Twisted Empire - Episode 99&100

 

TWISTED EMPIRE

Twisted Empire - Episode 99&100

(Her Blade, His Neck )

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by Naomi Cindy B.

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[UNN College]

Four's boots were dragging on the ground, and his palms were dragging on the walls for support.

He was sweating, and it's even showing through his uniform—on his chest, and at the back of his neck.

His eyes aren't red, they're something close to yellow as if he's terribly sick with fever. His chest seems inflated, and it's rising constantly without falling. He looks like he has been murdered, like this is his spirit roaming the earth.

He's already outside the professor's office, and Paul is beside him as they went down the hall of students.

A lot of students are even greeting him respectfully, but he's not hearing a thing. His ears are hot, too. Like they got flushed with a boiling liquid.

He's not even here anymore, literally.

"Rue?... Rue is Usman?" Uncle Paul muttered, fists folding and unfolding for more times than he could count.

"Unbelievable.." 

He's not even aware of Four's perplexity beside him cos he's dealing with the shock too.

When they arrived outside the gate, he hopped in the van, expecting Four to join him, but Four just stood there.

"Four?" He called out.

"Leave. I'll find my way back to the base." Four replied, his voice below a whisper. He's not even looking up.

"Are you...ok?" Paul asked with obvious concern.

"Go find Dave at the annex." Four rasped, voice still low, eyes still down.

"Fine then, I'll call you. And I'll contact Teal on my way. Since things have come to this, I'll inform her of everything, including the fact that Rue isn't her real mother." Paul said, expecting Four to be shocked.

But shock didn't happen.

Four remained the way he is.

"You knew? That Rue isn't her real mother?" Paul asked surprisingly, and Four looked up.

The sick yellowness is gone from his eyes, replaced with faint red.

"I told you to go join Dave in the annex!" He snapped.

Paul brought the van engines to life and drove off.

Four continued standing there, legs straight in his trousers against the tar and arms weak at either side of him.

Students are walking past him to and from inside the school, but he's only feeling their breeze, he can't see them—or he choose not to.

His throat turned sour.

No, bitter.

Unbearably bitter.

                          • Age 12 •

It's Four's twelfth birthday, and as expected, Yulia made it grandiose. A gathering of riches that not only has kids from Four's school, but also big personalities worldwide.

From the army, from the country estates, from the overseas and so on.

It's an Houseparty, but it's got everything belonging to a open air party. It's the best of Four's birthdays.

But Four didn't enjoy it—not with the huge painful scar on his back.

He spent the whole day flashing fake smiles at the guests, hiding his pains and masking his discomfort.

"Birthday boy is so handsome, my daughter would love him." One of the guests commented.

"Oh...he has a girlfriend. He's in a platonic relationship, sorry." Yulia replied, smiling at Four who's sitting on a large regal chair in the middle of the room. 

Four returned her smile, and she luckily didn't notice his pain.

He hardened his bones, gritting his teeth when the pains from his back came again.

"Big bro!" Axel appeared with wide eyes, "Your neck! There's a black vein!" 

Four spranged up, and Axel gasped again, "Your shirt is stained at the back! I think you're bleeding!"

Four sneaked back inside, avoiding the notice of all other guests till he arrived at his room.

He peeled off his shirt and went to the full mirror. Truly, there's a black vein on his neck like a serpent, and his scar is bleeding fresh blood.

The pains seemed to multiply immediately, and he punched the mirror, wanting to cry...but he couldn't do it. The tears wouldn't come.

He crawled back to the bedroom to get his phone and reread the message from the blackmailer who poisoned him.

• Call the Ambrose couple, tell them to come to your birthday after-party. I'm giving you the last chance to save yourself and your family. I'm very sure the scar is bleeding right now, and your neck has the dark vein. That's only the start, cos if you fail to comply, your brother is next, then your dear mother and your father! I won't stop till your family goes down the death pit!

