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CHAPTER TEN
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As we walk down the hallway, I take note of all the doors I have been through so far. There’s the one that leads to Alden’s study. I imagine that he is there right now, writing or reading something, his smell and presence thick in the air like fumes. There’s the other door that leads to the dining hall which I am sure I will soon go through again to eat while Alden watches me. And then, there’s the uncanny one that leads to the dungeon, behind which lies only darkness, fear and loneliness.I realize that I have seen and know so little of this place. There are about fifteen other doors leading to rooms or possibly other areas that I have yet to be led through. Surely, one of these other doors has to lead outside this place. In a perfect situation, all I would have to do is open each door and try it out until I find the one that I am looking for. But as I have been shown multiple times already, this is not a perfect situation and nothing is being done according to my terms or wishes. T
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I dip my right foot in the water, starting with the big toe. The water is the same exact warm it was the last time I was here. How exactly these people keep the water at a steady temperature is beyond me. I have so many questions that I fear may remain unanswered. I submerge the rest of my body in the water and turn to face the servants. Knox’s right-hand falls to his side at my swift turn. Was he touching himself watching me? I smile at him and then I look away. “I haven’t seen the sun in days,” I say as the three servants start to make their way into the pool. Knox fetches the soap while the other two position themselves on either side of me. “That cannot be normal. Humans need the sun or we get depressed. What do you think, Knox?”At the mention of his name, Knox stumbles and the jar of soap he has in his hand falls back to the edge of the pool. Thankfully, the jar has a very tight lid so nothing spills. If Herb and Teon notice the awkwardness of our interaction or the effect that
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The dress Herb and Teon bring to me has a similar style to the one I just took off except that it is in yellow. Yellow has been my favorite color since I was a child so seeing it puts a little smile on my face and I say a little thanks to the universe for small mercies. Once again, I am unable to fasten the lace of the dress completely by myself. This makes me a little worried because Alden will have to do it for me and I know how weak I become when he is that close to me. Still, I am determined to not let anything derail my newfound determination to get myself out of here. My plan is simple and easy. I will go to this dinner with Alden and eat enough to give myself strength but not too much that I feel full. I will behave as nicely as I can and maybe even engage Alden in conversation. It will be a ploy to convince him that I am liking this place and am on board with his breeding plan so that he does not suspect a thing and maybe even lets his guard down concerning keeping me secured.
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“Sit,” he says. “This meal is yours.”I sit in the exact same spot I sat in the last time and take a quick glance at all the food spread on the table. “I made sure that they prepared more of the things you liked from the last time and less of those you did not touch,” he says as I begin to put some food on my plate. “I also added a few new things so that we may properly determine your taste.”“What?” is the only thing that manages to escape my lips. Is Alden really changing the food he serves me based on my preferences? What is this monster doing when even my own ex-boyfriend could not have bothered to try to learn what I liked while we were going out? I remember once, right before our third anniversary, he decided that he was going to make me dinner, which in itself, was a surprise and gift enough because Brad never did anything for someone else. Unfortunately, the evening took a downward turn when I realized that he’d made something with fish when I’d told him so many times before
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I don’t know when it happens exactly but at some point, while Alden is carrying me back into the castle on his shoulder, I stop fighting. Around the same time, I notice that I have stopped hitting or biting him, I also notice that his hand is on the small of my back, stroking me gently. My brain makes a quick connection between these two actions; his soothing stroking on my back is possibly the reason I have become calm and stopped fighting. Or maybe I am just exhausted and it has nothing to do with him.When we get back to the room, Alden places me on the chair on the right side of the wall and then he leaves. I remain in my completely soaked dress, shivering like a leaf with my arms wrapped around me and just staring into nothingness. How could he just leave me like this, soaking wet and so fucking cold? Granted, I did run into the storm with my own two legs but I would not have had to do that if he would just give me my freedom. This is all Alden’s fault.The door bursts open and A
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A few feet from the pool, a mat has been prepared with several pillows and layers of sheets placed upon it. At the head of the mat, there are jars that appear to contain different kinds of liquids, and the perimeter of the mat is marked by white flowers sprinkled about it.When we take a few more steps toward the water, Alden opens his eyes slowly and looks right at me. “I warned you about that storm. I said you would get cold and you did not listen. You chose to bite me instead,” he says with a smirk.“I-I,” I try to talk but nothing intelligible comes out of my mouth. Between my congested airways and the sight of a naked Alden, there isn’t much energy left in my body that can be allocated to speaking.“Lay on the mat,” he says.Once again, I oblige without argument. Alden watches me as I change positions on the mat at least four times, still trying to find a position that allows air to come into my lungs. I eventually settle on lying on my right side.“Leave us,” I hear him say an
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I am running in the middle of a dark forest. Although I try to exert all my power to propel myself forward, my legs feel heavy and I am unable to run as fast as I wish. Just then, I hear a deafening thundercrack and heavy rain starts to fall on me. The rain is accompanied by a strong wind that blows opposite the direction I’m running in, creating even more resistance to my movement. When all the conditions around me become exceedingly unbearable, I fall to the muddy ground and I begin to weep. “Cathy!” I hear someone call from behind me and I look back to see Brad several feet away. he is drenched from head to toe and he has one hand stretched forward to me, beckoning for me to come closer. “Come back here. Come back to me!”I open my mouth to speak but I am cut off by a low growl that comes from in front of me.“Cathy!” Alden’s deep voice calls from ahead. He is the same distance in front of me as Brad is behind me so I am right in the middle of both of them. “Come to me. Come forwa
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I sit up immediately on the bench. That was definitely what I was expecting. I am ashamed to say but I have not, for once, imagined Alden, this monster sitting in front of me, as anyone who could have ever had relatives, especially female ones in whose memories he would have vases made. “What happened to them?” I ask, my voice barely a whisper.“There was a time when this mountain was our home and all around it was teeming with our kind. My family ruled around this mountain and we faced no trouble for several millennia. Then two centuries ago, I ran into a woman, very much like you,” he says and I shift uncomfortably in my seat. “My family did not approve of her but I trusted her so much, I was willing to leave this mountain and go somewhere far away to be with her.” He remained quiet after that and I feared that that was the end of the story but when I looked at him and I saw the anger welling in his eyes, I knew that there was more. More than I probably did not want to hear but als
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