As I noticed my mistake, it was already too late. I got nervous, as I waited for him to stop moving, but he continued, as if nothing has happened. Maybe he didn't hear me. Maybe. Well, yes it sounds plausible. He would have stopped if he heard it, right? Right? My nervousness started to vanish and I acted as if I came. When he finished, he was lying next to me. I placed my head on his shoulder, trying to make him feel loved. We fell asleep. Well, he did, but I didn't. I was too distracted thinking about consequences that could happen, if he really heard me saying another name than his, while fulfilling our marital duties.
The next day started as every other day. Gosh, this monotony was killing me. I got breakfast and met up with Caterina. But she didn't come alone. Next to her stood a pretty girl, with brunette, curly hair, who I recognized as Victoria. I scowled and pulled Caterina towards me, making it impossible for Victoria to hear what I wanted to ask Caterina.
"What is she doing here?" I hissed angrily, looking at Victoria, who returned my gaze. She smiled. Wanton. I thought, looking back at Caterina, waiting for her to response.
"I thought you two could be friends." she said guiltily. I raised an eyebrow.
"Friends?" I asked, to make sure I heard right. She nodded, I snickered. "Never." I said, turning dead serious. Caterina sighed.
"But we made flower necklaces and and…" she started, but couldn't finish, because of her sudden sadness. I hated it to see her like this, so I give in.
"We could spend time together, but she shouldn't get near me, be-" I said, but got interrupted by happy Caterina hugging me tightly. I hugged back, smiling a bit. So it happened that the three of us were taking a walk. We talked a lot about different things. Actually, Caterina was talking most of the time, but it was somehow relaxing to hear her voice. It made me forget all about the problems I had with Sinjin.
As we were walking around, we sometime met Beckett. I wanted to go to him and hug him, but I controlled myself in front of Victoria. I jumped a bit, as she pushed me to the side, to run to Beckett. She hugged him tightly. I winced, a strong wave of jealousy was running through me. My anger grew, as he hugged her back, but still not with such a force as she did. I turned around to go, as Beckett placed his hand on my shoulder, turning me around. I looked him deeply in the eyes and saw the love he had for me. The anger I had a few seconds ago vanished immediately. I start to wonder why it is so hard to stop loving him. I sighed and he smiled.
"How are you, Miss Jadelyn?" he asked loudly, covering that we had a relationship. I smirked.
"I am fine." I answered, as he pulled me a few meters away from Caterina and Victoria. "What is wrong?" I asked concerned, as he stopped pulling me. He looked at me, with a serious expression on his face.
"Jadelyn, I have a question and I want you to tell me honestly, whether you have an answer or not, do you approve?" he asked me, never stopping to meet my gaze. I nodded slowly, hesitant. My heart started to beat faster, but I couldn't say why. What question was I expecting? He wasn't asking me to run away with him, for sure. But what h#is he going to ask? I took a deep breath, waiting for him to continue. But he took a little break, looking, no staring at me, to see if I was really telling the truth.
"Do you know where Robert and André are?" he finally asked. I raised an eyebrow.
"Who?" I asked, not knowing who he meant. Suddenly I remembered who the two were. "You mean the two, who were in your room?" I asked, then shook my head. "No, I don't know where they are." he looked at me, still dissatisfied.
"Are you sure?" he asked, gripping my arms to pull me closer. "Are you really sure?" he sounded angry, mad, determined to find out the truth, but I felt irritated and cramped. I shoved his hands away from my arms.
"I told you I don't know where these lunatics are!" I half shouted angrily. His expression softened immediately.
"All right, I believe you. But they are no lunatics." he said.
"Whatever you think" I shrugged. "Why are you looking for them, anyway?" I asked, interested.
"I haven't seen today morning. And I always see them in the mornings. Something must have happened to them." he said, true concern in his voice.
"You worry too much. Maybe they are ill or they are somewhere else." I said, trying to make him feel better. He shook his head.
"No. Not both of them. They would have told me when they would have gone somewhere else. And it is highly improbable that both are ill at the same time, also André has a very strong immune system." I raised an eyebrow.
"Beckett, you think too much. There is a plausible explanation for their absence.
"And you really don't know, maybe heard from someone where they could be? I mean you have a high status here and I was think-" I cut him off.
