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Chapter 24 - Chapter 24: On The Road Again.

Seraphina (POV)

From the moment I woke up in this time, back in my old bed the first thought that came to my head was to kill every person that was part of destroying my life. I had it all plan out from how i would lead them and make them feel safe and that they could trust me then rip everything they love right in front of them and they can't do anything about it well I sat in the front row and watch it burn.

Yes, that does sound like the perfect plan but only problem of this plan:and it's a big one Is that I had no power. Even if I walked up to the Emperor palace and kill everyone there my fate would have ended up repeating again with me chained in the dungeon and then executed but just in a quicker way. So,that's why I made the decision to take mothers remaining wealth that she left for me: which was significantly larger than either of my brothers and came to RavenCrest and claim the Duchess title.

The power I needed to make sure I could take revenge on those people and also have enough power to protect me when things don't go so well in the end. I already knew everything that would happen in this time line and when so all my plans where in place. Also my Father and my brothers were part of the plan but more at the end.

So colour me surprised when I hear that my Father went on and got himself killed one year before the time line started like he did it deliberately. Then I hear that my stupid elder brother got exiled to goodness nowhere and now my over protective, sister complex brother Ajax is now the new Count.

Yes, before I hated him I really did and that was because he did nothing for me when Father and elder brother tortured me. I remembered a time when I had enough of Father's beats and I ran to him seeking help but I only received a called coldness from him.

Now that I think about it Ajax was also stuck in the same predicament as I was: a person with no power nor means to stop the situation around them. I mean he is a psychopath and I knew that he didn't have any feelings for me as his sister cause he only thought about himself in those times and he also found me to be a weak and a useless thing that didn't need to be saved cause to him I was dead weight.

But since that day I stood up to my Father when I was 14 years old and took everything I owed Ajax started to look at me differently. Even after I left the Capital he has been writing to me and sending gifts every chance he got. I mean just last month he sent a rare light protective charmed necklace blessed by the Saints in the church cause aunt told him that I have been hunting down monsters in the forest.

Then after senting the necklace he freak out by writing a 21 page letter talking about the dangers of hunting in forest and the poisons and diseases that animals carry, how dangerous the monsters that stay in the forest and the many ways how they would kill me and that if they do he would come down to RavenCrest and burn down the whole forest to avenge me. I mean letter itself was meant to make me fear the monsters in the forest and him in turn but I didn't fall for that. I knew why I was fight this monsters.

And no, I don't answer all his letter cause he sends two letters every week before he used to send five letters every week till I wrote back to him and threaten him that I will never write to him again unless he wrote one letter a week and if it's an emergency then two but his definition of emergency is completely different from any normal human being. On top of that he writes to my Aunt four times a week demanding to know how I'm doing, what I'm doing and who I'm with. Then to top it all off he found a loophole in our agreement and now he sends me gifts on top of the letters.

Despite writing to me so many letters and sending gifts he failed to tell me about fathers execution and brothers exile also about the investigation that was happening in our family.

Now I have to pack up and go to the capital one year early before the timeline starts. To make things worse a lot of things weren't making sense regarding why did Father take up arms with those nobles and so soon plus how did they get caught so quickly it just not possible. From what I remember they only got caught when i was in my second year of marriage that means I was 22 years old and right now I'm only 18 years.

Was it because I took Mother wealth with me to RavenCrest, was that the repelling effect from me making him force his hand in joining with those nobles and getting caught then executed?

Also why is the Emperor keeping our family name out of the public from the list of people who were executed? It doesn't make sense this would be the perfect time for him to destroy the Counts name and mine since I am the new Duchess of Raven crest.

Also from what I remember the Emperor hated my Father guts and has always plan on removing his title so all this that is happening now just doesn't feel right. It just feels like a trap or something worse, I need to be careful in the Capital.

Then from the information that Ajax told me is that our dear older brother yapped to the Emperor that I was not an ill child and that he knows it to be true since I've been the Duchess I have not caught an illness meaning that we have a spy in RavenCrest household that has been sending updates to my brother Landon. Ajax found him and I interrogated him then killed him. I don't know why he did it but to him he felt that the man was a threat to my well-being so he got rid of them.

Now we are on our way to the capital we have already passed no man's land and we are in Meeks Forest on our way back to the Counts house. A place that I've never thought of see again but I must find out why has the timeline started so soon and does that mean that I have to start my revenge sooner then I thought if so I don't mind it will be fun but just a little messier.

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