Her Unwanted Mate On The Throne

Chapter 169 On thin ice

Luna Queen thrashed against the delicate surface and all Doris could do was watch and hope they didn't both fall under. William cracked his shoe against the ice as if he wanted it to break open and take both of them somewhere she couldn't follow. Her insides screamed at him to get off the ice-to be careful, but the look on his face made her silent and steady. Just like he wanted her to be.

"You think you can take the crown after your bother has worked his entire life to be the next king?” Luna Queen snarled. Doris glanced around to see a few of his guards emerge from the trees bloody and vengeful. Only a few had been missing, but they looked even more angry than they had when they went in the trees.

All that anger looked right at the Luna Queen.

William laughed. It didn’t sound friendly or nice, it made her skin crawl and stomach turn.(This novel will be daily updtaed at www.noveljar.com) If he looked at her the way he looked at the Luna Queen, she would be begging for her life.

“Martin doesn't know what it's like to work a day in his life. He had you and my father put words in his mouth while he sat there like a puppet.”

"His entire life has been dedicated to this role while you slept around and only thought of yourself!” Luna Queen gripped William's arm that held her. She glared up at him as if her stare could burn him to the core. A dangerous game on thin ice, Doris clenched her hands into fists until they turned white.

William tightened his grip and Doris could see the pain twist on the Luna Queen's face. “You know nothing about me. You killed my mother and despised me your entire life. Do you know how long I've waited to get my revenge? I've had dreams of ripping your head right off your body.”

Luna Queen had a flash of fear across her face before she morphed it into something else.” Your mother was a peasant. She didn't know the first thing about being a queen or married to a king,” “You took away her choice to learn! And you wanted me out of the way too for your perfect sons to have whatever they wanted.” William shouted. A wave of invisible rage swirled around him. “You tried to kill me by sending me to the north because you underestimated my strength. You tried to kill me at the palace and here because you think I'm a fool. You think you're so untouchable because of your status, but here I am with your life in my hands.”

"You don't deserve what you have. Don't you get it? Your father can't stand to even look at you and you never meant anything to him!" Luna Queen gripped the floor when he shoved her down hard against it. Doris swore she heard the sounds of cracking but it might have been her mind trying to make things worse.

“Your father hates you because of her.” Luna Queen continued. “There is no hope for you back at the palace, this war is ridiculous. You think your father would ever let you rule the kingdom when you haven't proved yourself? You've always been a selfish child.”

"My father hates me because of you.” William snarled. “I would have been the crown prince if she lived. I would have been the better leader for the kingdom if my mother was alive. He hates everything about me because you killed the only person he ever loved.”

Luna Queen had the nerve to laugh. Blood dripped down her skin and stained there like she was coated in paint. It made her look dangerous. “Your father was a pathetic fool that let something as stupid as having a mate steer his heart. I forced him to become the king he is today—"

"A terrible, selfish king that only cares for himself? He let his own people be treated horribly while he sits on his throne and watches them suffer. (This novel will be daily updtaed at www.noveljar.com)Only you would make things that terrible for our kingdom-and worse when you take the lead for your son.” William stomped his heal on the ice again and this time Doris knew that it was cracking. It was so loud, it made her entire body shiver.

“William!” Doris called. If it broke, they both would go under. He had to know that, why was he risking himself for someone so awful?

William glanced up at her briefly before he looked back down at the mess beneath him. Luna Queen laughed again as if this was all one big joke that she was in on. It amazed Doris how someone who was so close to death, and still poked at the one who decided if she would get to live.

“I heard you have a servant as a mate at the palace. I suppose the saying that the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree is true, isn't it?” Luna Queen looked over at Doris but William gripped her chin and made her look back up at him. “You're cursed just like your father. I hope you're careful who you drop your pants for, or she might end up just like your mother.”

William smashed her face down hard against the ice until it cracked open. He lifted her head and hit again and again until the ice split open and her head went under. Luna Queen thrashed wildly, making the ice break wider until her whole torso fell in.

The guards around Doris did nothing but watch. It made her wonder how many horrible things they were forced to witness over the years. She would guess that this wasn't the first time something like this happened.

William held her under the freezing water with a wild rage in his eyes. Doris stepped back even though they were far from her. She couldn't stand it anymore, she looked away but the sounds still haunted her ears. It was as she was an inch away instead of across the frozen lake.

After a few horrible moments, the splashing stopped. Everything stopped. No struggling or grunting. Not boots kicking against the snow in hopes that he would release her and she would get away-there was nothing. 2

The guards around her moved and that's when Doris finally looked over to see William walking away from the body half in the lake. She looked so lifeless and still-Doris quickly looked away again before it burned in her memory more than it already had. O

“Let's get back.” William grabbed her arm and forced her towards the horses without another word. “Deliver her to the steps of the palace. Let it be known that her attempts at killing me failed.” He called to the guards around him.

A few followed them back to the camp while the rest stayed to remove the body. A part of her heart broke for Martin when he would realize that his mother was dead. She might have been a horrible person, but she was still his mother. He would mourn her even if no one else did.

William rode in silence back to the camp with blood still on his hands. He sat stiff under her hold and she knew all too well that he was disappearing inside himself like he did when they first met. She could feel him pulling away from her and she knew that no matter how tight she held onto him, it wouldn't matter.

They arrived back to the camp with it untouched from any harm. People were on guard but walked freely as if nothing was there to concern them all morning. How she wished she was among them instead of with William. There was only so much death her eyes could witness.

He slid off the horse and left Doris in the stables to get down herself. A close by guard hurried to make sure she didn't fall before he went after William with the rest of them. It was cruel in a way, that William had the power to crumble the mood of everyone around him with a simple look or action.

She could feel it now. The way her mind tried to blame herself for his actions when she did nothing but watch. Perhaps that was the problem, she watched. She watched it all happen and did nothing to stop him from something he might regret.

Would he regret killing the woman that tried to kill him several times and killed his mother when he was a baby?(This novel will be daily updtaed at www.noveljar.com) Doris knew the answer was no. He would never regret that-but perhaps he regretted taking away the mother of someone else. Doris watched his back from across the camp as he disappeared into the main tent where they planned out the battlefield like a chess game. He didn’t look back at her once.