Heart Of Stone - Episode 41&42

 

HEART OF STONE

Heart Of Stone - Episode 41&42

 (..Sold•To•The•Pit•Of•Hell..)

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By: Naomi Cindy B.

★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★

Xena was colliding into bodies as she ran around the maze, searching for any face that looks like Shayla's.

She could feel sweat pooling in her armpits, wetting her feet.

Where's Shayla?

The split images of herself in the mirrors was another confusing shit, she fell so many times.

The game has started, and everyone she's coming across are wearing masks, struggling to hide before the maze hunters gets to them.

But despite their masks, Xena was sure she'd recognize Shayla if she walked past her.

First, Shayla carries the warmest, gentlest scent ever, and it's easy for her to sniff out.

Second, she's wearing a flowing pink robe, and there's no other person wearing a robe.

Thirdly, she has much treasures in her hair...gold and the rest.

With all of these, Xena expected to fish her out of the masked crowd easily, but as the minutes chimed farther, she got more scared.

Shayla is still nowhere.

Now the maze is madly filled. Ballerinas are everywhere, and she could barely walk since it's tight.

She stumbled on legs and fell down again, and she was shocked to see where she fell at.

On the ground, there's a crystal pendant which she's very sure was in Shayla's hair.

Did someone take Shayla?

She pushed herself up, folding the pendant in her palm as she looked around again, the music seeming to be pulsing at the back of her mind.

Then it dawned on her...the distant prince. Prince Dyke.

He better not be the one.

He better not.

She pushed some ballerinas out of her way and rushed out of that part of the maze, then she felt it again.

Her twin bond.

She felt it stronger than the first time, her skin hair stood one by one.

She froze.

"Miss me?" A velvety voice whispered in her ear from behind.

Xena turned around with a sharp twist, and her wide eyes caught a mess of blonde hair, walking away from her in the crowd.

"Rumi" she muttered, pushing off more ballerinas.

They cursed her and nearly chewed her out, but she was already out of that angle.

She ran, going after the blonde, her heartbeats quicker than her steps till she entered a restroom.

The window is wide open when she got inside, but Rumi isn't in.

Xena climbed the window, jumping down the sill since it's not very high.

Getting outside, she saw no one.

No Rumi. No fellow ballerina. Not even the wind.

The place is silent.

"Rumi..." Xena muttered emotionally again, feeling like crying. "Why are you doing this?"

A piece of paper landed on her head, falling at her feet.

She quickly picked it up, opening it to read what's inside.

I MISS YOU TOO, TWIN SISTER. 

Xena stared at the note till the letters blurred, remembering the last time she saw her was the day their mother was killed when they were still three year olds.

How has she been living since then?

Who took her?

Where has she been?

She sniffled, folding the note on her palm too, together with Shayla's hair pendant, and that was when she remembered Shayla is missing.

She remembered she has a phone too, so she opened her belt bag to get it, but unluckily, both her phone and Shayla's are in the bag.

"Darn it" she cussed frustratedly.

But a smell lingered in the air faintly—the burning smell of cigarette.

She looked at the side of the building, adjacent her is Soren.

He sat on a windowsill, one leg up and one leg down with a cigar stick hanging between his lips.

Seems like he didn't see her, so Xena just ignored his presence and ran back into the maze building.

It's clogged, so she can't even enter anymore. She held her head with two hands, crying.

"Oh my Shayla."

"Hey, Xena!" Faye appeared with two cups of mojito, intending to hand her one, but seeing the tears on Xena's face, she dropped the cups.

"What's going on?"

Blaise appeared from the crowd too, taking off his ghost mask from his sweaty face.

"Everything ok?" He asked.

"Shayla, I think the distant prince took her." Xena replied.

"What!!" Blaise and Faye chorused, and Blaise couldn't stop blinking.

"Are you serious? I mean...why would anyone in his right senses take HER?" 

"I dunno..." Xena sniffled.

She proceeded to dialling Ryker's number with Shayla's phone, but the line is only making a straight sound.

