I walked quickly to our room. I was not angry at Rose. How could I be angry at someone who lost her brother just yesterday? I could feel a little bit of her pain, but not all. I would not feel anything if Kyle died, but Jace… He was the brother I cared about. He was one of the most important people of my life.Well, I had an ulterior motive too when I visited Rose. I actually wanted to make sure whether she would go through with the plan or not. I did not ask her outright. It would seem too cruel.I opened the door to our chamber. There was no guard outside. Demian did not like having people outside our door. I did not like it either. Besides, it was weird to have someone near who could hear whatever Demian and I were doing.I walked in. The room was dark. Why did the maids not lit the candles?Someone grabbed me by the throat and pressed me against the wall as he closed the door with another hand. Just by the touch, I knew it was Demian. Besides, there was the particular scent about
Demian’s hands pried my legs open. I felt vulnerable and at his mercy. It was something I liked, but also did not like. I was confused how I felt about this position.He was still fully clothed. I felt alone since I was the only one naked without any cloth covering my body parts. Not that I hated it. I quite enjoyed being looked upon. I liked the way Demian’s eyes feasted on my skin. I liked the thrill, the prospect of being devoured by him.He put his head between my legs and I shuddered as his warm breath fell on my folds. He rubbed them with his fingers.“You are already ready for me, my darling,” he said. His voice husky. I could hear the desire and want in his voice. It was making me want him even more. There was nothing more attractive than having a man want you as much as you want him, if not more. “Are you wet for me knowing what I will do to you? How I would fuck your cunt with my cock? Is that what you are thinking about?”I blushed and looked away. Demian had lit a few candl
Damien rubbed his cock against my folds. I tensed up. I had never done this before. I only read about it.I was a little anxious. What if it was not as magical as I read in the books? What if it was boring? That was unlikely though. If Damien’s fingers could make me go crazy, his cock would make me feel something much more intense.He rubbed himself for a long time. And then, he entered. The tip first. Then a little more. More. And more. Until he was entirely inside me. He had entered slowly to not hurt me.I gasped, arching my back. It was much different from his fingers. With his fingers, I did not feel this much full.“Don’t hold your breath,” he said, his voice a little strained, as if he had a hard time talking. “Breathe out.” I did as I was told.He pulled himself out and before I knew it, he slammed his cock back inside. I cried out, digging my nails into his thighs over his pants.And the rhythm started. Damien was relentless as he mercilessly thrust inside and brought it out.
Demian took me more times than I could count. At some point, I lost consciousness, only to wake up with his cock inside me.It was morning. Demian and I went to have breakfast. I felt like everyone knew what we had been up to the previous night and could not look them in the eye.I was sore. It was hard to walk. That was even more humiliating.“Are you feverish?” Dela asked. “You don’t look well.”“No,” I said quickly. “I’m fine.”Demian smirked at me. I pretended not to notice.My back was hurting as well. Having sex for so long was not a good idea.Demian would not go out in a few days, which meant more sex. I was pretty sure Demian would want to. He had been touching me all the time since last night.I felt guilty about Ruben though. He was dead and we were… It was not like he was someone very close to me, yet I felt bad.I tried hard not to meet Rosalia’s eyes. That would make me feel even more guilty.After breakfast, Demian took me to our bedchamber straight away and we began wh
The fire almost burned the entire tower. It had been so big that it was almost impossible to control it. It took a while to bring the fire under control. By then, more than half the tower was burnt.It was where Kiara lived. When they brought her out, we could not recognize her. Her hair was burned off and her whole body was burnt. Red flesh peeked from under all the soot.She was dead. Well, that was no surprise. She was burned too badly.Before we could process this, the guards found Jace’s cell empty. When they came to notify Alexander of this, everyone turned immediately to me, as if I had something to do with it.“I don’t know how it happened!” I said quickly.“You don’t know?” Alexander asked, his voice dangerously on edge. “You fucking don’t know?”“She was with me,” Damien said calmly, pulling me back by my hand.“She was with you how?” Luke asked. “For all I know, she could have sneaked out to free her brother in some way, although she doesn’t look the type to be that much br
I stared at the man who the guards escorted to my father. He was filthy, his blond hair full of mud and filth, his clothes ripped from places. He had dried blood on his face and the parts of his body that was visible.The man was my brother, whom I could barely recognize.I wanted to hug him and bury my face in the crook of his neck, no matter how filthy he was. He was alive, at least.But I could not hug him since Father was asking him questions, without letting him to change and clean himself first.“Who let you out, you said?” Father asked. He had asked the same question before.“Rose Silverclaw, the daughter of Aunt Rosalia,” Jace answered.“Why did she help you?”“She doesn’t want to stay there, at such a monstrous place. She said her father makes her do cruel things that she doesn’t want to do. If she doesn’t do as her father says, he will get rid of her. She said she will help Sully too.”“Tell me everything about what is going on there and about your sister,” Father said.Jace
