13The slap had stunned both of them. Renai breathed heavily as she processed what her hand had done in a fit of haste and exasperation. She couldn’t keep it to herself. Her eyes welled up as she begged him for something she wasn’t quite sure of by shaking her head.“I..am..just leave me alone, I don’t want this,” She tried to push him off her but he was too fixated in his position. For the moment, she had forgotten this man was a king, not her friend anymore. Renai snivelled. She was never supposed to be under him again. She wasn’t a whore like his father’s sword of honour said. But what made a tear drop from her eyes was the fact he had also called her ‘whore’ during the pleasures of the flesh.Zebian stared at her without betraying any ounce of emotion. Instead of hurting her for slapping him, he was stunned to his spot. His gaze was set on her. As if his world had ceased and only she was left before him. As if she would disappear in the air if he even dare to bat an eyelash. The t
Renai balled up her fists, embarrassment and a desperate urge to get away from him hit her with full force. Before mustering up the courage to threaten him, she squawked which he ignored. “It hurts, please," She wiggled. "Get away or I will scream,” He replied to her by increasing his lips' pace against her skin, sucking up the leaking blood from her spinal cord, adding to her distress. "I will scream!" She shouted as a forewarning. Renai knew even if she would shout, no one would even lay an ear to her pleadings. He was the king. They will turn deaf to her cries before defying the king. She tried to come up with something else and started thrashing her elbows that hit his chest but he remained unaffected like a mountain. She kept flying her arms and elbows, hitting him several times but no outcome in her favour. “Leave me,” She longed a cry. He hummed in a breathy no against her skin. Renai grimaced in disgust. “You have become a monster,” she gritted. He reached her right sho
14Renai wiggled in his hold applying every iota of the strength in her. Though nothing seemed efficacious as the giant man hadn’t even moved a budge. His lips were tugged into a smile as he amusingly watched his woman fight against his hold while he drew circles on her clit. She seldom squeezed her eyes in an attempt to fight off the butterflies that were balling in her stomach. Zebian’s smirk widened when she tried to close her legs to stop him but he shoved a finger in her narrow hole as a compliment. She helplessly shook her head and grimaced uglily, but that only made her look the most beautiful woman in his eyes. She was an enchantress no matter how badly he wanted to deny it and believe otherwise. She was the only medicine to his ill-heart. “Ah..please, your majesty…don’t…d..do…this…le…let..me.g…” He curled his finger inside her before she could word out properly. Her face bore a grimace that satisfied her harasser. He sped his digit while hitting her scared spot, sprouting a
15Tears of helplessness betrayed Renai’s eyes as women washed her body with milk. She failed to fall for the fact that this was the same man who she was friends with for years. He was going to snatch her virtue and no one around her would be audacious enough to voice against the injustice. In fact, these people were also those who direly needed justice like herself. A warm splash of milk cascaded on her shoulder, causing her eyes to shut close. It was an order from the king to prepare ‘his mistress’ for tonight. More tears fell over this thought. They thoroughly scrubbed her body and took her to another room after wrapping her in a towel. There were groups of professional women standing in her waiting. Once she sat on the stool before a mirror, they began fixing her face with products she had never seen in her life. Basina attended to her hair while others did her nails and body. One of the women came inside the dressing room to hand Basina a bottle containing fragrance. It was al
Thea quickly leapt off the bed and kneeled. Her body shivered, realising the red robe wasn’t supposed to be on her. Renai crawled closer to the footboard while glancing at the king whose eyes were flitting between Renai and Thea. Renai gulped and rose to her feet before curtsying in front of him. “My lord,” Zebian’s gaze darted at her as she stared at his legs. Renai wondered why he had come early. The sun hadn’t even set yet. Zebian glanced back at Thea. “Is she your companion?” He asked, his voice deep and demanding. Renai gulped and pondered for a second. One wrong answer could trouble this poor woman. “No,” that was best to say for her safety. Zebian smirked, catching the glimpse of her reddened face as she lied. He caught her but he wouldn’t say anything. “Fair,” “Take off the robe, whore,” It was directed to Thea. She flinched and took off the robe with shaky hands, still kneeling. “Stand up in the corner and keep your eyes on us,” He commanded and without a blink away, Th
16Renai lowered her gaze. Tears flooded down in gallons. How could he do this in front of her? It was slicing her heart. Their momentary moaning and groaning burned her ears like an acid. She squeezed her eyes and willed her mind to turn into a mush, but it hyperventilated when she heard a plop sound. Opening her eyes and glancing at them through her eyelashes, she saw his finger popping out of her mouth. Renai gulped and sighed heavily, waiting for his next purgatory. Abruptly, He bent and grabbed Thea from her arm only to yank her across Renai’s feet. Thea yelped as her head smacked against Renai’s knee. Renai’s breath hitched. She looked toward Zebian who morphed into a bull. He was fuming with a clenched jaw, his muscles twitching momentarily. Renai’s eyes again fell on Thea who was already looking at her with glossy eyes, those pair of crystals indirectly pleading with her. “Look at her, and look carefully,” Zebian seethed, his voice low but deep enough to cause a shiver down
17Her face turned blanched. Renai cocked her head over her shoulder, feeling Zebian’s lips contacting her cheeks by the movement's impact. She gulped and side-glanced at his attached lips through her eyelashes. The couple’s noisy kiss heated her nape that slinked to her cheeks. A shudder snaked down her spine. Why were the couple doing this and most notably why were they watching them?And as if Zebian had heard her thoughts, he softly chuckled against her cheek and placed a peck on it, permeating pinkish dust on the surface. “Eyes on them, rose. They are here for you,” He whispered in her ear with closed eyes and shoved his nose in her cheek to turn her face back toward them. His fingers drew circles on her clothed dip of the waist. Renai nervously frowned and shuddered over his words, forcing air down her chest as it congested, She raised her gaze and saw that man was sucking her lips like a greedy hunter and she quietly sate his need. Embarrassment clawed her throat, she flipped
18Renai groggily parted her eyes, blinking recurrently. She squeezed her eyes before opening them wide. Her blurry vision immediately caught the warm hues of the breaking of the dawn. Her eyebrows quickly carved into a furrow. She looked down and ran her eyes on her body for any bruises or something. She was still in the same red silk robe, luckily unharmed. Her eyes blinked again to fetch consciousness from the back of her mind and just as it hit to her central system, she perched up on the bed and raked her heavy-lidded eyes through the room, wondering when and how she fell asleep. Instantly, her brain jogged a memory of blacking out in Zebian’s embrace when he began nibbling onto her skin after hissing a threat that he would hurt her the same way that man did to the woman. Her back straightened as fear crept on her face and oceans of tears welled up her eyes without any word of warning. She let out a stifled sigh and squeezed her eyes to cry her heart out. This was not the Zebi