War of Hearts || Reign || REWRITE

55- The Queen And Her Uncles

July 5th, 1566.

I was waiting for Antonio in one of the secret staff corridors that evening. It was almost impossible to leave my rooms without guards but I managed it with a lie.

"My Lady." Someone whispered from behind me. I turned and found Antonio face to face.

"Antonio." I said a little startled. "My father told me I can trust you. I hope this is true or else I will make you lose your head." I looked straight at him.

"You can trust me, My lady." He had a heavy Italian accent.

"How many people have you killed, Antonio?". He thought, "After the first ten I lost count, my lady, there are so many."

I nodded "As you know someone tried to kill my son. I want you to find out who was behind it." I said the words carefully.

"Yes my lady. I'll go after it right away. Do you have any more instructions?."

I thought "I don't want you to kill anyone unless you really need to."

He nodded, then bowed. I looked at him one more time, then left the hallway and hurried back to my rooms before anyone wondered why I had been gone so long.

August 10th, 1566

4 weeks passed and my father and brothers had already left for Italy. I heard nothing from Antonio and I was already afraid that he had betrayed me.

I watched Louis and Julien play on the floor of my room. Cecily sat in the chair opposite me and leafed through a book.

I was already at the end of the 8th month of my pregnancy and could give birth any moment.

A maid came in and placed a basket full of oranges. I looked at her surprised "what is this?"

"It was delivered for you this morning." She said, she made a curtsy and walked out of the room again.

I got up and looked in the basket. I started looking through the basket and found a note.

I unfolded it and looked incomprehensibly at the words inside.

la regina e i suoi zii

The queen and her uncles, the queen and her uncles.

It couldn't be that they were behind it.

Mary a woman who was a mother herself gave the order to have someone else's child killed.

My God.

I've been living with my son's near-murderer all along.

And she could attack again

I felt myself getting dizzy and before I knew it I felt a twinge in my stomach.

I screamed and Cecily stood up in shock. I screamed again and fell through my legs and fell to the ground.

Louis and Julien looked startled and the nannies immediately took them away.

"Cecily, the baby, Louis" I stammered over my words "Mary."

I felt everything black before my eyes words and before I knew it I was lost in a darkness.