physician for you, you’re hurt.” He was concerned about me, that was so sweet of him.
I waved him off dismissively, this was nothing. I have had more bruises and serious injuries than this.
“You don’t heal fast, he would have them treated before it gets infected. It’s the King’s order and you will not go against it.” He stated finally.
It was what Damien wants?
Was he worried about me?
“I see you searched your room.”
“I didn’t take the diamond, I never stole it.” I quickly Interrupted him.
“I didn’t say you steal them.” He looked sideways and shut the door.
“Look. You’ve to be careful okay? Damien will be out tonight, you know the fountain at the town. You’ll meet him there, understand?” He whispered to me.
“Why are you doing this?”
Lucas frowns at my question.
“I missed my old friend.”
“How was Damien like before he became King?”
“Happy.” He said it all in a single word.
“I heard he killed his mate, what if he does something to me?” I blurt out my fears, Lucas growled at me, and I moved away from him until I hit my back against the wall.
“He didn’t kill his mate!” He roared in my face. Lucas was angry, he punched the wall over my head.
I whimpered and sank to my knees.
He didn’t kill his mate?
“She was murdered!” Lucas sneered, I gasped out, with a hand over my mouth.
She was murdered?