The Queen: Love's Death || ✔️

Chapter 30: Second Victim

Zeus

It had been a month since the entire family broke apart. A month ago, Daniel's life was taken away and that day was the beginning of hell for the family.

Estelle hadn't stopped pestering us to tell her how to get into the Mafia and in true honesty, I knew nothing. When Claudia banned us from the empire, she wasn't playing any games. Little did she know that her actions would lead the family to its ultimate demise.

Poseidon was now shaking uncomfortably on the floor. Blade had finally stopped bleeding but he looked weaker than healthy. Bullet still hadn't woken up, but was still breathing. The worst amongst us was Noah, who was unresponsive since the death of his younger brother. A life was taken away only for the mere satisfaction of another.

"Hey, dickfaces. Ms. King wants to see you in the livingroom, let's go." A guard said evilly and we all allowed them to drag us.

Once in the livingroom, I looked up at Hilary and watched as she gave me the last ounce of her hope. After a second of looking into each others' eyes, a tear fell down her cheek and she broke down alongside Mary.

I looked at Charlene and cringed at the sight of her. Her hair was out of control, her face thinner and paler and her eyes looked lifeless, though she was blind. She looked like a living corpse and her breathing was almost nonexistent. Her gaze was fixed on the ground as she kept her self numb to relieve the pain of the loss of her son.

"Welcome fam..." Estelle greeted us with Maureen by her side but was interrupted by the harsh sound of Athena coughing. We all snapped to look at her struggle to breathe and Jermaine didn't waste time.

"Stay down!" A guard demanded, pocking Jermaine with his gun, but immediately took a step back once he looked into the cold eyes of Jermaine Packer.

"Down boy." Estelle chuckled. "Or else you'll hurt my men."

"She's pregnant. With my child. If anything happens to her..."

"... are you threatening me?" Estelle asked in shock.

I internally hoped that Jermaine wasn't stupid enough to do such a thing. I prayed that he'd back down because now, not even God knew what Estelle was capable of. Jermaine turned around to face Estelle and she suddenly seemed to melt under her gaze. I couldn't see his face, but I could see hers at a perfect view.

"Take care of her or else. I'm not of Mafia, but if I am capable of killing my own father in cold blood, imagine what I can do to you if either my wife or my daughter are in danger."

"How dare you..."

"... I'm not a King. But I do know a thing or two about how to paralyse someone using different methods within seconds. I wouldn't mess with me if I were you." Jermaine said with a recognisable tone. Only Queen Claudia King could sound like that.

Estelle seemed to deflate on the spot as she gripped her jaw while calling a guard towards her. She whispered something into his ear and he walked to Athena, helping her frail body up and another guard set Jermaine free and he followed the first guard with Athena in his arms to a room upstairs.

"Anyway... still won't speak?" Estelle asked, snapping back to us with a smile on her face.

"I don't know how many times we have to tell you the exact same thing, Estelle." Blade said with a hoarse voice.

"Fine then. Keep quiet. I'll just keep killing. Guard..." She called another guard. "... bring me that little girl over there. " Estelle said, pointing towards Claudia Jr.

The room blew up from chaos. Cynthia brought her daughter even closer to her body and all of the women created a human shield to cover the child and screamed at the guards that tried to get their hands on the now screaming little girl.

"NO! STAY AWAY FROM HER!" Sarah cried with her hands gripping on Cynthia who had her daughter in her hands.

"Stop fighting it." Estelle said, rolling her eyes.

"Estelle, stop! We don't know anything!" Blade cried. Seeing Blade crying was not normal for me.

My family was a family of strength, power and high-standing. The Kings were known to be ruthless, wealthy and the most powerful family in the entire world. But here and now, we were crumbling at the feet of our own kind.

Estelle was from this family, but because she was so consumed by her anger and hatred towards my mother, she couldn't open herself up to forgiveness and allow herself to be happy with us. She was my aunt, though she was nasty, she was capable of being loved but not anymore.

Looking at my family, I felt angry at so many people for so many reasons. Seeing Bhavani and her daughters fall apart, I was angry at Blade for not doing something to stop it. He always vowed to love and protect them but he was failing miserably and for that, his daughter Tanu looked like she was on the verge of madness and Bhavani looked almost too tired to be alive.

I was angry at Hera because she ran away. Her family, the people in her life that raised her and cherished her, were dying and she was nowhere to be seen. She chose to elope with the enemy's son. We all knew that since my mother was gone, Hera was the only who would be capable of saving us. She was in control of both Estelle and Bryson and Bryson was in control of Maureen. We needed her.

I was angry at myself for not being able to protect my wife and sons. I promised myself that nothing would cause them pain but in this moment it looked like Mason was doing a better job at protecting them than me. If I could get my hands on Estelle, I'd never forgive her.

Most importantly, I was angry at my own mother, Queen Claudia King. All of this was her fault. If she hadn't given Estelle such a hard time. If she hadn't made more enemies than friends. If she hadn't killed so many people, we'd be safe. To top it all, our mother was our protection. Without her, we were vulnerable.

"Hurry up!" Estelle bursted and the women held even closer to Claudia Jr.

Bhavani grabbed a guard by his ankle and pulled, causing him to fall onto his face and push another guard to crash into Maureen, making her small figure tumble back, but Damien held her into place.

"How dare you?!" Estelle bursted at Bhavani and she only grinned, making Maureen lose her shit.

"YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS!" Maureen screamed, pulling her gun out suddenly and aiming.

Bang!

Bang!