Wife of The Demon Prince
Chapter 281: Cut her open!

Chapter 281: Cut her open!

"The slayers headquarters is under attack?" Cornell questioned nonchalantly as he made his way to sit on the sofa. He had just returned, but was met with this news, however he acted as if the news did not bother him in anyway.

"Yes, my Lord. It seems the king had managed to sneak into Landow in the middle of the night and launched his attack on the slayers." Reported one of his men.

Cornell chuckled,"Interesting." It was an unexpected news to him, and quite interesting as well. Cornell had stayed long enough in the palace, and had witnessed and also heard rumors about how much Hamon loved his wife, it was why he held Ara as hostage. But he did not realize his nephew’s attachment to his wife would be to this degree.

"I thought politics would be mixed in their relationship, but perhaps I was wrong, he seemed to care about her more than I thought..." He muttered to himself in amusement. It was already clear that Findara and Dumbarton would soon go to war, so Hamon moved quickly to save his wife before a full scale battle broke out, which meant that she was extraordinarily precious to him.

A smug satisfied smile spread across Cornell’s mouth, "And what’s more, she is carrying his child. I caught I bigger fish than I thought."

It would be like killing three birds with one stone! In fact, that girl had gone beyond his imaginations, she killed his well trained men on the cliff, and also dared to curse him in his face! He couldn’t wait to get rid of her already, and that monster of a nephew.

Cornell turned towards the man on his side, then asked, "Have you done what I asked you to do?"

"Yes, my Lord, I have sent the men as you ordered, they will cut open her stomach and bring her body back to you."

"Good." He nodded in satisfaction, "I can’t wait to send my gift to my beloved nephew, I would love to see his reaction." He burst into laughter as he imagined Hamon’s miserable expression, that moment of vulnerability would give him the opening he had been waiting for to kill Hamon.

Cornell had immediately received the report from Ellyn the moment he emerged from his carriage. And since Hamon had dared invade his territory, he intended to repay him generously. Cornell had ordered his men to move Ara to a secret place and cut open her stomach. Then he’d send his little present!

Cornell smirked and stroked his chin as he imagined Hamon’s reaction, and his own ascension to the throne. Along with all that, came an added bonus of taking over Dumbarton, then killing all those families who had wronged him.

’Wonderfu_’

Bang!

The loud sound of the door bursting open interrupted his thoughts. One of his men rushed into the room with a harried look on his face, "My Lord, bad news!"

"What is going on?" Cornell’s brows furrowed at the man, who wheezed his report without even a moment of breath,

"A report just arrived, Findara’s army are already at the borders. General Richard and his son are currently leading the army!"

"What? How did they know about the rebellion?" He asked in shock as he leapt from his chair. They had prepared to attack Findara unexpectedly, but now that they were prepared...their rebellion could fail!

"Hamon!" He did not need to think further to know that Hamon was behind this. He seemed too desperate to rescue his wife, right? but Cornell would never give her back alive!

Cornell strode towards his armour hanging on the stand, he swiftly wore it, then said to his men, "Hurry up and bring me that woman’s body, I will go and directly deliver it to him."

"Yes, my Lord!" The men bowed together at Cornell, before hurrying out of the room leaving Cornell to prepare for the war. ’Today, I shall end this!’

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Ara was still being dragged by Cornell’s men with both her hands tied. She had tried to ask the men where they were taking her to, but they ignored her and only continued to drag her rope.

When Ara looked around, she noticed that the building seemed like it was on a hill from the windows, and also looked abandoned. Certainly if Hamon was in the slayers headquarters, he would not know to come here as no one would suspect this building to be in use. Previously, when she was locked in that dungeon, she constantly heard marching footsteps from outside, but currently it seemed like all the men had gone to assist in fighting at the slayers headquarters.

Since the slayers headquarters was a secret place, everyone would expect her to be held captive there not in this open abandoned building on a hill. Cornell had cleverly imprisoned her in a place that was close to the slayers headquarters, but also no one cared about.

Even if Hamon should come here later on, he wouldn’t find her as she was being taken to who knows where these men were dragging her to...

With a heavy heart, Ara subtly turned her head to observe her surroundings as she slightly leapt forward to avoid putting her weight on her injured foot. There was no way to tell how many men were in this building, because they were pushing her along. But she could tell they were taking her to a more secretive place.

If only she could get a fire as big as the one burning in the slayers headquarters building to get Hamon’s attention quickly to this building, but that was almost impossible for a lone person. While there were burning torches hanging on the walls, there were still all the guards to deal with.

’What to do now?’

Just as Ara was thinking about what to do, she heard one of the men dragging her asked the other,

"Have you gotten all the tools ready in the room?"

"Yes, I have arranged everything, including the box we’ll put her body in after we are done cutting."

