Chapter 392: A Suffocating Silence

Now they burned with betrayal.

“This girl…”

“She killed him.”

“Ungrateful witch.”

“He raised her like a daughter, and she paid him back with death?!”

“Monster in silk.”

“A snake hidden in royal robes.”

They didn’t care that the full story hadn’t been told. They didn’t want the full story. The Queen had fed them just enough to let their imaginations do the rest.

The online space was no sanctuary. In fact, it was worse.

The Queen’s statement had been short, but to the public, it was a confession. A veiled confirmation. And the internet did what it did best, speculate, dissect, exaggerate, and attack.

Even some of Nnenna’s long time fans began to waver, their faith cracked by that sorrowful royal performance.

@LionaraSage: I was rooting for her, but if the Queen says the death was unnatural and a family secret… that’s serious.

@TeaAndTiaras: Wait, she really lived under his roof and might have had a hand in his death?! What kind of plot twist is this?

@EbereStan247: This is why we said Ebere deserves the spotlight. Nnenna’s too suspicious!

lived a life of privilege.

like a murderer. Can

then explain the

love hearts and awe, had turned into a battlefield. Angry red faced emojis, snake gifs, screenshots of Queen Chioma’s words in all caps,

offline, the whispers were

not even blood

think we

too quiet. Quiet ones hide

voices dared

there’s more

seemed shocked… that wasn’t

they were drowned out. For every whisper of support, ten more

seen siding with someone under suspicion. Others, fans of Ebere, felt almost vindicated, as though

hated her for having ever stood

royal delegation grew heavier, like a storm

kings and dignitaries leaned in toward each other, some with raised brows, others with folded arms and narrowed

Belveth. “Did you catch that? Queen Chioma’s words… she didn’t deny it. Just brushed it aside like a stray

slowly. “Exactly. ‘Unnatural,’ she said. That wasn’t grief talking, that was

necessary. “I told you all something was off about her!” he hissed, voice just low enough to avoid being

girl is suddenly walking beside him like a crowned jewel?!

liked Nnenna once. But that was before she became Somto’s shadow. This entire

cannot assume guilt without proof. The

muttered Queen Mireya of Belveth. “That’s what makes

truly killed King Ikechukwu, would she even

said grimly,

king defends his

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