Chapter Seven

THERE HE WAS.

The literal bane of my existence and cause of my death. And he came prepared, with sunglasses on, probably expecting me to come like this. The same could be said about his two loyal dogs.

Adonis and Sohan. Both are also the first children of their respective Houses, of the same rank as Elodie. And well... Us.

But their pride was too big to handle. And they also hate me, and would very much gladly kill me if anyone asked. Oh, they blame me for Avy's death as well.

In summarizing, they are just as hostile toward me as everybody else. Not a surprise. They only lose to Daisuke, of course.

Speaking of him, even though he was using sunglasses, I could feel his stare burning my skin. He must have planned so many things to make me miserable. And I can't even blame him.

"Why are using your blindfold on your neck and not covering those cursed eyes of yours, little wrench? Are you going to keep doing this now?"

"Why so lovely at this hour in the morning, your royal highness?" I smirked.

"You are in my territory now, so you have to answer my questions," asshole.

"As if that changed anything. But I'll tell you because I'm feeling amazing today," no, I'm not. "My dear brother, Rai, decided to show his love for me by strangling me till I almost fainted. So I took the useless blindfold and I put on my neck to cover the dark bruise he left on my beautiful and fair skin, so you wouldn't feel the pleasure of seeing me wounded like this," I kept the smirk on as I said that, just to annoy him.

"Put the damn blindfold on!" Adonis and Sohan exclaimed.

"Oh, so the dogs are barking now."

They close their fists when I said that as if they were ready to punch me, which I do not doubt.

"You are stupid, you know that? All of you act as if I had been ordered to put this on. But I wasn't. I chose to use it, for myself. Because I didn't want to see people's deaths, neither did I wanted to see my own," I turned to Daisuke. "I thought you had told them, but it seems like you didn't. To resume it all, now that I don't care about that anymore, the blindfold has no use for me. If you don't want me to see your death, then don't fucking look at me in the eye, or when you do, use sunglasses," I pointed at their eyes. "As you are doing now."

I sensed it when my brothers stopped behind me. "She's awfully right. No one ordered her to use that, she chose to use it," it was Aeneas.

"It seems like you weren't satisfied with seeing my sister's death, and now you are craving to see everybody else," Daisuke exclaimed with a grin on, knowing very well how his words would hurt me.

"If you think I did that because I..." I sighed, doing the best I could not to let my smirk disappear. "Whatever. Keep being as repetitive as you desire. The truth has no effect now, and neither do I care about that anymore. You are free to think whatever shit you want about me, your royal highness. That won't change the fact that I am not what any of you say I am. I know that, and that's enough for me," I turned my back and began to head inside the Castle. "There is nothing you can do that could break me now, Daisuke. So you are free to try and torture me as much as you want. It won't mean anything. Your effort is worthless."

When I was about to follow my way to where the rooms of the girls in the trials should be, four knights with sunglasses stopped me.

"What do you want now, your royal highness?"

"That's not the way for your chambers," he turned to his dogs. "You two take the little whore there. I'll show the boys and Lady Elodie where they will be staying."

His knights disappeared and his dogs held each one of my arms. Holding in such a strong grip that it hurt me, I acted as if it was nothing, which made them tighten it more. Assholes.

When I began to recognize the way, I couldn't help but feel guilty consume even more, so I decided to ask them to be sure, "Where are you dogs taking me?" They cursed me using such dirty words that I chose to ignore it. "I didn't know filthy bitch was a place, I thought that was your mothers' name," okay, I am provoking them, but so what?

I had to say something to make me stop thinking about how we were in Avy's castle and clearly heading to her chambers. And I couldn't let them know how that was getting under my skin.

They threw me on a door with so much strength that I heard more than one crack in my body. Biting my lip, I acted as if it was nothing. Choosing that to laugh like a psycho was better than crying in front of those assholes.

"You guys are so caring. Such a duo of gentlemen. I pray to the Gods that someone will give this same treatment to your mothers because I bet you would like that, wouldn't you?" And I know that I shouldn't be talking about their mothers like that, especially when I know them.

However, they both hate me as well. So it's not like this is weighting my conscience or any of that. But still, I shouldn't be doing this, but I just can't help it. It's stronger than me.

I'm tired of being nice with those who keep treating me like shit when I have done something wrong to them. Daisuke may have a reason to be a bitch with me, but his dogs don't have any. These two boys just decided that hating me was the best road to go down, just like everyone else.

They didn't even waste their time talking to me or anything like that, they chose violence. Daisuke probably ordered them to do this, that coward jerk. His dogs began to kick me in my stomach until they heard someone close, and so Adonis hurried to open the door of a room I use to know too well, as Sohan carried me just to throw me on the ground of that chamber.

Avyanna's chambers.

Daisuke is playing dirty. I never thought he would dare to do something like this. Seriously. This is too much.

I felt my vision dizzy. And nausea coming back stronger than ever. Just as the tears I had been fighting for quite a long time. The room was the same.

Everything was intact. Even her clothes. Her bedsheets.

"You will stay in this chamber until the end of the trials, lowly whore," Sohan hissed. "No way out."

"Let's see how you will handle staying in the chambers of the girl you killed, the innocent you dared to ever call your best friend, bitch!" Adonis exclaimed, kicking me one last time, and closed the door, locking me here from the outside.

Great, now I also have a rib or two fractured.

I felt the panic start to rise inside of me. My head was spinning. I tried to scream for them to open the door, but my voice didn't come out.

All over again... I was broken. In pieces. Alone and being consumed by the guilt of what I did to the one I loved the most.

The pain of my broken bones was worse than ever, but there was no scream in my throat. Only an ocean of tears of resentment of myself. And nausea took over me as I vomited on the carpet.

Still, when I tried to get up, I, somehow, hit my head on the table she used to draw over, and fainted.

But before that, I could swear I felt the scent of blood somewhere.

...Maybe it was from me.