Nothing else.

"Geez...I'm scared. What if he's hurting her right now? What if he touches her inappropriately? She gets scared easily and..." Xena cried again, unable to finish her sentence.

"Hear me out, Xena. Be calm." Faye said, rubbing her palm on her chest.

"Cool down, and let's think this through." 

Xena hiccuped, wiping her tears.

Faye dragged Blaise one step away from Xena.

"What?" Blaise said in confusion, sweeping his sprawled red hair away from his face.

"The demigod once saved you, it's your chance to make him realize you're worth it." Faye replied.

Blaise released himself from her.

"Wait... you're not actually thinking of going to Eclypseria to get her, right?" He said.

"What else? Seems like the demigod isn't available, we can play our parts and get on his good book. We need him on our West Palace side, this is our chance." Faye replied.

"Are you crazy? They're very territorial in Eclypseria, they don't allow strangers inside their palace! Do you even know how brutal Prince Dyke is? He once killed a mother, left the body outside till maggots infested it, then he fed the daughter with the maggots." Blaise said fearfully.

"And?" Faye scoffed.

"Are you even listening?" Blaise blinked.

"I'm getting impatient." Xena said behind, and Faye faced her with a assuring smile.

"We're visiting Eclypseria, please tell me you have a useful ability." 

"I can...summon animals." Xena nodded.

"Cool, let's move." Faye replied.

"But this is..." Blaise grumbled, and Faye dragged him by the ear, pulling him out of the maze.

Xena rushed after them.

--

[Director's Office]

Zeke is still inside with Esme.

There's a bedroom in the inner part of her office, and they're both laying on it, only in their underwear.

Esme's head is on his chest.

"So you're gonna leave the demigod to continue his deeds till the Feast?" Esme said, lifting her head to glance at him.

"I told you, there's a plan for the Feast, you only have to do your part when it's time. After the feast, everything will go back to it's place. By then, there'll be no demigod, no demigoddess, no Azura. Just me, you, my kids and your daughter. We'll make the happiest, most powerful demon family, Esme." Zeke explained.

"You're so sweet" Esme smiled, rubbing his moustache. "I'm winning the beauty contest again, isn't it?"

"Of course, Liza is an annoying pest who won't just give up easily. She should have known her place by now." Zeke sighed.

"And didn't you say your mother Tara is coming to the palace soon?" She drummed her fingers on his chest.

"Yeah, she'll become the new Palace Matriarch. Jojo is due, just as stupid as her daughter." Zeke sneered.

"I can't wait to meet my mother-in-law." Esme smiled.

The telephone rang on the bedstand, and they both sat up in bed.

"Who's that?" Zeke frowned.

"My secretary, must be something important." Esme shrugged as she took the phone.

"Yes?"

"Prince Dyke made his pick already, ma'am." The secretary reported.

"Already? That was fast. So...which wealthy family daughter did she pick?" Esme smiled.

"Not the expected, ma'am."

"What do you mean?" Esme got serious.

"The slave, Shayla." The secretary dropped the bomb.

"What!!" Esme gasped, dropping the telephone.

"The slave got chosen by your Prince Dyke." She broke the news to Zeke.

"Impossible," Zeke smirked.

"My secretary won't call if it's not true. She got taken!" Esme snapped.

"Must be a joke, I mean...of every girl in this city, it's her?" Zeke laughed.

"Why are you taking this as a joke? She has our needed FireStone inside her, she's the goddess, so her getting kidn+pped by that prince is a no!" Esme glared.

"Stop taking this the hard way, Esmeralda." Zeke smiled, standing from the bed.

"Prince Dyke and his father aren't interested in power, they're only addicted with money and women, so he has no concern with her identity. He only wants s+x, and he probably took her cos he recognized her as a virgin." He explained.

"So...what now?" Esme stood in front of him.

"I'll leave her to him for a week and let him have a fill of her, then I'll take three maidens to him as replacement to get her back." Zeke said.

