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Sully

Penulis: Proteety Promi
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-01-30 02:43:18

My eyes were burning. There was a strong odor. No one was bothered, so I did not say anything. The odor was making my head spin.

“It’s the hounds,” Rosalia whispered. “They smell bad, even from far away.”

“Hounds?” Why were hounds brought here?

“They are to eat the bodies of the animals,” she said.

“Ah…,” I murmured as if it was perfectly normal to feed the bodies of prisoners to hounds.

Men and some women soon carried the remains of bodies from the forest. The forest was where the hunt was happening. We were seated right outside it.

My stomach churned at the sight of the upper half of a body. A long pipe like thing was dangling from the bottom. I refrained from letting out a gag.

Then, I saw the hounds. They were being held back by huge chains. Those were the biggest hounds I had ever seen. I did not know they could be so big. There were two guard hounds at the academy, but they were nowhere this big.

Saliva was dripping from their mouths and they were barking loudly. The odor was ev
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  • The Kidnapped Bride   Rose

    After lunch, it was time for the second phase of the game. I had never been particularly fond of the hunt or any of the games. But I had to participate even if I did not want to.I noticed, not for the first time, how Sully clung to Demian. I wondered if she told him about what I said. It would be a problem if she did. But then again, Demian did not confront me about anything yet. He just told me not to give his wife any weird ideas, which was rather ironic. I had quite a firm belief that Sully did not tell Demian anything.Honestly, it would be stupid of her to do so. Why would she trust Demian? Just because he was her husband? It was not even a real marriage. It was not like she wanted to marry him. Sully was definitely not that stupid.Out of the corner of my eyes, I noticed Demian saying something to Father and then leaving. Sully’s eyes followed his movements. She looked pale. Did she feel safe with Demian? Why? He was not better than any of us. He was like the rest of the Silver

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  • The Kidnapped Bride   Sully

    They were in the forest. All the slaves. Twelve of them in total. Jace was among them.Rose had left too, at some point. No one noticed when she slipped away.There was a silver flag deep inside the forest, hidden. One of them had to come out with that and that would be the winner.I tried to think of the good times. It was hard. I could not help being worried sick about my brother. My hands were shaking, I noticed, the way they always did whenever I was too agitated about something. Sometimes, it happened before an exam at the academy. Even during the exam, no matter how easy the question was or even if I knew the answers to all of them, my hands would shake like the hands of an old person.“He will be okay,” Rosalia whispered as she sat beside me. Dela was talking loudly to Clarissa; it was a one-way conversation since Clarissa could not talk.“I hope so,” I said.Rosalia touched my hand and took it in hers. “Do you know I’m your aunt?”I gave a nod. “I heard about you. And I saw yo

    Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-01-31
  • The Kidnapped Bride   Sully

    My heart was pounding inside my ribcage. It had been two hours. No one had come out of the forest yet.Rosalia held my hand the whole time to comfort me. But it was making me even more nervous since my hand was all sweaty. I could not even pull it away.I could feel Luke’s eyes on me. And then, he advanced. I had been expecting it.“So, you are the Star my brother married,” Luke said. Rosalia moved me a little towards her. It was like she felt protective of me.“It is a pleasure to finally meet you,” I said, “Luke Silverclaw.”Luke was younger than me. Demian said I should not show respect to someone who was younger than me. I made that mistake with Theodore.That said, Theodore was not present today. He said he would be here, but I did not see him. I was so focused on Demian and worried about Jace that I barely noticed anyone else.“You have a nice voice,” he said. “And you are rather…” He looked down at my body. If he thought this would intimidate me, he was wrong. I was used to men

    Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-02-01
  • The Kidnapped Bride   Demian

