like honey but poisoned

truth

Marie's POV

I blinked at the bright lights. To my surprise, I wasn't in one of Crimson's dungeons, but in their living area. On a long table I saw the woman I had grown to hate more than anyone eat cake and drink champagne.
As I tried to move, I noticed I was tied to a chair.
"Welcome back." She spoke while eyeing me suspiciously. I glared at her.
"Skinny girl, starving you certainly wouldn't take long." She grinned in a way, that almost revealed all of her teeth.
"Or maybe I'll burn you like the witch that you are for seducing my child!"
"By the amount of thoughts you dedicate to me, I could almost think you're obsessed with me." Now it was my turn to grin. "And who says that it wasn't your child who seduced me?"
She slammed her hands on the table and knocked over her champagne glass in the process.
"Elissabeth wouldn't!" She spat.
"Oh you have no idea. She wanted me to draw her naked. I simply fulfilled that wish."
I gave her a smug look.
"Stop it!!!"
Her head took on the colour of a tomato and she stormed towards me, her hand instantly on my throat.
Even 'though I struggled to breathe I managed to speak.
"If you kill me now, it's only because you're scared of the truth."
She let go of me almost immediately.
"You remind me of your mother so much, it's unreal," she sighed.
"Don't pretend like you knew my mother!"
"But I did! She just wouldn't tell anyone, because she tried to erase her past, which included me!"
I was irritated by that.
"You knew my mother?"
"Yes, better than anyone else."
"Look, I'm sorry that my mom hurt your feelings and all, but don't you think you're overreacting?"
"Overreacting? Natasha ruined my life!"
I frowned.
"Whatever that means, I'm sure she didn't do it on purpose."
She looked infurated.
"Didn't do it on purpose? If only you knew, but you're just a child, who still believes the world is perfect after all."
"How can you even say that? You murdered my parents!" I spat bitterly.
She slapped me across the face.
"Shut up! You understand nothing! You only think of your mother as loving and kind, but she wasn't just that!"
The Queen started to pace around the room.
"We used to be best friends - your mother and I, despite her being royal and my family being poor, we both went through thick and thin until she fucked it all up," she stopped pacing and glared at me.
"My brother always had a provoking nature, you know, and one summer evening he took it too far and your mother lost her temper. They fought with each other until she beat him to death!"
My breath hitched.
"No! You're lying!"
"I'm not. And because of her reputation she blamed it all on me! And everyone believed her! No one even questioned it! Because she was the sweet little princess, she surely couldn't have done it!" She let out a humourless laugh.
"I was left to live trying to become invisible, while she led her luxurious life becoming the Queen of Indigo!"
I didn't want to believe what she was saying, even 'though it would make a bit more sense why she turned out the way she did.
"This can't be true!" I exclaimed.
"But it is the truth! You're just scared to believe it!"