"You have plans for everything, don't you?" Esme smiled.

"Isn't that why you're stuck with me?" Zeke replied.

"I'd love to see Ryker trying to get her back within that one week. He might be a demigod, but he hasn't merged with his partner yet. I bet there are limitations to the barriers he can break." Esme said, walking to the room cellar to pour them drinks.

"And trust me when I say... Prince Dyke is a greater bastard. He's mad." Zeke grinned.

"Ouu," Esme faced him. "This would be interesting."

--

[Mount Zhitomir]

The skies at the other parts of the city is dark dark, but this part of the sky is swirling with silhouettes, rainbows, and incessant flashes. 

Also, the wind here is harsh, so harsh that it's threatening to push away the bowl of blood. Lilith bad to hold the bowl down.

Mercury is currently holding the blood-soaked bell, and as she rang it, blood splashed forward from it, hitting Pearl's body on the chair.

Pearl is already unconscious. 

Lilith had to close her eyes so her own soul won't get wounded in this exchange.

The irregularities in the sky got broader, stretching beyond the mountain. 

Mercury's mouth is moving fast as she chanted inaudible words, then she dipped the bell into the blood again, ringing for the fifth time.

Pearl screamed back to life on the chair, so loud that it reached the skies and propelled a wide streak of lightning.

The sixth and seventh bell ring sounded from Mercury, and that was the last straw.

The blood bowl broke to pieces, letting out the blood.

Blood flowed around the mountain, going under Pearl's chair and soaking her bare feet.

Her screams turned earth-shattering, and her neck went to the side, seeming to have cracked.

Her body went still.

The rowdy skies cleared at once, and total darkness took over.

Lilith opened her eyes, and Mercury dropped the bell. They both looked forward to see Pearl is still sitting on the chair, not moving.

Satisfactorily, Mercury smiled.

Pearl's soul is definitely inside a pig down the mountain already, so this body is empty.

Lilith is smiling with joy too. Pearl is definitely dead, she put the death mark on her body anyways.

They marched to the chair together, and when they still didn't get a movement from Pearl, they looked at each other.

"Are you sure your soul shift worked?" Lilith asked.

"Not sorry, but her soul is in a pig, actually. I never had plans to help." Mercury smiled.

"Oh wow! That sounds refreshing to the ears, considering the fact that I marked her for death too. Her soul is dead, so whichever pig it entered would die too." Lilith shrugged.

"Why am I suddenly liking you?" Mercury grinned.

Lilith grinned right back, their cruelty matching, but their mini jubilation came to a screeching end when they heard sudden movements from Pearl's chair.

At the same time, their faces went down, and they were shocked to see Pearl's hand is up.

She removed the blindfold from her eyes and stood from the chair, opening her eyes to the new world.

Her smile shone brighter than summer sun, and her pretty features appreciated it.

She looked at the dark sky, at her bloody surroundings, and then at the two shocked girls in front of her.

The smile on her face disappeared.

"Truly, I spent so many years in the basement, but I didn't spend it doing nothing. I have my own secrets that has been keeping me alive till today, and before I can die, you'll have to do more than a lowly death mark or trying to send my soul to a pig. Actually, you can't even kill me, I can't be killed. I'm Pearl Millions, remember that name in your nightmares." She glared.

Before they could both reach her, she teleported from the mountain.

Lilith and Mercury stopped, both exchanging glances.

"No!" They both gasped.

--

[Treatment Haven]

The alchemists are all gone now.

Sadie sent everyone away to go look for Soren for her.

It's just Sadie and Kade on their beds, then Liza who's beside Kade.

Kade is already asleep, but Sadie still looks as angry as ever in her bed. She has refused any further drugs. She's bleeding, but she doesn't care.

"You'll never stop being a hateful little bî+ch, will you?" Liza spoke to her directly.

"Shut up, or I won't mind killing you with my last breath." Sadie said through her teeth.

Liza scoffed, but she stood when she got a suspicious notification through the air.

