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Please Father, Let Her Be With Me
“We just received news that Ragnar Marshall had been able to kill the remaining three Lords of the Wigglesworth’s family,” he said.
“Oh my days! That’s a good one. And where is Ragnar Marshall now? How is he? Is he coming back?” She asked. She was so curious about his well-being.
“No, he’s not coming back.” The sad news washed over her like a cold shower. A new level of sadness arose in her. Her heart became heavier than it was.
For the past few days, she had been hoping that Ragnar Marshall would come back, that he would suddenly appear before her, there was no day she didn’t hope for him to come back. Infact, just yesterday night, she dreamt about him coming back home.
“Uncle, but do you know his whereabout?” She asked.
“Ragnar Marshall wasn’t captured by the Maridonna’s army despite how smart they are, he had left Maridonna. According to the message he sent to the underworld, he said everyone should consider him dead.” Beocca reported.
“Uncle, did you think he would kill himself? He always say that he had limited time to live.” She said. “I really love him and wish I could see him now. I’m now ready to tell him about our kids.”
“I guess it’s too late,” Beocca said. “And I hope you heal, Brigitta.” Then he walked out of her office.
Later that day, while Brigitta was making deep-dish pizza for her kids, she suddenly heard a loud bang on her door, she left the kitchen and ran to the door but she didn’t open it, she looked through the small camera on the door and saw the chief of commander of the security gaurding the house.
She opened the door and asked, “you can just call my line if you must communicate to me, what’s the matter?”
The man who was panting answering at once, “I have called your line severally but you aren’t picking up. We got a news that Maridonna’s kingdom has attacked us.”
“Attacked us? Who? The entire Jora City or Ragnar Marshall’s men?”
“I can’t really say but I know they will be coming here soon, I must help you escape with the kids.” He said.
“Okay,” Brigitta ran inside her room and tucked gun and knife in her cloth then lead her children towards where the commander in chief of the security men were.
The man lead Brigitta and her kids outside and soon, they got inside the car. Just as the man drove out, about a hundred cars could be seeing driving towards the house. Some of the cars went to the house while a few followed after the car that Brigitta was in.
“Run fast!” Brigitta said to the head of security, who apparently was the one driving.
“Can’t run faster than this but we’ll loose them,” he said and turned to the right road then began to drive even faster.
All of a sudden, he saw two cars approaching him and there were already three cars behind him, there were buildings to the left and to the right.Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org exclusive © material.
The man suddenly pressed the brake of the car when he saw that there was no way to escape.
Brigitta’s heart raced, she brought out her gun but she suddenly noticed a familiar faces approaching her car. Seeing that it was Guthred, she tucked back her gun, engaging Guthred and his men in a fight that involved exchange of bullet is just a way of commiting suicide and putting her children in danger.
She stepped out of the car in surrender and said, “please don’t hurt my kids.”
Guthred was with Orm and Ulfur, when Guthred’s eyes fell on Brigitta, he ordered for his men to arrest her.
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Five years later, Brigitta was brought before Maridonna’s emperor, she had a messy and overly grown hair on, her clothes were tattered, she had a chain tieing her legs and hands, she looked messed up and broken.
After she was captured five years ago, the Maridonna’s empire brought her to their kingdom and enslaved her in the underground dungeon. She was there alone, eating only dry bread and water in the day and Stony beans at night. She went from an hopeful beautiful woman to an hopeless woman seeking for death. She was also injected to loose her memory then so she had no idea whom she is, what her past life was like, what her name was.
This was the second time she will be setting her face on the emperor, the emperor is an old man who was in his eighties yet he looked strong and agile. The emperor had put the blame of the death of his five sons on her.
The emperor spoke, “I still can’t believe such a tiny woman killed my five soms!” For years, the emperor had kept Brigitta in the dungeon with the hope to pass her sentence soon, but he had been busy with other political affairs. But today, he remembered her case and asked for her to be brought. He was ready to sentence her to death by hanging.
When he looked at her, he remembered the death of his five princes and he felt like smashing Brigitta on the head with a heavy metal but he held himself, “this woman is the murderer of my five sons.” He proclaimed.
“I declare you sentenced to…”
“Father…” Guthred suddenly stepped forward and kneel before the emperor, “she can be useful to us.”
“How can this murderer be useful?” The emperor wasn’t pleased with his first son, Guthred for trying to interfere in his judgement.
“Forgive me, father but I do not mean to interrupt your judgement. But please hear me out, ” he was still on his knees, lowering his head.
“Okay, go ahead,” the emperor relaxed. Whereas, Brigitta just stood hopeless. She didn’t care if they want to kill her or not. Afterall, she had sometimes wish for death.
“Father, this woman has no memory of her past, she didn’t even know her name, she did not know what her past life is like yet she possess an extraordinary fighting skill. One in which we could use to our advantage.” Guthred explained.
“I have so many warriors, what can this woman alone do?”
“In the last war, although she was amidst the warriors of Ragnar Marshall, she left unscathed. Even Ragnar Marshall was injured but she was not injured.” He said. “Also, we must also remember that she’s not even our primary target, Ragnar Marshall is our target but for years, we had no idea where he vanished to. We could use her to get Ragnar.” He said.
The emperor pondered on what he said and then spoke, “take her back to the dungeon, I need time to decide.”
Guthred understood that the emperor may not even remember Brigitta’s case in another one year as the old man has too much on him, so he quickly spoke, “father, why don’t you let me keep her? I need to get to know her strength and weakness and see how she can be of use to us.”
“I haven’t even agreed with your suggestion, Guthred.” Truth is, the emperor didn’t believe that a slim and tattered Brigitta could be of any use.
“Please father, let her be with me,” Guthred pleaded.