Chapter 169 - 169 "The Emperor’s Regret"

169 “The Emperor’s Regret”

“D-Don’t kill me...”

“Elee, Calm down!”

“Believe me... I really didn’t did it!!”

“I believe you! Open your eyes!”

“I didn’t... I already gave up... Why would i...”

“Sush! Everything is alright...I will keep you safe...”

Eleanora was crying out loud as she grabbed his shirt coller and Cathain played along to calm her down even though he couldn’t understand her words.

‘What is she talking about?’

‘Just why is she like this and doesn’t accepts me?’

.....

Even after asking Brayden quite a few times, he couldn’t find any information about either if he had hurt her ever.

From the very beginning, she kept on rejecting him and feared him.

She become a little normal after she knew that he was Ain, but still she would act like this sometimes.

Like she is two different person.

One wanted to accept him but the other one didn’t.

It feels like she is deliberately pushing away because of something, even if she didn’t wanted to do it.

“Calm down... I believe you... You didn’t did it, I know.”

Cathain spoke in a gentle voice as he pulled her in his embrace to calm her down.

Eleanora wrapped her hands around his waist as she kept crying.

This is the first time that she is finally letting her frustrations and fears letting out.

She always acted calm and behaved herself.

Keeping her emotions in all the time.

This made her forget how to express herself.

She kept all her expectations, fears and frustration when no one believed her.

She acted rationally, sacrificed herself because she didn’t wanted to use her child to live as a sinner.

Or make that child live a life full of misery because his mother couldn’t prove her innocence infront of the piles of fake evidence.

She knew how hard it would be for a child, who would be born from an previous empress of a fallen duchy.

With no one to support.

Eventually that child would also framed like her one day and die.

She acted calm even if her heart was trembling with fear and her feets wanted to run away.

She walked towards her own death knowing this all, holding onto a little hope that he might believe her.

Only to get her all hope crushed and she let him execute her.

Maybe one day, her innocence will be proved and he will regret.

He will suffer the same loneliness she went through, with no one beside him to comfort him.

She transferred all her holy powers into him before she took her last breath as she hoped for him to suffer.

‘But why am i also suffering?’

Eleanora thought as her heart kept aching badly.

“Sush, sleep now...”

Cathain spoke as he continued to pat on her back and her crying gradually stopped.

His words to sleep felt like an tempting offer to her and she gradually relaxed.

After a few moment, her breathing become normal as she fall asleep but she kept hiccuping because of crying for too long.

Cathain sighed as he carried her to the bed and tucked her into the blanket.

‘Elee...’

He looked at her with pain in his red eyes and slide up her bangs a little to place a kiss on her forehead, before he proceeded to leave.

“Sleep well, My empress...”

“Don’t go...”

Eleanora spoke in her sleep as she caught his sleeve, as she was afraid of being alone.

“...”

Cathain looked at her tiny figure as he was not sure either he should stay or not.

What if she becomes more unstable by seeing him sleeping beside her in the morning?

But he don’t have the heart to leave her like this either.

In the end, Cathain decided to lay down beside her and leave after she is more stable.

He looked at her sleeping face and brushed aside her hair, which fall infront of her face and tucked them behind her ear.

‘Don’t worry... No matter how long it takes for you to accept me, i will wait for you;

If it’s not you, then no one else can wear the empress crown and attach my name with them.

Only your name can be written down beside mine.

You will be my one and only empress.’

…

“Your Majesty, It’s time to crown the queen as the empress. That position can’t be vacant anymore.”

‘Huh?’

‘Who is talking?’

Eleanora thought as she tried to open her eyes against the bright light slowly.

Then she froze as she realized it was another dream of hers from the past.

Infront of her was a 26 year-old man with black hair and lifeless red eyes.

Who had the emperor crown on his head and the empress crown was at his hands.

He kept staring at the crown with an absent mind, not caring what the people infront of him is saying.

The people infront of him was Duke Raven and the team of nobles, who supports the duke.

The empress seat beside him was empty, which surprised Eleanora.

‘This scene should be after my death, right?’

Eleanora approached the emperor and as usual, no one noticed her at all.

She stood infront of the podium of the throne and wondered why he didn’t made Jennifer the empress yet.

‘Doesn’t he loves her very much?’

‘He even made her the queen and declared her child as the future heir,’

‘Our duchy was destroyed and he executed me because of her...’

‘What is he doing now, then?’

After looking at the emperor carefully, Eleanora could see dark circles under his eyes.

Together with his slightly long hair and lifeless red eyes, the emperor looked more intimidating and scary now.

“Are you people done?”

The emperor asked in a cold voice as he released his superior aura, which made Duke Raven and the others fall on their knees.

“Your Majesty... This can’t keep going... The empire need an empress.”

“...”

“Back then, If that sinner hadn’t harmed my daughter’s child-”

.....

“WHAT DID YOU JUST CALLED HER?!”