Obsession and Betrayal: A Royal Love Triangle

Sinking Fast

The months had grown warmer and the rainy season had covered the palace grounds. Ida had gained a lot of strength back and was feeling  slightly better than during the winter months. She had not seen much of Costello but he definitely had left the palace since she could tell she was still eating his amazing food. She wished she could better remember clearly what happened but she couldn't. She later decided to stop accepting letters, flowers and gifts from Fredrick. She was done being toyed with by his aggravating manipulation. Something that made her uneasy was the silence of her stalker, even if her attack only happens once she had a feeling that he would have sent something or come to try and talk to her again. She was throwing herself into her green house though and refused to cloud her mind with trash. She was glad to have some company since Alma, her little sister, was spending the whole day with her today. Ida was more than eager to finally return to her green gardens. She had been singing to herself for hours, studying about new flower seeds coming in next month, buying her mind.

Ida was engrossed with what she was doing, slowly looping the fountain the train of her light died a gentle sage green with yellow and blush pink floral lace flowing delicately decorating her bodice and the train of her dress, dragging around the fountain edge. She didn't even hear the door open or the heavy approaching footsteps. In her own world and train of thought she was startled back to reality by  the sudden hand to her back running up to her shoulder. Just as she was about to turn around, she was violently spun with two rough hands, causing her to lose grip if the papers flying up into the air littering the ground. Her eyes opened widely with shock, looking at what she thought was Fredrick, but something seemed off, looking into the man's eyes Ida saw a whole different person.

"Fredrick?" She said tilting her head,

She couldn't place the feeling but she knew this wasn't Fredrick. This wasn't the man that made her feel consumed by obsessive affection and filled her with anger and passion. This wasn't the man that had sent her hundreds of letters, invitations, gifts, or flowers. The feeling when she looked into fredericks dark green eyes. Instead she stared at the man's eyes looking into dark obsidian pebbles, being consumed with fear and intimidation, like she was prey. Like a large snake was slowly wrapping around her, winding up to her neck slowly squeezing around its prey. Tears started to form in her eyes, as she felt the air becoming thinner. Her breath now comes out shaken. She opened her mouth to say something to ask a million questions like who are you, or let me go, her mind running a mile a minute. Instead she took a deep breath in clenching her whole body letting out a gut wrenching scream.
Without a thought the man pushed her down into the fountain, submerging her head and torso deep into the water. Panicked Ida kicks and thrashes in the water struggling to get air, clawing at the man's arm using all of her strength to be released when her attacker is yanked away.

As Fredrick made strides in the direction of Idas greenhouse, he wanted to drop by as a surprise and hopefully see a surprised expression on her face. With each step he got a little more excited to see her. He stopped as he heard a gut wrenching scream coming from the greenhouse. The color drained from him as his feet moved faster than his train of thought, he burst through the doors to hear another scream. Idas' little sister in tears running into Fredrick.
"Someone is trying to hurt Ida" she cries begging for help. He rushes to the center of the greenhouse seeing water splash out of the fountain, seeing the man holding Ida down into the water.
**Countuned**