She stepped out of the Haven, squinting when she saw a female with a messy wave of blonde hair disappearing down the hall.

"Rumi?" She muttered, noticing there's a note sitting by the door.

She picked it up, reading inwardly.

FROM NOW ON, YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN. I'LL LIFT THE MARK COVER WHENEVER I'M IN A GOOD MOOD, AND THAT'S COMING SOON.

Liza clenched her fists after reading weird for word.

"That whore, I knew she'd play dirty, but don't worry...I'm not very easy either. You won't ruin my plan for me." She whispered.

Soren whisked past her in front of the door. Before she could say a word to him, he already entered the ward.

The moment he entered, Sadie stood skeptically from the bed.

Apart from her Haven gown, her bed is also soaked with her blood, but she looks darkly determined to wound Soren, so her bleeding means nothing to her.

She grabbed the porcelain potpourri pot beside her bed, rushed to Soren and brought the pot down to his head, crashing it violently.

Blood showered Soren's face, rushing from his wounded head as the shattered pieces of the pot flew around.

"How could you leave me alone at the cafeteria! I mind-linked but you still didn't come! How dare you leave me to get humiliated!!" Sadie shouted, her pale lips nearly tearing apart.

The break and her scream woke Kade up, and even as wicked as he is, he couldn't hide his shock.

"The hell?"

"Grand Princess Sadie?" Liza muttered, entering the haven witch shock-filled face.

Sadie looked at the two of them, then her eyes went back to Soren who's still bleeding like crazy.

Her eyes widened, she realized what she had done.

"Oh my devil... Ren." She covered her mouth in shock.

"Ren...it wasn't...I wasn't... thinking..."

Soren took off his jacket and wrapped it around his bleeding head, then he walked out of the Haven.

"Soren!!!" Sadie went after him, but she barely got to the door before her wounds tore up again.

She fell on her face.

--

[West Palace]

"I hope Blaise and Faye are enjoying their maze party, how blissful it is, to be younger." Kasia sighed, standing by the glass wall of the upper floor.

Her arms are folded, and she's staring out to the dark sky, wearing her brown nightie already.

Astor's arms went around her from behind.

"Nothing beats a dark sky." He said, and Kasia chuckled.

"Ew, don't do that when I'm here at least." Winona said behind them.

She's sitting on a sofa with pile of books in front of her which she's taking turns to study with her reading glasses on.

"How's the making of the fake FrostOrb going?" Kasia asked her.

"Easier than expected, should be done within days." Winona shrugged.

"Good, and I'm glad you're over your likeness for the slave girl." Astor said, and Winona scoffed.

"It's not over! I'm only this cool cos I'm sure she'll still be mine after we take the city back, don't be deceived by my cool." 

"That's more like you" Kasia laughed.

"Did you know that several centuries ago, the elders of this family did something brutal to a snake woman?" Winona suddenly said.

"What do you mean?" Kasia faced her. Astor looks equally interested.

"I guess you don't read our family journals in the Archives enough." Winona stood, raising up the particular book.

"Centuries ago, elders of this Spectres family brutally murdered a homeless snake woman and her two children, just because she gave birth on their valued farmland." She said.

"The heck?" Astor gasped.

"And do you know the exact time of death of the snake woman?" Winona opened the book, pointing at the only number inside.

"12:00am"

"12 midnight?" Kasia muttered.

"Yeah, exactly." Winona nodded.

"Then the midnight curse..." Astor looked at Kasia.

"Oh hell." Kasia mumbled.

--

[East Palace, Main Castle]

Pearl pushed the main door open, her bright smile returning to her face when she felt the authenticity of her newly gained sight.

She's not even happy enough, she needs to start jumping or rolling on the ground, but maybe it's not time for that yet.

She stopped when she saw Jude who's still kneeling in front of the burner, body so red with the fire scorch.

She pulled him up from his knees, and Jude's eyes widened.

Azura sealed him there on his knees, so how come?

How was Pearl able to pull him up.

Then he saw Pearl's rolling eyeballs, and he gasped.

