CHARTER 139 BRIANNA’S POV My heavy eyelids fluttered open to see Hermes’s face close to mine. He was so close I could feel his breath on my face, the tip of our noses almost touching. “You’re finally up sleeping beauty,” he said, his lips spreading to a psychotically cartoonish smile. Instinctively, my breath caught and I tried to pull away, but the thick ropes binding my wrists and ankles to the bedpost held me still. My head spun, and my body ached with heaviness from being unconscious for so long. Even the slightest movement added to my discomfort, causing me to wince in pain. “Easy there, tigress,” he taunted and tried to kiss me on the forehead. But I squeezed my eyes shut and turned my face away in disgust. I felt a warm gust of air on the side of my neck as he sighed in disappointment. “Quit acting like a scary cat,” he said as he got up from the bedside stool he was sitting on. “I’m not going to hurt you. Unless you make me.” My body stiffed from his word
CHAPTER 140 BRIANNA’S POV “What…?” I stuttered in shock, disoriented as my eyes bulged from its sockets. “Yes, princess,” he flashed me a benign smile, appearing harmless and innocent as opposed to his true self. “We’ll have to get rid of it. I can’t have you carrying another man’s child when you know fully well you belong to me and me alone. That’s infidelity. And you know how much I hate kids,” he added, his face twisting in disgust and revulsion as though he had a personal vendetta against children. “No… never…!!” I cried out in despair, agitated. I was like a caged animal, thrashing against the ropes. Though the effort was futile and only earned me pain that’ll probably leave marks and bruises around my wrists and ankles, I didn’t mind. I kept thrashing. “You are coming nowhere close to my unborn children…” “Did you just say ‘your unborn children’?” He cut me off, leaning forward. He had a baffled expression tinged with anger and jealousy on his face and at once, I wi
CHAPTER 141HERMES’S POV“Yes, that one!” my eyes gleamed as I pointed at a red sexy dress the maid took out from the pile of other dresses.I wanted to make this welcome party memorable for both Brianna and me so I decided to pick out a dress for her. I needed something that would suit my taste. A dress that’ll make her look as sexy as hell so I picked that red dress. It’ll surely do the magic.“This one?” The maid asked to confirm.“You bitch!” My expression hardened as I gave her a hostile glare. “Do I need to repeat myself?” “I’m…I’m sorry…Alpha Hermes,” she stuttered a nervous apology.“You’d better be,” I said, rolling my eyes. “Make sure she wears only that dress—nothing else. And start making all the necessary preparations for the welcome party. I need everything to be perfect,” I finished and sent her away with a dismissive wave of my hand.“Yes Alpha Hermes,” she bowed in reverence.Everything was going well. I had gotten Brianna back and left Sebastian in a condition tha
CHAPTER 142BRIANNA’S POV “I can’t wear that,” downcast, I mumbled to one of the maids who was getting me ready for the welcome party.They’d come after Hermes left to get me ready as he had instructed. They bathed me, styled my hair, and painted my face with heavy makeup. However, the clothing they were about to dress me in made me cringe. It was a short, skimpy red dress, made of elastic material that could barely contain my figure even if I were a teenager.In my pregnant state, I couldn’t wear such dresses. The doctor had even advised against it during one of my appointments. I was to be wearing loose light clothing that could allow for comfort and ease of movement. But no matter how hard I tried to explain it to the maids, they just didn’t get it. They were like robots programmed solely to carry out Hermes’s orders. Or maybe they still bore the grudge of what happened in the past where Hermes had punished one of them, Lily for trying to help me escape and warned them against e
CHAPTER 143BRIANNA’S POVAnger immediately clouded my expression and a scowl settled on my face on seeing her. What was she doing here? By now, I thought she’d left the castle or something. After her brother, she was the last person on earth I wanted to see or talk to now. I don’t need her coming to maltreat and talk down on me like before.“Oh Brianna…” gently closing the door behind her, she quickly approached. But instinctively, I got up and moved away from her as though she was a virus. And indeed she was.“Stay away from me!” I voiced out bravely though my heart fluttering in fear. Memories of everything she did to me in the past plagued my head – how she had left me to rot in the dungeon in sheer darkness without food or water for almost three days the first time I arrived at the castle, how she and Hermes had reduced me to an element of caricature, how she beat me at the slightest chance she got and made me perform an extremely difficult task. I was pretty sure she was the o
CHAPTER 144 BRIANNA’S POV For a moment, I was bereft of words. I didn’t even know what to think or how to react. Her sudden change in character had swept me over like a tidal wave. It must have taken a lot for her to do this. To become like this. “And Hermes?” I asked lowly, almost hesitantly with little hope that he might have changed too over the past few hours I had seen him. The heavy sigh that escaped her nostrils hinted at a deep sorrow and frustration. At once, I already knew the answer. “Hermes has turned into something I can’t recognize anymore. I think I have lost my brother,” she said and lowered her head in shame and defeat. “He was recently diagnosed with a brain tumour. It was late detection, so before we found it had already grown to the size of a tangerine at the base of his skull. The doctor said he had to undergo surgery which is due in a week. But he said he won’t come. He doesn’t pay attention to me or listen to what I say because I’m always pestering
CHAPTER 145SEBASTIAN’S POV As much as I hated to admit it, Khan had a point. I wanted to save Brianna so badly and make that bastard pay for murdering my people in cold blood. But it will be unwise to go there alone, knowing he had the greater security, and probably wanted me dead so he could have Brianna all to himself. But that is never going to happen. Hermes was not only one of the most feared Alpha kings across the kingdoms but also had some of the tightest security mostly because he headed the slave auction.Even though my anger was as fierce as a raging storm, going there alone would be like walking into a death trap. I needed reinforcement. I needed a plan. I just hope Brianna will hold on tight and not lose faith in me. I promise to come as quickly as I can. Even though the sky was falling, even though the world was tearing apart, I’d come for her.Khan suggested we go back to association headquarters to report the attack and ask for help. Initially, I had kicked against t
CHAPTER 146SEBASTIAN’S POVMy face scrunched out of shape in rage as I scowled at him. I felt like throwing him a punch that would knock him back to his senses. Just how the flying fuck did he think I was lying over something this serious? The lives of my twin babies and the love of my life were on the line here, yet he’s telling me to seek therapy?!With all rage tearing me apart on the inside, I wanted to say something to him. Something that’ll cut through his scepticism and make him understand the gravity of the situation. Something harsh that’ll make him understand just how angry I am. But Khan, who was also in the office with us, stepped in to intervene, sensing the escalating tension.“My boss is telling the truth,” he said, keeping a calm demeanour as he explained. “The castle was attacked, and all my colleagues and the maids were killed. Not to mention my boss’s slave was taken hostage. They were all gunshot wounds, and with the way the operation was carried out, we’re convi