Chapter thirteen

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The sound of glass and ceramic shattering on the floor reverberated through the room with loud clunks. She stood up, walking on the shattered remnants of what had once been delicate glasswares, spread on the floor.

“What do you mean you couldn’t kill him?!” Elizabeth growled. “A task as simple as that was so difficult for you all to carry out?”

“Answer me!!!” she screamed, her tone laced with venom.

It was the morning after the armed men had attacked Dario in an attempt to kill him. Also, the morning after the banquet. Empress Elizabeth of the Beth empire was having her breakfast when she got the report that the assassins she ordered to kill Dario couldn’t get him killed.

The assassins lined up before her were terrified to their bone marrow. Every muscle in their body was tensed as fear coursed through their veins. Elizabeth’s growl was more than enough to make them tremble. Their heads remained bowed as they dared not look her in the eye.

“I said..” “Answer me!!” The deep vibra