Mother fussed over me a lot. She cried about my wounds and then cried about Sully. She asked me how she was and if she was hurt. I assured her that Sully was okay.But truth be told, I did not know. I did not like Sully with Demian Silverclaw, even though I did not know him well.Sully whispered into my ear that Demian helped me survive the game and that he was the one who shot arrows. She told me not to mention it to anyone, so I did not. I did not tell Rose about it either.That was why I believed Sully had a hold over Demian Silverclaw, since he listened to her and protected me. That was going against his own father. He still did it for Sully.In my opinion, telling Father of this would be a good idea. But I decided to listen to Sully. Since she told me not to tell anyone, I would not tell anyone. I valued her words more than anyone else’s.Selina put ointment on the whip marks on my back. They did not hurt as much as before, although there was always a tingle of pain when I tried
The night the fire happened and Jace escaped passed in utter confusion. Demian and his father talked about how it could have happened. Neither of them was at all affected by the fact that Kierra was dead.Well, I did not care either.I had not seen Clarissa as of yet. Dela said Clarissa was in another chamber, away from all the chaos. Therefore, I still did not know how Clarissa felt about it.I stayed with Dela and Rosalia. Rose also went to Alexander’s office to discuss everything.I had dozed off for a while since I was tired; I had barely slept since the moment I let Demian take me. My whole body was sore and I walked a little awkwardly.When Demian came to fetch me, it was almost morning. He led me to our chamber without a word.Then, he stripped and went to sleep with my body pressed against his. He had not said a single word. It shocked me.At some point, I fell asleep too.Now, it was morning. I woke up just a while ago and broke my fast with a few dates (they made my teeth ac
“Did you have a sexual relationship with Shea?” I asked when Demian climbed onto the bed beside me after finishing his bath. He had come back a while ago, with blood on his cloak, and took a long cold bath.“No,” Demian answered.“Are you telling the truth?”“Do I lie to you?”“Then, what happened with her? I know something did happen,” I said.“Did she tell you that?”“Just tell me.”“Well, she once tried to seduce me. But I told her not to come to my chamber again and said that if she did, I would get her tongue cut. Nothing happened between us. I never had any sexual relationship with any maid.”“I see.”“You don’t believe me?” he asked.I sat up. “I believe you.”“Now tell me. Did she tell you about it?”I shook my head. “I guessed.”“A guess?” He seemed skeptical.“I had the feeling. She told me that you knew about her secret. That was when I guessed that… And she flees the room right after you come in. That’s why I thought there must be something else. So I asked her about it an
“I want to ask you something,” I said.“Yes, my lady?” She put down her cup on her saucer.“Did you ever have share a bed with my husband?”She turned red. “My lady…”“I have asked you a question.”She shook her head.“But you tried, didn’t you?”“I heard… it’s always better if you can get a lord to bed you and if you can get pregnant… Since Lord Demian did not have an heir and was not married, I tried to… seduce him. But he… threw me out of his chamber and told me never to do it again and that if I did, he would tell everyone of my secret and get my tongue cut. That’s why I never…”Well, that sounded like Demian.“But my lady, you can be certain that I would never… do it again. I would never try to…”“I know,” I said calmly. “I just wanted to know the truth.”“Did Lord Demian tell you?”“No. I guessed it,” I said.She was shocked. She stared at me in surprise.“Are you angry, my lady?” Shea asked slowly and cautiously.“No. I don’t care about my husband’s past as long as he is loyal
My time at the tower was going well. Actually, it was better than I thought. I spent most of my time at the lab, making potions. Demian had gathered so many ingredients that most of the time, I had no problem making a certain potion without checking what ingredients I had first. I always checked though. It had become a habit.One of the first things that they taught you in an alchemy class was that you must always check the ingredients before making a potion to make sure that you had the right amount of ingredients needed for that potion.Alchemy was a fun subject, especially for those who were good at using the correct measure of ingredients and who were good at cooking. I was not good at cooking. I could certainly cook a few dishes now, but back then, I could not cook a single thing. But I was good measuring correctly. I was also patient about it which helped. Something about mixing a few ingredients, sometimes just a drop of some, and then getting a liquid that could do things alwa
