The Journey to Escaping Darkness (Book 1)

Chapter 5

I woke up laying on the practically freezing tiles of the bathroom floor. Let's just the day I numbed the pain and my liver payed the price.

My hair was a mess and I was still in the same dress I wore to the funeral. I probably looked like shit. I felt like shit on wheels, why not look that way too?

Well I guess I accepted his death. Now getting over it. How to do that, I don't know. I'll probably push it away like everything else in my life and not deal with it, at least that's what my therapist says.

I'll probably not go to work either today. I'm just not feeling like dealing with idiots today, I deal with them all year, I deserve a break.

But of course to my luck Mona rushed in exclaiming, "Your highness! It's noon, oh my god, dear Jesus! Are you okay?" Mona got pretty religious when she was flustered. Right now I didn't want to deal with all of her shit and lectures, and her Jesus references.

"Hush!" I whisper shouted. But that really didn't stop her. I think she's gotten too comfortable here.

"What the hell is wrong with you? Your how old and your still self-medicating with alcohol? Good lord, when will you learn? What would Dermot-" and with that I snapped.

"How dare you bring his name into this! Get the hell out Mona!" Most people would jump when I yell that loud but she was used to me yelling.

"Your highness-" Mona started but I cut her off. She stood there with a cautious stance, but nothing could hold back my fury.

"Do you want to do this the easy way or the hard way? Your choice! You have 3 seconds!" I yelled even louder barely holding back from snapping her in half. She turned right around and left the room walking as fast as she could. Lucky for her I wasn't in a worse mood, I wouldn't have given her warning.

I got up off the cold black tiles and changed into a black full sleeved lace dress that ended right above my knee. My curly hair hung down on my shoulders flawlessly considering what shape I was in. I put on plain black heels and I did my make up dark as usual.

I walked into London's office and with full aggression I demanded "I want triple the guards and do background checks on them all. I want full reassurance that nothing will happen to the guards and the guards are safe to be around. I want training done for them. Even if they've already been through it, put them through it again. I want the guards to be unified. The security team needs to be perfect." London looked at me a bit taken back. Before she could respond I walked away confident and on basically going on a rampage and damn near losing my mind.

My next stop was to the laundry room where Mona would be. I walked into the large room and walked straight to Mona. "I want your servants to have one job and they need training for it, so it's done perfect. Whatever their hours are I want it extended. I want some on the day shift and some on the graveyard shift. I want your team to be unified and to work as a team. They all need training for every chore that the servants do even though they'll be manning one station. I want them to have known what to do if something happens, like a fire, attack, earth quake, etc. got it?" I commanded telling her my expectations. She nodded, but like London, she was taken back. I smiled and walked off and went into a meeting where I was going to be talking to the guards to talk about what was coming up.

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Like everyone else today they were surprised. But I really didn't care. What I said was gonna get done one way or the other.

And next I had to give a speech on the attacks. I wasn't looking forward to it.

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Shocked. They all were. I wish I could say I was calm. But that would be the opposite of what happened. And if I didn't already loose my cool, someone shot at me. Its only the hundredth time it's happened.

But as soon as I walked out of that room Jefferson pulled me into a room acting as if he ruled the world instead of me.

"What the hell!" I yelled looking up at him seeing the shock and confusion written on his expression.

"What's up with you today giving commands left and right? We don't have the budget for this!" Jefferson was an interesting character. I enjoyed putting him through misery. Of course I understood, but that didn't mean I cared.

"Well go over it!"

"I understand your in pain, but-"

"Me being in pain is none of your business! And me being in pain has nothing to do with this! This was all long over due! Now if you'll excuse me I have a meeting to get to!"

I left the room quickly and walked into the conference room where some people were waiting to discuss the issues around the world. Boring ass meeting. I had this meeting once a month, if more important than we would have it twice a week.

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The damn meeting lasted all day. It was now ten at night and I was swept. I went and took a bubble bath with a glass of wine. But a queen can't have piece. I haven't gotten that in the a thousand years I've been queen.

"I've found you a guard that's gonna be with you everywhere you go." London said as she walked in.

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Hi! It's gonna get good soon I promise! Sorry for all of the cut offs. It wasn't really anything that was gonna pop up again in the story. But please vote and comment! I'll update soon!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️