Lizeth walked into the palace with a luggage and called out to the nearest maid, who ran straight to her swiftly.
"Welcome ma." She greeted with a bow.
"Thank you." Lizeth let out a small smile. "Now take my bag in." She ordered.
"Ma?" The maid asked, trying to confirm what she heard.
"I'm sure you are not deaf. I said take my bag inside." Lizeth gave her orders again, this time in a hoarse voice.
"To where ma?"
"To any vacant room that's comfy. I will be staying in the palace from now on." Lizeth said with a smirk.
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Two days later.
Not much things had happened in the palace or in the whole of Moon stone park. Just a normal routine of Arya and Dario coming to the palace to perform the rituals and treatment on Xander.
Everywhere was pretty calm, calm and dull. Everyone missed their Alpha Prince. News had started spreading that he was actually dead all over the park, and beyond. Depression roamed in the hearts of many; as the likes of Lizette, Yandel, Zavier and many others.
And Diamond, she was more than depressed, she had no idea where Xander could be. She had a feeling that Arya might be hiding his whereabout from her, but she still just couldn't get it out of her.
Meanwhile, Draven has been searching for different ways to steal Xander's body and burn it, but somehow, someone is always with Xander, making it quite difficult to execute his plans.
* * *
Diamond woke up early in the morning, stretching a little. She was really fed up with just sleeping, eating and lazing around. She needed to get her life back, how she so crave to go back to school. She felt like her life was falling apart, nothing was in place. Not her family; she doesn't even have a family anymore, she is an orphan- a bloody orphan. Not her education; she is out of school. Not her social life; she is trapped in an old rusty house that was located in God's know where. Not even her love life; she doesn't even have the slightest idea where Xander is. She hates to say this, but she missed him so much.
"When I see him I am gonna to him a very big huge right after punching him in the face." She thought.
Getting up from the foam which she had laid on, she looked around, wondering where Arya was.
"Has she gone out? No! She wouldn't have gone out this early without letting me know."
She walked closer to the room where Arya usually sleeps and knocked on the door, but there was no response. She knocked severally, but still there wasn't any response. She decided to go back and let her be, but as she was leaving, she changed her mind and pushed the door open by herself.
As soon as she did, her mouth and her eyes both fell wide open as a result of what she saw. Immediately, she shut the door close and quickly rushed out of the house in fear. Getting out of the house, Diamond started running as fast as she could. She was dead scared of what she had seen in the room, she just still couldn't believe her eyes, Arya?
"No, Arya is just too pretty for that." She thought. She didn't know where she was running to, but anywhere apart from Arya's house is okay for her. Everything was just still like a dream to her. How just one night sleep could get her in a place like this is what she just couldn't comprehend.
After running out of the narrow roads that were surrounded by bushes, she ran into a really large and beautiful place. The road was pretty busy. She looked around for a sigh board or anything in order to get the address of the place, but she just couldn't see anything as none was close to her.
Everyone that walked pass her were looking so fine and beautiful, making her doubt her looks. She was almost distracted by the beauty o the place when someone shove her aside.
"Watch where you are standing jerk and stay of the road." He rasp and started off.
"I am sorry, I didn't know mean to block the way." Diamond said and the girl he was walking with stop and moved closer to Diamond.
"Sorry about that, he is just in a bad mo....." She suddenly stopped talking and ran to the guy who was now a bit far from Diamond, looking terrified.
Diamond was still staring at her, trying to figure out why she behaved that way, and just then, the guy turned to her with a really scary look, after the girl had whispered something into his ears. Diamond was still in sheer confusion as to why everyone was acting so weird when the guy started running towards her in full speed, and Diamond not knowing what to do, took to her heels, running as fast as she could.
"What did I do? Why the heck is he after me?" Diamond thought.
Not long after, he caught up with her and pushed her down, making her fall flat on her face.
"Let me go." Diamond yelled struggling with him, but he wasn't even paying attention to her.
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Arya walked out of her room, beads of sweat dropping down her body. She walked around the room, searching for Diamond, but it was evident that she was nowhere around the small living room.
"Diamond, Diamond!" Arya called out.
"Where could she be?" She thought.
She walked out of the house and searched around, and then to the back of the house, but there was no trace of her. She was beginning to get really worried as it seemed like Arya was out of the house. Getting a vision; she saw Diamond walking of the house and into the center of the park and right into the palace.
"Oh no!" She cursed under her breath as her heart gave three loud thuds.
"She's in trouble!" She breathed out and immediately rushed back into the house.
* * *
Draven was in bar that was located at the side of the palace, with his personal guard behind him. He was sipping from his glass of liquor as he operated his phone, when Diamond was pulled into the palace by the guy that had bumped into her earlier.
"Let me fucken go!" Diamond yelled at him for the umpteenth time.
"Who the fuck are these nitwits that are constituting nuisance in my palace." Draven rasped and on hearing the thick deep masculine voice, Diamond kept shut.
"Palace? This dude brought me to the palace? When I saw that guy at the gate dresses in something like a uniform, I'd suspected something, but I didn't think it to be a palace. What really is going on? Is the king going to judge me and sentence me to a really hard punishment just like how I watch it in movies? But what really is my crime?" Diamond thought as the guy handled her roughly.
"Come with me." The security guard led them to where Draven was sitting and bow before Draven whilst the guy pushed Diamond down on her knees and also bow before Draven.
"Who are these obnoxious people and what are they doing in my palace?" Draven asked, looking over at the guard.
The sound of the prince's voice and how he made mention of the word *PALACE* was what just kept on scaring the hell out of her.
"Maybe this is exactly the reason why Arya had warned me severally about going out of the house. I should have listened to her, I really should have, but what I had seen earlier in her room wouldn't have let me stay back." Diamond thought.
"My prince, this young man claims to have something very important to share with you." The guard said.
"So important that he couldn't pass it over to you?" Draven asked, staring over at the guy and Diamond.
"Yes my prince." The guy said.
"Shut the hell up, you don't talk when you have not been asked to." Draven said.
"Sorry my prince." The guy said, taking his head down a little.
"Save it." The prince said, and tilted his head to his personal guard, signalling something to him.
"Find out his motive of being here." Draven said to his personal guard through his mind.
His personal guard walked closer to the guy, and the guy whispered something into his ears, making him move back in shock. Just the same way, the guard moved over to Draven and whispered the same thing into his ears. Draven didn't express a shock, instead he expressed a frown.
"Hey you! The girl, look at me." Draven said and cold chills passed through Diamond's vein as she raised her head up to look at him for the first time.
Immediately her eyes came in contact with his, her heart dropped abruptly to her stomach. He looked so charming, almost like Xander.... Speaking of Xander, he almost shared the same look with him, just that Xander was more cute.
"What are you doing in my pack?" He asked in a hoarse voice.
"Park? I thought he called it a palace few seconds ago? This doesn't look like a park to me though." She thought with a confused look.
"Erm.... Sir, do you mean palace? He brought me here." She said anyways pointing at the guy beside her.
"Such temerity!" Draven said under gritted teeth. Take her to the back of the palace and tie her up." He said to his personal guard and Diamond's heart started thumping really fast.
"Oh God please." She begged in her mind.
Turning to the security guard, Draven continued, "Prepare the dark room for execution. She dies today, nine PM precisely." He said and her eyes dropped wide open.