Chapter 2:As soon as I heard them leave the house the next morning, I picked up the only change of clothes I had and ran away ran away from the house I had known as my home all my life.I ran without a specific direction. All I had in mind was to get as far away as possible from them. I didn’t even know the town well enough because I had only gone there once when my mother fell sick and my father wasn’t around. I had to go with the doctor to retrieve some drugs. Aside that instance, I had never been to town. Yet I planned on heading there.That was where I would see people who could help me. I would just have to find someone that would give me shelter for today. Tomorrow, I would go find my own space. The town was large enough for me to live in without clashing into my cruel parents. But if it happened that I couldn’t stay any more without seeing them, I would save enough to go very far away.I tried to recall the paths that led to town from the old memory I had and I soon realize I
Chapter 3: Everett“Tell me, brother, when will you get married again?” Estelle, my youngest sister asked as we moved between the bushes. I was a few steps behind her as she asked the question. I wanted to respond but Elena beat me to it.“Don’t be silly Estelle! He will get married again when the time is right!” Elena looked more like she wanted to start a fight with Estelle rather than explain to her calmly why I remained single to date.Estelle pulled her face into a frown as she glared at Elena.I looked between them and shook my head. There was no point interfering. They obviously didn’t want me to reply. They couldn’t even begin to understand what it was like for me. I had stayed alone in this forest, in the middle of nowhere while they had families they could return to whenever they got bored. It would be better if I let them settle this on their own –I thought to myself as I continued taking exaggerated slow steps behind them.“But he is getting older and quieter! Can’t you se
Chapter 4: Goldilocks“We will forgive you on one condition… that you pay back,” One of the ladies with the man said.“I am very good with house chores. I can help out with whatever you want!” I quickly mentioned. My heart was racing so fast in my chest, I thought I would pass out. How could I have been so stupid? How could I have let my hunger get the better of me? I shouldn’t have come into this cottage! And most importantly I shouldn’t have slept in their house!“You will have to stay here with my brother as his surrogate,” the lady that spoke first said.The room seem to fall into silence as my brain took in their words. A surrogate meant I would have to give him a child… or was there another meaning to this?“What do you mean?” I stuttered as my fingers started to shake in fear.The lady wanted to speak but the brother beat her to it, “Estelle, I don’t think that would be necessary,” he said as he eyed my body and walked out of the room.“Everett!” she screamed after him.The se
Chapter 5: EverettI went back to Estelle’s room and lay on the bed with a smile on my face.“Goldilocks…” I whispered as I tested her name on my lips.She was so innocent, I couldn’t believe my luck. When Estelle had mentioned making her my surrogate, I didn’t agree with her because I wanted it to be a confirmed agreement between me and the woman she would bring and not Goldilocks. She just happened to have walked into my house. Yes, she might have walked in and made herself comfortable without my permission but making her my surrogate without her opinion was too much of a punishment… besides, there was something about her that just made it hard to hurt her.She was too beautiful. The way her eyes changed colors when her emotions overwhelmed her was exciting to watch. The way she took her lips into her mouth sent my cock into another realm. I couldn’t understand why she affected me this much. I didn’t want to forcefully keep her with me but I was certain about one thing, I wanted her
Chapter 6: GoldilocksI couldn’t sleep. My heart and my body had developed a mind of their own. It refused to listen to my brain. My body wanted the man to keep touching me. I enjoyed the way his hands rested on my waist. I wanted to move away, but my body refused to bulge. Plus there was no space to move into except I wanted to fall off the bed.I had brought all these upon myself. I should have never come into the cottage without seeking permission. I shouldn’t have even given him the option to sleep on the same bed with me… now I was doomed to stay awake all night. I wasn’t even scared of what he would do because to an extent, I trusted him. What I was scared of… was myself.My core was hurting. It needed to be touched. It wanted attention and I couldn’t demand anything from the man holding my waist as if I belonged to him. His hands fit perfectly on my body like it was meant to be there. I felt safe and not scared as I had initially thought. Maybe staying here was the solution to
Chapter 7: Everett“Sleep with me afterward…” I said staring into her golden orbs. She let out a small gasp and I chuckled at her action. She obviously thought I meant something sensual but my thoughts were far from that except if she wanted to permit me to do it.“You woke up too early. It will give me joy if you slept in after all the hard work,” I explained to her.“Okay… I will sleep after I finish cleaning up this mess I made,” she stated in her usual timid voice.I placed my index finger on her lips and I stopped her from speaking. Her lips felt so soft under my finger, I wished it was a different part of me against her lips and not my finger. “I will clean it. You should eat and rest,” I insisted.She seemed to be lost in my eyes and the movement of my finger on her lips as she nodded softly. If I stayed in that kitchen any longer, I would claim her body. I dropped my finger from her face and walked out briskly. She was too tempting for me to keep resisting. I walked back to th
Chapter 8: GoldilocksI know he told me to get some rest but I couldn’t. I wasn’t used to this kind of treatment. Deep down, a voice told me he would come in and hurt me. I kept my eyes open as I sat on the bed with my knees propped on it and folded to my chest. This way, if he came in here, I would be able to run off and save myself somehow.I wasn’t entirely naïve. I knew some very cruel men in town who kidnapped girls and used them for their personal goals and objectives without actually marrying them. I didn’t want to escape slavery from my parents and then come get it at the hands of a strangely beautiful man in the middle of the forest.I heard the knock at the door and I jumped off the bed and tiptoed to the bedroom door to see who it was. I opened the door slightly and I heard the female voice coming from the living room. I couldn’t hear exactly what she was saying but I could tell they were having a calm conversation. But how sure was I that they were not calmly planning my d
Chapter 9: EverettI had just watched Elena’s carriage leave when I returned to the house and I heard the loud gush of water coming from the bathroom. I had heard it even before Elena left but I didn’t pay much attention to it because I had told Goldilocks to rest. I figured she had decided to take a shower before resting which was also good. But when I returned I realized that the level of water was too much for a simple bath.I ran up the stairs and tried to go into the room. That was when I realized the door was locked. I tried to push it open, but it didn’t budge. “Goldilocks! What are you doing?” I called aloud but no one answered. There was something wrong. I had to get in. I took a step back and crashed against the door with the full force of my weight and it cracked open. The bathroom door was open and I ran in without even checking the room. It was obvious she was there and she wasn’t doing the right thing. She was trying to escape!She had broken the window and there was a
“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