Seeing what had just happened to Sir Rager, the frightened ones cried in fear. People cried out when they saw this. But they couldn't move. They could only cry out in fear.
Sir Rager groaned in pain as he tried to get up from the ground. They hadn't exactly been prepared for battle, so he wasn't prepared for it and was still only wearing normal clothes, which meant that the arrow went deep into his gut, making him spit out blood.
"Weren't you taught not to let your emotions control you when you're in battle? Prince Harold taught me that." Tyra taunted him.
Sir Rager fell back on the ground, and when it looked like some guards were going to help him, Tyra spoke up, "I wouldn't do that if I were you." She warned and turned her eyes towards the hostages to make her threat clear.
That stopped them, and they could only watch in helplessness as he tried and failed to stand on his feet until he could no longer try and just lay on the floor with his back and staring at the sky. He seemed to be deep in thought even as his blood pooled around him.
Now it all made sense to the queen. All this while, she had been living in fear, looking for the one who was hunting her. The person who had sent that note to mess with her. It was all her daughter. Together with Damian. She almost laughed in disbelief.
"I wanted to give you all two choices to save yourselves, but I changed my mind."
"TYRA!" Alvin yelled out.
He hadn't wanted to believe some of the things Damian had told him until now. He didn't want to believe that she would betray Prince Harold in such a way. But with every passing minute, it became clear.
"I don't want to hurt you, Alvin." She said to him before adding, "And it is Queen Tyra from now on. This thing can no longer be your queen."
"You aren't even a Princess," Alvin said to her. He hadn't wanted to make any accusations. He had always known whenever a woman admired Prince Harold in an unusual way. But he had never thought so about Tyra's behaviour. But after all he heard, after all he had witnessed, and after all he remembered, it all made sense.
"You know quite well that your father isn't the king, but Sir Damon."
"You are courting death," Tyra said with a dark gaze in her eyes.
This was another shock for the rest of them. At this point, they weren't sure who to look to for answers. Was it Tyra? Alvin? The queen? Or Sir Damon?
This was purely insane!
"Isn't that why you are doing this? Isn't that why you've always hated Beth and tried to kill Princess Amber together with her?"
Alicia's eyes widened as the realization set in. Alvin was not the type to make false accusations.
It all made sense!
Tyra always knew this and wanted to have Harold all to herself.
Tyra scoffed and used her hand to brush her hair back as she casually said, "You are making this difficult for me. How annoying."
"You are really not the daughter of the King?" One of the Rogues asked her in surprise.
"SHUT YOUR MOUTH!" She said to him in a tone filled with disgust.
"Is that... true? That is not true, right?" Sir Evan asked the queen, who was about to deny it while crying, but Damon, with all his strength, muttered, "It is true."
Gasps filled the air everywhere.
Those three words alone had been able to confirm so many things for all of them.
The queen had an affair with the King's assistant for real. That hadn't been an accusation. She had had their child right in the palace, and the filthy thing had been bestowed the title of princess!
The fact that she was even an Omega!
So many of them badly wanted to throw up. But they had to hold it in.
"Have you... have you gone mad?!" The queen shrieked at Damon, who simply had his eyes closed.
He looked like he was done with all of this and wanted it to end.
"It's not true. I swear it." The queen cried and shook her head. She looked at her brother. Her nephew. She looked all around her, denying it to whoever cared to believe her.
"Am-Amber... you know... you know how it feels to be lied against. They... they are lying!"
Alicia wasn't one to judge people. But this queen. She just couldn't. She turned her face away from the woman.
"Tyra... you... you are a monster. I regret birthing you. You should have died when you were born! You should never have been born!" In between tears, the queen cussed at her with all her might.
Tyra giggled. "So what if the King isn't my father? It doesn't change that there is nothing you can do to me. Prince Harold loves me. He will love me more when I get rid of all you obstacles to his throne. He will adore me when I get revenge for him for all you did to him. I... am going to be your queen." She said with so much joy that she couldn't contain herself and began to laugh excitedly, clapping her hands. Some of the rogues had to admit to themselves that this girl had some issues with her head.
"That... is not true, right?" Prince Ivan asked. He was still in shock about everything and only managed to speak now as he looked at his mother.
"You... monster...." The queen cried while pointing at Tyra.
"Are you any better?" Alvin asked in anger. He had never felt so useless. He couldn't approach because of all the lives at stake.
He could still see some of their people's corpses on the wet, cold ground. He was useless. He was useless in every way.
"You and Sir Damon got rid of Sir Wilson because you knew he had guessed you were pregnant when everyone in the palace knew the king had long since moved on from you." He spoke to the queen accusingly. She was the genesis of all this.
"You knew he suspected your affair with Sir Damon, and you killed him and planned to seduce the king to lay with you. Isn't that why you lied to everyone that Princess Tyra was born premature when she was indeed full-term? Sir Wilson's assistant, who helped with the birth, also mysteriously broke his neck on the way back to the palace after going to purchase some herbs for you. Aren't you as vicious as the devil you created?"
"How... did you know all of that?" Tyra asked hesitantly, feeling a bad vibe about this.
Those were all too personal for Alvin to know.
Unless...
"I told him," Damian said as he showed up from among the troop and came forward with his horse. He looked battered. The only thing that looked very alive were his eyes. They stared at Tyra with fury.
"Not again! Not again! NOT AGAIN! Why are you all making this difficult for me?!" Tyra asked and burst into tears while dragging her hair like a pathetic little loser.
"DAMIAN! YOU FILTHY RAT!" The queen yelled with all her might as soon as she saw him.
Damian glared at the queen before his livid eyes moved away from her to loom at Tyra.
"What do you think you are doing?!" Tyra yelled at him as she cleaned her tears with the back of her hands.
"Did you also plan to get rid of me when you asked to help me mess up the palace?" She asked in disbelief and pointed at Damian as she said, "This is all partly his doing! And you have that lad beside you?"
Alvin ignored her and turned to Damian as he asked sternly, "What was the last thing you promised to tell me after meeting Tyra?"
Damian turned his eyes to Tyra and said, "Since you are admitting to all your crimes? Aren't you missing something?"
His eyes moved away from Tyra, and he glanced in Sir Evan and William's direction before his eyes found Lady Victoria.
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