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A Rise to the Throne Chapter 53: The maids.
She was visibly startled by the sight of her father at the door, in his wheelchair, staring up at her in a conclusively concerned manner. In a bid to not alert Oliver on the fact that there was a high tendency her father had heard what they'd discussed, Harriet shut the door close before turning to her father.She hadn’t expected him eavesdropping, but it was something that was bound to occur at any moment of their stay in the house. And it had been just a few days back, after what had happened to Oliver, that her parents had moved to the house to keep her company. It had been worthwhile during the period she was alone, but at that moment, she saw their presence as nothing but a disturbing burden that she mostly wondered what still kept them back from moving back to their own allocated home.“What are you doing here, Father?” she inquired, her gaze repudiating. “Harriet,” his tone of voice confirmed the fact that he had definitely overheard her conversation with Oliver, so she headed
A Rise to the Throne Chapter 54: Persuading Him.
Adonis's shoulder hung dejectedly as he made his way to his chamber, his feet lagging as they dragged him up to the room. There was nothing to hide anymore, as his identity had already been revealed, so he needed not to stay in the hotel any longer. The palace was his home now, and the title of a Prince was his.A title that caused him the only shimmer of hope he’d gotten from life.His expression was a mix of guilt and sadness as he strode into the room that was intricated with Princely dignity and explicit—his room. He was too distraught to notice the little changes that had been implemented in it. The wardrobe change. The linen curtains that hadn’t been there before. All of those did not matter to him, but Valerie.The fact that had dawned on him that he was losing her forever plunged him into an engulfing depression that he could barely utter a word. In his distraught state, he could barely prepare himself for the family banquet that was supposed to hold that evening on his behalf
A Rise to the Throne Chapter 55: Failure Again.
They awaited just so eagerly for him to take up that morsel of food into his mouth and mark the end achievement of their mission, but the ruckus that seemed to be happening outside the room disrupted him from doing so. Thus, as he was pricked with somewhat curiosity on what was going on, he dropped the spoon to the plate and stood to his feet, making his way towards the door. In a panic fidget to make him eat the meal instead of leaving the room and getting the job over with, the maids tried compelling him with words to disperse his attention from whatever was happening outside his room to eating the food, at least a spoon full, but Adonis wasn’t one to be deterred when his attention had already been pricked by curiosity. Pushing them aside from his way, he escaped through the door, only to find his Father—King Archie—lying unconscious on the ground just right in front of his room, surrounded by lots of panicking servants and maids. An addition was the queen. Shoving them out of his w
A Rise to the Throne Chapter 56. Abducted.
“The only way right now we can get rid of Adonis,” Harriet began uttering to Oliver with a low, yet unsuspicious tone of voice in the distinct chill of their room, encamped with the luminousness of incandescent bulb lights, as she was wary of her parents eavesdropping. Oliver's gaze was keenly fixed on Harriet, attentive to hear what she had to opine. “Is to try kidnapping him first.”From where he sat, across the room at the reading table, his head drew back with a calculating expression as he pondered on her words. “Kidnap him?”“Yes,” Harriet replied assertively. “If we just get our plan right this time—without any untrustworthy third-person getting an idea of it, it would surely be a success.”It prodded Oliver to more reasoning. He wondered if kidnapping Adonis was as much easier as it was to say it, but since it was another fresh-from-the-start idea, and the previous one had failed without even a beginning success, there was no harm in him paving way for this one to be carried o
A Rise to the Throne Chapter 57: Necessary Actions.
It wasn’t very long before the sudden disappearance of Adonis spread around the palace like a stormy weathered breeze, only, it couldn’t just die down. One of the out-house workers in the palace had discovered the next day after Adonis's abduction a golden wristband on the ground just few meters from the palace—Adonis's wristband, and Jesse had been immediately told the news. He'd contacted the royal elders but restrained from telling the King in his still incapacitated state after he had gathered men to search the entire palace and confirmed that Adonis was truly missing. Then, an emergency meeting with the elders on the matter was held, and Jesse had the honor of being present in the meeting to witness whatever decisions they would take and also make his own opinions. When they were all seated, all ten of the royal elders as well as the important royal councils and Jesse, in the meeting hall, the meeting commenced.“Dearest members of the royal council and elders,” spoke the chief
A Rise to the Throne Chapter 58: Personal Investigation I.
“What’s the meaning of this, Oliver?” Adonis was provoked to ask out of spite. Oliver, deriving joy from the sight of Adonis being tied up in a position he had wanted for so long—at his mercy—squatted down to match gazes with Adonis.“I'm…” his hand went towards Adonis's hair locks, but Adonis cocked his head to the side, avoiding Oliver's touch. But it was inevitable, as Oliver was bent on frustrating him, and so Oliver was able to roughly feel his hair, despite his repulsion. “having my revenge,” Then his hand came to an abrupt pause in Adonis's hair, and he glared at Adonis with the same malicious glint that irked him. Then, he yanked Adonis's hair forcefully, releasing his grip as he rose to his feet.“I want you to know how it feels to be stolen from, right under your freaking nose!” he spat. His rage amidst his malicious demeanor was palpable, and Adonis knew that his life was at risk being at the mercy of this man whose blood boiled for revenge, so he tried sweet talking Oliv
A Rise to the Throne Chapter 59: Personal Investigation II.
Later during the day, Valerie made her way into town, to pay Harriet a visit. Knowing the directions to Oliver's home, she calculatedly concluded that Oliver wouldn’t be present in their home, and that she had an eighty percent chance of meeting Harriet alone in the home. All the while she drove to the location, her mind pondered on two things; Adonis's wellbeing and the fact that he had previously been married to a woman who had the audacity to cheat on a man like him. She knew little about Adonis's past, but she could very much reach an end deduction that Harriet had been the dumbest woman on earth to have brutally dumped a man like Adonis and went for one like Oliver. This prompted her to knock frantically yet disturbingly on the door to their home the moment she arrived there, piqued by the likes of Harriet and Oliver that her only motivation was her need to find Adonis.The manner in which she knocked on the tall wooden frame of a door probed Harriet on the inside to head over t
A Rise to the Throne Chapter 60: Personal Investigation III.
Pricked to discover what remained concealed beneath the surface, Valerie decided to step out of her car, stealthily and cautiously, towards the sewer behind the bushes. She instinctively glanced around to make sure no one was watching her go in, and of course, there was no one. Summoning the courage, she stepped through the stairs, careful of her footsteps. The blinding darkness hit her eyes the moment she was down, and the distinct smell of sulphuric gas like rotten eggs the sewer reeked of, caressed her nasal membrane as she inhaled air, causing her to almost gag. She held a palm over her nose, shielding it from the mentally destabilizing smell as she went through the darkness, in which the only illuminating light was the screen light of her cellphone to aid her sight. The whole environment had an eerie like tension engulfing it, with the constant dropping of water leakage from somewhere around that she could barely pinpoint, and the squeaking noises of rats didn’t help matters. Sh
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