The Crown's Obsession

Her senses turned numb, her footsteps stopping in shock while she stared at the two bodies on the ground and near the pillar. Lucy had been looking for her mother, who had left her side and the room the guests were in for quite some time. While walking around, she heard a man shout for help.

Watching her mother and father motionless, it had Lucy stagger back while she tried to catch balance of herself. It felt like her world had not tumbled but crumbled to the level of dust that was whisked away into the wind that she was not allowed to keep. Her lips trembled, and her eyes watered until water spilt down from her eyes.

When she caught sight of the minister sitting next to her parent's body with blood-covered on his hands, a gasp escaped her lips.

The minister watched the princess look at him wide-eyed, "You should call for help, Lady Lucy. We need to get-"

"You killed them," whispered Lucy in horror. "You killed them," she repeated. It took her a while to get her senses back, and as if one scream was not enough, she screamed for the guards again.

This time it was the minister to turn even more shocked, and he quickly shook his head, "No no, I wasn't the one to hurt them, Lady Lucy. By the time I was here, Lady Samara was on the brink of her death."

It took the guests in the castle quite some time to hurriedly run towards the undercrofts to witness the same sight as Lucy had. Calhoun entered the undercroft a couple of minutes late with a guest who was with him. He quick to move to the front, and he asked in a shocked voice,

"What happened here?!"

Minister Merten saw the guests stare at him, suspicion in their eyes. "When I was walking by, I heard Lady Samara scream for help and by the time I came here, she and the King were already dead. It wasn't me! I didn't do it!"

Calhoun walked forward to where Minister Merten had stood up near the bodies, and he caught hold of the man's collar before pushing him against the pillar. "How dare you kill our King and Queen!" Calhoun glared down at the man.

"I-I swear I didn't touch them, I would never think about killing them-" Minister Merten was interrupted by Calhoun choking him.

"Calhoun!" Mr. Moryett was the first to recover from the shock, and he came to pull Calhoun's hand that was squeezing the minister's neck. "Don't try to do something you might regret. Let the man go and let's talk."

Calhoun shook his head, "How can I when he had killed my father! Look at his hands!"

Everyone looked down at Merten's hands to catch sight of the blood that coated his hands. "I was only trying to wake them up, I wasn't sure what happened here! Please believe me, this is a set up!"

Rosamund, on the other hand, saw her brother's body continue not to move, and a deep hole that had formed in his chest with no heart in it. Her eyes instantly moved to see Calhoun, who showed as if he was angry right now, but she couldn't believe he had nothing to do with it. Even though he didn't have a single drop of blood on him, she knew it was his nephew who had killed her brother and her sister-in-law.

But who knew, this might be an opportune moment, thought Rosamund to herself.

"Guards!" Calhoun called the people who were as stunned as the others as the King had fallen from his position. "Get this man tied and bring him to the court room right now! And get the King the Lady Samara there too," he ordered.

Lucy stepped closer to where her parents were, and when she finally saw the wounds and the blood, the numbness started to evaporate, and she broke down next to their body.

"Mama!" Lucy shook her mother's body with her hands, hoping her mother would wake up. But she didn't move an inch, and it broke the young vampiress' heart. "Please wake up," she begged with her eyes turning blur.

Calhoun placed a hand on Lucy's shoulders, "Let's give them some space, Lucy."

Lucy sobbed, looking at Calhoun more tears fell, "How could he do this?"

"It's okay," Calhoun consoled her, rubbing her back before Samuel came to stand next to Lucy and take her away from the scene to go to the royal court room. "Everyone to the royal court room."

Rosamund then asked, "Shouldn't we share this news to the High House so that they know what happened?" her eyes looked straight into Calhoun's eyes, and he nodded his head.

"You are right. We should ask someone to inform the High House about this and also punish the minister," commented Calhoun. "Theodore, if you will."

Rosamund's eyes narrowed as if her suspicion was correct, and she said, "How about I send my men, I am sure you will need you guard around as it isn't safe for any of us in the castle."

"Pardon me, Lady Rosamund, but I would prefer to send my own man there than trust with another person's servant," deadpanned Calhoun. "Forgive me beforehand, but after what happened with the King and his wife, I have little to no trust in the people as we aren't still sure who would have killed them. Theodore," he nodded his head for Theodore to walk away from there.

While everyone started to leave the undercroft area, whispers ran around as to what just happened and if it was Minister Merten who had killed the King in rage after the argument they had. The servants in the castle were in shock as no one had expected something like this to happen.

A King had been murdered with his wife, God only knew what would have next, thought many of them who stood outside the royal court room while the guests had assembled outside.

When Theodore returned, he came with Lady Helena, Dimitri, and some other people in the High House's higher level. Helena was the first one to step in, and she went straight to look at the bodies.

"What happened here?" questioned Helena.