As he read, he gulped in repeat, trembling with fear.

Axel rushed inside. He's the only one who knows about the scar since he got branded at the museum washroom.

"You're... you're actually... bleeding so much! I'll tell mum!" Axel said and went for the door.

"Come back here Axel!!" Four yelled, and Axel turned. He's crying already.

"But you're bleeding and you're in pains, and that vein on your neck is scary! I don't want you to die! You're being threatened!"

"You will not tell mum. Mum is stubborn, and she might ruin things. She's adamant about me and you know it! I have to be gentle with this person if I really wanna live." Four groaned, sweating to the floor.

"Stop talking as if you aren't stubborn too! I dunno why you inherited that thing from mum. You're the only brother I have, and you know how much I brag about you to my classmates, so you can't die!" Axel snarled, coming back to kneel beside him.

"The blackmailer told you to call the Ambrose couple to come here, right? Then do it!"

"Are you a fool? You think calling them to come here is to jolly? This blackmailer has other plans and the couple could get hurt! You know how much I like Vaughn especially!" 

"But you're dying! Would you rather die? Mum suffered three lost children before you stayed so think twice! You're not dying, I will not allow you to die!" Axel yelled, wiping his tears.

Four fisted his palms, hitting them on the ground repeatedly as the pains slashed through him again. 

One would think he's epileptic with the way he's wriggling on the ground. His blood stained everywhere, and his neck vein elongated.

"Uhhhhhh!!!!!!" He groaned, slamming his fists on the floor again. His knuckles peeled, and his eyes began rotating.

Axel quickly shut the door to stop the groan from reaching outside.

"Call the Ambrose couple, now!" He shouted desperately, kicking Four's phone to him.

Four took the phone, his eyes seeing red as he searched for Rue's line in his contacts...

•Next Morning•

Four woke up to find himself in bed. Blood gone. Tears gone. Sweat dried.

He sat up startled, and he was even more surprised to see he's already wearing his shirt back.

Axel came in carrying a tray, containing a cup of tea.

He dropped the tray on the bed, then he sat in front of Four.

"I know you love gin, so I stole some from the cellar and mixed the tea with it. You should drink when it's still hot." He said, offering him the cup of tea.

Four looked on, not understanding a thing. When did he fall asleep?

He was about to query further about that when Pedro came in, holding a small envelope.

"Hera is the only one who sends you silly love letters through posting. The post office brought this, probably from her." He said.

Four snatched the packet from him, tearing it open.

He brought out the small note that's inside and read...

• Job done. You did well. Take the antidote immediately.

He looked into the base of the package and saw a white single pill. Must be the antidote.

"The... Ambrose couple...did they come here last night?" He asked without breaths in his lungs.

"Rue and Vaughn? Nope. You made them draw more than twenty paintings for you last month. Didn't we tell you that you won't be inviting them over till next month? Let the couple rest their fingers." Pedro smiled.

Yulia ran into the room suddenly, breaths shaky and chest the same.

"The news...the...news."

Four was the first to tear out of the the room, running downstairs. His steps stopped in front of the television, and the news he met made him almost die.

Rue and Vaughn, the popular painters from Kalynda. They got in an accident at the end of a cliff last night when they were travelling to an unknown location, and they both...died?

"It's not our own Rue and Vaughn, right?" Pedro shook his head.

Yulia sat on the couch and began crying, even Axel.

"No..." Four shivered, shifting back from the tv. He took a flower vase and threw it at the screen, breaking it to bits.

"No!!! It's untrue! They're not dead! They're not!!!"

"Four!" Pedro grabbed him in a firm hold with his shoulders, but Four broke free, kicking and wailing.

"It's not true!! It's not true! They're not gone!!!"

He was acting insane, and his bones suddenly turned harder than it was.

That vein stretched on his neck, shocking both parents.

"Four!!!" Pedro and Yulia shouted in a deep chorus, fear gripping them.

"Big... brother." Axel stuttered.

