Chapter 28

Lyne laid there half dead and still gasping for breath. She clamped about, hitting chairs and tables, trying to ask for help but it's either the cooks had been chased outside or they were just too terrified to help someone the terror queen has punished.

She held her neck and soon, her body became limpid. Except for the little breath she got from tiny gasps that almost looked like hiccups, Lyne was near death.

She wondered where Zeidan was and she wondered if anyone really cared about her. She closed her eyes and she wondered if this was it.

The end.

She would just disappear from the face of the earth and what does she get in return? Bunch of flowers from Zeidan and a coronation for Luana days after her burial. This can't be the end. She clenched her fist as she felt pain at the back of her throat.

Her lips were driving up and her eyes were turning purple.

On the brink of giving in to death, she heard an echoed voice shouting her name from a distance.

"Lynnnne!" Her head thumped