I couldn't bring myself to hate her, even as I lay dying by her hand, the dagger I had gifted her buried in my chest. My breath came out in heavy, shallow pants the warmth of my blood warming my rapidly cooling body.

     She stood above me watching me die with a uncaring expression so unlike the soft looks we had shared the past weeks. At this moment she looked exactly like the heartless tyrant she was known as.

     "You know," She laughs a laugh devoid of any humor, "I knew the whole time you were sent to kill me. I played along tricked you while you actively tried to trick me. I may be a woman but I didn't get to the power I have by not knowing everything."

     She reaches down and wrenches the dagger out of my chest a pained hiss escaping from between my clenched teeth. The blade of the dagger glinted in the light as she twirled it around between her fingers with practiced ease.

     "Thanks to your stupidity I found which on my advisors were plotting against me." She gestures to the nobles that had hired me to kill her in the first place. They were all dead on the floor their throats slit and crimson blood staining the marble floor.

     "As for you" Her voiced dropped to a hushed whisper as she wrenches my body into sitting position by my hair. "For trying to deceive me and kill me every time you are reborn, I will kill you regardless of if you remember this life. You tried to trick me into loving you than you were going to kill me."

     She then drops me back to the floor and turns walking away the click of her boots slowly fading as she leaves me to die alone. My breathing slowly stops everything fading away and the last thought in my mind is that one day in one life I will get to love her.