Chapter 4 - Unholy Place

NORA

A lot of gasps were heard at once. Wet mud went straight into my nose and then my mouth.

I kept lying there as I demanded the devil to come to fetch me right this moment, in my little head.

“ Oh, my Lady! Are you fine? Are you hurt anywhere? ” The woman leaped for me and grabbed my arm to pick me up.

Grinning nervously, I got up and glanced her way. She gasped, as loud and as obvious as she could.

The lined-up women barely held themselves from laughing as they all watched my muddy face and ruined Golden gown.

“ His Majesty is waiting for you. We have to get you changed, Lady Lana. ” She gripped my arm fiercely, dashed inside the gates, moved past the line of women, and dragged me along her.

“ Come on. We have to hurry up before His Highness gets angry. ”

“ Hey! Nice to meet you all. ” I waved at the women as I rushed past them hurriedly. “ A bad entry. But I hope, it was not much of a shock. ”

Dragging me like a ragdoll, the unknown woman didn’t even let me see anything properly.

I was brought into a huge room after crossing the hall filled with Gold from top to bottom.

The castle was Goldish and Foresty colored inside. I didn’t care about the decorations. I only focused on all the jewels used in that decoration.

After coming inside the room, the woman didn’t wait. She hauled me straight inside the massive bathroom attached to the room and finally left my arm.

Behind her, many other girls and women entered the bathroom and began running from one corner to another, doing different things.

I took in the huge tiled tub in the middle of the small bathroom and a smile lit my muddy lips.

“ Strip, Lady Lana. We don’t have time. ” The woman ordered.

I turned to her, ready to open my mouth and refuse but a few pairs of hands had already unzipped and pushed down my dress before I could do that.

Everything happened so fast.

One moment I was forced naked. Then, I was pushed inside the clean water. The mud was scrubbed off my body. And there were hands all over my skin.

I protested, but no one cared. They did their job and made me almost yell at them.

The only thing which kept me calm was the warm water and the Gold made wolf’s head engraved at the edge of the white tiled tub.

“ What— ”

I tried speaking, but the hands kept moving, rubbing, scratching.

“ Is this not the original color of your hair? ” The familiar woman asked.

“ Uhh... ” I tried to turn around and face her but one of the girls grabbed my feet and kept me in place.

This was so weird. Even if we were accustomed to nudity as werewolves, I didn’t like so many hands touching me in all random places.

“ What’s the real color of your hair? ” She groaned before pouring something into my head.

 

When the smell hit me, my guts twisted. Oh, the dear, sweet, lost Devil...where are you when I need you?

“ Is it a witch potion? ” I chuckled, awkwardly. 

 

“ This will get the dye off your hair. ” She answered. “ You still need so much work done. ”

“ Like...what? ” She scrubbed my hair without answering.

After the most strange experience of my life, I was thrust into a fit, silk dark green colored dress. Two thin straps kept the dress hanging over my body. The plunging V-neck and the lack of coverage over my back didn’t help hide anything.

“ Where is the back of this dress? ” I let out in a gruff tone as I moved around like a mad horse.

The woman gripped my arms, steadying me in my spot. I stopped, blinking at her. She sighed before leaving my arms and fixing the half-dried hair on my back.

“ There, my Lady. ” She chimed in a fake tone. “ Don’t worry. You only have to be in the presence of His Majesty. ”

I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror and almost fainted due to shock. My fake blonde hair that never suited my Azure eyes was gone and in its place, my Original cocoa-colored hair was back.

“ Who took over my ugly face? ” I cried out.

“ You are beautiful. ” The woman caught hold of my hands before I could scratch the cotton candy hell out of my face.

“ Now let’s go. ” She started tugging me along.

For a few steps, I stumbled and followed but then I recalled why was everything happening like this. I grabbed onto the door of the bathroom and refused to move.

“ I don’t want to move. Tell your King that I fell and cracked my head open. I can’t meet him tonight. ” I suggested, wide-grinning and round-eyed. “ Let’s moodie woodie tomorrow. ”

If I don’t disappear with the gold ornaments by tomorrow, that is.

“ No, My Lady. You have to go. ” She hissed. “ Now. ”

All the women were now laughing at me. I understood this was common for them but I was still dumb in between my legs to go do something with that wild King.

“ I don’t want to go. ” I whispered, mustering up the fake tears.

“ Nina. Samantha. Come. ” She barked at the two girls behind me.

They caught my arms and one pushed my back. I yelled, thrashed, and whined all the way.

Just like they didn’t care about me when I was naked, they had no problem forcing me like cattle.

They were not treating me like a Lady at all.

Finally, we reached the Golden double doors. The monster was waiting behind them for me.

I attempted a last chance at running away but I was caught instantly.

“ Stop struggling, Lady Lana. He will be angry. ” The woman growled in my ear. “ he is not going to eat you. Don’t get so nervous about it. ”

Eat me? My cheeks heated as I straightened my shoulders. Eating a woman didn’t have a very innocent meaning in my explicitly detailed eighteen—plus companion books.

One of the girls, probably Sameera or Niana something knocked on the double doors and my heart almost jumped on the floor.

 

I barely got the chance to protest again or try to make a run for it before I was pushed ahead. 

I stumbled.

Stumbled a lot in fact.

And struggled so hard until I was slipping down on my knees and sliding all the way to an unholy place.

I grabbed onto two very hard pillars for the love of my life and to save my head from smashing into something. The bloody woman had pushed me too hard. Perhaps, she used all the werewolf force she had left in her for this night.

Sighing at the last moment save, I lifted my head and met with a black block. Huge and right in my face.

I pushed my head back a little, my nose brushing against the hardening spot before my eyes landed on the pair of fire-spitting, hope-killing Obsidian eyes, right above me.

“ Holy Moly. ” I whispered and tightened my hold over the two pillars of support—His tight muscled thighs.

“ What are you doing... ” he breathed, more like growled deep in his throat. “ down there, Lady Lana? ”

And the hard spot. My eyes met his groin.

I shrieked, throwing myself back instantly, and falling over my butt this time. Please, Devil, come now. I want to live no more.