✿Elizabella✿Out of the corner of my eye, I see his Cousin " Red Fox " staring at me with an evil look on his face. I become uncomfortable, but I'm so close to getting him off of his seat that I don't stop dancing. I try to focus on luring Cesar out, but Red Fox's devilish eyes burn into my skin, and I can suddenly feel how much he wants me, and how much he's willing to take me. Cesar notices the distress on my face and glances to the left, where his Cousin stands, admiring my body from afar.He shoots up from where he sits and scowls at Red Fox, who doesn't notice him until he grabs me by the arms and whisks me off into the crowds. People are quickly noticing Cesar's movement from the throne to me, and I can tell they're surprised. He leans over and whispers into my ear. "I don't like 'de way he looks at you," he says to me. I shake my head quickly. "I don't either. Do you think I like being stared at like I'm a piece of meat? I thought your brother hated me but now your Cousin also
Tvirl," he mispronounces the word.I giggle and correct him. "No, no, no. T-wi-rl." I sound it out for him. By the way, I'm acting, I feel as if I've had too manywines before I came out to dance. While I had filled Cesar's goblet up with wine in the kitchen, I decided to experiment myself.And I had found that wine was very good and that I had been missing out on a lot by disliking the bitter taste. But my taste buds had developed, and I was grateful for that."You 'de one teachin' how to say words, hmm?" he asks me, his eyebrows raised. "'Dat how it works now, little one?"My foot catches on a rock and I go spiraling into the dark. But he catches me before I hit the ground, spinning me ontomy back so that I'm facing him. My lips are millimeters away from his and I can feel the attraction like a magnet, pullingus together. But yet again, we don't kiss. The sound of Red Fox's voice makes me jump. I stand back up. "Havin' fun wit' your whore, little Cousin?" he asks. I scowl at him,
I cried because I was hurt by his action. I hate how he throws me and calls Athenodora. He could simply be gentle with me. He told me that if I ran off to the harem, I would be punished. He did not tell me how I would be punished, but I was not prepared to find out.I was crying and sitting in the dark with lost hope and a broken heart. The sound of crickets, owls, and night frogs is the only thing I hear. I lean against the wooden door, my legs hugged to my chest and my hair covering the sides of my face. I feel tired, but my mind is alert.And then I hear it; a drunken laugh, and a pair of stumbling feet down the hallway. I stand and press my back against the door. The torches in the hallway light the way a little bit, well enough for me to see the figure of a barbarian man emerge.My heart pounds. "Karuna," I hear him say. I've been around long enough to know what I'm being called, and that karuna means 'whore.' I'm suddenly very afraid. This man is not Cesar, and he will most cert
" Do it one more time?" He said" No Price, my my my heart is about to burst " He smirks clean his lips with his thumb and stood away from me, drinking his wine"Your wine is tastier than this wine, Go and get yourself clean, I will arrange a dress for you, but remember one thing what is happening here should stay between these walls "I nodded and ran inside his bathroom. He did an unspeakable thing to me. how can he touch me there with his mouth? Isn't it suppose to be a dirty place?I was completely lost in thoughts in the bathtub when he opened the door, I covered my chest with my Arms.He laughed so loud that it must have gone out of his room. Then he throws a dress on the side of the bathtub." Come out in 5 minutes, I am hungry and you will feed me today "I went out of the bathtub in a rush with wet hair. I looked at the dress he give me. it was longer than my knees and very covering too, in Maroon color with a big belt-like strap on the waist which has a beautiful jewel of b
"Kiss me," he cuts me off abruptly, his eyes staring deeply into mine. "I protected you. I defended your honor. You should kiss me"It was all true. I'd only ever kissed a man on my will once, and that was with young Lord Cordell, and it was merely a peck on the lips before I ran away with glee. If you slide that part when he forcefully kissed me many times!"And…this would be your reward for saving your lady?" I question softly.He smiles and hugs me closer to his body. "So you know you are mine," he says warmly. "I like 'dat. A lot." His big handslides slowly over my nightgown, touching my back and my neck, spreading warmth down my spine.His fingers curl around my neck and gently pull me forward. I'm scared, but I'm ready. I've been fortunate enough not tobed him for a while, and kissing me has most likely been on his number one checklist spot for a while now. When my lips touch Cesar's, I feel the warmth, the passion, and the lust bleeding out of him and into me. As he presses
"Very well. I shall tell you of my family." He lights his pipe with a match and slips it between his lips. I sat down on the floor in front of him, draw my knees to my chest and rest my chin atop them. "I had three other siblings. Iron Coyote, then my twin sisters Gentle Raven and Snow Lion. I am the youngest."I listen to him intently, my head cocked to the side with interest. "I did not know of your sisters."He leans against the armrest of the chair. " Snow Lion, or as we call her by her Commoner's name Mairwen, is married off to the one you know as Three Horses. They have a family and White Lion is under his name now. Gentle Raven, Lavanya, died when I was five, and she was 7. I s'pose it was some kind of common illness gone rogue."I bite my lip and lower my head a little. "I'm sorry."He shrugs. "My mother died the same way when I was nine, my only other sister Snow Lion was eleven, and Iron Coyote, Edmund was twelve. That was thirteen years ago. My father didn't raise us. We w
✿Mrudula✿I was sitting beside the fireplace and my heartbeat was fast because he was holding some of my hair and kept smelling them " You remind me of Snow Flower! and I hate it " he pulled my hair a little " Because no one can compare to her, No one... She was the one and only "I decided to open my mouth " Prince Iron Coyote, Where does she live? "He was mad because he hold my jaw and pulled me closer " She lives in heaven and if you dare to ask one single thing about her I will send you to hell " He harshly pushed me away. I have made up my mind not to attach myself to him anymore, He will throw me one day or maybe kill me. He is also the same as his men." Let's go, I am hungry " I just nodded and decided not to open my mouth again because he doesn't like it if I speak.We went out of his room, A cold air hit my body, He is walking fast like usual. But this time I wasn't running after him. I was sad and a little disappointed with my life here with him. I went to the big hall f
✿Elizabella✿Cesar looks at me, contemplating things inside of his face. He's having a mental battle. "With you, Tiger Claw?" He clears his throat. "Both. I want you, but I also want you safe…in my arms. It's where you belong."I'm surprised by what I hear, and what he tells me—how I belong in his arms, how he wishes me safe, how he wantsme. "I don't…"He cuts me off before I can say more. "You do."I look down at my bare feet, my legs are hidden beneath the white cotton of my nightgown. I do not look up at him whenI speak. "You killed a man for me," I say, my voice breaking the deadly silence. "I never thought…"He shakes his head, his hair falling into his eyes. It's wet, soft, and unbraided. Strands of black cover half of his face and I can only see one of his beautifully intense eyes staring back at me. It spills over his chest and down to his hips. "No, never," he says in sarcasm. "I'm the king of the barbarians. And I'm the nastiest fucker of em' all."I'm silent as I stand