Chapter 260 - Flashback (1/2)

Predatory Marriage — Chapter 260. Flashback

Translator: Atlas / Editor: Regan

Leah departed, leaving Cerdina alone to stare at the tea leaves in the glass bottle on the table in silence.

With a sudden burst of laughter, Cerdina slapped at the bottle, shattering it on the floor in an explosion of tea leaves and glass shards.

That bitch was in the palm of her hand. With a single spell, Cerdina could have Leah on the floor, begging for her life. She wanted to chase after her and drag her back by her hair.

But she couldn’t do the things she wanted to do. She had to overlook this insolence because of Blain.

Cerdina rose from the couch.

“……”

A night with white moonlight came to her memory, and Cerdina sighed deeply at the vision of dozens of decapitated heads, strewn on a bedroom floor.

Blain was right. She needed more power. She felt an instinctive revulsion when he brought her her own people to devour, sacrificed alive, but it was the only way. She would accumulate more power first, and once she had defeated her enemies, then she would worry about controlling it.

The whole world would be in her hands once she was reborn. A perfect god…

Gradually, her fury subsided. Instead of chasing after Leah, she returned to her room, which still reeked of blood.

But as soon as she saw her magic pattern in her room, her eyes widened.

The Tomaris she had left lying on the pattern was gone.

***

Leah’s ladies-in-waiting followed her back from Cerdina’s palace. As soon as they reached the gardens of the Princess Palace, she stopped and turned back.

“I want to walk alone for a while,” she said. “You may go inside.”

As she watched them go, she walked slowly through the garden, only speeding her steps when she was certain they were gone. Faster and faster she went, until she was running.She had asked Ishakan to wait to save the Toma until after they had been taken to Cerdina’s palace, and hoped he had succeeded. –Posted only on NovelUtopia

There was a good reason for not rescuing them earlier. She wanted them to see what Cerdina was doing. There were still many Tomaris that supported her, but all of the Toma would be horrified to learn that Cerdina was eating her own people.