A King is Born on the Road

trigger warnings: sexual assault, physical abuse

When she entered the dining room on the first floor, Ruben had arrived first.

Ruben, who was leaning back with one arm on the back of the chair, looked at her.

Sandra sat down in front of her old friend, feeling ashamed of her dress with half her chest exposed.

The table was long, and the two were sitting far apart. So the distance between the two was far, and there was no reason to make eye contact with each other.

Still, Sandra glanced at Ruben. But Ruben wasn’t looking at her at all.

Sandra, who hesitated, spoke to him.

“Ruben, I have a question.”

Then Ruben answered firmly.

“Since you’ll be my brother’s partner soon, it’d be better to have some formalities with each other.”

“…Yes.”

Sandra murmured and nodded.

Sandra looked down at the meal served in front of her and spoke to him again.

“What should I do if a stranger bigger than me breaks in? I say I should hold a weapon, even a small knife.”

“…There won’t be any intruders while you’re at Everhart.”

“What are you talking about, to me, you can also feel like an assailant.”

At Sandra’s rebuttal, Ruben, who had been trying to keep his distance, smiled without realizing it. Then he answered calmly.

“I don’t know right now. I’ll think about it later and let you know.”

“It’s no use later.”

Sandra grumbled, but she liked the kindness to think about it and let her know.

After a while, Leon came into the dining room. Before he sat down, he picked up a heap of meat and ripped it off.

Leon sat down and put his hand on Sandra’s shoulder. Sandra slapped Leon’s hand as his hand rubbed her back.

“We’re in the middle of eating a meal.”

“All newlyweds are like this. No, in the first place, Sandra. Your sister promised to marry me and then ran off with another man. Now I’m marrying a woman I don’t even want. Don’t you feel sympathy for me?”

Sandra gritted her teeth at Leon’s words.

Ran away? Her sister?

Her body was trembling from holding back the desire to stab Leon to death at any moment.

She pretended to be all right, but on the inside she was disgusted.

He killed her sister, Sandra’s sister.

She came here and found out about it through a maid. Sandra’s sister quarrelled with Leon, who was harassing the maid, and in the process, Leon killed her. He even damaged her reputation by saying that she fell for another man and ran away.

Sandra never meant to leave him alone.

If Ruben is informed of this, he will probably challenge his brother to a duel right away. He was a man who would be able to do so.

But she didn’t want to. She didn’t want to involve her beloved friend in this. And most of all, she wanted to kill Leon with her own hands.

* * *

Time passed, and only Leon and Sandra remained in the bridal chamber. Sandra didn’t remember anything about how the wedding went. She just remembered the dagger she had hidden.

In the suffocating silence, Sandra thought that she would rather stop breathing so that she didn’t have to do anything.

It felt like a hidden cold sword was piercing her heart. However, when she thought of her sister’s face and her always sunshine-like appearance, anger and courage erupted from her heart.

Leon, who sat on the bed, said, with a sinister look in his eyes.

“Why don’t you take it off? Slowly. Or I can take it off.”

“Wait…”

Before Sandra could say to wait, Leon threw her onto the bed.

Sandra stared blankly into the air and waited for the right timing.

Leon’s hand groped her chest and pulled her silk nightgown over her belly button. Sandra persevered with disgust.

After waiting for the right timing, she quickly took out the dagger that she had hung on the garter belt behind her thigh. But before that, Leon’s hand grabbed her arm.

Leon threw the dagger and slapped Sandra in the face.

“Argh!”

Sandra screamed and collapsed on the bed.

Leon chuckled.

“You’re stupid. Did you think I’d be fooled if you were so nervous and trembling and pretending to be calm?”

He seemed to have known Sandra had hidden the dagger from the start.

Sandra’s hands trembled. But it wasn’t the time to just tremble. In the end, you have to kill the target of interest.

As Sandra reached out for her dagger, Leon grabbed her thigh and pulled her. Leon, who was born strong, began beating Sandra, as if her defiance was amusing.

Sandra, who had been slouching for a while, turned her head slightly. Her figure was reflected in the window at eye level. It was a mess.

She slowly raised her upper body. She was more angry than scared. As if her whole body was covered with anger, as if she had fallen into a pit full of anger.

The anger made her forget the pain. When Leon threw another punch, Sandra got up and dodged it. Then she ran to the dagger before Leon and picked it up.

Only then did Leon say, a little taken aback that Sandra did not give up.

“Put that down.”

“Are you crazy?”

Sandra said and swung her dagger without hesitation.

As soon as Leon tried to grab her, Sandra cut his arm with the dagger. In an instant, the flesh opened and blood gushed out. Leon screamed in pain.

Then the door burst open.

Ruben came in with a hard face after hearing the quarrel outside.

“Leon, what have you done?”

Leon, who thought he was right, grabbed his bleeding arm and shouted at him.

“Brother, this girl is holding a knife…!”

Sandra turned her battered face and looked at Ruben.

She was relieved to see her friend’s face.

Even though she knew this trash was his little brother, somehow, just seeing him made her feel at ease.

She stabbed Leon deeply in the side with her dagger.

“Sand…”

At that moment, Sandra and Ruben’s eyes met again.

Sandra pulled out her dagger and stepped back.

Then Leon fell to the floor. Ruben ran to see if Leon was alive, but he was already dead.

Sandra, who was relieved by his desperate reaction to confirming his brother’s death, slumped down.

Ruben rushed to help Sandra, who had fallen. And then he put her on the bed.

Then a maid entered the bedroom. She brought a wet towel and wiped the blood off Sandra’s hands.

A close friend killed his brother.

Ruben stood there blankly, unable to accept the whole situation.

Then the maid turned to Ruben and said.

“My lady is not to blame.”

“……”

“I encouraged my lady. She knew that I had been badly hurt by Leon. I said something stupid. As I talked, I ended up telling what happened to my lady’s older sister… It’s… it’s because my lady was so nice to me…”

“……”

“So my lady really, really did nothing wrong.”

Ruben, who finally grasped the situation, took a deep breath. Then he said to Sandra, who had been lying on the bed.

“Cut off your left hand.”

“…What?”

“You’re left-handed, so you’ll be identified soon. So just cut off your left hand. Run away.”

For someone who saw his brother’s death right in front of his eyes, he was too calm.

Sandra asked.

“Are you out of your mind?”

“I’m out of my mind.”

Ruben nodded.

“Really, I’m out of my mind. I knew Leon was a piece of trash… I, knowingly, put my friend in danger. It’s my fault, now…”

“Ruben!”

“It’s better than dying. Cutting off a wrist is fine. The son of the Everhart family is dead. Then you think you’re the only problem? Now the relationship between our two families is over. There may be a war.”

“……”

“Sandra, this is for the Hall family. If we don’t do this, hundreds or thousands more may die.”

Ruben persuaded, and Sandra didn’t think for too long.

She closed her eyes tightly and nodded.

Ruben hurriedly picked her up and rushed out of the mansion. She was given a strong pill, and he cut off her left hand himself. The maid of the Everhart family stood next to him.

A few days later, while searching for Sandra, Ruben learned how to use his left hand. Soon after, he became the murderer of his brother.

afterword 

free him my man did no wrong!!