I felt so ashamed of myself. How could I have let Everett take my virginity before marriage? I shouldn’t have listened to my body. I should have controlled myself.I kept beating myself over it as I lay with my eyes closed in the bathtub. What if Everett wasn’t my destined husband? What if he was just playing when he said he wanted to marry me? What if it was just fun for him? What if I was falling for him?I let out a sigh as I placed my hand on my chest. The rhythm of his heart against my palm refused to leave my brain. The look on his face as he pounded inside of me… refused to leave. It was like an engraved picture that refused to wash away. His handsome face remained in my mind and even as I thought about it as I lay in the bathtub, butterflies crawled in my belly as the pleasures he had brought to my body returned. I wanted him.My heart was still racing as bit on my bottom lip. Was I doing the right thing by trusting him?I had to at least know who he was. How could I be fallin
Chapter 13: Goldilocks“We need to talk,” we both chorused.Our eyes met as we realized we had said the very same thing. I let out a small smile and said, “You go first…”“What sort of gentleman will that make me?” he retorted. “Come, let’s go inside…” he took my hand and led me back to the living room.He waited till I was settled into one of the couches before he picked the one closest to me.“You go first,” he said and I swallowed as anxiety started eating up at me.I knew what I wanted to ask him but as he sat there looking at me, the tension rose higher. I couldn’t find the right words to let out… I became dumbstruck.Silence filled up the room as I lowered my eyes unable to stare at him anymore. My silly heart refused to stop racing whenever our eyes met. My brain felt mushy and it couldn’t think anymore.“Fine, I’ll start then,” he finally said after the silence continued longer. “I think I am starting to like you. It’s not about the contract or the condition anymore… I want yo
Chapter 14: EverettHer question was like a huge hammer had landed in my heart. It stopped beating and a frown covered my face as I tried to fight the pain that came to me. “Did I say something wrong?” Her sweet voice was like cool water on my heated soul. I looked up at her and the frown wiped off my face. She had a way of melting away my pain without even realizing it. I squeezed the hand she had offered me and brought it to my lips again.“You promised to answer all my questions, Everett,” she said with a slight harshness.I smiled and placed one more kiss on her soft hands before saying, “That question is a past I hate digging into…” I started, “But for you, I will dig the four walls of hell.”“If you feel uncomfortable talking about it, we can skip that,” she said cupping my cheeks with both of her hands.I smiled and took the hands in mine. “No, it’s time I told you.” I pulled her to my lap and held her close as I needed the comfort her soft body brought if I needed to talk ab
Chapter 15: Goldilocks“Goldie you are taking forever, we will miss the rainbow!” Everett called out from outside.“I am coming Grumpy!” I called back with a small giggle.Ever since we had that conversation, it had become easier to live comfortably in the house with him. It no longer felt like a stranger’s house. Today, we agreed to go out of the house for a change. He wanted to show me around the forest –whatever that was, I thought with a smile as I put the final touch to my hair. It was up in a ponytail and I had taken my time to make sure it came out very sleek so that only my golden curls bounced behind me.“Here I am!” I declared as I emerged from the stairs.“If you weren’t so beautiful, I would have left you!” Everett said with feigned annoyance.I let out a small laugh and my curls bounced to the right side of my shoulder. Suddenly, Everett stopped glaring at me mischievously as he focused on something behind my ears. I turned around wondering if there was someone in the hou
Chapter 16: EverettI led her out of the water and couldn’t be more grateful for placing the blanket earlier. My cock was throbbing painfully in my brief and I couldn’t wait to have a taste of her again. These last few days had been torture for me. I didn’t want to make another mistake by taking her without her full consent. I had waited weeks for her to want me and the kiss she had initiated was more than enough invitation for me.She wrapped her legs around my waist as we reached the bank and let out a giggle. I looked into her eyes and she placed a kiss on my nose. “I missed you,” she said and I couldn’t help but chuckle at it.I pulled her impossibly close as I began the walk to the dry blanket under the trees at the perimeter. Her full breasts plastered on my chest and the sensation was maddening. The brassiere around her chest was barely there as her hardened nipples pressed against my cold chest.“How can you miss me when we live in the same house?” I said as we reached the bla
Chapter 17: GoldilocksMy heart felt like it had been sliced into two and then someone very large was jumping over the broken pieces. What was Everett saying?So after everything, he didn’t love me? I had been making a fool of myself all along!I lowered myself to the railings and cried my eyes out. Who was I kidding, I was meant to be a slave and that was it. No one would marry me now and not even before now. I was created to face the pain and hatred of my parents for eternity.I had thought Everett loved me just as much as I loved him. I had let go of everything and I only looked up to him. “Oh, how silly you are Goldie!” I whispered as I pulled my hair. I should have known.People didn’t fall in love in two days. People didn’t even fall in love in a month. It took longer than that. My mind had warned me to try and know more about him and being stupid, I believed everything he said without question. Yet he hid the truth from me.Why?Not loving me was an entirely different thing but
