How to Tame My Beastly Husband - Chapter 206

How to Tame My Beastly Husband — Chapter 206. Fire (2)

A massive explosion, right before her eyes. The noise deafened her. The concussion knocked everyone to the floor. The acrid smell of burning filled her nostrils. And when Annette saw the dazzling flames, everything else was so dark, she couldn’t see the floor beneath her hands. The disaster had obliterated all five of her senses.

“Ah…”

Annette struggled up from the floor. Fortunately, she was far enough from the explosion that she wasn’t too badly affected. But she felt something warm trickling down her neck, and when she swiped it with the back of her hand, she saw that it was blood. It looked as if something had happened to her ear.

She hadn’t expected this. She had only thought there would be a fire.

Though fire had indeed followed the explosion. The ruthless Selgratis had placed explosives in the banquet hall. It didn’t matter how many nobles were injured, when he already planned to blame it on someone else.

She tried to look around her, but most people had not even risen from the floor, motionless as if they were unconscious. But the first person to search for was for family–

Father!

Instead, she spotted six masked men making off with Celestine. One of them had slung her over his shoulder, and she was so motionless, she must have been completely unconscious.

Annette’s heart contracted. Where was Railin? But she didn’t see him, either because of the explosion or because some whim had taken him off elsewhere.

“They’re taking Lady Keers!” She shouted, calling anxiously for help. “She’s being kidnapped!”

But her voice was drowned out by the cacophony of screams from the injured and terrified people all around her. No one was going to help her right now. But she couldn’t just watch, Celestine’s life was in danger.”

Staggering to her feet, she tried to follow, but some of the masked men immediately spotted her. One man jabbed a finger at her, and two others sprang toward her, grabbing her arms.

“Hurry!”

“This way!”

They wanted to take her somewhere else, and though Annette struggled to escape, there was nothing she could do against a man’s strength. A shiver went down her spine as they dragged her out of the banquet hall.

They could very easily kill Celestine right now, and blame her for it.

“Let me go! Someone, please help us! They’re kidnapping us!”

Anne fought desperately, but her cries were drowned out by all the noise of the banquet hall. Fire was racing not only across the carpet on the floor, but leaping up the curtains. Debris was tumbling down from the ceiling. Who had time to worry about anyone else at a time like this? Maybe that was why the King had chosen explosives.

She couldn’t stop it; she was dragged along with Celestine. Soon, they came to a room at the end of a dimly lit corridor not far from the banquet hall. They threw her in a corner, but Annette bounced back up to her feet at once. The masked man grabbed her hair, yanking.

I am afraid.

Annette shuddered involuntarily. There was nothing else that she could do. Right now, not even her status would protect her. They could cut her head off and she could do nothing to stop it. She was helpless, and her fear was overwhelming.

But she was the only one that could stop it. The unconscious Celestine would go like a lamb to her death. They had stretched her out on the carpet, her limbs pressed flat to the car.

Annette jerked as if cold water had splashed her.

She was the only one that could save them. There was no one else.

“Who are you?” She demanded, trying to sound confident. “Why are you doing this? Do you know who I am?”