royal blood

44 | the devil hides.

yeri continued to watch over seulgi for the whole day, waiting to see if she was ready to speak about her experience with doyoung. she looked around the palace, suddently seeing that seulgi was hanging the clothes in the garden. she widened her eyes, deciding that it was best for her to go and finally ask her again.

yeri rushed down the stairs, walking out of the palace and entering the palace. seulgi, who had already finished hanging the clothes, noticed yeri and let out a small sigh. yeri walked up to the other woman, giving her a small, and hopeful, smile. seulgi tried to walk away once again, but yeri managed to stop her.

" your majesty, i really did not want to tell you this my whole entire life, but allow me to go and do my own thing. leave me alone. " seulgi spoke in a mean tone, surprising yeri. " i do not want to tell you what happend while i was your brother's maid, because what went down will forever remain in my memory. " she said, as a small tear escaped her eye. " it will haunt me forever. "

" please, please just tell me. " yeri grabbed seulgi by her hand, hoping that it would convince her. " doyoung is my brother, and i deserve to know what he has done. i had a nightmare about it, miss. kang ! i had a nightmare that he told me to ask you about everything he has done, that made him the terrible man he thinks of himself as. "

seulgi shaked her head once again. yeri let out a laugh, before turning around. she tried to calm herself down, due to the anger she felt from seulgi's reply. she watched as sooyoung walked towards them, completely confused by what was happening. seulgi cracked a small smile towards sooyoung, as yeri let out a laugh.

" your majesty, i will continue to think if i will ever be able to tell you what i have gone through. it was a lot for me, and .. since miss. park is here, i do not want to go into more detail. " seulgi explained to yeri, as she slowly bowed to her. " i am very sorry, please allow me to go and live my life forgetting about the experience. "

" why ? " yeri asked, as she was still full of anger. she needed to know, she had to know about her brother and his darker side, the part of his life he never shared. " at least tell me about one of his activities that could have made him evil. i want to know, miss. kang ! i am dying to know of what he has done. "

" who are we talking about ? i am sorry to disturb your conversation, but you are clearly pushing yourself onto miss. kang in a way she does not want to. " sooyoung said, as she continued with a small scoff. " if she does not want to tell you whatever you are looking for, then move on with your life and worry of other things. "

" i wish i could tell you all about it, what i have dreamt of and what i said to see in that nightmare .. " yeri gritted her teeth, as her face turned red. " but i care for that child inside of you. i care for my niece or nephew, and i want them to be healthy. " she rolled her eyes, before avoiding another fight between them by walking away.

sooyoung looked at her, as she walked away. seulgi remained quiet, looking down and avoiding any talk with sooyoung. suddently, sooyoung wrapped her arm around seulgi's shoulder, smiling at her. seulgi smiled back to her, as the two women walked back into the palace.

" i have not seen her majesty wendy in some time, and i guess that something has affected her in a way she did not expect. " seulgi told sooyoung, who nodded at her words. " sooyoung, what her majesty yeri tried to tell me was about .. was about his highness. " seulgi said out loud, avoiding to look at sooyoung while speaking.

" about doyoung ? " sooyoung asked, as seulgi nodded. " oh, i am guessing that he was not really an innocent man. i remember, for our third name, the second date we had at a bar or a casino, he drank a lot more than usual. " sooyoung told seulgi, as she finally looked at her. " when i first asked him about his experience with alcohol, he told me did not drink much, but that changed quickly. "

" it was not about alcohol, but i did know about his problems. whenever he would come home late night, clearly intoxicated, i would wrap around a blanket around him and take him to his bedroom without anyone seeing him. " seulgi remembered a happier memory from her life with doyoung, but she did not expect to show a smile. " he always talked about the most random things, but he was still lovely. "

" he really was. " sooyoung replied, as they finally got back to the bedroom. sooyoung sat on her bed, " but i was really scared to find out things about him that made me change my mind about him while we were dating. " she let out a sigh, as seulgi nodded at her words. " now, i can not change my mind about him anymore. i love him so much, i can not think about .. his past without me. " she said, as seulgi nodded. " but i still want to know what happend. "

" well, miss. park, it is a lot to take in —  but if you really want to, then you shall hear. " seulgi cleared her throat, as she sat next to sooyoung on the bed. " you see, it was a morning. an unusual morning, because the night before, his highness had asked me to sleep in the same room as him. i was eighteen, i had just been assigned to be his maid, and he just asked me .. i could not say no. but then, in the morning, i accused him of assigning me to be his maid just for that .. "

she let out a small sigh, scared to continue. sooyoung put her hand over hers, now allowing her to continue. seulgi closed her eyes, as a tear escaped seulgi's eyes. " he came up to me, and choked me. i stopped breathing, i thought that i was going to die in that moment, but then .. he told me that he fell in love with me. "

soogoung's face dropped. she continued to hold onto seulgi's hand, as she tried to understand what had happend. " so, he attempted to murder you, and then .. he told you he loved you ? " sooyoung asked, as seulgi nodded, with tears in her eyes. " i am very sorry to hear that .. did he ever do such thing to you again ? "

" yes, there were many times he did that. " seulgi replied, as she looked around the room. " there was one time in which he held a broken wine bottle, and threatened to throw it at me if i did not .. if i did not tell him i loved him back. " she covered her face in her palms, as sooyoung pulled her into a hug. " if i had the chance to murder him then, i would have. "

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"                dear princess wendy,

      oh, how much i wanted to write this for you. now, i have heard that your dear sister has been running around the palace, trying to find out what you two's brother has done to his maid. you know, i have known for longer how terrible a man he was.
      my dear, what doyoung has done lead to his death being acceptable. there are a lot of people in this country who have had terrible experiences with him, but the palace has hidden so much for him .. so much.
      is it the right time for me to confess ? i am the murderer. i was the person who brutally killed your brother in ouverport, the one who left the rose in the doorway, the one who nakamoto yuta saw. i am the one who ordered for jungwoo to murder lee taeyong, and i do not regret anything.
      do you want clues for who i could be ? i will not tell you ! how funny of you to think that i will give up so easily, but, considering that you have not been able to figure out my identity, i shall tell you something.
      how do i explain this ? — we always have to win something, right ? we are always in advantage if people are gone.
       your brother hurt me while he was alive. he deserved to die at my hands.

with lots of love,
an anonymous person, and the killer of your brother.                "

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