"I apologize for interrupting you" I started "but I really don't know where your friends are and no one has told me, where they could be. I am sorry." he nodded.
"I love you, Jadelyn." he said, preparing to go to work again. I smiled.
"I love you, too, Beckett. And I will keep my ears open." he nodded smiling and left. I went back to Victoria and Caterina, who were waiting for me. We walked back to our estate and we waved a goodbye to Victoria, who had something else to do. Caterina and I went to my dressing room and sat down on the couch.
"Victoria is super nice, isn't she?" Caterina asked, playing with her red hair.
"When she is not hitting on Beckett she is supportable." I said, taking some grapes out of a plate. I shared them with Caterina. Suddenly, she started chuckling. I looked at her, slightly curious about her sudden mood change, although I should already be used to it. "What is wrong? Why are you chuckling?" she looked at me and eventually rested her head on my shoulder.
"I met a nice guy." she said proudly. I smiled.
"You would like to tell me more about him?" I asked. She nodded eagerly.
"I would love to!" she cheered. "Well, his name is Robert." she started.
"Wait, does he has hair looking like he just woke up and a stupid puppet?" I asked her, she straightened up and looked at me in disbelief.
"You know him?" I nodded.
"He is one of Beckett's friends." I said, then remembering that he disappeared. I decided to ask Caterina whether she knows where he could be. "Caterina?" I asked, as she rested her head on my shoulder once again. "Do you know where Robert is?" she looked at me, her eyes looking really sad.
"Yes, but please don't interdict me not to meet him." I nodded. "You told me yesterday to bring Katrina to the dungeons, right?" I nodded. "I did, as you told me and when the guard was bringing her to cell, I looked around and saw him there in another cell. I talked to him and he said that he has been there for just a few hours and that he is afraid. I told him that everything is going to be okay. And then another guy, in the cell next to him told me that there is no hope anymore and he said something else." she finished. I was really excited by now and wanted to know what he said.
"What did he say else?" I asked eagerly.
"Who?" she asked confused.
"The guy next to Robert." I pressed her to answer quicker.
"You mean the one with the smooth skin?" she asked, still confused. I could really slap her right now. She noticed that I was in fury and asked again "André?"
"Yes André! Now tell me, what he said!" I spat out, she looked as if she was hurt. "Caterina, please tell me." I begged desperately. She smiled.
"He said something like 'Forbidden love will never win' "
"That's it?" I asked. She nodded. To sum it up: Robert and André are in the dungeons since yesterday evening. But why? Did they do something bad? Did they steal?
"Shall I tell you more about Robert?" she asked happily.
"Do you know why they are in the dungeons?" I asked back, ignoring her random question. She started to think, then shook her head.
"No, he just said that Bec-"
"Hello ladies." Sinjin said, as he entered the room. I could beat him up right now for interrupting her. Instead I remained quietly. Caterina stood up and took a bow and sat down again. "Jadelyn, I want to take you somewhere. You'll love it" he said, reaching out his hand, so I could grab it.
"Where are we going?" I asked suspiciously.
"It is a surprise." he said, as I grabbed his hand. I followed him to the door and turned around once again to look at Caterina, who seemed to think about Robert again.
We got in the carriage and drove in the direction of the marketplace, where peasants were selling their fruits and vegetables, where merchants were selling different items, like paper and other usable things. We got out of the carriage and some guards brought us to a place with some kind of stage. There was an object in the middle of it, but it was covered up with a blanket. I didn't think much of it and we sat down on chairs, which were built high enough to look at the stage, without being interrupted by the heads of the crowd. I am talking about the crowd that was growing fast. I wondered why. Maybe it was something like a play for entertaining us. Sinjin jolted my thoughts.
"You already got a plan, what this is going to be?" he asked, hoping me to know.
"I honestly don't know. Are you going to tell me?" he laughed.
"No sweetheart. It wouldn't be a surprise then, would it?" I smiled awkwardly. Deep inside, I just wanted him to shut up, never call me sweetheart again. And I wanted to see Beckett again, very bad.
