Vengeance of The Broken Lycan Prince [BL]
Chapter 294: I Had All, And Now… None of You [2]

Chapter 294: I Had All, And Now... None of You [2]

[ZULA]

"Take me to the birthing hall. I must see my queen myself," King Zaffuto said and his warriors along with Sadako, walked towards the exit of the hallways with him, none of them even daring to make a sound, let alone look back at the dead woman they had left there.

As the Lycan king made his way to the birthing hall, he could see the Lycans stay silent, and bow, waiting for him to be gone from their sight. On a normal day, the king would feel terrible that his people were not as free with him, but today, there was just one thing on Zaffuto’s mind.

His family.

"You can leave now," Sadako mouthed to the Lycans who had been waiting to be dismissed. They didn’t know how and what had happened, but this was the first time they had openly seen their king’s face and he had so many scars, probably battle scars.

The King had long hair that fell to his back, hair that was neatly held by the crown that was sitting pretty on his head. He was wearing a long cloak not to mention the regal clothing he had beneath that cloak.

The king screamed gold on him, but his face was that of someone who was ready to murder. Well, he had murdered Arabella for simply being the one to deliver the news to him, so there was probably no hope for the other people there, right?

"Your Grace, allow me to check the room," Sadako said to his king, asking the one thing that could put him in the same state as Arabella. But that didn’t matter right now, because he knew so well that the man before him was determined.

He hadn’t felt his Erasthai dying, and that was also why the king was still in denial about all this. Then again, he couldn’t just believe a lowly maidservant who seemed to not know the first thing about birthing herself.

"No. I will check it myself," King Zaffuto said, making Sadako just nod at him.

The birthing hall was on a building a little too far from the palace, for reasons that were obvious. It was the hall that was sued by all the women of the kingdom, and well, the King didn’t want to be woken up by women screaming their guts out in labor.

Not even his queen was excused from that. Then again, if the queen got to birth in that hall, then it meant that the services were top-notch, and even if they weren’t, they would have long been upgraded. No one wanted to wake up with his head a few miles away from his body.

"Liana!" the king called out the moment he pushed open the doors to the birthing hall. However, the sight that met him, sent him into shock for a moment there. The great king had been to battlefields and won wars, but what he saw broke his heart to pieces.

Unlike the men who had fallen because of spears or even swords used by them in war, with their shields lying beside them, this room was filled with dead mothers and their midwives. It was a slaughterhouse at best, but worse than that.

Whatever had happened here was too inhumane, even for King Zaffuto.

"What the fuck happened to all the women here?" Zaffuto asked, when he got his voice again, snapping out of the shock he had just been met with. He couldn’t believe what had happened. He couldn’t believe that someone could be that cruel to murder expectant women.

King Zaffuto may have been known as the cruelest king to ever live, but even he was not this kind of cruel. His heart broke for the women on the floor, their necks slashed, their bodies mutilated, like someone was sending the king a message, and it was clear as day.

The future of Kawai was in danger.

Killing the Queen would incapacitate the king.

But taking his heir would ruin him completely.

"Find my queen. Find me my Liana, and check for heartbeats. The women who survive, take them to the queen’s wing. There are enough rooms to house them. And make sure to tell all the physicians in the damn kingdom to be ready.

"No one will leave until the survivors are fit to live alone," the king ordered and the warriors rushed into the room, careful not to step on the mothers there. They checked for heartbeats, hoping to find the survivors.

And while at it, they looked for the queen.

The only woman who could determine whether Kawai would be dead or alive today.

"Find my queen."

For hours, the Lycan warriors scoured the birthing hall for the queen and survivors, but when they were done, they all had broken hearts. They all had lost a part of themselves in the search for their queen and survivors.

Everyone in the birthing hall was dead.

The expectant women who had once had hopes of giving Kawai their next set of future warriors were gone.

"No," the great king whimpered when he saw his warriors come out of the hall with the bloody crown and the queen’s shoal.

His warriors were also carefully carrying with them a body, one that he was familiar with even though he had never expected this to be the case.

From the way they had carried that body, and how the warriors behind them had stood alert, King Zaffuto knew that hell had finally knocked down his door.

Hell was right here in his Kawai.

And hell was staring at him.

"Zaffuto... You need to make way for them," Sadako said to the confused king softly, dropping all the titles, something that only he could do, because Sadako may have been the cruel king’s enforcer, but he was Zaffuto’s best friend.

He understood King Zaffuto better than anyone in the kingdom.

"But brother, my Liana... My queen," the king said to his best friend before he fell to his knees when the warriors reached him with the body of his queen. He could see her belly that was not even sewn up yet.

His wife had gone through a cesarean operation, and his son was stolen from him, even before she could hold him. Who could be that cruel to a woman anyway? He was disheartened and distraught, and more than anything, King Zaffuto was angry.

"I’m so sorry, brother," Sadako said, kneeling beside Zaffuto, before pulling him into a hug, one that the helpless King gladly returned, as if it was going to mute out the sound of his breaking heart from him.

But it only slapped him with reality even harder.

"Take the queen to her chambers," Sadako said to the warriors who nodded at him. They knew their king would want to say his goodbyes properly before he let her go. He knew that this was the hardest decision that they all would ever have to make.

"Someone did this to me, Sadako. Someone took my happiness from me," King Zaffuto said defeatedly, letting his silent tears finally show. There was no one around them, not even the men whose wives had been murdered in the massacre.

The king was grieving for them all, and they weren’t allowed to see a broken king. Oh, but the rules were disheartening, to say the least, but what else could they do about them, huh? Life had dealt them the worst set of cards and how they would deal with them was their choice.

Then again, no one had ever seen the great king cry. Seeing him hurt about his queen, and the other mothers, was the reminder that they all needed to realize that King Zaffuto shared in their grief.

He was humane too, damn.

"—And we’ll find them, brother. We will find your son too. But until then, how about we let the husbands mourn their wives?" Sadako said to his broken brother who had just realized that he wasn’t the one who had lost someone.

"I’m sorry," Zaffuto whispered and Sadako just nodded in understanding.

"Come, brother. Let’s go see Liana one last time," Sadako said and the angry king got up with the help of his brother, taking one look at the dead bodies that were staring at him. Oh, how his heart shattered for those women.

"I will avenge them all," King Zaffuto promised as he wiped his tears, held his head high, and walked with his brother to the palace. He had a hell to face anyway.

"And I’ll help you, always," Sadako promised as he looked at his brother.