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

doesn’t look like a murderer. Can we

him, then explain the Queen’s exact words.

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

the crowd offline, the whispers were just

even

to think we clapped

too quiet. Quiet

a few hesitant voices dared

more to the

that wasn’t

every whisper of

now recoiled, not wanting to be seen siding with someone under suspicion. Others, fans of Ebere, felt almost vindicated, as though the universe was

hated her for having ever

heavier, like a storm quietly brewing behind gilded

the kings and dignitaries leaned in toward

at King Tazoun of Belveth. “Did you catch that? Queen Chioma’s words…

‘Unnatural,’ she said. That wasn’t grief talking, that was a message wrapped in lace.

of Haran slammed his goblet down harder than necessary. “I told you all something was off about her!” he hissed, voice just low enough to avoid

without warning, then this orphan girl is suddenly walking beside him like a crowned jewel?! It’s clear. She removed the late king to raise her own status. We just didn’t

crossed her arms coldly. “I liked Nnenna once. But that was before she became Somto’s shadow. This

“We cannot assume guilt without proof.

“That’s what

King Ikechukwu, would

grimly, his eyes drifting

defends his father’s

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