"You're...?"

"Seeing you! My sight is back! I told you!" Pearl laughed.

Azura came down the staircase, intending to visit the Soul Hall, but...

The moment she saw Pearl alive and moving without getting help, she was stunned.

"Pearl?" She blinked.

"Yes, mother. I guess I'm eligible to call you mother, now that my sight is back with some power to crown it." Pearl laughed at her face, going up the staircase.

"Pearl!!" Azura's voice echoed behind her, but she's too deep into her excitement to even answer.

She entered Jude's room, and Jude barged in with her.

"What's going on!" He drew her back swiftly, every part of his body demanding a quick answer.

Pearl broke free. "I can see now, so don't shove me around or I'll kill you!" 

"What exactly is going on?" Jude asked calmly, and Pearl smiled, fanning herself.

"Nothing much, I told you we'd be working together... didn't I? Now all you need to do is calm down and wait for me to settle down. We'll talk tomorrow morning." She said and left the room, leaving him more confused.

Next, she went to Granny Jojo's Chamber, running around the old woman's bed excitedly.

"Too bad you're in coma and you won't be sharing in my good news, and that's why you gotta wake up soon! You're one of the people I want to announce to. You just have to see me using my eyes, you have to!" She gushed, touching Jojo's still face.

"Wake up soon, Grandmother, you deserve to see my eyes working." She grinned, leaving the chamber after a few more squeals.

She assembled maids, planting herself between them to give instructions.

First, she has to smell like Shayla. She needs that warm gentle scent.

"Send words to the perfume warehouse. I need something gentle and warm for spraying. I don't care if they make thousands bottles, I need everything they can get their hands on before daybreak." She ordered.

The maids dispersed, but one of them stayed and came to her.

"Grand Princess, I heard the prince of Eclypseria took a bride, and it's the 150 billion slave ." She gossiped.

"Seriously?" Pearl jumped.

"Oh my goodness!! Good news!!"

--

[Eclypseria, 4am]

Faye arrived with Xena and Blaise since an hour ago, they had flown with the air.

It was stressful to travel in the air with Xena who has no levitation ability, so they spent more time than required on the journey, and it was even harder to find the palace.

Eclypseria is not half as wide as Luminaria, but their architecture isn't straightforward at all.

There are too many corners and pits, and there are too many homeless people roaming the streets, diminishing the lights.

Faye is on the roof of an old house with the other two, and from there, they're staring at the Eclypseria palace.

It's like the only modern building in the whole city, completely lighted up and so damn tall. Painted black and gold, it looks terrifyingly beautiful even from afar, they could already see rich guards flanking each tower.

Unlike the Luminaria Palace, this palace is heavily guarded, and the gate looks like something that'd take days to climb with tearing thorns on top of it. It looks unapproachable.

The worse part? There are dead bodies hanging on the gate at the moment. Bloody dead bodies.

"I think we should just go back, please. I don't want to die yet." Blaise faced both Xena and Faye.

"Are you sure you even have a dîck?" Faye rolled eyes. "You should seriously start wearing skirt."

"Xena, you're not scared too?" Blaise faced her.

"I'll do anything to get Shay back. Not only is she like a little sister to me, but also... Ryker might just hate me if anything happens to her, so no...I'm not scared." Xena replied.

"That's my girl..." Faye smiled, standing from the roof.

She grabbed Xena's hand, jumping down with her.

Blaise jumped down beside them, too.

"If I die here tonight, oh Satan...don't even try to take my soul." He said.

He plucked out some of his red hair strands and folded them in his right palm.

Xena summoned some cruel bees, and thousands of them converged behind her, humming loudly.

They faced Faye, expecting her to showcase her powers too.

She smiled a villainous smile, then her body began changing.

Scales appeared—white shinny ones which caught the city lights.

Blaise and Xena shifted back as she turned bigger, scaling out completely. 

Her clothes fell to the ground.

She became a snake. A large, beautiful white snake which towered above Xena and Blaise.

