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Chapter Twenty-Five
I wore a revealing soft pink nightgown made of lace. Somehow, it feels like I'm betraying Alaric. While my mind keeps on telling me that there's nothing between us, my heart has other plans. It keeps on beating for the man that only sees me as a nuisance—an unnecessary baggage he had a misfortune of picking beside the road.
And there's Roman. Coming back had been a gamble. I expected a lot of things; my mother's worried face, father's anger, Enrico's punishment, and Roman's disgust and bitterness.
None of those had been present when our paths meet again.
Roman broke the wall I built around myself the moment he saw me and engulfed me into his warm embrace. It feels like he cares more than he's letting on. And when our skin touches, I hadn't expected the rush of anticipation that coursed through me. Now, I'm on a mission to break through everything that's keeping me from my happiness.
I must admit, his drugging touch and kisses were a plus. At least I
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I came down with a beaming smile on my face like Roman asked me to with the exception of the dress he ordered me to wear. Instead, I wear an old university shirt I stole from my brother's closet and the five-year-old sweatpants which I also stole from him. Nothing fancy, I know.Going down for breakfast would have been a good idea and a comical one but the image of my mother choking on her food while looking at me dubiously tugged a string on my heart. And besides, I don't want to antagonize my father early on my plan. I'm not even sure if it is a plan. All I know is I'm working to gain my freedom from my oppressive family.“I hope you're feeling well, your highness.” Roman greeted bowing his head with a smirk on his face and a glint of mockery in his eyes.I gritted my teeth, smiling stiffly at him.One of these days I'm gonna k*ll him. J*rk.My eyes zeroed on him. I gulped. He looked sexy. Like the men, I saw on billboards and magazin
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Roman continued his visits every night in my quarters and not long I started to anticipate on his nighty visit that's until the night before our wedding.He never came.When the clock strikes twelve I'm more than ready to march towards the tunnels into his quarters for an explanation. But before I could rip open the secret door inside my closet I saw a note in the ground with his penmanship.My Princess,I am beyond frustrated right now that I can't be with you. As per tradition, we are not allowed to see each other before the wedding. And besides, I'm being watched by your father's manservant. But I promise to make it up to you tomorrow night.RomanI huff, stomping my foot on the floor as I walked out of the closet.“You should learn to close your windows, Victoria,” every nerve endings on my body stood alert as goosebumps erupted on my exposed skin. I physically shivered, hearing the familiar voice of the one person I'd
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I lay awake the whole night thinking about Alaric who is somewhere in or probably out of the palace. The warning bell hadn't sounded so I'm assuming he's out of the dungeon and maybe sightseeing around the palace walls. Surprisingly, his presence hasn't given me second thoughts on marrying Roman.That should mean something right?It was probably because I got used to being used by all the people around me. Or maybe because deep down I know even if I'm slowly falling for Roman Hernandez I would still use him to gain my freedom.The thought of using Roman for my own gain despite all the good things he has done to me sent me into nausea. Guilt. Suddenly, I feel guilty. I feel guilty not because I'm using him to escape from this place but because I felt like I cheated on him with Alaric which is ridiculous. We didn't do anything and besides, I did not agree not will I, to meet him in my private chambers. He had done it of his own free will.But why it does fe
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Red flags.I should have seen it a mile away the moment Alaric painstakingly scaled my wall just to inform me he got inside the palace ground undetected.“You smell weird,” I mumbled, trying to twist myself out of Alaric's suffocating embrace and on his unwelcome kisses.“Hmm,”I gritted my teeth as he tried to kiss me once again. Frustrated, I put the palm of my hands on his face to stop him from leaning on me. “Let go, Alaric, or I'll scream.” I threatened, pushing him off me. He's wet and sticky and there's this coppery smell on him that hasn't been in him when he visited my chamber.“You don't like it?”I slapped him. Hard. “I'm marrying Roman.” I spat turning away from him as I dashed out of his hold.“So?” He's mocking me. Even in the dark, I can picture the tilt of his head, an eyebrow raised on his hairline while his lips set into a sneer.“Wh
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“I need you, Roman, ” I murmured on a desperate plea in between breaths.He stiffened but instantly relaxed within a second, making me question myself if I got a reaction from him. “No, no. Not that kind of ‘need’. I only meant—” Though we both knew a single thing had flashed through his head and mine, making me flush with mortification. “I only meant emotionally.”Roman gave me a curt nod. “Come, let's get you clean,” he said tersely, pointing to the shower.“Are you mad?” I mumbled“I could never be mad at you,” His voice was low almost rough but not cold. No never cold.“But—” He silenced me with a kiss on the forehead, his huge and callous hands holding my bare shoulders, igniting a delicious heat that was not there a moment ago.He gazed down on me still holding me captive. “I know what you mean the moment you said those wor
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The missing piece of the puzzle.It was my father.The blood that Alaric wiped all over me was my father's. A thought that has me wanting to scream and cry at the same time. But I couldn't even if I wanted to.If Alaric's goal is to emotionally torture me, then he succeeded. I may harbor bitterness in my father's lies and his seemingly selfish decision but at the end of the day, he was still my father and I love him.But that's not it. Shockingly, while my father bathed in his own blood my mother is having an affair with Roman's father, Enrico.What a joke. And yet it was not.My day started, blissfully aware of the hard planes of a man sleeping next to me. Roman had stayed with me. I woke up with my body curled against him, his legs tangled with mine while his arm draped protectively across my body. We fit together like two pieces of a puzzle. His warmth was a contrast to the biting chill of my room as we forgot to turn on the heat when we
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I wake up in darkness. The kind of darkness that seems to swallow me whole and like I didn't even open my eyes. The ground was damp, adding to the biting cold that seeping through the thin night shift I'm wearing. For a moment my mind drifted back to a memory from a year ago, the time when I snuck out of my chambers in the middle of the night, thinking it was a good idea to lay outside and soak under the gentle glare of the moon and stars. There has been no moon or stars that night, only the thick swirling mass of clouds that seemed to descend on me and kiss the ground. Stubborn that I am, I lay on my back and waited and waited until I fell asleep only to be awakened with the loud boom of the thunder and lightning followed by fat and cold drops of water. Obviously, I'm not in a garden or under the sky. I'm in a room, probably a basement that was made into a shelter by hundreds of rats and roaches. When my circumstances finally sank in, I scramble up, only to fall
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