Four's fingers travelled to his hair, and a small deranged laughter crackled from his throat.

"I'm disgusting. A pig." He muttered, going back upstairs.

"Four!!" Pedro and Yulia went after him with Axel.

His room door was already locked when they got there.

And that was the start of the indoor self-trap.

             • Present Time •

Four is still standing in front of the college gate.

But he's now conscious of his surroundings, conscious of the students who're staring at him, and the breeze against his sweaty skin.

He got into a taxi down the road.

"The base?" The driver asked.

Four replied with a simple nod. He's gonna return to the base and tell Teal he's responsible for the death of her father and Rue.

She deserves to know that before this gets any worse cos obviously...Rue is getting revenge on him.

The president is surely the blackmailer.

Rue is seeking revenge on him and the president, and it's understandable.

Now she needs to face the two of them and leave the citizens alone.

Cos if that next attack happens, then thousands will die.

And before Rue gets to the president, he's gonna have to make him pay for giving him this ugly scar first.

He dipped his hands into the side pocket of his uniform, bringing out the small single antidote pill sent by the blackmailer.

He didn't take it since then. He doesn't deserve to take it.

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[Ring Building]

"Why...?" Teal held Rue by the arms very firmly. "Why!!!"

"You grew your hair, so I expected a lotta changes to come with the growth, and I wasn't wrong. But aren't you being rude? You're seeing me after 17 years, and the first thing you ask is why?" Rue glared cruelly.

"No matter what you've been through, you shouldn't involve the citizens!! The citizens did nothing wrong, but you've killed thousands!! So you made it alive all these while, and you hid in the dark, developed you skills and began your lunacy? You couldn't even come see me? You were more concerned with revenge than your actual daughter? If you're that interested in revenge, you should have killed the president!!" Teal yelled, pushing her away.

"Add Empress to that list... she's the same person who made the powder for Spyros to destroy my womb when I was in jail with Vaughn!" Rue pushed Teal too.

Teal's eyes came wide, tears welling inside.

"W..what!"

Rue took a deep breath, smiling..."I had to beg Vaughn to sleep with another woman so he wouldn't die childless cos of me. We hired a woman... Anassa. Vaughn laid her, and she had you, then she handed you over and we payed her off. You automatically became my daughter." Rue said without breathing.

Teal took a step back, eyes unable to blink and knees turning weak. She just got the second hit, and it pierced her like a bullet.

"An..assa?"

"I purposely made Boma the attack location the other time so you'd meet her. You should thank me for that." Rue smiled.

Teal's phone buzzed, she checked with hot breaths.

It's Uncle Paul.

Uncle P: I have a lot to tell you about your biological mother. It's not Rue, it's someone else. Rue is actually USMAN. Don't get anxious, we'll talk better after I get Dave out of the lion's den.

Teal looked up slowly, her eyes clashing with Rue's who's still standing in front of her with that funky smile.

"Where is my dad?" She asked, surprised by her own calmness.

"He didn't survive the accident, unfortunately. He covered my body with his own during the accident." Rue replied.

Teal covered her mouth with her palm, crying slowly.

"Dad...."

Her sounds were shallow but painful, muffled by her palm.

Rue came closer again, her smile disappearing.

"And now you've played enough games with Four. Cos he's included in my last plan." She said.

Teal's wet, ruthless eyes snapped to her immediately, and she grabbed Rue violently by the neck, nearly breaking it as she threw her back.

Rue staggered heavily to the wall, smirking with a cutting glare. Her back made a thick thud.

"If you touch Eros, that'll be the end of us...I mean me and you. Don't go near him, you've done enough, and stop the craziness about hurting the citizens! Go after the President and Empress!!"

"And Four!! He called us out of the house that night! He's working with the president, so don't ever believe whatever he says! Four is the main reason we left the house that night! We weren't supposed to leave the ranch but he dragged us with his lies!!" Rue roared.

