Chapter 16: Broken

~You think you're loving me. All you're doing...is killing me slowly.~

Aria had ran after him out the throne room, but she hadn't caught any sight of him.

She panicked and in her unstable state, she'd bumped into Achin.

"Aria, calm down. Are you okay?" Achin asked concern etched in her brows.

Aria shook her head.

"Where is the execution holding?" Aria managed to ask.

"By the arena," Achin answered.

Aria's eyes widened.

"No." She whispered.

Without another moment to waste, she made a mad dash outside the impossibly large Palace and made her way to the arena, turned execution ground.

By the time Aria got to the arena, her had eyes widened at the number of people gathered. Officials and civilians alike, even...children!

She made her way through the enormous crowd and succeeded in getting to the front.

Her heart broke when she saw her parents forced to kneel, head bowed with their hands tied behind their back.

"No." She sobbed.