Chapter 91 June, Do it

"Bill stop the limo." Gracie ordered and the limo came to a stop as the four shadows caught up to it and stood at all four corners facing outward while they listened to what was happening inside through Gwen's phone. 

"Michael Vandal." Gracie started 

"We will gave you 'The Choice' in the future as the four of us where in the past and if you accept you will be tested to see if you are worthy to stand beside 'The Four Queens of Balance' while being protected by 'The Four Shadows'." 

"If you accept 'The Choice' we will recognize you as our fifth member and you may enter a relationship with any or all of us if both parties agree granting you things no man has every seen or been given."

"If you are accept you will move onto something far more difficult where if successful' you would be given one fifth share of everything each of us own including 'The Emerald Lake Corporation' and all companies under its umbrella as well as our own personal fortunes and other privileges I will not speak of here."

"By succeeding there you would become an equal partner of 'The Four Queens' and any decision which used to take four votes would now take five."

Gracie carefully watched Michaels eyes as they grew larger with more and more shock and fear. 

"My question to you is this, what would you do with that wealth that you have acquired by becoming one of us?" 

There was silence as everyone waited for Michael's answer with bated breath. 

All seven women knew that because of Gracie's selfish action his answer now determined both their lives. 

The silence went on for what seemed like an eternity but still no answer came. 

"Answer me, Michael Vandal." Gracie said but Michael just looked into her cold grey eyes. 

"Answer me" She repeated 

"I can't." Michael finally said. 

"ANSWER ME!" Gracie shouted in his face, her eyes turning angry as tears started to appear. 

"I can't answer you Gracie as I don't know how to answer." Michael replied. 

"Why don't you? It's a simple question, what would you do if you became a billionaire with wealth and influence to match our own?" 

"What would you buy, what would you build, what would you donate, what would you splurge on?"

"Do you want women, cars, watches, clothes, boats, an Ireland?" 

"Tell me what you would do with all that wealth and power Michael Vandal?" 

"ANSWER ME OR WE BOTH DIE." Gracie screamed 

"I DON'T KNOW!" Michael yelled back 

"LIAR, YOUR A LIAR MICHAEL VANDAL, EVERYONE HAS THOUGHT ABOUT WHAT THEY WOULD BUY OR DO IF THEY HAD THE MONEY, SO TELL ME THE TRUTH WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH IT?" 

"I DON'T KNOW BECAUSE I HAVE NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT IT." Michael yelled at the top of his lungs staring into Gracie's cold eyes that showed tears in the corner while he was already crying from confusion and not knowing what answer to give to save her. 

"GRACIE TELL ME WHAT TO SAY, TELL ME HOW ANSWER." Michael begged because he could tell they were serious when they claimed he and Gracie would both lose their lives. 

The fear and worry on the faces of Alexi, Jane and Sarah where too real to be fake.

"Out, get out of the limo." Gracie suddenly said, 

"What?" Michael replied confused. 

"I SAID GET THE FUCK OUT." Gracie shouted before leaning past Michael to open the door and then pushing him out, so he landed on his back on the hard tarmac before following him out. 

Michael noticed as he rose to his feet they where not in the middle of a busy London street but in some sort of junk yard with old cars waiting to be scrapped that was deserted except for the nine of them

"Gracie did you plan this all along?" Jane asked as she got out the limo and realized they where no where near the penthouse they where supposed to be heading back to.

"GWEN" Gracie shouted ignoring Jane's question.

"Yes Lady Gracie" Gwen replied in a trembling voice. 

"You heard it all, correct?" 

"I did lady Gracie." Gwen replied fighting back a sob. 

"Then do it, Michael Vandal has failed the test by not giving an answer, therefore we both must pay the ultimate sacrifice to help the world return to balance." Gracie said, causing all but one of the girls to shudder and cry silently. 

Alexia and Jane were both crying silently while hugging Sarah who was shaking with grief as tears fell to the ground from her beautiful blue eyes. She knew her cousin was about to die and there was nothing he could do. 

The four shadows all kept their positions, but they all cried while three of them had their bodies shaking in grief and Gwen was the worst, as the closest to Gracie she was the one effected by this the most and tears streamed down her face with her head shaking left and right with her saying no no no. 

Only June was not shaking because she had turned her face and body into a heard mask as the most professional of the four shadows, however even she could not stop the tears. 

"What stupidity is this? What balance can the world gain from both of us dying?" Michael asked confused and angry.

"I never agreed to put my life on the line, why would I when the world has never done anything for me."

Gracie looked at Michael with her sad grey eyes before turning to her sisters.

"I am sorry my sisters, my gamble did not pay off and because of my selfish actions I have caused all of your grief. I hope one day you can forgive me." Gracie said, turning to her sisters. 

"Why? why would you do this? why would you sacrifice yourself for some so called balance? Michael asked, taking Gracie by the shoulders as he tried to understand. 

"I'm sorry Mike, I really thought you were the one that would become king and help us to return the balance." Gracie said quietly, her voice quivering. 

"I really wish I had been right and that we could have all been together, my sisters already love you so much and I also love with you as well Michael, I could just not tell you because I had to protect them." Gracie said before kissing his lips.

"Because of my selfishness I have killed us both now, I am sorry, and I hope in the next life we can meet again." Gracie said, closing her eyes. 

"No, I won't accept this, this is stupid." Michael said before turning to Gwen 

"Why do we have to die for some stupid balance I know nothing about it makes no sense?" Michael asked but no one replied to him.

"Fine then take my life and spare Gracie's after all it was me who failed the test not her and as long as I am gone no one knows of your secrets." Michael pleaded. 

"There is no point Mike, these are the rules of the society we are part of. Those that give away too much must meet their end with the one they told, for they can't be trusted to not do it again." Gracie explained before she turned to Gwen. 

"Gwen do it." Gracie ordered. 

"No Lady Gracie, I can't." 

"Gwen" 

"I can't, I can't I love you lady Gracie, I cant kill one I love." 

"I love you too Gwen, but you know the rules, if you don't do it someone else must and you will be punished for not doing it." Gracie advised. 

"I can't, I won't, I don't care about the punishment I won't kill my queen that I love." Gwen refused. 

"Fine, June do it." Sighing, Gracie looked at June and ordered her. 

"Yes, lady Gracie." The always professional June said before taking a gun out of a holster hidden behind her back. 

"JUNE!" Jane shouted. 

"I order you to stop June, do not follow that order." Jane said. 

"I am sorry Lady Jane, but that order I cannot follow as it goes against the rules of the society." June said. 

"Who first Lady Gracie?" 

"Me, take me don't kill Gracie only I have to die." Michael begged. 

"I am first June; it was my mistake so I will be first to die." Gracie answered. 

"Very well lady Gracie and I am sorry." June said, raising her gun and taking aim. 

Time seemed to slow down for Michael as he saw the lady called June slowly raising her gun, he noticed all the girls crying and shaking except June who had a hard look in her eyes. 

As he stared into those brown eyes he saw and somehow understood many emotions flickering through them but the ones he did not see that should of been there were sorrow or loss instead the main emotion was one of hope. 

Why would hope be there when she was about to shoot Gracie Michael wondered before he looked into Gracie's grey eyes and once again saw many emotions. 

The one he expected to see most was sorrow and regret but instead the main emotions he saw was faith and trust, why would there be both faith and trust in Gracie's eyes when she was about to die. 

As he looked back at June, he saw her finger pulling the trigger and as if guided by some impulse he jumped, he dived in between June and Gracie just as.

BANG