“Are you okay? Did he hurt you?” Rose asked.I shook my head. “I fell. I was dizzy and hit my head on the ground,” I explained. “I could not get out of the bed without feeling dizzy for two whole days.”“Demian looked angry that night,” she said.“He was angry,” I said. Demian went out last night. He said he would be back in two days. I did not know whether he was watching me now. We were in the garden, so it was possible he was somewhere with his eyes on us. Honestly, I did not care. It was not like he could hear us from afar.“He did not hurt you? Truly?”Well, he fucked me like a caveman. But I could not say that to his sister.“He did not,” I assured her.“That’s good. Well, I wanted to tell you that tonight is the time.”“What?” I was shocked. “Tonight is the time for what?”“For leaving. We are leaving tonight,” she said.“Wait, tonight? Rose, we will get caught. It’s too soon,” I said.“Father will leave this afternoon for some work with most of the men here. He is going to rui
I clutched Leo’s hand in mine. We both wore guards’ attires. It was uncomfortable under the steel armor. Besides, I was sweating which I hated the most.Leo and I did not talk, in case someone overheard us.I let go of his hand as we started towards the stable.“No matter what you say, Sully, this plan does not sound good,” Leo had told me. Leo might be crazy. He still craved a good fight. But he was not stupid.“We have no choice. We have to take this chance. Both Demian and Alexander are out,” I had told him.I could not rely on Demian’s actions anymore. He was turning crazier by each passing day. I could barely predict what he would do next.It was like he had always been crazy, but he kept it hidden somewhere deep inside him. But he could not do so anymore. It was all coming out of him and nothing could stop the flow.My fingers were shaking. I was afraid. I touched the arrows attached to my armor on my back to made sure it was there. The bow was in my right hand. I was gripping
The night was starry and chilly. I could watch the night sky for a long time without getting bored. Sometimes, Leo and I used to sit on the roof of the academy and stare at the night sky after Maxi’s death. None of us were religious, so we could not look for her in the stars. At that moment, both of us wished that we believed in God, so we could console ourselves with the belief that Maxi was in a better place.“After death, there is nothing,” Leo had told me, as she lay down together on the roof. We were not supposed to be there. “You and I, we all would just die and there would be nothing after that. Nothing better, nothing worse. We would not even feel anything. We would not suffer for the so-called sins we committed. Murderers, rapists- they would face nothing.”For that, we both believed that rapists should be tortured until they begged for death.Tonight reminded me of those nights. And some other nights, when we would go to Owl to sell our potions. It was something we were not
We reached the port in approximately three and a half hours. Fortunately, we did not meet anyone on the way. More accurately, anyone of importance.We found Rose waiting there, wearing a white dress, just less costly, with a tall man, wearing a hooded cloak. For a while, my heart stopped. But then, I looked clearly. It was not Demian.“You look even prettier when you are all flushed,” he said.“Luke,” I muttered under my breath. “What the hell, Rose? Why is he here?”“Luke is here to see us off,” Rose said.“What?” I could not hide the anger from my voice. We had not talked about this. Rose never mentioned anything about Luke being here. I would not have agreed to any plan with Luke Silverclaw in it.“I’m here to see your pretty face before leaving, more accurately,” Luke said. “I would have liked to taste you once to piss off Demian, but it seems like it’s not possible right now.”“I hate you,” I grumbled.“Ooh, feisty, I like that!”“Fuck you, Luke. I’m your brother’s wife.”“Even
Sully had not woken up yet. I was worried about her, although Rose told me repeatedly that there was nothing to worry about.It had been one day since we departed the port. I was not as worried as before.House Star was not that far from House Silverclaw. But we were first going to Yelenad where Sully’s mother was born and raised. From Yelenad, we would go come back to this kingdom, just through a different way. No one would expect us to do it, at least, that was what Rose said. But what if someone thought like her?“I didn’t know Demian was nice to her. I mean, she said so before, but I always thought she was lying. Do you think she might have something wrong with her like those girls who stay with the men who hurt them?” Rose asked. We rarely went out of our cabins. If we had to talk, we would go to each other’s cabins. Mostly, we met up in Sully’s cabin. According to Rose, it was better to stay inside so no one could see our face. Our food was delivered to our cabins, so we did not
I felt nauseous. I vomited twice within the last three hours.I had woken up four hours ago in the middle of the night. I freaked out, forgetting that I was in the ship. I remembered quickly enough so I did not end up screaming.For some reason, perhaps by sensing something, Leo entered my cabin. He hugged me as soon as he saw me up and we sat there like that.When we pulled apart, he touched my face and kissed me on the forehead.“I will get you something to eat,” he said. I nodded.I got up slowly while he went to fetch some food for me. There was clean water in a jug in my cabin on the bedside table. The bedside table creaked when I touched it as if it would break down if I as much as held it.I picked up the jug and carried it outside. I cleaned my mouth and splashed water on my face. It was ice-cold.“You woke,” Rose said.“You lied to me,” I said calmly. My throat hurt. I needed to drink water.“That was necessary, Sully. I will get you back to your parents and that’s all matter
She was gone. Sully was gone.“How did she escape? And where the fuck is Rose?” Father yelled. I returned before Father. For some reason, I had a bad feeling about that night. When I returned, I discovered my wife gone. Then, I found out that even Rose was mission. So was the alchemist and Sully’s friend Leo.“That alchemist and your wife were having an affair,” Luke told me. “They left and took Rose with them. They left a note as well.”I had read that note. I suspected it was Rose who wrote that note. Rose could mimic the handwriting of others.The note read that if we hunted them, they would kill Rose.But the fact was that Luke was lying. Perhaps he was on in the plan. What I did not understand was why Rose and Luke would even be on this plan and why Rose left with them.“Find them!” Father yelled at his men. “Find all of them! I will teach that girl a lesson!”“Father, she is my wife. I can take care of her,” I said.“No. Not you. She needs to see what it is like to escape from A
I threw up a few times more. Rose was concerned because she had the suspicion that I was pregnant.“If I am, I will get rid of it. But I don’t think I am,” I said.“Did you even take the potion I gave you?” she asked.“Of course. I wouldn’t dare miss it in case… Listen, I don’t feel funny in my tummy. I just am nauseous all the time. Pregnant women feel nauseous in the morning mostly, but I feel nauseous morning, noon and night. All the time. It’s the ship.”“Anyhow, you need to see a doctor as soon as we reach Yelenad. Do you think your grandfather will let us stay there for a few days?” Rose asked.“I think so. He was always nice to me, although he never liked Father,” I said. It was because Father had extramarital relationships. Mother said that her father was protective of her all the time. He did not take the news of Father’s affairs very well. He urged Mother to break off their marriage, but Mother did not listen. I had asked Mother about this. She never answered.We would reach
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