Rejecting The Future Queen

Chapter 18

Yasmyn's POV

"But there will be outrage," Vernon said as he stared at me wide eyed.

I know. But I am not going to do anything without Adi. Selena, Raul and Vernon are all there but they are not Adi. They are not my big brother who was always there.

Who promised he will be there.

I am now at the palace, at the dining table, having my breakfast. Yesterday was a soap opera on its own. I told everyone that Adi is out of danger now and that we should wait for him to regain his consciousness.

And I also told them now that I want to postpone the coronation.

"Let us not complicate things more, sister. Everyone around the world knows something is happening with the Royals. We don't want to do anything to feed their suspicions, eh?" Raul said and I stared back at him.

Now that I see him, he looks a lot like Vernon. They could pass as twins. The same brown hair and black eyes.

"I decided what is good for us right now. And right now, the best thing we could do is to keep ourselves safe. With Adi in the hospital, our parents are bed ridden, do you all really think it's okay to invite a crowd for my coronation?" I asked them and stared at everyone at the table.

Selena was simply staring at the plate of food. She didn't talk to me ever since I turned her offer down to run away from here and never look back.

The breakfast concluded with no one speaking a word. And I walked to that one room I haven't walked in ever since I came here. And it's been three days since I've been here. Three days and I feel like I've already seen more plot twists than I had witnessed in my seventeen years of life in this palace.

I didn't knock on the door. I just walked in and saw them both sleeping on their own beds. Facing each other.

It breaks my heart to see them this way. And they have turned even more pale than the last time I saw them. Life is being sucked out of their bodies and it shows.

Like the day I came, it was my mother who sensed someone was in the room and she opened her eyes. She looked at my father, making sure he was okay.

And then lifted her head up to see me.

Her eyes went wide the moment she saw me.

"Mom," I whispered and took a step towards her.

But with her trembling hands, she grabbed the dagger tucked under her pillow and pointed it at me.

"One more step and I am going to kill you," she whispered,"you have done enough"

I stared at her in pure shock. She is holding the dagger with great difficulty but her eyes show clear emotion.

Anger.

Lots of it.

But why?

What did I possibly do?

Or am I missing something?