Sully never told me before last night that Rezef had true feelings for her. I always assumed that the marriage was only to tie those families together because of a previous contract.It meant I took someone’s love of his life away from him. Well, my father did, but I was the one who married Rezef’s fiancée.Did I regret it? No. Did I feel guilty? No. Did I want to fuck Sully in front of him so he would know who Sully truly belonged to? Yes. Hell yes.Sully was eating a slice of watermelon. It was a big slice. She was eating it in a rather adorable manner. I could not stop watching her.“It could have been a little sweeter, but I like it anyway,” Sully said. Her chin was dripping the red juice of the watermelon.If Rezef could see her like this at this moment, would he fall in love with her all over again?“What are you thinking about?” Sully asked when she was done with the slice.“About what you said about Rezef,” I said.“What about him?” she asked nonchalantly. It was obvious she d
The fact that Sully had been pregnant knew only a few people. There had been a rumor going around. I questioned Jade Star about it and he was forced to admit it. He said Sully had a miscarriage and that she was not pregnant anymore.Now, he was planning to take revenge on the Silverclaws. I joined him because I also had a debt to settle with them. Alexander Silverclaw took my bride from me on our wedding day.They took the woman from me who I wanted all my life since the moment I saw her.I never wanted much things in my life. But Sully- she was the only thing I truly wanted. I set my eyes on her and knew I had to have her.When I met her, I thought she was the prettiest girl every with brown skin and ruby red eyes and long curly hair. She talked little, but watched everything with curious eyes. I remembered asking my father who that little girl was. When he told me, I knew I needed to have her. I wanted her.But then I heard that she ran away from
For some reason, I dreamed of Millie tonight. It was strange. I never even thought about her. At least, not much.I woke up and found Demian beside me. He was staring at me. Okay, it was a little uncomfortable to think that he watched me while I was sleeping.“What’s wrong?” he asked. “A nightmare?”“No… Just a dream,” I said. “About my half-sister.”“Millie Thorn.”“Ah yes, she is a Thorn now. I keep forgetting,” I said. “I wonder if she is happy there. I wonder if Rezef is treating her right.”“You said Rezef is a righteous and kind man. If he doesn’t treat his own wife right, won’t it defeat the purpose of his righteous and kind personality?” Demian did not like Rezef at all. He might be annoyed that I told him that Rezef was like the hero of a story.“Rezef is like that, but he… He can be harsh, you know, without even meaning to. For example, he can’t show care and love even if he wants to. I have noticed this a lot of times. For example, when he used to want to meet me, he would
Rezef’s father died this morning. It had been sudden. The maids woke me up and told me about it. Apparently, he fell from the roof.“How did he fall from the roof?” I asked Rezef.“I don’t know. It happened in the middle of the night,” he said. He was hastily changing his attire.“Why didn’t you wake me up?”“For what? It’s not like you can bring him back.”I did not talk back. It was not good if I talked back. What if Rezef sent me back?Now that Rezef’s father was dead, Rezef was the new Head of House Thorn. The problem was that Rezef did not have an heir and according to the tradition, the new Head must already have an heir.What would happen now?Rezef had an older sister and a younger brother. It did not make sense that someone else other than him could be the new Head. Well, his older sister could not be the Head anyway. So, his younger brother remained. It was not like Byron had any heir either. He was only sixteen.“What will happen now?” I asked.“What do you mean?” Rezef sou
We went to the top floor today. The strange things Shea talked about last night turned out to be something that I knew very well. All those things in glass jars- big and small- I knew them a little too well. It was in a room that was accessible from my bed chamber only.There was a big table there, a cauldron, many pots, spoons- long and short, small and big- knives in various sizes.“You made me a… workplace,” I murmured. “Gosh, Demian, you made me a lab!”I threw myself at Demian and he caught me casually as if I weighted nothing. I wrapped my legs around him and laughed. I could not believe he did this for me.“That’s so… Gosh, I love it, Demian! I love it a lot! I love you!”“I had a feeling you might like it,” he said.“You really did thought of everything, didn’t you?”He put me down and kissed me on the forehead.“I wanted to build you a lab for a while now. But I thought it would be better if it was not at the estate, since… Father might start to blame you for everything, like
Demian came back two hours later. His hair was damp and he was wearing a black robe. Shea bowed to him and me and then left since it appeared Demian made it clear that when he and I were together, Shea or any other maid could not stay.“You did not tell me about her before,” I said. “That she can talk.”“It was a good surprise,” Demian said.“I don’t like surprises.”“I know,” he said. “Actually, I did not think it was that important for you to know earlier.”I decided not to press on the matter farther. I was having a hard time coming in terms with the fact that I had to stay in a tower on the top floor.I still could not believe Demian did such a thing. How could he?“The water is cold here all the time,” Demian said. “I suggest never to take a bath in the water just like it is. Tell the maids to warm it first.”“You used the cold water, didn’t you?” Demian preferred cold water over warm or normal temperature water. In fact, I once found him soaking in an ice-cold water bath. There