    I had no idea how Jace had gotten hold of a sword even though slaves were not to have any weapons when fighting each other. But I could guess. It was Rose, wanting to have her slave win the fight, who gave Jace a sword.Sully jumped into my arms as soon as she entered our chamber. She hugged me tightly, as if I was one thing she cared about the most in the world. Even if it was a lie, I discovered it indeed made me feel better to think about it.“Thank you,” she said. “Thank you for saving him.”I hugged her back, just as tightly if not tighter.“I gave you my word, didn’t I?”In fact, it was not that hard. At least, not as hard as I thought it would be. Jace was not dumb. Just when he discovered someone was aiding him and not targeting him, he lured them in front of him so it was easier for me to shot at them.I pulled her back from the hug and checked her from head to toe. Her hands were not shaking anymore. I had noticed, whenever she was overly worried, or feeling an emotion stron

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  • The Kidnapped Bride   Sully

    I sat with Theodore, drinking tea. I could not help thinking about what happened yesterday at bath. I was happy to use my mouth and hands. I would have done whatever Demian wanted me to do. He had kept his words and that was all that mattered.He said that Alexander would never know what he did, since Rose took care of the bodies of the slaves. Since Rose also helped Jace, she would never tell him.“What are you thinking?” Theodore asked and I felt my face burn. What was I even doing, thinking about what I did with my husband in the presence of his little brother?“Nothing. Just the hunt,” I lied.“Ah, it must have been your first time attending the hunt,” he said.“Why weren’t you there?” I asked.“I was sick. I fell from the stairs,” he said.“Fell?” It felt such a coincidence that he fell right before the hunt.“Did you see my limp? It’s more profound than before. It’s because of the fall,” Theodore explained.I did notice his limp and it was true that it was more profound. There w

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  • The Kidnapped Bride   Millie

    I stared at the ceiling. The chamber seemed something between brown and golden as always. I had not opened the curtains. The only light was from the fire in the fireplace.I was not pregnant. Not yet. Once again, Rezef was disappointed, as he should be. Something was wrong with me. I should have been pregnant by now, but I was not.Rezef wanted a baby with me and then abandon me. He never said it, but I knew he would do it. After all, the one person he loved was Sully.I did not know how Sully felt about Rezef. At first, I thought she liked him. But then, I saw her slapping Rezef’s hand away when he touched her waist on the balcony at a dinner party at our home. They did not notice me, or at least, Rezef did not. At that time, I could almost swear that Sully placed her crimson gaze on me for a moment.Thinking about Sully was hard. She was the one I liked the most among my half-siblings. She never said anything bad about me. She was the one who taught me how to read and write since I w

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  • The Kidnapped Bride   Selina

    I wrapped the cardigan around me more tightly. It was chilly tonight. Even in the prayer room which did not have any window, it felt cold.I had prayed for Sully and Jace today like every other day. I prayed so God would keep them safe from the Silverclaws.But to be honest, I did not have much hope. If it were any other family, I would not worry about them so much, or at least, would not lose hope. However, it was the Silverclaws. If they would kill them, I would thank God. I worried they would keep them alive for too long and would torture them so much that they would wish they were dead.Among my siblings, I was closer to Sully than anyone else. I admired her. Although no one ever said it out loud, she was actually the bravest one among all of us. When we were kids, she would go down the dark stairs of basement with just a candle and retrieve the dolls Mother kept there because according to Father, we were wasting too much time on nonsense. Even as we grew older, there were not many

    Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-02-03
  • The Kidnapped Bride   Sully

    There were times I thought about my family. Most of the time, I wondered whether they thought of me too. Selina would think of me, since we were close. Mother would as well, for she loved me intensely. Kyle would not care. Father would only care about his reputation and honor, for if my purity were to be tainted, it would affect his so-called honor. Sierra was with child, so she might not care about anything else. I noticed, not without a sense of anger, that mothers or to-be mothers cared only about their children, whether they were yet to come to the world or not; they forgot previous relations and never thought for a second that someone dear to them might require a bit of their love and attention as well.Rose sat opposite to me, sipping wine. She was in a white attire again, with her pin-straight silver hair falling free onto her back. Her lips were blood-red, as if she had painted them with blood.“Have you decided?” she asked.I nodded. “You tried to help Jace, for which I am gr

