The Tyrant obsession

Poison

The party had started now,and Mariana stood by the door as her eyes were scanned the room for the woman who was about to poison the king,and there she was, standing close to the king.

Mariana was wearing a plain pink dress, and her long hair was falling down her shoulders almost getting to the bottom. Eyes fell on her as she entered the room but Mariana didn’t care, shortly after everybody went by to their business sensing that the girl was most definitely a servant.

Mariana just stood at a corner observing the woman, trying to see if she was really going to poison the king.

Alexander walked into the room and the whole room fell silent as everyone stared at him, bowing their heads as he walked majestically passed them. Just watching all the people he controlled at his finger tips made him feel good already.

After the king went to sit, he gave instructions for the party to go on and everyone was back to their business but they were wary of the man as his eagle eyes feed on the crowd.

“My lord”.Katherine called out, making her way towards the king, holding the edge to her dress as she walked carefully not to trip on her dress.

“Yes Katherine,” Alex’s said lazily as he turned to look at her, he almost rolled his eyes after seeing her dress, he wondered what people found in this woman that was beautiful, she was surely an attractive woman but he had never been once attracted to her, she was trying too much to make him take her to his bed, unfortunately for her, that was never going to happen.

“You look lovely, this robe fits you so well”. Katherine said, her eyes roaming around his body, the shirt he wore under the robe fitted his body perfectly, exposing his toned and hard muscles which moved with him. She so much wanted to touch this man, not only did he have a tempting body, he also had the beauty that could make any woman go on her knees, after all these years, the man had not shown any ounce of interest in her, meanwhile other men begged for her attention. She could only wonder why he was so hard to get.

“You look lovely too Katherine”. Alexander said, and it was obvious that he didn’t mean it, because his eyes held a bored expression.

Katherine just smiled, knowing her cousin’s carefree character, ignoring his comment, her smile widened as a slow music began. “Oh, this is my favorite music. Dance with me Alexander”. She said, extending her hand towards him.

Alexander just stared at her hand then back to her face, Katherine could feel the stares of people on them, she internally begged that this man would accept to dance with her. “Please Alexander, people are watching”. She said between her teeth.

“You should know I don’t care if the whole world was watching”. He said calmly not taking his eyes off her face.

“..please..”Her voice begging him not to ignore her, Alexander signed and grabbed her now aching hand, “shall we?” He said and Katherine’s smile was back on her face.

They both walked to the center of room where the dance was done, Katherine immediately placed her hand on the King’s shoulder pulling herself closer to the man. Alexander did the same placing his hand on her waist, as they began moving slowly and steadily, following the rhythm of the music. “Stop staring at me Katherine, it’s uncomfortable” Alexander said feeling her intense stare on him,

“Forgive me my lord” she said with a little chuckle, “I couldn’t just stop myself from just observing your features, you are really a beautiful man”. Katherine confessed, her eyes still on his face.

“I know that already, I walk pass a mirror every day”. Alexander said, turning his eyes to meet hers.

Katherine chuckled again, “You have always being a proud man, which is amongst the reason I am drawn to you, tell me Alexander am I that unattractive to you that you have chosen to ignore me for all these years when you know how much I feel for you.”. Her expression now pained as she spoke.

“Hmm,”, Alexander simply mouthed, his grip on her waist tightly as he pulled her towards him, due to their height difference, he bent his head down to met her eyes. His black eyes looked into hers as if he was staring into her soul, then his eyes moved to her red painted lips, he covered the space that was between them but stopped when he was just an inch away from her lips,and then brought his lips to her ear, “Listen to me carefully Katherine,I would never stoop so low to even kiss you not to think of taking you to my bed, so snap out of your childish fantasies and grow up”. With that he let go of her and walked away, Katherine who was in shock, couldn’t even utter a word, anger washed within her, as her jaw tightened and her fists clutched, her nails almost piercing her palm. Her eyes burned as she stared at the man’s back.

“Teresa, give me a glass. I am thirsty”. Alexander said, unbuttoning the collar button of his rope, he was this close to snapping her neck there and then but he controlled his temper.

Teresa ran towards the king holding a tray with a glass cup filled with blood in it.

Mariana who was watching what had been going on saw the woman run towards the king with a tray in her hand and a glass cup on it. So that was the king’s drink and the woman had definitely poisoned it.

Mariana stood from where she was sitting and walked hurriedly towards the king, Teresa had already gotten to where the king was, handing him the glass but the king was yet to collect and drink it. Just as Mariana got to the front of the king, the glass was already in his hand. “My lord, don’t drink that”. Mariana immediately said, her voice loud but not loud enough to draw the attention of the people.