I went to meet Jace today with Rose. His condition was not better, but not worse either. I sighed in relief and immediately felt the extent of the situation.Jace was awake. He was glaring at Rose.“I will give you two privacy,” she said and left which I did not think she would do. She was probably standing just outside the door, waiting to hear anything we said.“Oh, Jace,” I murmured and hugged him.“S-Sully…”“You look terrible. How bad they hurt you!”“I… have to… t-tell you something,” Jace said. His voice was shaky and very quiet, but insistent.***“Did he tell you everything?” Rose asked.I looked around her chamber. Everything was white. There was no sign of another color in her room. I was feeling dizzy.“I don’t understand. Why would you help us?” I asked. “When it was your plan to bring me here.”“I cannot and will not explain everything right away. You will have to wait till the hunt. After that, I will explain everything. But first, I need you to convince your family to g
The paint almost entirely faded away by the night before the hunt. No one suspected anything.Rose’s words kept playing on my mind all these days. I did not tell Demian about it. I could tell no one. Even Leo was not here. I missed him and his supporting words.I had not seen or talked to Leo in a long time. After Maxi’s death, although we did not fall apart, we surely found less reasons to talk to each other. There was a distance between us that had not been there before.I missed him. I missed our time together. We used to have so much fun.I met Leo and Maxi after going to the academy. I had never seen any of them before. Leo was the son of a Count. Maxi was an orphan. I still remembered the day I met Maxi as if it was yesterday.First years had to share their room with another student. Starting from second year, they got a room of their own. My roommate was Maxi, with her old-fashioned dresses, short brown hair and big chocolate eyes. She was always jumping up and down and talking
“Come here, darling.”As I took Demian’s hand, he pulled me towards him. I stumbled and fell on his chest.The hunt was tomorrow. My brother might not even live. Yet, my head was somewhere else. I was enjoying the moment. I was convincing myself that if I did not act like a good wife with Demian, he would not save my brother.“Sit,” he ordered.“On the floor?” I asked.“Yes.”I did as I was told. I was not all that confused. I read forbidden books about acts that couples did. There were even lewd paintings that I loved to see.“Unbutton my pants,” he said. It also sounded like an order.“Demian…”“You said you want me to fuck you. If you can’t even do this much, how can you do that?”I bit my lips. There was no point in arguing with him. Besides, I was a little excited. My heart was beating fast.My hands were steady as I unbuttoned his pants. I took a sharp intake of breath as his manhood freed itself. It was my first time seeing one so close. A few times, I saw them at the brothel. B
Sully slept peacefully beside me. My arm was around her waist, pressing her back against my chest. I had never gone to sleep with anyone beside me before. It was new, but I had already gotten used to having her beside me. Her presence was comforting in the dark world I belonged to.I had not drank her blood tonight. I did not need to drink as much blood as I drank these days. Yet, I did, since her blood was so captivating and delicious. Something about her was always pulling me towards her, if I wanted to or not.I had to restrain myself hard not to fuck her tonight. She looked so hot and sexy as she sucked my cock.She wanted me to fuck her. I could fuck her because she was my wife. It did not matter whether my father brought her here forcefully or not. She accepted me. Deep in my heart, I knew she actually did not want me, but pretended to want me to survive. I would not fuck her, no matter how much I wanted to. Even if she told me to, I would not.If I did, I would not be able to l
The first question I asked Demian was if he enjoyed the hunt, when he told me the details about the hunt in the morning.“I do,” he answered. I was not surprised. I had expected this answer. After all, Demian was born in House Silverclaw and was raised here. He was raised to be heartless, to enjoy things people should despise. Yet, Demian turned out to be more decent than most men I met. I could not something that he was raised to love against him.I touched the side of his face. “Please help my brother,” I said. “I don’t care about anything else. You could love killing people for fun for all I care. Just save my brother.”He pressed his lips on mine. “I will try to,” he said as he pulled back.I did not press him further. I had enough trust in Demian to not question him when he said he would try to help Jace. I believed he truly would try as best as he could.I wore a bright red dress, the color of my eyes- Demian complimented. The neckline was too deep just like most of my dresses h
The players would have to be on their foot. They could use any weapon they pleased. Dela said Rose liked to use a crossbow.A crossbow. It ignited a memory in my mind. When I was six, my father told me to choose a weapon. I chose a crossbow and he beat me up because of it. He said a crossbow was not precise enough. So, I chose a bow and arrow next.Crossbows were good for beginners. Although they were precise too (unlike what my father said), for a skilled user, a bow was preferrable. Crossbows were overall easier to use since they did not require as much physical strength as a bow did.“What does Damien use?” I asked. I forgot to ask Damien the question.“I don’t know. A sword perhaps?” Dela turned to Rosalia questioningly. She did not even know what her own son used as a weapon, but knew what her stepdaughter used.“A sword,” Rosalia confirmed. “And a spear too, during the hunt.” Rosalia’s voice was milky and calm. I had never heard a more beautiful voice.Damien kept his sword in o