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  • The Kidnapped Bride   Sully

    The ship reached our kingdom once again. Demian and I got down the ship with our belongings, which were not too many things.First of all, we went to an inn to eat something. I was hungry. Even though the ship was luxurious, the food had not been that good. Besides, I could barely eat anything with the constant movement of the ship.We took our horses and gave them to the son of the innkeeper who would feed the horses and brush them.We were served a beef stew with quite a lot of beef in it and bread to soak it up with. The bread was not stale, fortunately. Demian and I ate slowly, enjoying each bite.After we were done eating, Demian paid the innkeeper while I waited outside.Someone touched my shoulder and I almost screamed.“Selina!” Without thinking, I wrapped my arms around my sister, hugging her tightly. It had been so long since I had last seen her.She was wearing the usual priestess’s attire like she always did since the moment she began devoting her life to God. When we pull

  • The Kidnapped Bride   Selina

    All day long, Mother sat on her balcony and watched ships come and go. I sometimes urged her to take a walk with me in the garden, or down the streets, but she never took me up on my offers. She would smile and say that she was fine where she was.I brought a doctor to take a look at her. The doctor said that Mother should not remain idle all the time. It was making her body weak. She needed to walk at least for an hour each day.Mother did not listen to the doctor, or to me, or to anyone.Jace and I arrived two days ago. These two days, all she did was sit by the window and watch the ships like a little child who was fascinated by it.“My daughter will return in one of those ships,” Mother would say to everyone who went near her.“Sully is not here, Mother. She will not come back,” Jace said many times. We believed that Sully had settled her life somewhere far away and in a quiet place and was never going to come back. It was better that way as long as she was happy wherever she was.

  • The Kidnapped Bride   Jace

    Hearing about Sully’s condition and what Father did to her made me disgusted. At that moment, I hated Father more than I ever hated anyone before. And I pitied my sister. I was worried about her.I knew that Father would be angry about Sully’s lost maidenhood. But I never thought he would take it that far. I never could imagine that he could hurt his own daughter like that.‘You knew he hurt Millie. But you never did anything. You knew about it all. You saw how he slapped her, hit her with a cane and sometimes whipped her. You saw it all, but you acted like a blind man. You acted like you did not see anything. You pretended like you did not know anything just to avoid any kind of confrontation or responsibility,’ a voice inside my head said.But then again, Millie was an illegitimate daughter unlike Sully.‘There is no difference. You know it very well.’I tried to shake the voice out of my head.“Do you think she truly went to another kingdom like Father thinks she did?” Selina asked

  • The Kidnapped Bride   Sully

    This ship was better than the one I took with Leo and Rose before. This one looked much luxurious. The cabin we got was quite big. The bed was meant for two and the sheet and covers were clean.Demian talked to the captain while I looked around our cabin. At least, I did not have to worry about catching skin diseases here, sleeping under the covers.I was truly going back with Demian. There was no turning back now. I had chosen this.Sometimes I wondered what would have happened if I did not want to go back with Demian. Would he have forced me to come with him?I did not know. I did not want to know the answer, lest it should make feel bad. Besides, I knew what kind of person Demian was. He might be better than Alexander, but in the end, they were similar in many ways. I could not expect him to change himself, not after the way he had to grow up. He had to kill his own twin brother. That kind of thing was bound to mess up someone’s conscience. It was a surprise that Demian had not tur

