To Make Him Fall...or not
"Don't tell me you used it to stamp those papers?"
He asked as intense fear filled his eyes as they stayed locked onto mine. And for the very first time in a while, I felt totally in control.
"They say it is better to be safe than sorry. I knew this duel may never hold so I had a backup plan," I went on to say while relishing in his stunned facial expression.
"Deborah, no…" he pleaded and I frowned in surprise.
Was he begging me?
"You just placed yourself in a difficult position by doing that." He said in serious concern.
"I am well aware, Lauren, I am ready for anything," I said in an uncaring manner before breaking eye contact with him.
"You will get killed," I heard him roughly say.
"Why is that any of your concern?" I asked.
"You are still my wife," he insisted and I felt his voice break in-between like he wanted to cry.
"Not anymore and it is time you accepted that," I said with a lack of emotion.
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I spent my first life as a discarded "nobody," executed for a crime I didn’t commit after my husband, King Lauren, brought home a beautiful foreign maiden and declared her the new Queen.
But death didn’t take me. It sent me back.
I wake up on the exact morning of his triumphant return. The crowds are cheering, the flowers are blooming, and my husband is preparing to publicly humiliate me in front of the entire kingdom. He thinks I’m the same docile wife. He doesn't know I’ve returned with the memories of a timeline he destroyed—and the deadly secrets that make me the most dangerous woman in the room.
Before he can introduce his "New Queen," I hand him the one thing no one in this kingdom has ever dared to ask for: Divorce papers.
In our land, a Queen demanding a divorce is an abomination punishable by stoning. Lauren thinks I’m bluffing. He doesn't realize he has just trapped himself in a palace with a woman prepared to burn his entire kingdom to the ground just to see him sign his name.
My goal is simple. He spent my first life making me cry—so in this one, I will make him fall... not in love, but to his knees.