My eyes were burning. There was a strong odor. No one was bothered, so I did not say anything. The odor was making my head spin.“It’s the hounds,” Rosalia whispered. “They smell bad, even from far away.”“Hounds?” Why were hounds brought here?“They are to eat the bodies of the animals,” she said.“Ah…,” I murmured as if it was perfectly normal to feed the bodies of prisoners to hounds.Men and some women soon carried the remains of bodies from the forest. The forest was where the hunt was happening. We were seated right outside it.My stomach churned at the sight of the upper half of a body. A long pipe like thing was dangling from the bottom. I refrained from letting out a gag.Then, I saw the hounds. They were being held back by huge chains. Those were the biggest hounds I had ever seen. I did not know they could be so big. There were two guard hounds at the academy, but they were nowhere this big.Saliva was dripping from their mouths and they were barking loudly. The odor was ev
After lunch, it was time for the second phase of the game. I had never been particularly fond of the hunt or any of the games. But I had to participate even if I did not want to.I noticed, not for the first time, how Sully clung to Demian. I wondered if she told him about what I said. It would be a problem if she did. But then again, Demian did not confront me about anything yet. He just told me not to give his wife any weird ideas, which was rather ironic. I had quite a firm belief that Sully did not tell Demian anything.Honestly, it would be stupid of her to do so. Why would she trust Demian? Just because he was her husband? It was not even a real marriage. It was not like she wanted to marry him. Sully was definitely not that stupid.Out of the corner of my eyes, I noticed Demian saying something to Father and then leaving. Sully’s eyes followed his movements. She looked pale. Did she feel safe with Demian? Why? He was not better than any of us. He was like the rest of the Silver
I was obsessed with Sully. I noticed everything about her. No matter where we were, my eyes always founds her and I could never help staring at her. I also liked everything about her. Something about the way she smiled, she talked, she laughed made me want her even more. I never knew it was possible to want someone this much until I married her.Now, I could not imagine living without her.I was always looking into the future. One of the things that I did every single day was predicting the future, imagining what would happen. In every single one of those imaginations, Sully was there with me, by my side. And she was happy. Her happiness mattered. Everything about her mattered.In the future that I imagined, I got what I wanted. Since childhood, I wanted a lot of things, but never got them. Sully could say proudly that she got what she always wanted, but I could not say the same; I wanted to though.At this moment, I wanted my wife to stay by my side forever. And I so desperately wish
I was suspicious regarding Demian’s actions. He was acting very sweet to me as if nothing happened. I knew he was still angry about what I did, although he did not show it.Now, he said he would meet Rezef Thorn. Rezef sent Demian a letter via Leo and wanted to talk to him, not as enemies, but as normal men. And Demian agreed.“You will not hurt him, will you?” I asked Demian.“Why would I hurt him?” Demian asked, tilting his head to one side. He was not being serious; it was one of those rarest times. I did not know what to make of that. Would he truly not hurt Rezef or not?“Demian, please. Be serious,” I said.“I never thought I would hear someone say that to me.”“I never thought I would have to say this to you either. But here we are.”Demian started combing his hair.“Give me that,” I said, taking the comb from him. Demian sat on a stool and I started combing his hair. “I don’t understand what you are doing. First, you are being very nice to me.”“Is it wrong to be nice to my ow
Leo had stayed with Rezef to make sure he was safe. Demian had put Rezef somewhere else while Leo and I were doing our work in the tent. We had to do our work a little quicker because of the fire.Kyle also died too quickly. He died before we could have our fun fully.I watched as Demian washed the blood of my body. He worked methodically. Now he was scrabbing my arm. His eyes were focused even though the task was a simple one.“Are you angry at me?” I asked.“I don’t like anyone defying me,” Demian said. “I don’t like when someone does the exact opposite thing of what I told them. I also don’t like it when my plan does not go properly.”“Plan?”“Everything is a plan. I determine everything beforehand. You being in that tower was a plan as well. I do not do anything without a plan,” he said. “You got my men killed.”“A few of them. It was inevitable, Demian. A war is going on,” I said. “But you also thought of this possibility, didn’t you?”His silver eyes met mine.Demian thought of
