The Forgotten Princess Rose
Chapter 189

Chapter 189: Chapter 189

"This must be hurting your pride. Standing in this dark old passage with no one to help you. Someone as manipulative as you should have found a way to avoid standing here," said Zayne.

Kiara smiled, masking her fear. "Well, it wasn’t in my plans for you to take over our kingdom. Had you given me a hint I would have prepared better. Did you use my maid to find me? Or did you kill her? She is the one who ruined the dress. Take her," she offered.

Zayne laughed, not surprised by how Kiara offered the maid so easily. "I didn’t need her to find you. If you were smart, you would have worked with the maid to close that door. I wasn’t aware you had secret passages in the palace. Your need to sacrifice those around you left you here alone."

"If you are going to kill me, get it over with. How cruel of you to kill me when I wasn’t involved with the slaves or are you angry about the festival? Don’t tell me that you love her too. She’s just a simple woman," Kiara said, her hands balling up.

It was a slap in the face to not only lose Alexander but also the man she didn’t want. She was losing to a whore.

"Of course, you would love her when she can offer you her body. As a princess, I can’t use such tricks to get a man to fall in love with me. If you are angry with me because of the festival, you must know that she is from a brothel. It isn’t worth your time to do this," said Kiara.

Once again, Zayne laughed. "It must be eating you inside to think a woman from the brothel took away the man you wanted. How horrible or evil do you have to be that he would not stand by your side? Have you ever considered that?"

Kiara bit her lip. She knew that wasn’t the reason. Alexander was too kind to not want to use her title to get ahead. He only wanted to be a soldier but with a little more time he would have accepted her love.

"Just kill me if that is what you are here for," said Kiara. She was not going to beg for her life. That would hurt her pride. "Get it over with."

Zayne looked down from Kiara’s face to her arms placed behind her back. "Drop whatever weapon you have or use it on yourself. I don’t care but if it is pointed at me, you will die here in a cruel manner. It will be remembered that your life ended here in this dark old place."

Kiara dropped the dagger. It wouldn’t be of any use since Zayne wore armour and there were men behind him. Fighting with words was all that she could do not this. Right now, she had to get in Zayne’s good graces.

’I need him,’ Kiara thought.

With Alexander gone, her only saving grace was to cling to Zayne. The royal wedding between the two kingdoms could continue. Surely the Hamiltons couldn’t be so cruel to let her family lineage die here.

Kiara kept her head up high as she walked toward Zayne. "I surrender. Take me with my family or have you already killed them?"

"It is funny how you still lean towards giving me orders. I would be a fool to seat you with your brothers to get in their ear. Before I lock you away tell me where your mother was sent to," Zayne said since at the moment, no one could find the queen.

Kiara smiled as an opportunity presented itself. "If I tell you where my father sent her to, would you spare me? I would gladly continue what my father proposed between us. Even if it isn’t to be your wife. Men like you are bound to have mistresses."

Zayne was curious about the royal family and how close they were over the years since they were all so ready to throw their family to the wolves just so they could survive. "The second prince joined my side by offering the king and the crown prince. Here you are offering your mother to me."

"I knew this family was fucked up but not this much. Walk," Zayne ordered Kiara.

"Parents shouldn’t have their favourites but mine did. Like my father loved me most, my mother loved Henry most. If she had the chance to sacrifice me to save him and herself, she would do it so why should I be kind? I don’t have anything to do with this war. I only want Alexander and to leave," said Kiara.

"How unfortunate for you that he doesn’t want you," Zayne replied.

Life would have been easier for Zayne had Alexander ended up with Kiara and left Rose alone but he couldn’t blame the poor bastard for running from the princess.

Kiara was crazy and smart to know how to get what she wanted which was why she had to die. If there was anyone to one day build up a rebellion it wouldn’t be the princes to lead it but the woman standing beside him.

Had Kiara not been so driven by jealousy and so quick to abandon her servants, Zayne could have found a way to place her on the throne so her talents wouldn’t be wasted. A queen ruling the kingdom and making it better would have been better than having to hunt down a male relative.

Kiara glared at Quinn who still sat on the floor weeping as if she was the one in danger. If she could have a moment alone with Quinn she would kill her since it was her fault. Quinn had one simple task of pushing back the door to hide the passage.

"Where are we going?" Kiara questioned, confused by where Zayne was leading her. ’There are better places to hold me alone. I cannot fight like my brothers."

"I am taking you to see your siblings," Zayne answered.

Rose was still on his mind as Zayne thought of how she might have been here if life had gone any different. She could have been one of the princesses in the palace that many forgot about. That the king forgot about.

She could have been the princess James tried to offer to take to the camp.

It was a good day for the tables to change for the legitimate and illegitimate children of the king.

Kiara stopped walking as knew what Zayne had to be thinking. "I will not be kept there. I am the daughter of the king and queen. A true heir, not born by some whore. Take me elsewhere or kill me."

Zayne was not in the mood to listen to her orders. Kiara had lost what power she held before. He grabbed her arm and dragged her toward the part of the palace where he knew the other royals were kept.

They were like mice hiding in a dark corner, running around quietly to not be caught by the queen. The other royals would have been better off if they were sent out of the palace since the queen would not let them be seen and plotted to kill them in secret.

"No-"

Zayne pushed Kiara against a wall, his hand wrapping around her slender neck. "Princess now is not the time for you to lose your sense. I am still annoyed by you targeting Rose because of that bastard’s love so please, don’t push me to kill you right now."

Kiara’s eyes widened, her hands frantically tapping Zayne’s arm to stop as she felt her feet leaving the ground. She closed her eyes, trying to grasp a little more air as Zayne tightened his hold on her. "Please," she pleaded.

Zayne added more pressure to her neck. Had Rose been here Kiara would have been her tormentor. He wanted to snap her neck over what could have happened had Rose ended up here.

Zayne released Kiara, letting her fall to the floor to catch her breath. "Bring the princes to me," he ordered his men.

He had spared too many for too long.