Confronting The King

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CHAPTER 24

A pair of angry footsteps could be heard echoing in the palace passage as the owner of the legs hurriedly marched towards the largest door in that passage way.

The second she got there, she ignored the soldiers standing guard and turned the door knob with reckless abandon and stormed into the room.

BANG!

Without uttering a word to the rude intruder, he lifted his eyes from what he was working on and looked at her.

She was standing there still in her horse riding clothes with her pure white face, now turned beet red as both hands found their way to her waist and her nostril fumed out in annoyance at the person seated in front of her.

She did not utter a word for some time and just watched him in anger.

Judging from the way and manner her chest rose and fell, Vidor could tell she was really on a fowl mod especially for her to disregard protocols and storm her way into his private rooms.

"What is the meaning of this nonsense?" Vidor questioned. His own annoyance was not hidden a bit. He hated to be interrupted and rudely was the worst.

If it was based on a battle issue and all that, he would agree but now, that was not the case at all. He was disturbed and by a woman at that. His queen who he was not happy seeing.

"I should be the one asking you that question," Era fired at him. She dropped a hand by her side as she clenched it into a fist.

She was trying her best to hold herself back and refrain from saying something she was going to regret.

"You have the nerve breaking into my room to come sprout out rubbish. I think I am giving you too many leverage."

Era's mouth opened in shock. How dare he say that to her?

"Break in, you say? Who broke into your room? I am here to demand an explanation as to why your maddening thirst for power blinds you so much to not see the level of suffering you have caused to happen?"

He did not say anything first but the next second, a bone chilling laughter escaped his lips but when she looked closely at him, there was no epitome of bemusement at all on his face.

She shifted, taking in a deep breath and preparing herself fr what he was going to do or say next.

"You call my conquest, maddening right? Yet you sit in my castel and enjoy my so called, maddening wealth and influence."

"You call this wealth? Wealth that makes you unable to come out amongst your people and have them jubilate at you, rather they cower in fear because that is what they feel only when they see you. You have destroyed and ruin lives, yet it doesn't affect you?"

"A kingdom is not ruled by emotions such as that. It is ruled by fear and responsibility and that is what I have. I am responsible for them, what wrong have I done to require their fear?"

"Everything, every wrong is what you have done. You do not rule a people or a kingdom with fear. You rule with the love and wellbeing of your people in your heart."

"I care for them and that is why I am conquering nations just for their sake."

"Lies! You and I know you are doing that to feed and fuel your ego. Nothing more and what is painful is that you do these things at the detriment of the lives of others. Women have turned widows and children have turned orphans. Is that all you think about? All you care about?"

Era was not smiling but neither was Vidor. He was even more angry that she was calling him selfish."

"If you do not like my methods, sit down and be mute," he half yelled at her.

That was it. Era was done keeping mute. How dare him say that to her? Was she nothing but a puppet, a pawn to him?

"If that was what you needed a queen for, to sit down and keep mute and watch as her husband did the wrong thing, then know you married the wrong girl. You could have just goe for Diona instead. I believe she would have made the perfect mute doll of a queen."

"Era!"

"I am sure you would love a brainless, piece of trash." His eyes blazed in anger as he watched her speak some more.

"ERA!" Vidor yelled out again, this time around, he stood to his feet and snarled at her but that did not fear the queen one bit.

Rather she took another step forward and a next then stood with her head held high and her eyes dimming but sharp still.

"What?" she scoffed, letting him watch the playful smirk that danced on her lips thereof. "Do my words annoy you? Does it hurt hearing someone actually voice it out?"

Vidor did not speak. She knew he was already boiling with rage. Perhaps she was actually the first person to challenge him thus but she did not regret it and she was not apologetic about it either.

"Is your ego being affected or is it that you have no heart at all to think and do the right thing? Or is your thirst for power just a greedy insatiable thirst for power? Does the truth displease you, huh? Then you should have reasoned first before killing the innocent and making people suffer!"

"THAT IS ENOUGH, ERA!"