"Good, it will be easy to cut her open. She’s a pain in the ass, she dared to even kill Mathew back then on the cliff! This would be quite fun." He gave Ara a murderous glare as he tugged her rope almost making her fall, the man seemingly bitter about one of the slayers she had killed on the cliff that day.

However, Ara’s mind was a mess after hearing their words. They were going to kill her? Not just that...They planned to cut her open? Were they dragging her to the place to kill her not to hide her from Hamon?!

Ara’s heart skipped a beat at the thought. No! She had to do something really fast to get Hamon’s attention to this damn building before it was too late!

’I wish there were flares or anything...’

In their previous life, when Hamon used to be protective of her and she was clueless of his intentions, he had once given her a flare to use when they went on a mission and told her to use it to send him a signal if she were in danger, and he would come to her rescue, but then, Ara had never used it, because she had no reasons to rely on Hamon then and fought her way through by herself.

However, in this lifetime it was different, he was her husband and she needed him more than anything. But then she did not have any flare with her to even signal him.

As the men continued to discuss on how to kill Ara in her presence as if she wasn’t walking with them, she looked around the men one by one, when something caught her eye.

Ara’s eyes shone, ’That will do!’ She noticed one of the men had a small explosive hanging on his waist, and three more men had the same as well. And since she had no strength to fight them off, she might as well call her husband to deal with them!

But the problem was that both her hands were still tied. How was she going to get her hands on that explosive?

Ara suddenly tripped on the hem of her dress, but as she was about to topple over, one of the men quickly grabbed her shoulders and straightened her up, "Walk properly woman!" He snapped, however, Ara collapsed to the floor and no one caught her fall this time, but it did not matter, that was what she wanted.

"...I am sorry, my foot hurts." She meekly muttered, and it only seemed to irritate the man even more, "Foolish woman! Get the hell up!" He snapped angrily.

Ara glanced up with her tired expression, along with the pain in her ankle, she shakily pushed herself to stand up. She then got closer to the man with explosive and deliberately stumbled over him, the man reflexively caught her by the shoulders, "What is wrong with you, woman! You must be stupid!" He pushed her away from him, and she fell on the floor again.

The men weren’t suspicious that she had been repeatedly stumbling around, as she was a fragile pregnant woman, who was already weak, she posed no threat to them anyway. But that was exactly the fatal mistake she hoped that they’d make.

Ara quickly rose up and clutched the small explosive in her hand. The man immediately noticed, but she was much quicker than him. In a blink of an eye, despite the pain, Ara leapt backwards and gracefully landed some distance away from them.

"What do you think you’re doing, woman?" He asked in amusement as he saw Ara was preparing to set the bomb free. He then chuckled, "Go ahead, You think that little thing can bring us down? You will only hurt yourself with that thing." Even if she threw the explosive at them, all they had to do was dodge the bomb since it would just cause a small explosion. He mused.

However, Ara smirked, "I never meant to throw it at you."

"Then wha_" before he could complete his words, Ara had tossed the bomb in the air and swiftly struck it with a jumbo kick, and sent it flying out the window. In a spilt second, the bomb exploded, releasing it’s red roaring flames into the dark night sky. She had planned to use the bomb to signal Hamon, and she was sure if he saw it, he would be here in a minute.

Nevertheless, kicking the bomb had made the pain in her ankle more unbearable. The men turned red in rage as they realized her intentions, but one of them laughed darkly,

"Oh, you sent a signal to the people attacking our territory, right? But too bad you won’t be alive when they get here." He said coldly, then ordered the rest of the men, "Pin her down! I will cut her limb by limb before I cut her stomach open!"

Ara wanted to fight, but her hands were still bound together, and before she could even move, the men seized her arms, "let me go right now. Don’t even think about laying your sword on me, my husband will be here soon...And trust me, he will kill you all!" She tried to jerk her arms away from their hold, but the grip was too tight for her.

"If you want to live, you should start to run before he gets here_"

Slap!

The man who she took the bomb from, landed a hard slap on her right cheek, making her head jerk to the side. "You will be dead before he gets here, bitch! Lay her down!" He ordered the men.

The men holding Ara pushed her to her knees first, before forcefully pinning her to the floor. Two men pinned down each of her legs, while another one pinned down her bounded hands over her head. She tried to struggle from their holds, but it was futile.

Ara felt like her heart would leap out of her chest with the way it was pounding against her ribcage. Fear creeping up to her bones, and she desperately began to call Hamon in her mind.

’Where are you, Hamon...!’ She saw as the man raised his sword up, and she could not bring herself to watch and closed her eyes shut as a hot tear rolled down one of her eyes. ’My baby...’

Just when she gave up and was expecting to feel the sharp blade on her skin. When_

BANG!

"Take your flirty hands off my wife!" Came a bone chilling thundering voice from the entrance.

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