  • The Kidnapped Bride   Sully

    It was raining a bit. Demian brought us two horses which would take us to the port. We were to take a ship back to our kingdom. It would take a long time, but that was okay.The two horses were huge and black. They were not just like big horses. They were monstrous in size and look.“Where did you get them?” I asked.“They look like you brought them from hell,” Lloid said, who was a moderately religious person.“This one is mine,” Demian said, patting the one which was bigger than the other. “I brought him with me.”“On a ship?” I asked.“He did not like it, but that was the only way. I like this horse,” Demian said. Only Demian would bring a horse all the way from another kingdom.“What’s his name?” I asked.“Thunder,” Demian answered.“That’s majestic. He looks majestic,” I murmured. Indeed, Thunder looked like a horse that carried a conqueror on her back.Demian and I started our journey in the afternoon. We did not want anyone to see us, so we waited until it got dark. The port wa

  • The Kidnapped Bride   Sully

    I made a potion for me to prevent pregnancy. Instead of relying on others, I decided to make one for me.Leo said he would stay here a while more. Demian and I would leave in three days.Demian was painting something. He had painted a lot in the past few days. He had once painted bruises on my skin which looked oddly real. I still could not forget standing in front of the mirror with those fake bruises all over my body. But now, my father gave me some real bruises.I shook my head. I had promised not to think about that. Most of the time, I pretended like everything was fine and that I was not in mental and physical pain most of the time. However, it never was possible to forget. I kept remembering and reliving that day all over again.I hated the kind of effect my father’s action had on me. I could not stop thinking about it. Whenever I closed my eyes, I kept seeing him right in front him, hurting me, beating me, whipping me. And I cried and begged, but he did not stop. No matter how

  • The Kidnapped Bride   Selina

    Mother sat at the bench with her hands clasped together on her lap. Her eyes were closed and her brows knitted together, as if in pain. Someone might think that she was asleep and was having a nightmare.I touched her on the shoulder. “Mother?” I called.She opened her eyes, those red ruby eyes that she passed on to Sully and me. When I was a child, I read in a children’s book that demons had red eyes. Since then, I had been afraid to look into the mirror. I cried about it and asked my nanny if I was a demon, who said that children’s book sometimes lied to make children afraid.I did not believe her. I went to Mother and asked her about it, who said that it was better to be a demon than a god who did not listen to the prayers of the devoted ones. It seemed like she had been angry at God to say something like that.Later, Sully told me that it was because she was angry at Father because Father kept betraying his vows that he took during their wedding.“You look pale, Mother,” I said. “

  • The Kidnapped Bride   Leo

    “I have to tell you something.” I automatically expected the worse when Sully said this the moment I woke up and walked into the kitchen. She had cooked beef porridge and prepared orange juice. I had to admit that she had gotten very good at cooking a few dishes.I rubbed my eyes. I still was sleepy. I could not understand why I suddenly was so sleepy. I had not been like this in a long time.Lloid was still sleeping. I poked his back a few times with my finger but he did not even move. It was like he was dead, so I checked his pulse. He was alive. Just asleep.I turned my attention back to Sully, who looked like she did something she was ashamed of. It was not like Sully. She usually was never ashamed of anything she did. She rarely felt guilty about something. She always said that she never regretted a single decision she made.“Is something wrong?” I asked. My head felt numb. It was like I could not think straight. For this reason, I never took sleeping potion no matter how hard it

  • The Kidnapped Bride   Sully

    I opened the door of my room and tiptoed to Leo and Lloid’s room. I knocked once, but nothing. Both Lloid and Leo woke up at the slightest noise. I could wake up at the slightest noise as well, but since my body was weak, I could not do so anymore. I slept deeply. Otherwise, how did I not hear when Demian came in?“They will not wake up,” Demian whispered into my ear. I almost jumped.I was a little sore between the legs, so walking straight was difficult. It was not like Demian had been rough like he was all the time. In fact, he had been gentle and passionate. Yet, I was in a little pain. I did not tell Demian that since I had been the one who insisted on doing it.“Did you hurt them?” I asked.“Of course not. You care about them,” he said. “They are just sleeping. I injected them with sleeping potion. They will be fine in the morning.”“How?”“I could not get through the window without waking anyone since you locked all of them. So, I decided to get through the front door. I knocke

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