Chapter 39

AIDEN.

A week had passed since the incident with Amber and things were already back to normal. There hadn't been any public punishment except for a beheading that had taken place two days after she had been punished brutally. I haven't gone to see how she was faring because I wanted her to rot there and go through pain before I went to see her again.

I imagined she wouldn't be able to stand. I would go to see her to know what she looked like. I imagined her looking so haggard and so weathered when I would want to see her. But today I decided to go see her and know how she was doing. I had this feeling of anticipation bubbling inside me as I walked towards the dungeons from my office. As usual, I had been dealing with a lot of paperwork before even thinking about my office.

I had a lot of things I had been working on alone so it wasn't surprising that things were happening this way. I had ordered that Amber be given food two days after she had been almost beaten to death and tended