Chapter 18: EverettHer tears were wiped from my body. I couldn't stand seeing her cry, especially since I recognized that it was my fault. How could I have been so stupid?I shouldn't have said those horrible things. I didn't even mean any of them. I wanted Goldie. She was more than just a stranger to me.As she locked the door to the room, I ventured out of the house. I couldn't stay right there knowing she was crying right now because I had been stupid. My legs led me to the crossroads and I lowered myself onto the log. For the first time since I had left home, I felt drawn to it.Why didn't I just tell her who I was?She had shown over and over again that she was the right woman for me. My heart flipped multiple times every morning when my eyes fell on her. Sharing my life with her was meant to be the best decision of my life. Yet I had failed her and myself.What other side was I looking for?Just earlier today, she told me that she loved me. I didn't reply because I couldn't con
Chapter 19: Goldie"Mom, please! I won't ever run away again!" I cried at the top of my lungs yet no one answered me. Yet I didn't want to give up."Mom, you don't want to lose another child please!" My cries were no longer as strong as they were on the first night they caught me. It has been four days now and they just kept me up in the attic without food or water. I was growing weaker by the second yet my hope remained intact.At first, I had stayed quiet because I was certain Everett would come home and when he didn't find me there, he would come here to look for me.But I was wrong.He didn't come. No one came and I knew that if I was going to survive this, I had to find a way to convince my parents to give me food at least, hence I ended up crying out to them for mercy."Mom please!" I begged as I sat tapping the door weakly.I should have never stepped out of that cottage. I should have just sat there and waited for Everett."No," I said out loud as I shook my head slowly. He re
“Mish! Get your ass down, dinner is ready,” my younger sister, Evelyn, shouted from downstairs. I came back from school three hours ago and I’ve been on my bed sulking and constantly resisting the urge to scream at the top of my voice.Mrs. Shantel and Mr. Brett? How long has that been going on under my nose? I stalked Mr. Brett well enough to have known. I sat up swiftly and stretched my hand to pick my phone from my nightstand. Impatiently, I logged into Instagram.Pfft, of course I’m not on Instagram. I logged in with my sister’s account. Being bullied offline is only the much I can bear, thank you very much.It didn’t take me much time to get to Mr. Brett’s profile. I stared at his relationship status and it stared back at me. It was boldly written SINGLE. Just to be sure, I wore my glasses and glanced hard at it. It still remained SINGLE. I searched for Mrs. Shantel’s profile and found out that she was married.“Then why the hell were you fucking someone not your husband!!” I scr
It was the early hours of Monday morning, 6:00am to be precise, and I was already in the cobwebby school basement, tucked away in the only neat corner. Of course, the neat corner of the basement, which I had turned into my niche, was cleaned up by me. You must definitely be wondering what kind of psycho cleans up the school basement to spend her mornings and what for! Well, to cut the long story short, it was my only means of survival. If I wanted to get through my remaining days in high school, then I had to do this. This was me doing what I did best, hiding away from my sworn enemy, traitor, rival, tormentor, give it all the name you could think of. Synonymous to those names is Kelly Parker. Kelly is the Queen bee of Beverly High. I hate her with all my heart, but she’s beautiful. Breathing-taking kind of beautiful, I’m not going to lie. I just hate her the more for that, because why should she be so perfect? Of course, she is the head cheerleader and she is dating Bruce Paschal,
Ariel's POV For two days after that, I waited for the man to show himself. It was almost like he purposely ignored me. When I realized that he wouldn't show himself unless something drastic happened, I waited for the guard that brought my food -food I refused to eat since I've been held in here- to appear. The moment he rounded the corner that led to my cell, I yanked off the pendant from my neck. I went instantly invisible. When the guard reached the cell and saw no one, the tray containing the food fell off his hands, and he let out a scream. Two more guards rushed in, probably thinking I managed to subdued their colleague. When they saw what he saw, they all trembled out of shock. "Report the incident to prince Eric right now!" One of the guards yelled to the other one that came in with him. That one nodded and rushed off to deliver the message. The guard turned to the one that brought me the food, looking at him in a suspicious way. "Did you let her off?" He asked."What the he
