The Siege Of Drakkon: Book Three Of The Drakkon Series

Chapter Twenty-Six

Alessandra Drakkon

Queen of the Drakkon Empire

We fly over Lord Dax Mcullah's estate, I see him having lunch in his garden, Lady Elizabeth Bhail is with him, seeing her makes me smirk, she will enjoy watching what happens next, of that I have no doubt.

Dax Mcullah pauses in his eating of his small tea sandwich and eyes my shuttle with apprehension, the royal insignia on it leaving no doubt as to who was here to visit him, I watch from the tinted shuttle windows as he realizes what is about to happen. He is a relatively smart person, surely he knows that the fact that two High nobles stepping down from their positions was too coincidental to be anything but forced.

I am also sure that the rape and murder of my aunt is probably only one of many crimes he has committed, his face pales and he gets up from his chair so fast that he knocks the table over and Lady Bhail only just manages to save her teacup. I watch as she eyes Dax Mcullah's rising panic with a sick sort of joy, no doubt remembering all the horrible things he's said about her or did to her at one time or another. The High Nobles were notorious for always trying to step up over one another, either using underhanded deals to get there, or exposing their competitors underhanded deals to the public, I am sure that Lady Bhail was no friend to him.

He starts running away, sadly the fool probably doesn't use his leg muscles for anything but walking, and the only reason he isn't fat is because the ambrosia keeps him young and fit. He trips after only five steps, faceplanting on the gravel, I choke out a laugh. "Talon, be a dear and go fetch him would you?" Talon smirks and disappears into shadows, though he was still as clear as day to me, but I knew the others couldn't see him as he casually prowled through the garden and up to his pray. Poor Dax still thinking no one has exited the shuttle yet so he has time to run away, of course he doesn't think of the fact that while he couldn't see inside the shuttle that didn't mean that we couldn't see out of it.

Couldn't see him running away like a fool, too cowardly to face his punishment, I still couldn't understand how he got away with murdering Sylla, how the evidence seemed so tidily cleaned up, he just didn't strike me as the person who would even think of that, wiping the cameras and planting evidence to frame someone else. It was too neat and clever for this fool stumbling away in a panic, no someone else had to have helped him, though the question was who and if they were still alive to be punished, because I could indeed see Dax removing someone who knew his dirty little secret even if they had helped him clean it up in the first place.

In no time at all Talon is dragging a struggling Dax by the collar of his shirt towards the shuttle, I turn in my seat as the shuttle doors open up and reveal me to everyone else. "Where are you trying to run off to in such a hurry Dax?" He scrambles onto his knees, bowing before me in a panic.

"I apologize your majesty, I was rushing to get the servants to prepare a proper meal for you before this scum attacked me!" Oh, indeed what a fool he was, he didn't even recognize my own guard, even though he had brought Dax right to me after capturing him.

"Now, now, Dax you weren't rushing to get the servants, you were running away from a just punishment, that is what you are here to do is it not your majesty?" Lady Bhail had wandered away from the fallen table and approached the shuttle, her teacup and saucer still in her grasp.

"Yes, actually, however did you guess Elizabeth? Now Dax the head of my guard is not scum, in fact one might even say his position is above your current one, not that you will have that position much longer. You are hereby stripped of your title and sentenced to death for the rape and murder of Sylla Drakkon!" His face seems to pale even further, he looked so panicked and confused.