Crista was already a ways away. Locked up in a travel trunk and on a horse drawn cart, being taken further and further from Aiden.
What Crista had said the night before was right. As long as the king was alive, he would never let Aiden marry her. If that meant getting rid of her, then so be it. But he had an even better idea in his twisted mind then just killing her. No. He wanted the wench that had put foolish thoughts into his sons head that he could love and marry a common whore to suffer. And he owed someone the chance at her.
The king was, of course, not a faithful husband. He was, until his wife delivered him the heir he needed. He never returned to her bed after that but instead sought those of other woman. He had whores, he had noble ladies. Any woman he wanted. Here was one lady or court there was a quick fling with whom later claimed her child was his. Of course she could not prove it. But as the lad grew and his personality came through, the king could see him as his son. They were very much alike and in truth, he was the king of son he had wished Aiden could have been like, but Aiden had to much of his mother in him.
The bastard needed to be silenced never the less. Money, titles, kept him happy for many years as well as turning the other cheek for the kinds of things the king knew happened within his household. But this would be a fine gift. How his bastard would love the gift of woman his half brother wanted. And the king knew, that he'd never give up the chance to have something his brother wanted to very much.
And so he had his own personal guard do the task. When Aiden left to see his mother for morning tea, within minutes Crista had already been drugged to a deeper slumber. She only could struggle a moment before she was out and stuffed into the travel trunk with only a single bed sheet with her and she was carried away.
Soon, the cart arrived at the bastard's manor, deep within the woods on the far side of the kingdom. A dark castle of sorts with many dark secrets within it's walls.
Two of his servants came to retrieve the trunk from the cart, bringing it just into the sitting room where he was taking his own morning drink. The king's servant stepped forward, the sound of Crista banging against the walls of the trunk from within starting to be heard as she just started to awaken from her drugged state.
"A gift from the king...." was all the servant said as he bowed to the man before him, handing him the key to the trunk containing Crista and departing, leaving her to her dark fate at the hands of a wronged man.