Ariel's POVIt felt like my ears just deceived me. I blinked once, then twice. I looked at the man who had just finished pleasuring me -the tingles and soreness between my legs were the testament of that fact- like he was out of his mind. And perhaps he was. Otherwise, why would he sprout such nonsense about arresting me? And that too for what? For stealing? Me?I looked at him and shook my head. Sure that I heard him wrong. I waited for him to take his words back, but he didn't. When a minute or two passed with nothing from him to refute his words, I lifted up my tied hands and tapped him on the shoulder to get his attention. The eyes he turned on me were so cold and stony, I shivered."Are you serious about arresting me?" I inquired from him. The river made a ripple effect and I was reminded of the fact that I was gone for too long. If I didn't return back to my room as soon as possible, there was every possibility that my father would find out about my disappearance. It that happen
Eric's POV "The real thing I have here could do a better job than that toy!" I shouted at her from the shadows. I watched as the toy fell from her hand because of the shock she experienced."Wh-who is th-there?" She sounded as scared as she felt. I saw her looking around in the darkness, probably thinking of where to hide from the predator that sneaked up on her. My first thought was to let her suffer a sudden heart attack, just as she had done for me. That would be the easiest revenge I could take on her. But my tratious body refused to comply with that act. How could it? Somehow, I found the courage to get out of the palace after three days of hiding in my room. My courage wasn't bold enough to leave during the day when I could feel all eyes on me, so I did it by night. I was already angry when I found myself walking to this place rather than anywhere else. I was even about to turn around when I heard someone moan my name softly. I traced the voice and I saw the same girl moaning
Ariel's POVFor three days after I returned to the house, I couldn't help but think about how I would be able to get my Dada to release me from the home imprisonment he kept me in. Even as I paced to and fro the length of the room I was in, no idea came to me. I balked at how it was becoming increasingly hard to think straight these days. Each time I sat down to think, only the thought of Eric and what he would do to me came. I would spend hours and hours fantasising about the man. By the time I realize that I needed to think of a way to get out of the mess I was in in order to actually see him, I would start thinking of an escape plan. Barely five minutes into the deep thinking, I would find myself thinking about Eric again... just like I currently was.I was floating on top of my bed. My hands were on my breasts and I kept culling and squeezing them the same way I saw Eric did that day at the beach. I moaned as I imagined it was his hands playing with my breasts instead of mine. St
Eric's POVAs mother continued to hold me, she patted my back softly with her hand. I knew I was displaying a moment of weakness to the queen, but at the stage where I currently was, none of all those palace rules mattered to me. I just wanted someone to show me that I wouldn't go crazy because of a certain human.Was she even hunan? Someone that could play with another's person's feelings like that didn't deserve to be regarded as a human. "She's a selfish, cunning, and the most heartless person I've ever seen!" I bursted out, unable to contain my contempt for the woman.My mum didn't say anything and just continued to pat me like she was already doing. The outburst, however, gave in to the anger I had been trying to rein in ever since I woke up that morning and found out about that girl's betrayal."How could she have deceived me like that?" I let out again.To me, she was stupid. If she wasn't, she would have realized that I was already infatuated with her. She could have easily d
Eric's POVI didn't know what to make of the situation that happened just a few minutes ago. Ever since I collapsed on my bed, I found it extremely hard to get up. How could I when it felt like my world was crumbling down beside me?I found it hard to believe within myself that the same girl I trusted enough to bring into the palace. The same girl I was so worried about I didn't want her to spend an entire night outside during the cold. The very same girl we spent the same night on the same bed, pleasuring each other to stupor. I couldn't believe that the same girl had thought nothing wrong about betraying me.How could I have been so draft? How could I have let her deceive me just like that? Why didn't I see beneath the fake skin she was wearing to the real one? Now that I thought about it, her excuse of getting lost while with her friends seemed flimsy. Heck, everything about her felt and sounded completely fake. I was sure that the reason she approached me in the first instance wa
CHAPTER THIRTEENARIEL'S POV Sebastian sat across me with an intense look in his eyes. I reckoned I would have the same look if someone sat me down to tell the exact story I was telling him at the moment.It happened to me yet somehow I found it unbelievable. It just felt like the kind of shit that should only be possible in movies. Poorly scripted movies."So you opened the door to the right-"I nodded. "I opened it."He leaned in closer to me almost as if he wanted to merge with me. His eyes bulged out in their socket and his teeth clattered. Goosebumps appeared all over my skin as I remembered how I felt in the dark corridor turning the door knob."I could have swore he was behind me- breathing just behind me." I said as I controlled the impulse to cringe.Sebastian gasped. "Was he there?"I shook my head. He wasn't there when I turned around but the presence didn't go away. It stuck with me even as the door opened."What did you find inside?" Flounder asked speaking for the first