Teal's head was smoking. It's cloudy and choky at the same time. She went still. "What did you... just...say?"

                 • Teal's Age 7 •

[Ambrose Ranch]

It's the early hours of the night, and the couple already finished eating dinner of veggies and chicken, but Teal is still by the dinning table, eating the leftovers.

The parents sat across her, watching her eat with smiles. 

Vaughn might not be seeing her, but as he sat there with his black shades, Rue explained how Teal is eating to him.

"Can you stop that? It's creepy. Don't tell him details." Teal said with a sharp eye roll.

"Darling, are you still mad about the castle?" Vaughn smiled.

Teal dropped her spoon and stood.

"Yes! I mean...why wouldn't I be allowed to follow you? The DeVille couple bought my ugly big dipper painting for a million, and I'm dying to meet them and say thanks, but you're telling me I can't follow you cos the first son of the house hates noise? Fine, I'm a very loud person, but I promise to behave and not make a sound throughout our stay..."

"Lies...we both know you're noise, and noise is you. You're the same person who got sick when we visited the temple for a sleepover cos it was too quiet. You can't go to the Castle, Teal. And besides... we're not going to the Castle again till next month." Rue said.

"So that next month, I can follow?" Teal smiled.

"No." Rue and Vaughn chorused.

Teal's smile disappeared, and Rook entered the house.

"It's ball time, Battery!" He announced.

"Even better." She rolled eyes at both parents and left the house with Rook.

"She's so recalcitrant." Rue muttered.

"She took that from you," Vaughn commented, removing his glasses.

His eyes are widely open, and they look totally fine and healthy.

"When are we gonna tell her you can actually see? The whole world might think you're a blind man, but she deserves to know the truth." Rue said seriously.

"Soon. I'll find a good time to tell her. I've regained my sight before we even became college students, and it's been a long time, so telling her means she's gonna get really mad. You know how her temper is, timing is important." Vaughn sighed.

Rue placed her head on his arm, he stroked her hair fondly.

On the table, Rue's phone buzzed alive, she picked it up with a drag.

"It's the first son calling... Four"

"Really? But Lady Yulia said we're not to draw paintings till next month." Vaughn replied.

"I've never believed in that, you know how much Four is obsessed with ink." Rue smiled, picking the call.

"Can you come paint a birthday present for me tonight? It's my birthday." Four's voice spoke up, and the couple stood at the same time.

"Your birthday? How come we're just hearing about it? The day is almost over...it's 10pm!" Vaughn said surprisingly.

"Mum must have forgotten, and it must have skipped my mind since I don't fancy parties. But I don't care...I just need a new painting to look at. The drive here should be 3hrs if you're fast, I'll pay for everything." Four replied.

The couple didn't argue.

They left the ranch that night in their new brown car, and Rue got busy singing along with the playing song on the stereo.

Vaughn slid his glasses into the drawer so he'd concentrate more on the driving. Thanks to the tinted windows, they're covered from the prying eyes of the townspeople.

"Spyros..." Rue suddenly released a sigh.

"Why are you bringing that name up again. Don't remind me of the start of our misery." Vaughn replied.

"He has people watching us, I believe." Rue said.

"Why would he still be interested in our lives after everything he did? He's the president now, we're the least of his problems." Vaughn said.

"But yesterday when I was at the town supermarket, I saw strange guards behind me and—"

Rue stopped talking, eyes balling wide when she saw a coming car. It's coming directly for them like it was sent, and the driver's face is hidden.

"Noo!!!!!!!!!" The couple shrieked, the horror of the night registering in their wide eyes till the car crashed into their own. Vaughn quickly covered Rue with his own body.

The car is bigger, so their car took the heaviest hit, rolling out of the road completely. Two somersaults brought it back to land, but it didn't stop.

The car geared down the swampy area, crossing trees and fallen branches, rounding one more somersault before it arrived at the edge of the forest cliff.

