The witch was very happy with Ellena's promise to give her more gold. She liked this young lady because Ellena was so generous and she seed to know what she wanted exactly.
"Very well," the witch smiled. "You can co to if you need anything related to potions and low-level magic. I know quite a bit. Enough to help you, should you need it."
"Will do, Mrs. Despear." Ellena nodded. "I will co to you if I need anything."
"Please, you can just call Krista, Your Grace," said the witch. "I am only a few years older than you. You can just call by my na."
"Okay, Krista. I like that."
Ellena thought it didn't hurt to have a witch on her side. It was true that Krista was still young and not as powerful as Thessalis, for example.
However, she had extensive knowledge of herbomancy which would definitely be useful for Ellena in the future.
After she took the potion to induce labor from Krista, Ellena went ho. She made a point to stay at her family's ho in the countryside throughout the whole two months that Mars left Draec's capital.
Ellena didn't want to be anywhere near the capital when Queen Elara was killed, and after Emlyn was kept in the prison in Grey Tower. That way, nobody could link her to any of the events that happened there. She was sowhere else far away.
The next thing to do was forcefully induce Emlyn to get into early labor. Ellena asked her trusted maid to give the potion to her cousin who worked in the royal palace's kitchen.
The plan was to serve it to Emlyn, together with her al, by saying it was a vitamin, prepared by Mr. Vitas for her. Once Emlyn drank the potion, she would soon go into labor, and Ellena's plan would be in motion.
Once Emlyn gave birth to her child, Ellena could ask Duke Preston to prepare a trial to execute her. Then, just like that... she could get rid of Emlyn for good.
Ellena had her family's spies in the royal palace. So, she knew everything that was going on in there. When Emlyn got into early labor, she monitored the situation closely from afar, through her spies.
Oh, how Ellena was so impatient when she heard the labor took forever, and even after 20 hours, the baby was still not born. Ellena thought the baby would die.
Fortunately, several hours later she received a pigeon with a ssage from her spy that Emlyn finally gave birth to her baby, and both mother and child were alive.
Ellena was so happy when she found out the baby was a girl. This would work in her favor, obviously. Now, she just needed to make sure Emlyn would be executed as soon as possible.
She knew she had lost so precious ti and as days went by, Ellena beca more anxious.
Ellena predicted, by then the prince must already receive the ssage from the capital about his mother's death. Ellena knew him very well and knew he would do whatever it took to get ho as soon as possible.
He wouldn't even stop for sleep if he could, so he could reach ho quickly. Ellena predicted the journey that normally took 4-6 weeks would only take him three weeks to accomplish if he put his mind to it.
Well, Ellena knew he would. He loved his mother too much. He would sacrifice his rest, his everything so he could see his mother. And he would be in deep grief.
This would make him unpredictable once he arrived in the capital. That's why Ellena must work fast. She had to kill Emlyn using her uncle's hand and made sure Mars would never see her again.
They needed to have the trial and execute Emlyn before Mars returned. Ellena knew they didn't have much ti.
So, imagine her shock when Ellena heard from her maid that Emlyn died several hours after she gave birth to a daughter. Emlyn's death imdiately changed everything.
Ellena was so mad. She threw the flower vase that was closest to her and scread in frustration. She hated Emlyn so much. That holess princess was supposed to die in the plaza by beheading for her cri of killing the queen.
But no... Emlyn had to die after childbirth that would free her from going into the trial, thus denying Ellena the pleasure of witnessing her grueso death.
And what's worse, she would die a 'hero' for giving birth to the crown prince's child. Mars would always rember Emlyn for that reason every ti he saw their child. And he might even forgive the fact that Emlyn 'killed' his mother.
No.. no... Ellena couldn't accept that. No matter what, she had to get rid of Emlyn from Mars's heart after she died.
Ellena hated Emlyn so, so much.
She didn't want Emlyn to be rembered fondly. But, what could she do? Her love rival was dead and Emlyn was already buried.
After several days of feeling upset and angry by Emlyn's unexpected death, Ellena decided to visit Krista and asked about the sleeping potion. That's when suddenly she got an idea to make Mars truly move on from Emlyn.
Ellena would make him think Emlyn was not really dead. Emlyn just used a sleeping potion to trick her captors, so she could escape. That sounded like a really good scenario.
"Krista, you told that your husband was almost buried alive because he took too much of that sleeping potion that you made for him," Ellena decided to talk to Krista about it.
"That's right, Your Grace. Luckily they didn't imdiately bury him at that ti. It was raining hard for several days. Otherwise, my husband might be gone now. He suddenly woke up three days later and everyone was shocked," said Krista.
"So... if soone took the sleeping potion and sleep for three days, for example, they will not die?"
"No. Their breathing and heartbeat would be very, very subtle. People would think you are dead because all your vital signs beco so weak. But you will wake up as you would after a long and restful sleep."
"Ahh.... this is good," Ellena muttered to herself. She just found a solution from talking with Krista. She decided she would tell Mars that Emlyn faked her death to escape.
If she could portray Emlyn as a selfish woman who only thought about herself, and that she was still alive sowhere after killing the queen and leaving behind her child, surely Mars would finally accept the fact that Emlyn was only in it for revenge.
And he would realize that Emlyn was not the best woman for him. It was Ellena.
After her visit to Krista's place, with the sleeping potion in her pouch, finally Ellena thought of a brilliant idea to do it.
She asked several henchn who work for her family to secretly dig Emlyn's grave and moved her remains sowhere else. That way, she could tell Mars that Emlyn was really alive sowhere after faking her death.
If he didn't see her body, he would believe Ellena.
Ellena was very shocked when those henchn told her, there was no body in Emlyn's grave.
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