Forgotten Wife Let the traitors kneel Down (by Patricia Maradiaga) novel Chapter 254

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The elf queen approached Dantriel and said to him, “I want to know what happened to my sister, and I want the complete story. Do you understand?”

“Yes, Your Majesty, but I beg you to heal Ethan. If you leave him in that state, he will die anyway.”

The queen approached Ethan, placed her hand on him, and healed all the wounds he had received during the torture with her light magic.

“Take him to the dungeons,” the queen ordered as she walked away from Ethan and instructed the remaining guards to escort Dantriel to her office.

The queen left first. Before they took Ethan away, Dantriel asked the guards for a minute. He wanted to make sure his friend was okay. Out of respect and admiration for him, the guards

accepted his request.

Dantriel approached his friend, who had fainted at some point, and asked him, “Are you okay,

Ethan?”

Ethan regained consciousness for a moment and said to him, “Don’t tell her anything.”

“If I don’t, she will kill us.”

“I promised Sophia, you can’t.”

“I’m sorry, Ethan, but I can’t die, and I won’t let

you either.”

The guards grabbed Dantriel and said to him, “We have to go, you know the queen hates waiting.”

Dantriel was taken to the queen’s office. She was sitting in her chair behind a large wooden desk, and she said to him, “Sit down.”

He did as she ordered, and shortly after, she commanded the guards to leave. Once alone, she said to him, “Start talking. This time I don’t want half–truths. Even though you are one of my best generals, and there is history between us, if you lie to me again, you won’t live to tell the tale.”

“I wouldn’t dare, my queen.”

“You better make sure of that.”

“Your Majesty, there is something I wish to ask before we begin speaking.”

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“I believe you are not in a position to demand anything.”

“Ethan will be set free.”

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“If you tell me everything I wish to know, I will set him free, but you will not be able to leave the kingdom for a long time.”

Dantriel nodded and began to speak, telling the whole story of Princess Sophia and her half–breed daughter.

The queen listened in silence, her face showing no emotion, but in her eyes, Dantriel could see the unrestrained anger she was feeling. It made his skin crawl.

When he finished telling the story, the queen asked him a single question. “Where is the half–breed?”

“What do you plan to do with her?”

“That is none of your concern. Answer what I have asked you: where is the half–breed?”

“In the kingdom of Cosset.”

The queen stood up, approached the door, and called the guards, ordering them to take Dantriel to the dungeons.

He stood up immediately. “Your Majesty-”

“Do not get upset. Your confinement is only temporary. I do not want you to alert the half–breed about her existence and cause her to escape.”

Taren was unconscious all afternoon. He woke up late at night, and Abril, who was by his side, asked him, “How do you feel?”

“Like I have been spun around a thousand times and a horse has trampled over me,” he replied.

Sirius said, “You’re still alive. You’re fine.”

Taren sat up and asked, “Where are we?”

“In the royal capital of Laios, in an inn in the slums to be more precise.”

“I thought we would go straight to the royal palace.”

“With you unconscious?”

“You’re right, it wasn’t a good idea. By the way, what was that monster that attacked us in the

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“I don’t know. It’s the first time I’ve seen a monster in human form, and it’s the first time I’ve faced such a strong monster–a monster that is hardly affected by my light magic,” said Abril with a worried expression on her face.

Sirius said, “I think there are stronger monsters. The war we thought was over has not yet

ended.”

“And here I thought that closing the Hades rift would be the end of it all,” said Taren as he tried to sit up in bed. Abril helped him as he seemed to have trouble getting up and said, “It seems like our victory was just an illusion, our peace a lie that we desperately clung to.”

“Nobody said that peace was easy to obtain.”

“And what do we do now?” asked Taren.

“For now, we will do what we had planned to do–close the Hades rift–then we will figure out

what to do next.”

“I also think that will be the best course of action.”

Sirius heard a bird pecking at the window. He looked out, and the eagle entered the room. It was the king’s messenger bird, wearing a red tear–shaped collar tied to one of its legs and a small note attached to the other.

Sirius took the collar and the note. The note said, “For Abril, think of me when you receive

this. -Alessandro.”

Sirius passed the note to Abril after reading it, then took the collar and asked, “Is there nothing else?”

“Just that note and the collar,” replied Sirius as he gave some jerky to the bird. Abril approached the eagle and asked, “How did it manage to find us?”

“This bird uses a magical artifact, see?” Sirius pointed to a small stone that the bird was wearing on one of its legs. It was so small that if he hadn’t pointed it out, she wouldn’t have noticed it.

“They can deliver messages to someone no matter where they are.”

“I see. I would like to send a letter to Alessandro. Can he take it?”

“He can only carry small objects. You could only send a small note, but you can write your letter. I will send it with my magic. I also need to send my daily report.”

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“Sirius, don’t tell Alessandro about the new species of monster we fought today. That will only worry him.”

“Don’t worry, I won’t.”

“Thank you. I don’t want to worry him more than necessary.”

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