It didn't wait. It was sharp.

The car fell inside, taking several stones along with it.

                  • Present Time •

Teal is already squatting, bawling out her eyes and also smiling devastatingly as her eyes closed and opened, red streaks decorating it.

Rue squatted beside her, touching her shoulder gently...

"I also did nothing to deserve what Spyros and Empress and the rest did to me! I did nothing to deserve what Prof Kai did! Vaughn did nothing to deserve everything! We were too innocent, and the world took advantage of that, so I switched it up. I became their worse nightmare. Where is the fun if I just kill Spyros and his cohorts? Where is the fun if I had ended them fast? The whole world deserves to have a taste of that wickedness!" 

Teal's tears slowed, but it didn't stop as she looked up, her eyes meeting with Rue's.

"You might not be my biological daughter, but I raised you, and I love you, and I would never harm you, I'd rather die. I've been watching you from the shadows since long ago, and I came out today cos It's hightime you avenge your father with me." Rue muttered, the heat of the venom in her eyes so contagious.

Teal could feel it in every pore.

She stood up when another person appeared in the building, and she wasn't even shocked to see it's Theo.

"Meet my first human robot. I made him two years ago, and he has been efficient till now." Rue introduced.

Theo bowed respectfully to Teal, but he didn't say a word.

"You ready, darling? I'll introduce you to my world of science and art and tech, and also... you'll get to see your father's grave." Rue rubbed Teal's back.

Teal didn't nod nor talk, but her red eyes says yes, so Rue smiled, removing the band from her ponytail to release the long strands of hair.

The hair covered Teal's face, she didn't bother to brush them away.

"Spyros will probably get arrested by the cops soon, but they don't know he's mine yet. I'll take him right in front of them, and that's where the war starts from before it'd stretch to Four and the others." Rue said.

Teal looked at her, their eyes meeting and sharing the same blaze.

"This way," Theo pointed.

Rue was still rubbing Teal's back as they both walked to the door, leaving the building completely.

Theo followed behind.

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[Therapeia Underground Annex]

"We have to drop her from the tub, ma'am. Electric bed works better to multiply neurons, and we do not have that. She might die like Hera." An assistant panicked behind Empress.

Empress turned around so fast, her eyes inhuman. "If it fails to work on her too, then y'all better get ready cos I'll be throwing everyone inside one after the other!"

The assistants seemed to freeze after that, so she turned back to the tub where Gem is struggling for her life.

Dave entered the annex, and when he saw Hera's body on the ground and The Marquis laying unconscious beside her, he stopped.

But his eyes widened when he saw Gem inside the tub.

"You said you wanted to go pick up something, you're late." Empress faced him.

"Paul was questioning me,had to tell him lies." Dave said carefully.

"I hate that man," Empress hissed, turning back to the tub again.

Gem is still struggling inside.

Dave counted the seconds with his breaths, and at the third second, he pulled a stun gun out of his pocket, hitting Empress's back with it.

It was surely unexpected cos Empress trembled roughly before dropping on the ground.

The assistants came for Dave at the same time, but one punch from him to each one of them was enough.

They all fell unconscious like Empress.

Dave flung one of the laptops at the water tub, breaking it down.

Water filled the annex, reaching his calves. Gem's body fell out limply.

"Gem!" Dave ran to get her up. 

Her body is slippery with the water, but she helped herself to stand on her feet. Obviously, she wants to live.

"You...you know my name?" She muttered.

"This ain't the time for chats, let's go." Dave pulled her.

She followed.

They jointly opened the ward doors of the other patients. There are fifteen of them.

Dave and Gem led the way, and the other fifteen patients followed into the tunnel, the sounds of their feet pounding the ground so heavy, rivalling drums of war.

But then, things didn't go as smoothly as expected, cos just when they were about to get to the thin door, the giant annex dogs broke out.

They look starved, hungry, angry.

Dave pulled the door open, then he began pushing the patients out one by one as the dogs came at them.

