Chapter 192
Chapter 192
Darius pov
“Are you telling me you can’t remember who the blind woman is? The one who worked as the head maid in the packhouse?” I asked, my voice low as I scanned through the papers listing all the maids who worked there. No matter how much I flipped, I couldn’t find her picture.
I wasn’t sure whether to find this interesting or absurd. From what I remembered, she had been the head maid, the one in charge of all the others and with such a role, she should have at least been featured on the front page. Yet, even after going through to the very last page of the book, there was nothing.
What was even more absurd was that Cassian didn’t seem to remember her or that there had ever been a blind maid in the packhouse at all.
“Yes, my king. I… I apologize, but I really don’t know what you’re talking about. We’ve never had a blind maid before, let alone a head maid. The last head maid passed away ten years ago, and we haven’t had anyone else since,” he explained.
I lifted a brow at his words, lips curving into a frown as I leaned back in my seat, tilting my head slightly to try to make sense of it.
If there hadn’t been a head maid all this time, then who had that woman been? I had heard Cassian and everyone else refer to her as head maid, yet when I asked him to check, he claimed no one knew of any head maid. It left me completely confused.
But it was the words she had spoken when she appeared in my study that had made me search for her in the first place.
“But would you truly want to die, now that she remembers who she is?”
Those were the words she had uttered before disappearing.
I tilted my head slightly to the side. Who was she talking about? Nyssa?
“No… no, you don’t understand, Darius. I am your mate. I am Liana! Yes, I am Liana. I remember who I am now, I’ve been born again-”
Before I could stop myself, those words rang in my ears again. My hands tightened on the papers, my gaze darkened, and my aura thickened.
The more I thought about her claim, the angrier I became. How dare she say that name. How dare she claim she was Liana.
In that moment I almost killed her for it but I held myself back. She couldn’t die now, not when I hadn’t finished what I’d set out to do. I won’t lie: a small, guilty part of me admitted that if she hadn’t pushed me, I might very well have ended her with my own hands. Still, I restrained myself, because she was the death I’d been hunting for all these years.
Her blood mattered.
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Chapter 192
I couldn’t be certain the book was true, but I was convinced enough to try. Drip her blood on a silver dagger. plunge it deep into my heart, perhaps then I could finally end this life of suffering.
“My king…” Cassian’s voice cut through my thoughts. I flicked my gaze to him; he looked nervous.
“Are you okay? Do you want me to find this maid?” he asked.
I frowned, set the file down on the desk, and rubbed my temples. “No. Don’t worry. Leave it.” My voice was rough, there was no point in looking for her.
Two possibilities remained: either I was imagining her and losing my mind, or that woman truly could erase everyone’s memory except mine and whoever had masterminded last night. The only thing that came to mind with that power was the moon goddess, but I didn’t have time for speculation.
Whatever the truth was, it didn’t matter. I was closer to what I wanted most.
“My king…” Cassian’s voice came again. I looked up to find him nervously clearing his throat, hesitating, but when my expression stayed blank, he finally spoke.
“M–my king, I just wanted to say… I’m grateful that you decided to spare Ella. Though I feel nothing for her, she was still my mate, and I can’t express my gratitude enough.”
For a moment, I only stared at him before giving a slow, mindless nod.
“You rejected her so I could pardon her, didn’t you? You and your ancestors have served me for longer than I can remember. Sparing her was the least I could do.”
The instant the words left my lips, his eyes widened, shock flickering across his face, no doubt stunned to hear me say such a thing.
But I wasn’t wrong.
Cassian came from the beta line, where he and his ancestors had served me for as long as I could remember.
Generation after generation, they died and were replaced by the eldest son, who would then take up the position and continue serving me.
Just because I didn’t show that I cared didn’t mean I didn’t. But after so many years of watching each of them die, I had steeled my heart and forced myself not to interact too much with any of them. That way, when they died, I wouldn’t be hurt.
Yet, it didn’t mean I didn’t see them… or that I didn’t appreciate their work.
“My king, you-” Cassian choked out, eyes watering. My gaze darkened at the sight, and I almost called him foolish, but before I could say anything, the door to the study slammed open.
My head snapped up just in time to see that girl, Nyssa, burst in with a wild smile and a tray in her hands.
I stared in surprise, and the instant her eyes met mine, her grin widened as she strode into the room. Behind her came Drake, who should have been guarding the door, and her personal servant, looking flustered as she rushed to speak.
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“My king!”
She screamed, rushing toward me with an excited glint in her eyes, and Cassian practically jumped out of the way as she stopped in front of me, setting the tray on the desk with a grin, panting.
“Good morning, my king! You didn’t eat this morning again, so I thought you had no appetite and went ahead to cook your favorite, you know, the one you always ate whenever you didn’t feel like eating?”
She grinned as she lifted the cover from the dish in front of me, and the moment I saw it, my eyes widened in shock.
Creamy potato salad with bacon.
How–how did she know?
AD