"Hell." Xena muttered in shock.

"Don't be too shocked, she's a snake girl...a serpent." Blaise said.

"Oh..." Xena sounded.

They focused back on the palace, and their journey started towards it.

For the first three minutes, the journey went smoothly, and they're counting the seconds it'd take for them to arrive at the gigantic gate.

But then,...the city lights went off.

Every. Single. One.

They stopped on their tracks, and a cluster of arrows flew towards them from the south.

"I knew this wasn't a good idea. They knew people would come to try to save her, it's a trap!!" Blaise yelled, pouring his red strands away since it's useless now.

Sensing that the bees are useless too, Xena summoned bigger animals... Black wolves.

The wolves jumped across the skies, taking the hits of the arrows instead, but then another cluster of arrows came from the north.

This time, Faye leapt up, using her hard scales to take the arrows. They bounced off her scales, and the arrows dug into the ground instead.

But in the process of bouncing the arrows off, one of the blades entered her beyond her scales, and she came back to the ground, landing heavily.

She returned to her human form, losing consciousness.

"Faye!" Xena and Blaise rushed over to her.

Xena covered her n+ked lower body with her coat. Blaise used his jacket on her lower body.

"The arrows, I think they're poisoned." Blaise muttered.

As if to confirm that, they received their shares immediately.

Arrows met their backs, and they both went low, eyes drowsy.

"I knew this was a senseless move. These people are good with sleeping spells here." Blaise muttered sleepily.

They fell on top of Faye's body, losing consciousness too.

--

[Human World]

From the company, back to the glass mansion, Ryker hasn't stopped trying to open the gateway.

It's been eight hours now.

Currently 1pm in the human world, but nothing is coming forth.

He has slashed his own palm close to fifty times, adding blood to his ice to strengthen it, but no matter what, the gateway just won't appear.

He's pale in the face and on the lips as a result of blood loss.

Worse part is that; this is the human world, so every blood he wastes is going to count.

His icy body won't protect itself like it does in Luminaria, so his blood won't get replenished.

The more he lost, the weaker he got, but he's not stopping.

He's getting covered in ice again. 

Lashes, brows, lips, feet and palms. He's freezing up, but he's still not pausing.

Eternus is at a side of the glass, watching silently.

Cheyenne and Sage are in another area, and Cheyenne hasn't felt guilty like this all her life.

She hates herself right now.

"I told you, you should learn how to be calming down at times, Cheyenne. You shouldn't have come back." Sage said, looking frustrated too.

"I know, the blame is all mine." Cheyenne replied guiltily.

Ryker cut his wrist for the 51st time, dropping his dark blood on the building ice again.

It's still the same. No gateway, nothing.

He brought the dagger to cut for 52, but Eternus stepped in.

"No. You won't hurt your body any further when I'm here" he snatched the dagger from him, but the dagger flew out of his hand instantly.

It went back to Ryker.

"Oh...I see it only stays in the hand on it's master, but seriously you need to stop." Eternus said.

Ryker stabbed his wrist again.

"Ryker!" Eternus yelled in an alarming tone. "It's just four hours till sundown. By then, the gateway opens by itself and we'll leave!" 

Ryker said nothing, he continued dropping his blood in rivulets, looking rigidly iced on his spot. 

He's breathing cold steam out of his thin nostrils, and there are small pieces of ice in his hair too.

"You can't bend the rules again. No matter what you do, it won't open till sundown. You've killed a lot, Ryker, so even the heavens won't work in your favor. Wait till sundown." Eternus said.

"F+ck sundown." Ryker growled, deep and low before bringing the dagger to his own chest.

He stabbed deep.

"Fûck! Boss!!" Cheyenne and Sage let out conjoined screams.

--

[Eclypseria Palace, 7AM]

Shayla might have passed out suddenly, but her brain was sharp enough to process the fact that she was kidnapped by the distant prince, so the moment she opened her eyes to the light of the day, she knew she was in a different city.