"This door leads to another. Code is 4QRK. You can only try once so don't miss. Go, and don't turn back!" Dave shouted, shielding them from the dogs with his body.

When the dogs finally got to them, they focused on him since he's blocking their way.

His arms, legs, body and stomach. Their teeth entered every hole on his skin, but he kept shielding the patients out though.

"Sir!!!" Gem shouted from outside, crying bitterly as she watched his dripping blood and tearing flesh.

"I said go!!! Your boyfriend is waiting! You must take these patients out at all costs, ok? No matter what!" Dave smiled, and one of the dogs tore his lap skin with the paw nails.

"Sir!!!!" Gem cried loudly again, holding the gate metals.

"Go!!!!!!!!!!" Dave yelled painfully, hitting the gate.

Gem led the other patients away in a fast run, and immediately they left, Empress appeared from the annex corner with her assistants.

They finally woke up.

"I knew I smelled betrayal from you. Too bad you became food for my dogs." Empress shrugged.

"Follow the patients, none of them must get out, especially Gem Number 44!" She yelled at the assistants.

They ran out the extra door, and Empress's phone came alive with a buzz.

890: Tomorrow, Ring building.

"Usman?" Her eyes stretched.

"Finally? You've decided to meet me? Finally?" She smiled. "Yes!!" 

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[President's Mansion]

The warrant took more than five hours.

 Jason and Mr. Yuri arrived at the mansion at two minutes to midday.

They came with nearly all cops from the bureau for the search, and when they showed the warrant at the door, their entry was automatically approved into the mansion.

Unluckily for President Spyros and Katerina, they were both carrying Quentin and Xanthe out for the drive to the airport when the entry happened.

They're at the staircase, so they froze with the guards behind them.

Spyros was controlling the wideness of his eyes, but he was helpless cos it kept widening.

Katerina was worse, her mouth is included in the wideness when she saw Jason with the police men.

"It wasn't wrong after all." Mr. Yuri spoke with obvious disgust.

"We were taking them to the hospital, they drank too much and got sick." Katerina lied, and Mr. Yuri laughed.

"I'm not a fool, Katerina. We got a report of the president keeping his son in a house custody, so I trailed the news, and here we are, but not only your son but another guy? Isn't he your brother, Katerina?" Mr. Yuri sneered.

"How dare you break into the house of the president!! How dare you even step into the estate!!" President Spyros yelled.

"Get him arrested, throw him in solitary for a year till I'd decide what to do with him!"

The inner mansion guards were already stalking to Mr. Yuri when he raised the arrest warrant.

There are two papers.

"I got one from the regional bureau and I got one from the national! This is a country with law, and you swore during your inauguration that if anything suspectable occurs during your presidency, you'd cooperate with the law! President Spyros Dimitris, are you going against your own words now?" Mr. Yuri glared.

President Spyros went mute, and his guards also went still. Mrs. Katerina has never been this spelled.

"Take the boys from them." Mr. Yuri ordered the cops.

They moved immediately, taking both Quentin and Xanthe from them.

The boys were lay on the ground, and Jason quickly brought a bottled water out of his jacket pocket. He kept it her for sudden matters like this.

He sprinkled water on the guys, and it looked like they won't react at first, but Xanthe suddenly coughed back to life, then Quentin.

"Xanthe!" Jason knelt beside him.

"Quentin?" Mr. Yuri tapped Quentin.

Xanthe's eyes opened with a flick, and then they widened as he sat up.

"Jason? You came for me?" 

"I always keep to my promises." Jason smiled, and Xanthe hugged him unexpectedly, so tight and intimate.

Jason's eyes almost widened, but he just smiled and hugged him back.

"You ok, Quentin?" Mr. Yuri tapped him again.

President Spyros and Katerina are both shivering obviously right now.

"I'm... I'm still alive?" Quentin blinked, looking around.

