Chapter 316
"I don’t know what you are, but it is not funny to pose as the queen’s mother. The queen will have you killed and I-"
"I wonder what our life would be like if I had accepted your offer to run away with you. Amelia is the only thing that makes me not try to think too much about it, but I still wonder. For all that you suffered from Richard claiming you and I were still seeing each other or him thinking Amelia wasn’t his child, I should have taken the risk to continue loving you," Anne confessed.
She had a lot to say before Leonard started judging her or distancing himself from her.
"I was raised by witches. That was why I was always alone in the woods when you stumbled upon me. They would let me walk around a bit so I wouldn’t feel caged up in the tiny house they had. I didn’t expect to run into someone in the woods since my mothers had made it pretty scary to get rid of anyone who might find us," Anne explained, reminiscing on the past as she did so.
"I remember the little bracelet you brought me from the market because I couldn’t go. Or the food you brought me because you thought I would go hungry if you didn’t bring me food. You were annoying at first, but I was happy to make a friend with someone who was the same as me and not a witch," said Anne.
"I died because the priests found out about me, but my mothers were able to save me. Well, just barely," Anne added since half of her soul was still trapped in the underworld. "They needed to use a fresh body to do the ritual to pull my soul out of the underworld. Amelia found out that I was still alive because of a witch I knew."
"I couldn’t send a letter to you that a dead woman was still alive nor could I show up in front of you because I sometimes get hungry for human flesh. It comes and goes like it has its own mind. If you don’t believe that I am Anne. You can speak with Amelia and she’ll tell you. She knows me better than anyone," Anne said, nervously playing with her fingers as his silence pained her.
With all the demons roaming the kingdom, Leonard was not certain what to believe because he had witnessed demons tormenting others with silly games or tricks. How was he supposed to know that this was not a demon playing Anne because of his feelings?
The story told wasn’t only known by Anne, but the answer of her thinking of what it would be like to run away with him made him think for a moment that it was Anne. She always said she wondered what life would have been like if they left but then she would look at Amelia playing.
Still, he did not want to be tricked. He came to terms with the fact that Anne was long gone and did not want to be fooled. Not after how long it took to get over that she was no longer in this world.