Epilogue
War
Stella
“Rhys,” I gasp as my eyes open. The beeping indicates that I’m in a hospital again, but I’m not. I look around and realize I must be in some part of the castle, only it’s made up like a hospital room. “What happened?”
“You’re going to be all right, hen,” he says. “You were stung by a bee—”
Suddenly, it all comes back to me. The lip gloss, the bee venom, the plans to kill me.
“No, I wasn’t.”
“Aye, you were, you had a reaction,” he says.
“I had a reaction, but I wasn’t stung by a bee,” I tell him. “You have to listen to me. Please.”
“All right.”
“Lady Thomley and I overheard the earl tell the queen to get rid of me the other night,” I tell him. “She said I had to be quiet and not tell anyone what I’d heard because the earl is dangerous.”
“Aye, he is,” he says.
“Yes, she protected me then and I thought she was a friend. But when I came out of the restroom stall, I couldn’t find my lipstick. It was missing.”
“What does all of this have to do with your allergy?”
“She lent me her lip gloss but after I used it, my lips started to burn. When I asked her what was in it, she said it was a rare bee venom, and then she left me to die.”
“I’m afraid I have bad news after all, hen,” he says, gripping my hand in his.
“What’s that?”
“This means war.”
To Be Continued…
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