Crown Of Hearts

Epilogue

" They're gone." Darius growled, " All my men got an order that I never authorized to meet in the south wing." He hit the wall, spooking Rachael and Soto.

" Rachael, can you take Prince Soto to his room?"

She nodded, she seemed to be lost in thought ever since Clara left, " Let's go." She placed a hand on Soto's arm and he nodded, still very much shaken up. He pretended not to notice that she was shaking as well.

He had sent his men to find the King and Prince Frederick and so far they had caught Frederick and sent him down to the prison for questioning.

They had also rounded up Oria and she was being taken down to a prison cell. He needed to interview both of them for their statements as soon as possible.

Darius took a glance at Theo. Theo was still staring in the direction where Clara had left. His hands clenched tightly.

" Your highness, you should rest-"

" Clara's a spy, isn't she?"

Darius exhaled sharply, " Yes she is, your highness."

In his twenty-something years of being on this earth, he has never seen someone look so devastated.

Theo excused himself.

He noticed something on the ground when Theo left, he had dropped something. It was a ring, not any ring. The ring Theo had given to Clara. He clenched it in his hands.

Darius was going to hunt her down.

**

Rachael helped Soto to bed and she couldn't help but feel bad for the crown prince. She didn't know what happened but he seemed to be very traumatized.

" Can I get anything for you, your highness?"

Soto smiled softly, " Can you just move to the left a little bit?"

Her eyebrows knitted at the strange request but she did as she was told.

" I'm sorry blood stains the carpet." He smiled brightly.

" I'm sorry, what did yo-" Rachel didn't finish her sentence because someone had sneaked up behind her, thrown a bag over her face, and injected her with something.

She was breathing heavily and struggled against the grasps of someone before she stopped.

Soto smiled and stood up, " Will the serum work?"

" Of course it will, your majesty. When she wakes up, she'll tell a tale of how Prince Theo was the mastermind behind all this." The guard bowed lowly before taking his leave, dragging the body behind him.

He glanced down and sure enough, there were a few droplets of blood. He hummed to himself as he cleaned it up.

King Soto knew for a while Clara was not who she said she was. And with a little digging and luck by finding those earrings, he figured out who she was before the meeting with his father and Frederick. By then he knew exactly what to do with her. Soto knew he was meant to die in that room so he sent a maid to tell Oria that she was needed by the King and for extra precautions brought Clara with him. He used her to expose Oria, and the recording earrings, he knew what she was going to leak them, further proving his innocence and securing his crown.

Soto chuckled to himself and glanced at the clock, in a few hours it would be a new day, a new era, and he was excited to build a new empire.

He called for a maid, " Get me a phone."