Cutting off my brother’s penis had not been on my mind when I was little. But after what happened to Maxi, it was obvious that I had to do it.I looked down at my blood-stained dress. The room where Demian and I were staying was small, but clean. Cleanliness was first thing; the size did not matter.After Leo and I were done, Demian brought me here and I followed without a word of defiance. Why would I defy him? He had not stopped me from doing what I wanted to do. Well, he had chained me before. But when he found out I escaped, he actually aided me.“You have many things to answer for,” Demian said upon entering the room. He had went out to do something (I did not know what).“I know,” I murmured.I turned to face him. His arms were crossed over his chest. His hair was tied loosely on the behind.“You want to know how I managed to let Rezef know about where I was?” I asked.“If you know what I want to know, then tell me,” he said.“Well… You see, Rezef used to give me a lot of gifts
I had been imagining this for so long. I had imagined doing so many things when I would meet Kyle again under the circumstances when I could finally take my revenge.Kyle was inside the tent, his men said. They stopped short when they noticed me. Well, they had not seen me in a while. A little surprise was bound to show on their faces.“Is anyone else inside?” I asked.“Yes. It is an alchemist. His name is…”“Leo,” I said. “I know him. Tell Kyle that I want to talk to him. The alchemist can stay though.”My brother’s personal guard bowed to me and went inside the tent. I knew that man. His name was Ezra Walsh. He had been my brother’s personal guard for the last five years. He was bald and tough looking with a scar on his right eye. I had the suspicion that he was blind in that eye, but never knew the truth.“What do you want to talk about with him?” Rezef asked.“Many things. Do you want to see?” I asked.“If you want me to.”“No, it depends on you. You can watch if you want to. But
There were no ships here. Not a single one. I could not even take a carriage either. The roads were blocked.I was out of the estate of House Star, at least. Currently, I was staying at a brothel. I gave some money and some of my pieces of jewelry to the brothel owner and she gave me a place to stay.It was nasty here and I felt disgusted the whole time, but at least, it was safe. Not for long though. At some point, the brothel owner might want to sell me to his nasty customers. I needed to leave soon.I did not know what was going on with the war. I could not care less about that. What I hated about it was the fact that I could not stay at House Star anymore, if there remained a House Star after this in the first place.I hated everything and everyone now at this point. I did not deserve this. I did not deserve any of this.I did not want to born in that family where I had to do things that I did not want to do. I had to learn how to seduce people at a very young age. It was called t
Sully escaped. Once again. I did not know exactly how she let Rezef Thorn know about her location, but she did do it somehow and that was without my knowledge.That woman was too cunning. She even fooled me.I was pretty sure she was going to use Rezef Thorn to get to Kyle.I had been gone for a long time because of a complication. I needed to defend the estate because part of Jade Star’s men somehow got inside the estate. It had been bloody.My left eye still hurt. There was a cut right under it. One of the men of House Star almost took my eye out.And now Sully was gone. This woman was driving me crazy in all the ways possible.She was now at the camp of Rezef Star. I could not just go there. It was hard to sneak in there. I could get as near as possible, but it would be hard to meet her there.I did not doubt Sully’s loyalty. It lay with me. She did not care about Rezef Thorn romantically. She was just using him to gain her objective.I just hated that she escaped from me again aft
“How is Millie?” I asked.Rezef was mostly ignoring me at this point. Well, at least, he was pretending to.“She is okay.”“Treat her nicely, okay? She is a nice girl,” I said. “Do you know Father used to beat her?”Rezef’s face suggested that he had no idea of this incident. Millie did not tell him for sure. It was not like I expected Millie to tell him either. Millie had always acted like she did not deserve anything and kept her thoughts to herself all the time.Their marriage life was not going okay. I knew that from the look on his face. Millie and he were not okay. If they just ended their marriage, then it would be for the best. At least, both of them could find someone new. It would be hard for Millie, but she would get over it. There was no point in suffering when you could get rid of that suffering.Both of them were unhappy in that marriage, I could tell.“Whenever Father was angry, he would take it out on her. We… We always saw but never did anything. I regret it, but what
My plan was simple. I always had the feeling that there was more to the little vacation than Demian let on. That was why- I started to leave trails behind. I kept the window open and threw purple pearls from the window. Demian did not notice because he had been busy trying to keep his legs from cramping and other times, he was massaging my feet.I had to be very cautious so he would not notice. Demian’s eyes were sharp. He noticed everything.That was why I had the feeling that this plan might not work.There were a lot of guessing involved. I was betting on Rezef’s feelings for me on this matter. He had to be the one to find the pearls because only he would recognize them. I had the belief that he was smart enough to know that I would not be at House Silverclaw.Rezef did not disappoint me.Now, I would have to explain everything to him, but that would have to wait for a bit.I told Rezef not to kill the guards that they took captive.We reached their camp on horses. Rezef wanted to