The Queen: Love's Death || ✔️

Chapter 34: Burying The Queen's Family

Damien

For the past two months, all I had seen Elizabeth do was cry. It pained me to see her so broken and lost. She hardly ever ate the food I sneaked for them for the past two months and she hardly ever looked into my eyes. She didn't let me approach her and I hadn't heard her say a word since she had arrived. My heart ached each time she pulled away from me.

Today was Charlene, Zeus, Daniel and Hilary's funeral. So many had died at the hands of my aunt and I was sure that she was only getting started.

The day that auntie killed Zeus was the day she severed all tied with Estelle. Estelle was planning to leave tonight with some family members and my mother was going to be left with both ours and the Kings' company, Throne. She was ecstatic.

Not one day went by without me speaking with Bryson. I knew everything about them. Their wedding. Their wedding night. Even their current location. Last time I spoke to him, he sounded extremely distant and secretive. I hoped that it was nothing serious. For now, I had to go make sure that the prisoners were ready to bury their family members.

I walked into the underground shed first and accompanied the men to the women in the dungeon of the house. Bullet was still a bit drowsy and Blade's internal bleeding had finally healed. Alex was shattered from the loss of his son and wife and Ayurv was anxious to see his wife and children. Poseidon looked like he wanted to decapitate me.

"Open." I instructed to the guard and he opened all of the cages of the three cells and the women came out, everyone was dressed in black.

The men immediately jumped to their families and held them closer as the women cried in their arms. I watched Elizabeth break down in her father's arms while Bhavani rubbed her back to comfort her. I wanted to keep her safe so badly.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a woman I hadn't seen before. I looked closely at her and noticed how close she was to Sarah and Cynthia.

She had green eyes and dusty blonde hair. She was tall, skinny but well-figured, and had a visible tattoo on her forearm, a small butterfly. She was crying with the rest.

"Who is she?" I asked the guard closest to me on my right and he answered into my ear.

"Elaine Dunpher."

"Elaine?" I said aloud and the entire family looked at me and then at the woman whose name I had just called. "Your name is Elaine?"

"Yes." She answered in fear and I furrowed my thick, black eyebrows while trying to figure out how she was related to this family.

"She's my aunt." Mary said and I looked at her in confusion. "My biological father's little sister. Henry Dunpher."

"Where's Henry?" I asked Mary.

"I killed him." She answered and I got taken aback.

The way these Kings took lives like I did a sit-up was beyond my understanding. If a twenty-one year old pale, skinny looking girl named Mary could kill her own father, what the hell was Claudia capable of?

"Ok." I muttered. "We need to go now." I said and began to walk out.

The family followed me out of the dungeon and out of the house into two separate black vans, one for the females and one for the males, and we arrived at the cemetery a few minutes later. Estelle was already there, staring at Zeus' grave sadly.