" Maybe the Empress knew that I wasn't joking with her, for the two of us have never been close enough with another for me to joke with her," stated Akris with a pleasant smile playing on his lips, as he leaned his head on the back of his right hand languidly. " She knew that I will come looking for her and Carlisle because there was no way Alexis was going to be safe after taking the poison that she has given him, which was why a second later I finished threatening her, she started hysterically screaming at the top of her lungs."
His lips curled up in a mocking smirk. " A good thing too because Carlisle who realised that he might have ruined his mother's brilliant plan came looking for her. When he heard his mother screaming bloody murder, he hurriedly ordered his guards to take me to the prison."
