The Queen || ✔

Chapter 12: Let The Games Begin

Claudia

"Give me back my child, Claudia." He snarled at me. His tears were still in his eyes, and his disgusting snots flowed out of his nostrils uncontrollably, even though he kept sniffing. He looked so pathetic.

"Just your son?"

"Claudia!"

"Why are you causing a scene, Charles?" I teased, while I had him in this situation.

"Causing a scene?! CAUSING A SCENE?!!!! Claudia!"

"Dad, stop!" Zeus called out, running to my protection. He stood in front of his scary and emotionally unstable father and he honestly couldn't believe that this was happening. My poor baby was being traumatised.

"Zeus move!" Charles screamed at him, charging at me. Zeus pushed his father back and protected me viciously. I didn't know why though, I already had a fully loaded pistol in my hand.

"Stupid son. You better MOVE or else!" Charles threatened again, now charging even harder, almost falling on us.

I felt my senses kick in. My motherly instincts. He called my own son stupid. Dead, dead, Charles was a dead man walking.

I pushed Zeus out of my way and placed the gun angrily on Charles' forehead. I looked at him angrily and he snarled. I didn't care what he had to say to me, nobody hurt my kids. Not even their scum father.

I was fuming now, making sure to make it show. Usually I was emotionless, but now my eyes were squinted, and my jaw was locked in sharply. My heart beat was racing and my body was tense as hell.

"Oh, really?" Charles chuckled, as though I wasn't serious. I placed my finger on the trigger and held my grip tightly.

"My son is not stupid, if anything, he turned out great, considering who his father is. Weak and useless Charles the failure King!"

"How dare you?!"

"You want to fight, huh?" I asked him.

"You know what I want!" He screamed in my face.

"I don't know what you're talking about!" I screamed back, almost believing my own lie.

"Liar! LIAR!! You took them, kidnapped them, you stole them from me!"

"Hilary left on her own, dad!" Someone screamed by the door. It was Hera. I just finished taking her to her room, what was she doing?

"I saw her, she left. I tried to stop her, but no! She said that this family was retarded and dangerous and she told me that she got what she wanted."

"What are you talking about?!" Charles barked at her, shaking her, but not scaring her. That was Ma's little lamb.

Still, I walked to her and still aimed the gun at Charles, focusing like a lion staring hungrily at its prey.

"She took a big bag and left. She said that coming here was a big mistake. Hell, ask the security if you don't believe me."

"I highly doubt that he'll be able to accept that his little whore left him and took that bastard with her." I smirked, burning inside. The way he was looking at Hera was just infuriating.

"Shut up!" He screamed at me and I pushed the gun right onto his head, he stepped back, losing his balance a bit.

I took a moment to look to my side and saw all my kids staring at us crazily. Athena looked a bit better, but was gripping desperately to Mona's hand who held Poseidon in her arms. My family looked petrified.

"Ma... Ma... put the pistol down, please." Hera pleaded to me. How she was able to get into my head, I would never understand.

I looked at Charles and everything Hera was telling me left my mind. I couldn't even hear myself think. All I could think and hear was the screaming, the crying and the pain I was put through because of the man in front of me.

I was never like this, but he changed me. For heaven's sake, I just wanted to bury his disgusting body. But I had to wait for the right time. When I killed Charles, I wanted the moment to be perfect.

"You don't deserve to live." I gritted out, holding the gun with both my hands.

"Then kill me!"

"DAD!!!" Athena screamed desperately, then coughing afterwards.

"Kill me! KILL ME!!!!" He held on tight to my pistol and kept playing with my fingers close to my index finger. "Shoot Claudia! The same way you shot Matthew!" He screamed at me.

My heart dropped and my breathing started escalating uncontrollably. My heart sunk and my mind blanked out. Matthew.

"Claudia, I'd rather fucking die than have you by my side for the rest of my life! I never loved you! You... y-you, Claudia Millicent Rosetta King, are the biggest regret of my entire life! I didn't want to fucking marry you..."

"... BUT YOU DID!!!" I screamed from the top of my lungs, then lost my balance and collapsed on to the cold tiled floor.

"Ma!!" Everyone came to my rescue, but I couldn't even help myself now. I was weak, numb and tired. My breathing was crazy and my eyes were too blinded by my tears. My adrenaline was rushing but my movements were too slow. I had absolutely no control of myself.

Everyone was crowding around me, trying to keep me up, I was just hanging from people's help, my gun fell down and my heart reopened, releasing all the pain that I had buried deep inside of it.

"Claudia, kill me. But just know that once I die, your family goes too." Charles sneered at me.

I pushed Zeus away from me and forced Athena back before standing crooked in front of Charles with vicious eyes. He dared to threaten my family.

"Oh yes, you demon! Sarah, Charlene and of course... little Cynthia."

I gasped loudly and started panting loudly before collapsing in someone's arms. I had no hearing, no sight, no scent and definitely no touch. I felt cold and weak. Charles had my family.