Cora’s POVI felt something on me, lightly resting on my waist and it drew me out of the wholesome sleep I was enjoying. I’d have ignored it and slept anyways but after what’d transpired on the morning that those demonic snakes snuck up on me, it wasn't an option.As I lazily opened my eyes, I looked at my waist first and found strong fingers gently resting on my waist which caused my eyes to fly open and the sleep in them to subside into alertness almost immediately.Slowly, while holding still in place like the fingers would disappear if I moved an inch, my eyes traveled up the arm until they landed on Kai’s face— or the face of a person that could undoubtedly pass as his clone because of how awfully alike they looked— and my breathing picked up wickedly, my heart thumping in my throat as I tried to make sense of everything.Kai was in bed with me? We’d fallen asleep together?He looked even more handso— no, beautiful, he was beautiful while he slept with such an innocent look on hi
Leila’s POVKai’s hard, beautiful muscled chest was what I’d bumped into as I turned away from the spell casters under my command that I was addressing and for a while I forgot to breath. I just stared at the his muscles that were visible under his silk white shirt as the spell casters bowed before walking off into the field were our horses were being fed for the journey ahead.I was still in awe of the man before me when he cleared his throat loudly and I regained my senses in a flash.“Greetings, Kai” I stretched to my full height but I still looked like a midget compared to him.“You did well, yesterday, I’ll extend my gratitude further with a generous compensation” He told me and I knew exactly what it meant.As usual, he’d complement my monthly gold payments with assorted gifts in the form of expensive jewelry, the finest silk, rare magic herbs from kingdoms far and wide, and probably a raise if he’d been thoroughly impressed.“It’s my duty and utmost pleasure to serve you in any
Kai’s POVI tried to steady myself as I found my troubled ass dozing where I laid lazily at my study table and I was infuriated at myself because I knew exactly what’d triggered it, or who to be more specific, the same scene that’d been playing in my head and putting me easily to sleep for the past two days since we’d returned my place kick starting from he very scratch to torment me again.“No!” I jolted to my feet and wiped it away before I stormed out of my room like a ghost was tailing me dangerously.My footsteps thundered to reflect my frustration as I walked down the staircase that led out of the palace and let myself into the field on an eerily cold evening, and yet the heat that seared through me toward Cora was enough to warm my shivering sides.The insignificant occurrence of falling asleep in Cora’s bed had been haunting me for endless painful hours, I’d never fallen that soundly asleep with Leila’s powerful spells since I was cursed but she’d somehow managed to lure me in
Leila’s POVThere were a million thoughts running through my head as I flipped through the thick fraying pages of the dark spell book I’d stolen in battle, but the second Kai’s scent hit my nose as he fast approached my room I was dragged back to reality and I immediately hid the book in my drawer.I barely had any spare second to readjust myself and look normal before he pushed the door open and slammed my door shut behind him.He halted.Looked me over like he was trying to ascertain why I looked so nervous but he decided against it that second, choosing instead to deep his hands in his pockets and pull out the crystal necklace I’d spelled to subdue the cursed bloodthirsty beast raging within him.I rose from my dresser with my mouth agape and looked at the spot where it should've been resting only to see that it was empty, yet there was a fading scar right beneath its usual position. I didn't want to believe that his beast had overpowered him and was now standing before me to take
eila’s POVIt's been three days since I placed a deadly curse on Cora, but there were absolutely no signs that it’d worked. After twenty four hours she was supposed to have been suffering from dizzy spells that would cause her to lose her consciousness and overall perception of reality, when the forty eighth hour mark reached she was meant to have been in severe psychological pain that would tear her up from inside out as though it was physical.And on the third day— which is today— she was meant to have woken up in a pool of her own blood because she’d have been scratching herself violently all night long without knowing it, and then just before the clock hits 12 midnight to signify the start of a new day and the end of one, she’d drop dead mysteriously.However, I’d been watching her for days to see if she was manifesting any signs that she’d been cursed, but nothing of the sort had happened, instead she’d sunk her claws even deeper into Kai’s skin.I mean, why else would he be skep
Cora’s POVGod, I was so fucking pissed.Leila coming up to me and trying to act like she was some stupid mediator pissed me off so much, but why? Why should it piss me off when she was offering me a life far away from constant pain, humiliation and degradation? And all of that would’ve been taken away just in exchange for the biggest asshole I’ve ever come across? It was a damned good deal, she knew it too, and I’d only just admitted it.I admitted it to myself exactly a week and three days after our conversation that’d turned her raving mad. It’d taken me 10 fucking days to admit that I was incredibly dumb to throw away an incredible offer and pursue a route that I would most likely emerge from as a loser. Besides, I couldn't claim that I would’ve been betraying Nina because she offered to let me bring friends along too, I could’ve gotten Nina her fucking freedom but I didn't even consider.it.Hah, brilliant, the longer I stay under Kai’s rule, the dumber I get.Still, I convinced m
Kai’s POVAs I walked away from the pit I’d just pushed Cora into, I could hear my heart dropping to my stomach and leaving an aching pain in my chest. I didn't know why, but just because I was certain that it was linked to Cora, I shoved it aside and decide again figuring it out. Besides, she deserved every bit of what she was about to suffer for trying to kill me, how much more merciful could I be after sparing her life?I heard her feet hit the floor of the pit and I felt my heart sink even lower, fucking piece of shit—my damned heart, for the longest time I didn't believe that I had one, but of recent it’d been my least favorite organ to wrestle against.“Is she in?” My temporary partner’s voice tore me away from my thoughts—thankfully might I add—and back to the present.“Yeah” I responded half heartedly and she practically bounced toward the pit like a bunny returning to its hole.“It took longer than I’d have expected,” Freya’s voice was thick with an emotion I couldn't quite d
Cora’s POVGoosebumps scattered on my skin as Freya smiled down at me, asides from the rays of sunshine that poured down into the well as she pulled off its covering, everything else caused my pulse to quicken with dread.Why dread? Freya had been torturing me for the past two days, and since I was deep in a ditch I couldn't even fight back. I was absolutely helpless and she was having the time of her life, bathing me in dirt, throwing water—that was most likely from the gutters behind the palace that were never cleaned—on me, releasing creeping insects into the pit and then leaving me in the dark to struggle with them, starving me so my resolve would break……She was ruthless, fucking deranged too.“Hello babygirl, slept alright?” I could hear the sarcasm in her voice, heavily too to show how pleased she was to be torturing me to her fill.Alone also, Kai hadn't been to the pit since the night he’d pushed me in, he didn't give a fuck what she was doing to me and he’d known how much I’