The lightning, walls, ceilings, atmosphere and mood is all different. They smell like evil, hostility lingered thickly in the air.

She's on a bed. She could feel it beneath herself. She sat up very fast, her hair covering her face.

Every single jewelry inside her hair is gone, so she had to start brushing her hair back nervously with her fingers.

She inhaled the smell of smoke again, just that this time, she didn't fall asleep. She looked around the bedroom—not as big as Ryker's, but there are guards by the open door.

She could see their back views.

She brushed her hair back again with trembling hands, and her fingers hit a small pin.

There's a single hairpin left inside her hair. They must not have noticed it cos the hair fullness covered it.

She took the pin in her palm, hiding it under her robe, then she heard royal greetings by the door.

The guards bowed their heads respectfully as the prince himself entered.

Prince Dyke.

Shirtless and so bulgy with his veiny large muscled arms and legs. His hair is in a buzz cut, and his nose looks sculptured as it's overly pointed. It could stab.

His other features are just as sharp, giving his standoffish face too much dangerousness.

She shivered more at the feel of his cruel vibe, but she made sure to hold the hairpin tight under her robe.

Her tongue felt heavy inside her mouth, her veins shook in her body.

Prince Dyke stayed wordless till he sat beside her in bed. 

She quickly shifted back, gulping.

"Why...did you take me? There are other girls. I am...nobody." She muttered, voice dragging.

"You're nobody?" Prince Dyke smiled, the sight so bone-chilling. "I heard you're the demigod's partner, so you're far from nobody. Besides..."

He raised his hand to her face, tracing his pointer finger lustfully on her fragile cheekbones.

His eyes stayed as sinful as iniquities, brimming with impurities.

Shayla trembled, bending her body back. She feels like ants are crawling all-over her with that single touch.

"D-don't... touch...me that way." She stuttered, bones tightening.

"I like my brides fragile, untouched, virgins. I like innocent females with small breakable bodies like yours." He whispered, stopping his finger close to her lips.

He was about to press it when Shayla pulled her hand out from under her robe. She rammed the sharp hairpin into his neck.

She didn't even wait to see if it penetrated or not. The moment he groaned, she jumped down from the bed, running out of the room.

By now, the guards are gone from the door, so she was alone as she ran down the polished hall, her steps heavy against the sleek floor.

She just ran with no idea of where she's heading in mind, she needed to get as far away from the cruel prince as fast as possible.

But she wasn't born lucky.

Luckiness has never worked in her favor, cos just as she was about to cross to a barricaded corner, she was blocked by Prince Dyke himself.

Her blood turned hit inside her, and she stopped with a gasp.

And it's more scary cos the wound she gave him with the hairpin is now gone. No blood, no injury on his neck.

It's like she didn't even stab him cos he's already healed.

Shayla was only able to take one trembling step away from him before he tangled his hand into her hair, dragging her back to himself.

His merciless face clashed with hers, and she began crying.

"I'm sorry... please. I just wanted to—"

"I wanted to see how smart you are, so I left that one jewel in your hair. I must say you're a smart one, but no one gets smart with me and goes scot free." He dragged her to her knees in that cold hall.

"I was going to wait for our wedding night before doing this, but since your hand is smart, let's see if your mouth is smart too." He cackled, pulling his pants apart with a flip.

Shayla felt her blood pressure rising, heat rising and cold rising at the same damn time. 

Tears ran down her eyes too.

More tears. Loud cries. Sniffles.

He freed his enormous c+ck, and her chest squeezed, her eyes widened.

She felt hot sweat running down the middle of her back.

Guards, Maids and the numerous wives of Prince Dyke...all of them assembled in the hall, ready to watch his madness again.

His c+ck bounced up and down in front of Shayla's mouth, and her streaming tears entered her mouth.

"Please no...no. I don't want to!"

"It's not a choice, my bride," Prince Dyke fisted her hair so hard her scalp stung with pain.

He shoved her face closer to it like some cheap slave.

"It's a command. Now open your mouth and suck your my c+ck!"

TBC.

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