The entire Manor had been a mess for a complete week.
Regina had been confused. Everything seemed so unreal. In twelve days, she had lost two people she had held so dear to her heart. At first when she saw Belle's corpse lying in a pool of blood, Regina had thought, willed for it to be her imagination playing a wild game with her. But it hasn't been the case.
She had stood before the corpse for so long that she had no idea when Barbara showed up. The only thing that brought her back to her senses was the loud scream that pierced through her ears.
She couldn't remember in detail what had followed after that, but she remembered the anguished heart-wrenching cry that escaped Lady Gwen's lips. She recalled how broken she had looked, how pain-stricken her face showed. Heck, she even remember
