“It is me. Damien.”Footsteps came to the door and then the door was opened a crack.Wendy peeked cautiously from the crack.“M—Master!” she gasped, looking afraid. “I was just coming up to tell the Queen about…about what happened downstairs.”Looked like that she saw Damien fighting Westin and got
Chloe tormented Aurora brutally that night.She called in two soldiers and had them hold Aurora tight as she lashed Aurora with a whip.Soon there was no good skin left on Aurora’s body for Chloe to land her whip on. The blood streamed down and painted the white carpet red.The pain was unbearable.
Aurora turned to look at her, “Why?”“Well, I figure that it will be less fun if I just lock you to my bedside and lash you like a dog. That is not very creative. With this sweet thing on your neck, you can move around, and I can trust you to behave. Everybody wins.”Chloe leaned back on the couch a
A sharp, prickling pain shot through Aurora’s body.This hurt even more than the lashings!Fingers were highly sensitive areas with all the nerve endings, and even more so for the nail part.Even a tiny paper cut could hurt for days, let alone shoving a bamboo splinter right under the nail!Cold swe
And her hands were soon rough and chapped in the soap water.Wendy would pace over from time to time and point out some invisible stains and dust.She would deliberately step on the part that Aurora had just cleaned a moment before, leaving some dusty footprints behind, so that Aurora had to redo th
Chloe looked as though she had just been slapped on her face.Her body trembled violently in humiliation. Her face changed from red to grey and then to pale.“…She just missed one day’s meal. It is not a big deal,” Chloe gritted, holding on to her last thread of dignity.“And that increases the dang
Aurora’s heart jumped to her throat.That was the same question that she had been wondering.Silas couldn’t be that nice to give this kind of supreme power away to Damien.So what was Silas planning on exactly?She wished that Silas could answer Chloe.But Silas simply replied with an impatient tone
Aurora blurted out, “What are you—”Morgana put one finger on her lips, silencing her, and pointed to Aurora’s left.Aurora saw a back door leading to the yard on her left.She immediately stood up, bent down, and snuck out of the kitchen quietly.The head maid was yelling at the others to give her
“There isn’t!”He chuckled lowly, “Fine. Then what should we do before bedtime?”“You can read to me. There is a novel on the nightstand.”With one arm still wrapped around her shoulder, he reached over and grabbed the book.Turning the book to the page that she folded, he started reading.He had a
Her heart was thumping so crazily that she was afraid that he might hear the sound of her heartbeat.But she didn’t let her panic show.“Do you have a trusting issue, Westin?” she asked, pretending to be vexed.“Don’t make this about me, my love.” He raised an eyebrow while saying, “First you manage
“Hey what are you talking about over there? We need our pitcher,” Westin cried to them in the distance.Aurora laughed and patted on Clemente’s shoulder, “You should get back in there.”The game lasted for hours till the moon moved to the center of the night sky.Eventually stewards had to step in a
He kept going till her angry screams completely faded in the distance.***When Clemente returned to the castle, it was already approaching nightfall.He immediately wanted to report back to Aurora.Yet a soldier by the front gate said that the King needed him in the training field.So he turned and
Agnes stared at him.The horrified look faded from her face.Eventually, her face became expressionless.“Yes,” she uttered.“…What?”“I said yes.” Agnes let out a light chuckle, “You were asking me for an answer. I am answering you right now—Yes. I do want Westin for myself.”Clemente gritted his t
“And you are defending her!”Tears streaming down Agnes’s cheeks as she shrieked:“Do you know what a hard time she gave me a couple of days ago? She expelled me from my own tea party, Clemente! How can you ever hang out with her? You swore to your brother on his deathbed that you would always help
After a long while, Clemente put the pregnancy stick into his pocket and picked up the lemonade again.He crossed the lawn and found Aurora and the twins by the water fountain.“You are back!” Belle jumped up as soon as she saw him, “Come and smell the roses, Clemente. The gardener just picked it ou
“Of course, it will!”Belle answered right away:“The fog in the mist forest had nothing to do with the weather. It is a magical power that protects our Kingdom 24/7…”She paused.And then started to giggle, “…kind of like Clemente!”Wells rolled his eyes, “I didn’t know why Westin sent this guy to
Aurora’s mind went blank for a second.Although she had seen this coming, she had not prepared for this.There was actually a baby inside of her body, a baby she could not protect.How would Westin react to this?He would certainly be enraged.He hated Damien to his gut, and he would hate Damien’s k