CHAPTER 134BRIANNA’S POVI was taking a nap when I suddenly heard a loud bang like a gunshot from downstairs. My eyes flew open and I quickly rose from the bed, my heart thumping madly in my chest. What the hell was that? I was still trying to make meaning of the sound when I heard another one and another followed by shrills from the maids.Panic like never before welled up in my throat. I rushed out of my bed, quickly covered up and went out of my room to check it out.I just hoped it wasn’t I thought it was. Maybe the guards got into a fight or something. But that hasn’t happened before. And even if they did get into a fight, they never carried guns. Maybe they caught a burglar or thief. As much as I wished it wasn’t a gunshot, the loud, sharp sound echoing through the entire castle suggested otherwise.My mind kept running wild with different thoughts as I reached the stairs. Peering down to catch a glimpse of what could be happening, what I saw left me frightened, electrified
CHAPTER 135BRIANNA’S POVI wrapped my arms protectively around my bump. There was no way I was letting him get to my babies. My twins. I’ll protect them with life and I’ll kill him if he tries to do anything to harm them.He started advancing towards me in menacing steps. My chest felt like it was about to burst. I could barely contain my breath as I raced around the room, hauling anything I could lay my hands on at him—books, vases, and even a lamp. But he dodged them all with ease.“Stay away from me you bastard!” I snarled at him. “There is no way I’m letting you take me back to that hellhole…never!” “You belong to me, Brianna,” he said with a sinister smirk playing around the corners of his lips. “The sooner you realize that the better for you. The better for us. Once I get you back, I’m not going to let anyone take or buy you again. I’ll fuck you till you beg me to fuck you over and over again,” his smirk widened to an eccentric laugh.“Over my dead body,” I grabbed a poker fr
CHAPTER 136SEBASTIAN’S POVI left the castle early in the morning for the association’s headquarters. I had filed a complaint concerning the letter Hermes sent to me the same day it arrived to the executive committee, and they decided to convene in my favour today to pass judgment.Hermes is such a fool to think I’ll let him have Brianna back after everything he put her through. “I’m just here to make one thing clear to you. She was the prettiest and hottest of my slaves. And she still is. Finding a replacement for her has been fucking hard! So you better watch your back. Because I might want to take her back as my sex slave.” “After all, you’re married, and you’re probably treating her as nothing more than a maid. But I want her back in my bed,”I closed my eyes and breathed out heavily as his words that day we fought at Nolan’s funeral cut through my mind. His intentions for wanting Brianna back weren’t good. His intentions towards anything weren’t good at all. Over my dead bod
CHAPTER 137SEBASTIAN’S POVI couldn’t believe I was heading back to the castle without making any progress. When I told Brianna of this plan, she doubted the effectiveness of it. But I assured her it would work. I assured her taking the matter to the association was the only way to get Hermes off her life for good, that is if I didn’t kill him myself. But now I have nothing. I was so pissed. What do I tell her?The only way I could get that letter back is if Hermes wrote another one which wasn’t possible. I didn’t even tell the executive committee members I tore it. They’ll find that puzzling.The only way to go about this now is to request they summon Hermes and make him admit to sending that letter and writing all that nonsense. Though that seemed like a good idea. The only option left. But Hermes will probably lie. That’ll make me look stupid in front of the executive committee members and give them every reason to believe I was plotting against him. So that won’t work.Goodness
CHAPTER 138 SEBASTIAN’S POV Her breathing was laboured, escaping in short, quick, shallow gasps as if she were reserving oxygen. Her hand clutched her side where a bullet had torn through her, blood seeping through her fingers and staining her dress a deep crimson. “Nana Maria,” that was the first time in a long while I had called her that. That was the fond name I used to call her when I was little. Seeing the woman who had trained and cared for me like I was her own in such a state was like a knife stab to my heart. She looked in my direction and smiled with her eyes, her lips trembling as she tried to speak. “Sebastian…you’re here…” I rushed and knelt beside her, fear and helplessness choking me almost to the point of a heart attack. I neatened her splattered steely grey hair away from her face, tears streaming down my face onto hers as I watched her fight for her life. “What took you so long? I have been waiting for you….” She managed to say, her voice barely a whi
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