After what seemed like forever, a strong muscled man, with a canvas sack on his head, to hide his face, came on stage. He had two holes in the canvas sack so he could see everything. I raised an eyebrow. Was this part of the play? The man moved towards the hidden object and removed the blanket. The object was revealed, as the crowd began to cheer loudly. My eyes widened as I recognized what it was. A guillotine.
"Are we goint to watch people get punished with their dead?" I asked Sinjin, not believing what is about to happen.
"Yes. It is entertaining."
"To see people die?" I asked shocked.
"To see bad people die." he corrected me.
"This is vulgar." I said, my gaze meeting his.
"This is reality." he just answered and turned around to look at the stage again. I did the same and at exact this moment a general unrest started and soon I knew why. A vehicle with a transportable, small cell came to a deadlock. But it was far enough, so I couldn't see the people who are going to die, fortunately. I looked at the guillotine, with it's sharp blade, waiting, no begging to be used, to meet a neck, to feel the fresh flesh, to randomly ending another worthless live. I gulped, as the first person was dragged to the stage.
"Alexander Baker, convicted because of fraud." announced the executioner. Everyone in the crowd started to boo loudly, as the dragged the man, called Alexander, to the guillotine. I closed my eyes, not wanting to see it. I opened them again, after I heard a sharp noise, followed by cheers from the crowd. That was when the next person was dragged to stage. I couldn't believe who it was.
"Beckett." I whispered in disbelief. As he was dragged to the middle of the stage, he never stopped looking me in the eyes. His expression: determination, strength. He knew what was going to happen to him. Unlike Alexander, he was still calm. I was breathing irregularly and I started to tremble.
"What's wrong?" Sinjin asked me innocently.
"Why is he here?" I breathed heavily..
"He got caught stealing and he was badmouthing us." he finally said.
"That's not true! He would never do that!" I shouted, defending him. He looked at me sternly.
"Jadelyn, he admitted it." Sinjin lied.
"Beckett isn't like this -"
"Beckett Oliver convicted because of robbery and treason." the executioner announced.
"Please stop this, Sinjin!" I begged "PLEASE!" I got really nervous, glancing from him to Beckett. Sinjin didn't answer. "SINJIN, PLEASE STOP THIS" I was shaking his arm violently. He smiled. A peaceful smile.
"Jadelyn. Bad people have to be convicted. They have to die."
"He didn't do anything. Have mercy!" I begged, close to tears. The seconds seemed to elapse like hours. Sinjin ignored me, looking at the stage.
"Now he gets what he deserves for trying to steal you away from me." he just said indifferent, without any glimpse of emotion.. I turned around to look at the stage again. I was shocked. He knew it. He knew it, knew it, knew it. All the times I tried to hide it from him, all the times I pretended he wouldn't notice. Those were the times where he already knew and where he started to plan this. To take him away from me, to take Beckett away from me. I looked at Beckett's eyes, the eyes I'll never get lost into again, the eyes that shared love, lust, tears, anger and happiness with me. He returned my gaze as he was dragged to the guillotine, his hands tied up on his back. He got laid down and his neck was placed on the lunette, and he was strapped on the board he was lying on. I tried not to look at him, tried to avoid him like I avoided Alexander, but I couldn't. This was the last time I was going to see him, the very last time. I had to watch him die. He looked at me one last time, his lips forming an 'I love you'. I whispered an 'I love you' back, not caring that Sinjin heard me and he smiled. He smiled his gorgeous smile one last time, before the blade of the guillotine met his neck, feeling his flesh, enjoying the moment it was built for, ending his life. Forever. His chopped head fell to the floor, instead in the box it was supposed to fall in, because the executioner forgot it. His head fell to the floor, Beckett's face looking in my direction. His eyes wide open. He wasn't afraid to die. He didn't close his eyes. He faced his death. He knew from the very beginning, from the moment he kissed me, that he was going to die.
AN: BECK!NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!WHY?
Please don't hate me. I had to kill him. He was messing up the lovely life of Sade! Sinjin had to do what he had to do. (just kidding) He loves Jade…Sway can make people cruel. Poor Jade, no Beck anymore.:( It was really hard to even think about making Beck die, when I got the idea to the story and now he is really dead. At least peaceful...
Wow, this was really long! Sorry for that. Thank you for all the nice reviews. They make me smile.
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