Chapter 234

234 Escalated Quickly

“This is where the King is right now,” Alma gestured towards the door of the ballroom and said to Ruby with a happy look on her face. “I will ask the guards to open the door for you.”

Ruby quickly grabbed Alma by her wrist and then said with a soft smile on her face, “Alma, I am really grateful for everything that you’ve done for me until today. Thank you!”

Alma smiled back at Ruby and replied, “I was just doing my job, Miss Ruby. But it is true that I have never felt this close to someone I serve. It was really a pleasure working for you. So...” She took a deep breath and then whispered, “So, I really wish that you will change your mind about leaving.”

Ruby simply gave a mirthless smile and looked down.

Alma patted Ruby’s hand and then said, “I will inform the guards.”

She walked closer to the guards and then whispered to them that it was Ruby. The guards instantly looked at the woman in the maroon gown. Everyone in the castle, even those who weren’t aware of her before her disappearance, now knew who Ruby was because of the fuss Everard had caused after she disappeared.

They quickly pushed the door just enough for Ruby to sneak inside the hall.

Ruby thanked Alma once again before finally stepping inside the hall.

‘Where could he be?’ Ruby thought to herself and started to look around the hall.

.....

The moment she opened up her mind, and her eyes started to look for Everard, she felt an overwhelming sensation soaring in her heart. It was the exact strong sensation that she had felt on the full moon night.

‘Oh god no! Not right now!’ She clenched her jaw and her fists and screamed in her head.

That irresistible feeling that desired emotional attachment, as well as carnal pleasure, began to crawl deep under her skin. Every part of her body was screaming to her to find Everard and smother him with kisses.

‘What the hell am I even thinking at a time like this? Ugh!’ she closed her eyes and got angry at herself.

However, her body didn’t stop acting out. Her whole body began to sweat and tremble with desire, and a small part of her mind that was still half-conscious was extremely disgusted by how her body, her mind, and her heart were acting.

“Hey! You stepped on my gown!”

Ruby heard a woman shouting at her. And when she tried stepping away, she heard another man shouting at her saying that she stepped on his shoe.

“Excuse me! I’m sorry!” she apologized in an almost inaudible voice. Then she gripped her gown and ran towards the area that was somewhat empty in comparison to every other place in that hall.

And almost instantly, she flopped down on the floor because she didn’t want Everard to find her in that pathetic condition, mauled by her raw desire.

For the best, or for worst, Ruby sat down right in time because that was exactly the moment when Everard managed to break out of his daze for a split second and look around the hall in search of her.

‘Is Ruby here?’ he wondered and darted his eyes around all the corners of the hall. However, he was greatly disappointed when he didn’t find her.

Right then, Anastasia tapped on Everard’s shoulder and asked while looking at him with great worry, “Eve? Your eyes... What’s happening to you?”

Everard felt his heart drumming like crazy again. Once again, he was swept by the raw desire that was buried deep in his heart.

His eyes twinkled when he looked deep into those pair of emerald eyes. And he thought to himself, ‘It is her! It has always been her!’

Unfortunately, since he had concluded that it wasn’t Ruby who was making his heart and his mind go crazy like this, he attributed his overwhelming emotions and desires to Anastasia. He assumed that it was Anastasia who was making him feel that way.

And without even taking another moment to think it through, he pulled Anastasia closer to him, cupped her cheeks, and then leaned closer to her lips.

Anastasia widened her eyes when she saw his lips coming at her. She felt cold sweat running down her spine. Everything around her seemed to slow down and eventually stop – the music, the dancing couples, the guests, everything.

She even felt her own heart stopping when suddenly, she felt Everard’s warm lips pressed against hers, and his tongue trying to pry open her tight-sealed mouth.

The very next moment, she felt a sudden gust of wind crashing against her face. And before she knew it, Everard was lying at the other end of the hall with Caspian sitting on top of him.

Her breathing started to get heavier and heavier when her teary eyes saw the damage that had already taken place. There was a huge hole in the wall, right above the entrance of the hall. A whole chunk of a pillar was missing on the other side. And there were several craters on the floor.

The guests were either running out of the hall or were cramped at the corners of the hall, trying to stay away from getting in the middle of that terrifying fight.

Everything escalated so fast that the whole hall was in a state of chaos.

Anastasia’s ears were ringing from the continuous and loud crashing and banging noises. She focused her attention back on Everard and Caspian.

To her horror, she witnessed Caspian continuously and relentlessly slamming his fists on Everard’s face and his chest, the floor, and anywhere his fists landed.

Both Hamilton and Vincent were trying to hold Caspian back, but they were failing miserably. She also saw a few others trying to break the fight, but no one was successful.

Anastasia widened her eyes in fear thinking that Caspian might have already killed Everard.

She wanted to shout and ask her husband to stop. But her voice had already died down and betrayed her. Thus, she mustered up her remaining strength in her legs and ran towards her husband.

When she reached there, she dropped down on her knees behind Everard’s head, and she leaned down to shield Everard’s face from getting hit.

Caspian looked at his wife resting her head on Everard’s chest in horror and screamed, “Anna! What do you think you are doing?”

Anastasia closed her eyes and mumbled while shedding tears, “Enough already, Caspian! Stop! Please!”