Chapter 88
SEBASTIAN’S POV
It’s tough to grasp. I feel so hurt and betrayed. How can Brianna want to escape again? I did a lot for her and made sacrifices, but now it feels like she doesn’t appreciate any of it. I should have known sooner enough that she was this ungrateful. I wouldn’t have wasted my time and energy.
And Amelia. Her betrayal hit me doubly hard. After all these years together, it’s shocking she’d stab me in the back like this. Maybe that’s why Catherine fired her and she covered it up by lying to me at her place.
God damn it!!
And I have been pointing fingers at Catherine, angry when I thought she fired Amelia unjustly.
I wanted to go to Amelia’s place right away, but it was late, and she should be at medical school by now. If she had a phone, I would’ve called and no doubt confronted her about this. I can’t let her or anyone in this castle mess with me or involve themselves in matters that don’t in any way concern them.
Tomorrow morning, I’ll let Brianna go as I told her. She can do whatever she wants. I don’t care anymore. I’ve tried my best, but she’s way too stubborn, impulsive, and impatient with me.
Even though it’ll hurt not to see her beautiful delicate face again, I’ll learn to live with it and move on. After all, one dies from a broken heart.
I don’t want Hermes or the other Alpha Kings to find her, punish her and also put my Alpha King position at risk. I’ll do my best to help Brianna find a safe place to hide, even if she may not want my help.
I walked past Catherine at the dining table; she was eating and on her phone. Despite her calling me, I didn’t answer due to my anger. Tomorrow, I need to apologize for misjudging her in firing Amelia. She wasn’t to blame.
Entering my room, I didn’t bother closing the door. I just dropped the cell room key on the nightstand and collapsed on my bed, trying to forget everything. Sleep seemed to come at first, but then I couldn’t stop worrying about where Brianna would go if I set her free tomorrow. The idea of her going out all alone into that wicked world that hurt her troubled me greatly. She will be like a lamb amid lions. Hungry lions waiting to devour her. I didn’t want that to happen, but she was making it extremely difficult for me.
As I was finding it hard to sleep with all those disturbing thoughts, I decided to get up and go warm up some milk to see if it would help me sleep better.
After putting on my slippers and standing up, I realized the cell room key wasn’t where I left it on the nightstand. I looked around to see if I misplaced it, but couldn’t find it anywhere. I’m certain I left it there. Who could have taken it?
After searching but couldn’t find the key anywhere, I decided to go check the cell room to see if someone had entered without my permission.
As I was approaching, to my greatest shock, I heard Catherine’s voice. She was hurling threats and abuses, probably at Brianna.
“Oh no, I hope it’s not what I’m thinking,” I said, worried that she might have harmed Brianna.
I rushed into the cell room, and what I saw left me in total shock, my eyes widening in disbelief.
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BRIANNA’S POV
I shut my eyes tightly, not wanting to face my possible death. I knew Catherine was capable of many things, but I never thought she’d point a gun at me. It was beyond my expectations. Turns out, I wasn’t imagining things—the muffled gunshot on the door the other night was definitely her doing.
I wished Sebastian was here. He would have known how best to handle Catherine in this situation. It was my fault he left. I shouldn’t have said those hurtful things to him. Now, I might have to pay with my life.
“Since you have no last words, goodbye and rot in hell,” Catherine said, about to pull the trigger. Just then, the door flew open, and Sebastian burst in.
Suddenly, he overpowered her from behind, making her lose balance and miss her shot. The bullet hit the wall a few inches from my head. The impact stunned me, and for the next few minutes, I couldn’t hear anything.
I dropped to the floor, holding my ears, feeling disoriented, confused, and shocked. My head rang loudly, and everything seemed to move in slow motion.
Looking up, I saw Sebastian and Catherine wrestling for control of the gun. In the echo, I heard Sebastian say.
“You want to kill her… how the hell do you have a gun, Catherine? Give it to me! You are anything but a murderer. Come back to your senses right this minute.”
And Catherine said.
“I hate you! You caused all this! And after I’m done killing her. I’ll kill you too if I have to. I can’t let keep suffering in my castle…”
They continued wrestling for the gun when suddenly, there was another muted gunshot. Catherine sank to her knees, eyes wide open in shock. Her gaze fell to her stomach, and I couldn’t help but weep bitterly as I saw what happened.
“No…” I cried out as I saw blood spreading rapidly on her nightgown.
Seeing what happened, Sebastian was as shocked as I’d ever seen him. He stared at the gun in his hand, then instinctively tossed it aside, breathing heavily like he’d just run a marathon.
As Catherine was about to fall, Sebastian quickly crouched and caught her in time.
“Stay with me, Cathy… come on… don’t leave like this… it was a mistake… Even though we’ve been having a tough time lately… I swear I’ll never do anything to hurt you… I swear…”
“You… you killed me, Sebastian,” Catherine struggled to say with a weak breath. Blood dripped from her mouth. “You killed me… your wife… I can now see that you never truly loved me…” Those were her last words. She didn’t speak again, and I knew she was gone.
I crawled to the bars, gripping them for support. My breath was heavy as if my lungs couldn’t pump more air.
“Catherine? Cathy!! Answer me!” Sebastian kept calling her, shaking her lightly, but hearing no response, he carefully left her on the floor and rushed to the door. After a few seconds, he rushed back inside to where I was, saying.
“You saw what happened, Brianna. It was a mistake…I didn’t kill her….”
But my mind couldn’t process everything he was saying further, and my hold on the bars weakened. I blacked out.