Chapter 73

Kingdom of Alba…

Avery's pov;

I reached home an hour ago and I called for Helga, she should be here any minute now.

Do I have a plan on how I am going to take back the necklace without revealing my true self? No but we are going to try , if things go south I might use my title as an excuse to want her necklace.

Yes I am petty like that. Plus it will be a small revenge on her daily reminders that she deserves the best things in the world more than me , she could use some serious humbling.

"Your grace, the servant is here" Hygai informs, yes now I am called that because of the new title, kind of a flex , I am going to miss being called that.

"Let her in and let nobody disturb until I am done" I tell him.

This might actually be the last time I am talking to Hygai considering if everything goes well I will be back to New York and considering Ethera will hate me after knowing what I did I will probably not be coming back here ever.

"Your grace" Helga comes in and bows at me . Never thought I would see the day where my proud cousin bows at me, if only she knew who she was paying all this respect to.

I shall cherish this moment forever my dear cousin.

*fake tear drop.

"Rise" I say with authority.

"I will cut straight to the chase , I want that necklace you have on" I tell her pointing at it.

She touches it and looks back at me confused ,

"Why? If I may ask, I am but a lowly servant . You your grace have access to every valuable piece of jewelry so why this?" She asks.

I chuckle "As much as I can have that I want this one , I like it and so I will get it. Do you dare go against my will?" I ask.

She seems on edge and all of a sudden she smirks then brings out a blade out of her pocket.

"He was right. You are weird and definitely suspicious to want this amulet. I will kill you and we shall see if all that high talk saves you" she then charges at me and we fight each other trying to avoid the blade.

No one will come help since I commanded them to. It disturb, she expected this and it goes along with Helton's plan.

I have to stop her before she actually hurts Ethera's body.

She pushes me on the bed and holds the blade in my face smiling down at me. Since when did she become a murderer?

"Helga what the fuck snap out of this!" I yell but then open my eyes wide as I realize I just talked like my usual self.

She looks confused "Since when do royals curse-? Unless you are not?" She gasps and uses even more force pushing down the blade.

I then use the one move I remove from karate class and grab her arm , twist it and the blade falls down.

I take advantage of her moment of shock to remove the amulet then I slam it down and step on it breaking the glass part.

"No! What are you doing?" She stares in horror at my actions.

"How did you- Avery?" She gasps looking at me but before she could continue her body evaporates in smoke and nothing is left of her.

Wait , why is this happening? Why did she disappear? Did she go back to New York? Or…

The bits of the amulet light up and then purple smoke comes out of no where and suddenly grandma Anne's face appears in its midst.

"Congratulations my dear child , you have broken the third link. Now everything can go back to normal" she says.

I then ask "If everything is back to normal does this mean Helga was sent back home to New York?"

She shakes her head and sighs "Unfortunately no my dear child . Your cousin is gone , for good. She was killed by the breaking of the amulet. I told you, the third link should have never existed and so everything goes back to its original form as though she never existed" Wait what? No , this must be a bad joke right?

"No you must be mistaken, you never said she would die! How can this be happening?" I ask grabbing my hair in despair.

"It is as it should be my child , it was either You , Ethera or her and I was not going to sacrifice my grand daughter nor the person attached to her soul so it had to be her. There was no other way" she explains.

"This can't be! You should have told me!" I yell in sorrow and realization of what just happened.

Right then the smoke takes me in the air and I am sort of swallowed by it .

Things are going back to their original form.

But… but I killed Helga , I will never forget that.

I killed someone. I killed-