18. Selena

Zelda

Two weeks had passed since our dinner with the king and Zac had been obsessed with pinning me down each chance he got. He was frenzied with it, I was beyond sore, I had bruises all over my body from where he had gripped me or sucked on my skin.

There were always a dark purple as they never got a chance to heal, and he kept up a constant assault on my body. The last week the king seemed to relieve him of a lot of his duties and so his was at the room all time. I had barely slept and there were bags showing under my eyes. Any of the rooms I would enter to try and get a break from him he would follow, and the process would start again, or maybe it never finished.

I was currently in the bath, the hot water soothing my body. I’d locked the bathroom door stopping him from following me, a knock at the door had distracted him and I had made my escape. He had taken me in every position imaginable.

‘Zelda, open this door,’ I sank lower into the tub, savoring the last few moments.

‘I’