Royal Pain || z.m. [Book 2]

•twenty•

"What the hell is going on here Aria?" Zayn asked furiously while glaring at her with his jaw tightly clenched.

Aria chuckled in reply as she said, "Something that should've happened a long time ago."

"Let her go!"

"How cute. You think you can just barge into my castle, in my kingdom, and just order me, the queen of Wellington to do something? Nice try Zayn."

"Why are you doing all this?" his gaze momentarily shifted towards Genevieve and his heart sunk. "Why do you keep hurting her?"

"Do you know how much trouble I've been through just to get rid of her Zayn? She somehow, miraculously always manages to avoid her death. I eventually accepted the fact that no matter how hard I tried to kill her, I would never be successful. So," she began to pace in front him. "I finally came up with a great idea that I know will ruin what's between the two of you and avoid having the blood of anyone else's on my hands."

"What, by having her raped?!" he yelled.

Aria stopped in her tracks and stood facing him. "Zayn, when you try to touch her, comfort her or even show her how much you pathetically love her, she'll be afraid to get touched by you. She'll distance herself from you. She'll go insane and maybe who knows," a malicious smirk grew onto her lips. "She might just take her own life too."

"You're fucking sick!"

"I guess." she shrugged. "But you made me become like this. I became obsessed with you the moment I laid my eyes on you. I could've had you, but you just had to fall in love with her?" she pointed towards Genevieve in rage.

"I didn't do anything Aria. You did this to yourself and all of this by choice."

"But Zayn tell me this, because I really want to know," she stepped towards him and put her hands against his chest, making him stiffen. "What is it that you see in her, that you don't find it in me?"

Before Zayn could reply to her question, Prince Harry stepped forward to question Aria. "Did you mean Zayn, when you told me you were in love with another when I confessed my feelings for you?"

"Oh Harry." her face lit up. "Great to see you again."

"Tell me."

Aria rolled her eyes as her smile vanished. "Yes."

Harry remained mute. He looked away feeling conflicted with himself and the situation. He had strong feelings of affection for Aria, but seeing what she had been to lately made him want to get rid of them.

"Oh I also have some big news to share with you Zayn." her wide grin returned onto her lips.

Zayn froze in place and looked at her expectantly with the fear of what else she would disclose to him, beginning to build inside of him.

"I'm pregnant."

"Oh my God." Genevieve began to sob and hung her head low in defeat. She couldn't take any more of this physical and emotional torture. "No."

Everyone else in the room gasped on hearing the announcement. Zayn felt as if all the air in this lungs suddenly vanished. The small area of the tower which was confined with dusty old bricks was already suffocating him enough, and that too which his wife chained up against it in a completely terrible state.

"You fucking slept with her?!" Harry shouted breaking the silence, facing Zayn looking at him furiously. "You're disgusting! You're married for fuck's sake!"

Louis tried to hold Harry back to calm him down but it was quite a struggle to as he was much stronger than him.

"Harry, listen dammit!" Zayn grabbed onto his shoulders. "It's not what it looks like. I'll explain this shit afterwards."