Beatrice’s heart began to pump abnormally faster after listening to that blood-curdling threat from the King.
To make the matter worse, she received that threat before she came clean that not only did she not intervene when Tilla was being mistreated by Marcella, but she had also actively participated in threatening Tilla.
She was still hiding the fact that she was also an accomplice to the crime. And yet, the King had already linked her with the crime that Marcella had committed on her own accord.
Beatrice had never thought that Marcella would be foolish enough to forget her status and try to prey on the Queen. Now, she was also going to pay for the foolishness of her friend, which she thought was too unfair.
However, no matter how unfair it was, Beatrice had no other option than to stay quiet. She wasn’t foolish enough to provoke the King into killing her sooner, or worse, killing her slowly and painfully.
“Answer me!”
