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Royalton - Chapter 5

Chapter 5

I have been extremely busy for the past few days. Not even college was this stressful. I have been up and down in the palace going to classes and getting tutoring lessons from Jason. Oh and after that little, no huge incident, the Queen and King had a long talk with the body guards who were assigned to protect me.

They did find the person who placed their filthy hands on my throat and was planning to kill me. It turned out that the person was a girl! Yes a girl! They immediately brought her to the court and used a long butcher knife to cut off her head.

I watched the whole thing attentively. I was very nervous. My hands were sweating profusely and I was breathing heavily. I honestly felt sorry for her. I know that I shouldn't give the girl any pity but she looked so scared. She was even trembling and begging for her life. She had short blond hair that reached her a few inches below her neck, a lip piercing, pale skin and a small body. She also had a tattoo which was in Chinese on her shoulder.

Before they sentenced her to death, they questioned her about who she was working for, where she came from and what the tattoo meant. But at first, she refused to answer. So the King told one of his workers to torture her by using a few weapons, which included Knifes, sharp pointy arrows, cutlasses and even a scissors and some other stuff that I couldn't recognise. One of them looked like it will burns because when they used it on her, it left a huge black mark on her skin and she cried out in agony.

"What is your name young one?'' The King asked.

''My-my name is Anto-Antonia your majesty,'' She sobbed. She had a thick Spanish accent.

"Why did you try to kill the princess Antonia?'' The king rubbed his hands together. He was clearly enjoying this.

"Go to hell!" Antonia screamed. I am not telling you anything.''

"Use the knives to cut into her flesh Thomas,'' he instructed. Make her beg for mercy.''

Thomas did what he was told and entered the girl's flesh using the long knife. Antonia cried out loudly and her voice echoed through the court. Blood oozed from her large wound and stained her blouse. I wanted to shout out 'Stop! She doesn't deserve to be tortured to death.' But I will just be lying. And it wasn't like they will listen to me. They will just ignore me completely.

"Why did you try to kill the Princess?'' The King repeated. "Also who are you working for?''

"Do you seriously think that I will answer you?'' Antonia laughed. "You will have to kill me first.''

"Oh you will die. It is a must. I just want to see you bleed,'' he said, his words fill with venom.

''Even if you kill me, the people who I'm working for are professionals. I am new at this. They will kill your precious Kelsey and they will enjoy seeing her bleed to death,'' she snickered.

"Why are you doing this?'' The King face softened.

"Isn't it obvious? We want her dead,'' Antonia said in a 'duh' tone.

Why will they want me dead? I never did these assassins anything. I don't even know them for peeshsake! What do they want with me?!

''I meant why do you want her dead?'' The King cocked an eyebrow. Why do you want her killed so badly?''

"You guys really are slow,'' she spat out blood. You will know why when the others come to hunt down Kelsey. As I said, they will make her bleed to death. Now kill me! I will still be dead if I went back to my group without Kelsey's dead body anyway.''

"They wouldn't get a chance to do so,'' the King sweared. I hired a lot of guards who are now guarding the palace. We wouldn't allow that careless mistake to happen again.''