Cedric just glared down at Arabella until Zarah left the room and closed the door behind herself. Though he instructed the guards to stand behind him and out of his way.
"You truly thought you had it all figured out, didn't you?" he chuckled, "You thought you could just come in, bring in some of your bootlickers along and topple my reign?"
The blood had long since curdled in her veins, dragging the temperature of her core beneath surviving lows…
He knew. They knew!
"There it is!" again, he chuckled, "There is that face that tells me all I need to know," the chuckles turned to laughter, "I was right… You truly thought you would score,"
The laughter stopped at once, but his expression only shifted gradually, earning his face a sordid, frozen in time glare in the end. The sort that announced nothing good was on the way.
Her chin quivered as the words just died in her throat, still debating on whether making a sound would simply make things worse for her and her family.
