❤️ A Man Called Storm (Part 32) ❤️
"With the way you are talking and your reaction towards me shows that you hate this Juno of a girl and my face troubles you," Kira said and then smiled a little bit. "Well let's assume I am her and you are threatening me. I will just tell you, I am waiting."
Rumi didn't say anything as she left the prison in anger. No need of finding Storm, he has made it clear to her that he is hungry and now he won't even have her time because of the sudden appearance of Juno.
There is only one way to find out if she is truly Juno.
She left the Palace in an angry state.
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Empress Rose Room:
Empress Rose was having her handmaid and four other female servants fan her as she sat in her bed, moving her body once in a while. Marcus was with her as he tried to calm her down which didn't work.
"She tried to kill me. You were there Marcus, you saw what that insane girl was trying to do to me," Empress Rose said standing up to her feet and began to move around in her room. Her handmaid and the servants followed her about and fanned her.
"Calm down, she was only trying to scare you which she succeeded in doing."
"Oh don't tell me to calm down Marcus because the more you keep on repeating those words the faster my heart beats faster, so please don't tell me to calm down."
At that moment Storm entered the room without knocking which prompted Empress Rose to stop in her movement as she stared at Storm angrily, transferring her anger on him.
"Does this look like your mother's room or can your wretched mother afford such luxury? Didn't she teach you how to knock on someone's door before entering?. What if I am naked!"
"I could hear your voice so I know you are less busy and also," Storm said. "Do not insult my mother, I am the only one allowed to insult her," he added with the tone of his voice darkening.
"What do you want?" The Empress asked in a scared voice.
"Was Juno truly dead?"
"Yes, she died years ago. I could still remember it like the back of my hands. I heard she was attacked and killed in her home. I paid my condolences to Emera though,"
"Then who is that girl in the prison?"
"I don't know but she looks so much like Juno and she threatened to kill me. She must be killed immediately."
"No,"
"No? Listen here boy, I am the Empress of Ashland and as far as I am still the Empress of this Kingdom my word is the law."
"And I am taking that law away from you Rose. I am the gifted one remember? The prisoners should not be touched at all, they will be questioned. I will personally question her."
"If that is all you can leave my room now."
"Of course," Storm said and left her room.
"If I don't die of the hunting face of Juno then I will die from Storm oppression."
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Emera House:
By the time Rumi returned she had thrown the food away in anger along the path. Emera was not in the house. Good, she thought as she went to her room. Making sure her door was locked, she sat down and crossed her legs, closing her eyes as she concentrated.
It was as if she was in the past. She opened her eyes and saw when she was a little girl with Juno and when they took the shortcut and how she had killed her and threw her into the hole she found at the top of the mountain.
Then she saw something she had missed. Coming back to reality and opening her eyes she stood up from the ground.
She had left Juno alive, barely breathing when she threw her into that hole but still...what if she had survived?
No, she couldn't survive that fall and there is no one who lives in the mountain.
If Juno is alive that means the prisoner is her. And if she is Juno, does that mean she is pretending not to remember the past? But there is no two Juno, her mother would have told her that.
Rumi held her head and screamed aloud. She was confused, for the first time in her life, she was standing in a maze with no way out.
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Palace: Storm's Room:
"We heard what happened, sorry we weren't there to help," one, out of the ten men that came with Storm, said to him. Gwen had informed them of the recent happenings that took place in their absence. They were with Storm in his room. While Storm was sitting down on his bed together with Gwen, the rest were standing.
"That is the least of my worries now. A girl from my past and who I hate is back."
"So you want us to kill her inside the prison for you?" another asked.
"No, I want her to suffer a little, to test some pains, the kind I went through, and finally I will kill her with satisfaction," Storm said ignoring Gwen who snorted at his statement. "So from now henceforth, you are to guard the cell she is in and once I find out she is Juno, hell will let loose."
"And how do you intend to do that?" Gwen asked.
"Let's say she lost her memory then something she is familiar with when she sees it will trigger her memory back and so that is why I have decided to bring her father."