Hidden by Foam - Book 3 (Completed)

Chapter 20

Elaina's POV

"You're going to believe a landbeing over one of your own?!" Rogan shouted. I could see the uncertainty on everyone's faces so I turned towards Rogan and looked him in the eye.

"Tell the truth," I said and his eye colour changed for a split second.

"I killed the queen. She was in the shell field and I went their to ask her to lift the law so that Sirens could hunt humans once more. But she refused and said that it was time to bury the hatchet with humans, whatever that meant, and that she choose a human to be a successor. All because of some stupid legend. The fishing hook was there and I got so angered that a stabbed her with it," he said and there was entire uproar.

Everyone was angered, including the sirens. Everyone loved the queen.

"Because of the crimes you have committed, the murder of the previous queen, my mother and the attempted murder of the new queen, you are hereby sentenced to death. Take him away," Llyr ordered the guards.

I turned around to face Llyr, he said I was the future queen, and that caused butterflies in my stomach. I heard Rogan screaming behind me as I looked at Llyr. Llyr smiled at me but then he got a worried look on his face as he rush towards me, I didn't understand what was going on until I heard a thump behind me.

When I turned around I saw Rogan's lifeless body on the floor and Llyr's father standing over him with a bloody knife.

"He broke free from his guards and was about to kill you," Llyr's father said and my eyes landed on the knife laying near Rogan's body. I felt a hand snake around my waist and knew immediately that it was Llyr, I looked up at him before I gave him a small smile and placed my head on his shoulder.

"I would like to apologize," Llyr's father said,"to all of you. I thought my wife was killed by humans and that caused hate inside of me. But now I see, we were never made to live apart. And we would be honoured to have Elaina as our queen."

Llyr nodded to his father before he turned us around to face the crowd.

"My people, I give you your Queen. Queen Elaina," Llyr said and the crowd erupted in to cheers and claps. I smiled at everyone as I looked over every single face. This was my people now to.

The head guard of the sirens approached us and I felt Llyr's grip on me tighten.

"My king, my queen, I want to apologize for everything that happened. We allowed Rogan to poison our minds with lies and we hope that the alliance between Siren and Mer can continue," he said. A beautiful siren stood behind him and she resembled Rogan.

Llyr looked towards her,"Is this what you want, Olga?"

"Yes, my king," she said.

"Then Siren and Mer will live in peace once more," he said and the crowd went wild once more.

The coronation continued like nothing had happened and it felt like a dream come true to be here under the sea.

"So you're fine with staying here with me?" Llyr asked when we were alone a few metres away from everyone.

"I'm great. I've always wanted to be in the ocean and now I know why," I said as I smiled at him.

"I just need to inform my family-my family!" I suddenly realised that I just disappeared and my family was probably devastated.

"We need to go to them now," I said and Llyr nodded. He quickly told his father that we were leaving for a while and then we were off.

I wasn't used to my tail and I was grateful Llyr was with me. He helped me along the way. The view under the sea was magnificent, there was an array of colours and a variety of different sea creatures swimming about. We were still swimming when Llyr's three dolphins approached us.