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The Bargain Will Racheal return to Xen?
“How are you feeling?” Steffan asked, as the waiter, assisted by another female staff, began to clear their table. Racheal pushed her chair back, and stood up.“I am Ok.” She said, and walked towards the floor to ceiling window. She stared out at the lake that bordered this side of the resort. This was truly a beautiful place. The water took on the colour of the sky above, grey. She suspected it would rain before the end of the day. It had been windy from the time she arrived at the stadium. Even now, the weather was misty, although some rays of light still broke through the clouds.She felt Steffan come up behind her, and hug her. She held his hand but did not turn back. She wanted to just stare out at this beautiful place, and not think about all the things that were not so beautiful about her life. Her meeting with her father a few weeks after he sold her off to this place frightened her. How would she look at him, how would she hold herself from lashing out at him if he dared b
The Bargain Roni threatens Racheal
Racheal looked at everyone standing tensely in the room. There were at least twenty-five people present, excluding the guards. They were all watching her, waiting. She wondered why she was quiet, was this not what she had always wanted, for her father to change his mind and destroy this marriage arrangement he had with the Sherrod? So why was she not screaming Yes! She would finally be able to exit this pit of vipers and forget all about Thalia, Danna Sherrod, and all the other troubles that came with Xen.She knew her father. He never bluffed, if he said they could walk out of here unhurt, they could. She glanced at his determined face. Did he have snipers around? A grenade? She would not put any of that past him. It would be a bloodbath, cutting their way out of this resort back to Xen. But she knew it was possible, especially since her father was so sure. She caught Delbert’s eye. He gave a small nod for her to say yes. She looked away, and turned to Steffan. His face was li
The Bargain An intruder tries to murder Racheal
“I did not send you here to play wife, my dear girl.” Roni Rana continued, standing up. “Get on with your duties.” Racheal remained on her seat, looking up at the evil man who was her father. “And why are you not pregnant already?” He paused. “You should go see a doctor, when your mother had these problems…” He stopped. “A baby will help our plans greatly. If you were caught, nobody would not harm you if you were carrying a Sherrod baby. That would buy us time to rescue you.”Racheal stared on in silence, unable to believe what her father was saying. All her life, the only thing she had hated her father for was his neglect and lack of care towards her. Her step-mother had always been the villian in her eyes. Had she been blind all along?“Stand up my girl.” Roni Ran said, walking around the table to her. “We do not want to raise your in-laws suspicions.” He was smiling brightly now, like the kindest father in the world. Racheal stood up with shaky legs, and placed her hand in her
The Bargain The Stormy Night
Racheal gasped.In the time it took her to recover from her surprise, the intruder rolled over and pinned her under, her back to the floor.She struggled to push the intruder off her, but failed. She quickly felt around for the intruder's face but the intruder repeatedly hit her head against the hard floor to knock her out.Racheal ignored the pain she felt and the dizziness it was beginning to cause her.She found the intruder’s eyes and sunk her nails in. The intruder screamed but their voice was muffled by what Racheal suspected was a mask, so she couldn’t hear them clearly.The intruder tried to get off her, but Racheal held on. She knew if she let go, the intruder would have enough room to start shooting randomly, and one of the bullets may just hit her. She was not ready to risk that.“Help!” She screamed at the top of her voice as she clinged on to the intruder.Were her guards so deaf they could not hear all the commotion? How did this intruder get past them in the first place
The Bargain I kept your secrets
“Racheal. Racheal, can you hear me?”When she opened her eyes she saw Delbert running beside a stretcher that was wheeling her into the hospital.She opened her mouth to speak, but a sharp pain from her head blinded her. It was sharp and searing, and made her face feel numb.This pain was too much. How had she gone from feeling nothing to feeling so much.She winced as the pain seized her skull like a clamp.“Doctor, She is in so much pain, can’t you do something?” She heard Delbert say, just as he disappeared from her sight as the doctors wheeled her into a ward.She closed her eyes to fight the pain, and slipped into unconsciousness from there.When next she opened her eyes, it took her a whole minute to remember who she was, and where she was.She could hear arguing in the background, and the raised voices made her head start hurting again.“You do not deserve her. You should let her go to someone that will take proper care of her.”“And you are that person? You? Do you think she wo
The Bargain A spy at the presidential villa?
Racheal told the cops all she remembered,From the point she began to feel uncomfortable when she went to bed that night, till she heard the thud against her bed: a thud she suspected was the intruder miscalculating her steps and hitting her foot against the bed.She recounted their struggle for the gun, hitting the intruder, and seeing the intruder’s frame in the brief light from the storm’s lightning.“If the light was brief, how can you be so sure it was a woman?” The lead cop asked.“We struggled against each other for a long time.” Racheal said.“That does not mean anything.” The other cop interjected.“You don’t think I will recognize a woman’s breast against my body even if we were fighting in the dark?” Racheal asked.The cops had the grace to blush and feel uncomfortable at her comment.“Do you think the lights in your room were tampered with, or the storm made them faulty?”“I don’t know, when I got to my living room though, the lights were on. But so were my bedroom lights
The Bargain Don't touch me!
Racheal looked at Jade sadly.She doubted the Carlos could help her. It was not because she doubted their power; they were arguably one of the most powerful families in the world, an ancient royal house.But her life was too complicated for anyone to get her out.The Dallozs had tried, but had gotten nowhere yet because everyday something new happened that seemed to dig her deeply into this pit, making it that much harder for anyone to pull her out.“Just say the word. We will take you out before anyone knows what is happening.”Racheal shook her head. “It’s not that simple.”“Why do you think so? You only have to get past the border of both countries, and no one will be able to touch you anymore.”“I am Yin’s property. My father signed me off.” Racheal said in exasperation.“Not even he can take me away, except he wanted to restart the war. Only Spencer Sherrod has the power to let me go, or the Coterie perhaps.” She paused, thinking.If the Dallozs were the leader of the Coterie, it
The Bargain What is Steffan hiding?
“Are you comfortable?” Steffan asked as the car began to move. He had cushioned the car seat with pillows and brought a blanket. It was the blanket Delbert had gifted her, her comfort blanket that smelled like Jasmine. Her mother’s scent. Racheal wrapped the blanket tighter around her body as she settled further into the seat.“Yes, thank you.” She said simply, her response polite enough, but cold. She knew he was trying to fix whatever it was that had broken between them, but she was not sure she was interested. Like he had said himself, what was the point of all this? He could not protect her, his attitude was ever changing, the only reason she was still being polite to him was both their fathers’ threats. She did not want his father to cut off her freedom of movement and association. She also did not want to provoke her own father to go ahead with his threat.She wondered Roni Rana knew what happened to her, did he even care?“How is Skylar?” She asked suddenly.Steffan turn
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