His eyes popped when he saw Katerina and Spyros and the multitude of cops.

He spranged up, rushing to Katerina. He grabbed her by the collar.

"Quentin!" She gasped.

"I am your blood brother! Why would you connive with this trashy president to harm me!! I could have died on the staircase if not for Xanthe!!" He yelled.

"I didn't know about the staircase incident till it happened!!" Katerina said in defense.

"Even if you knew, you would have supported the motion cos all your life you've always been the president's shadow!" Quentin pushed her roughly.

She staggered on the staircase below, and Xanthe finally stood from the ground, facing Spyros who looks like he doesn't know how to talk anymore.

"Were you gonna send us outta the country to keep us shut, daddy?" He muttered, going closer.

Hush fell in the mansion, and Spyros moved his mouth to talk, but he couldn't.

"You were obsessed with Rue despite the fact that she was with Vaughn! When she wouldn't do your wish, you stole their reports and graduated as the best student with it! You cancelled their medical license, sent them to jail, you ruined Rue's womb, made them poorer than poor! They returned to their hometown, Rue miraculously gave birth to Teal, and you still went ahead to kill them in that accident!! And after killing them, you want their daughter for me cos you want Rue's bloodline? What the fûck is your name!!! You're not human, you're an animal so tell me what your name is. Snake? No, you're more venomous than a snake you Lucifer!!!" Xanthe cried painfully.

He grabbed Skyros by the collar of his tang suit, and Spyros just stood there, allowing him.

Mr. Yuri was recording every of his utterance, and the cops were too stunned. Jason is just there, looking at the hurt and pains in Xanthe's eyes.

"I'm so ashamed to be your son! I'm so ashamed!! I'm so ashamed!!!! Please just kill me! I want to die!!!" Xanthe yelled.

"Teal isn't Rue's daughter though. He succeeded in ruining her womb so Rue hired a woman for Vaughn to impregnate." Jason supplied.

"You're not my father..." Xanthe muttered, his face wet with waterworks as he locked eyes with the president.

"I did everything you said, but killing her? I didn't kill Rue and Vaughn! I wasn't involved in the accident! I wouldn't kill Rue!" Spyros said.

"Stop lying!!!" Xanthe shoved him back. Spyros staggered on Katerina who's just standing.

"Don't lie, I'm sick of it!"

"I'm not lying! I wouldn't lie at this stage! I didn't kill Rue and Vaughn!!" Spyros stood back.

"So who killed them?" Xanthe demanded.

"I know who." Quentin spoke up, and it's like fire entered the mansion immediately as everyone faced him.

"The person was obsessed with Spyros just the way Spyros was obsessed with Rue, and she has been secretly enjoying Spyros inhumanity towards the couple." Quentin said.

Katerina pulled him, but he pushed her away as fast as possible. Katerina fell back.

"I read your phone diary! Wicked people shouldn't keep diaries yunno? I read everything last autumn, I know everything, and that's why I've been frequenting the base!" Quentin snapped.

"She was the happiest when Rue and Vaughn returned to their hometown. Then Spyros became President, and she became his secretary. She was happier, but then she found out Spyros was still monitoring Rue in their hometown, and she didn't like the fact that he still wasn't over Rue, so she made the accident plan, but Rue and Vaughn would never travel outside Kalynda except if they got invitation to the Castle, so she used the only way possible...She used Four." Quentin continued...

"She blackmailed him at age 11, threatened him and burned him with a poisoned branding iron. The iron is in her room at home, and I'll bring it over if y'all need it."

"She blackmailed him till his 12th birthday when he finally gave in and called the couple to the Castle. On their way to the Castle, she killed them in that accident. The car she used to hit their car is parked in our old garage at our former house!!" Quentin yelled.

"Who're you talking about?" Mr. Yuri asked to be sure.

With slowness, Quentin faced Mrs. Katerina, smirking disappointedly.

"Katerina, my sister. The president's secretary."

TBC.

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