Audrey’s POVI could hear very audibly the rumbling sounds of my stomach echoing as if the sounds were produced from outside of my body. It rumbled noisily and constantly as I sat down on the cold hard floor of the dungeon which was pitch black with darkness. It had been days since I had my last meal and so I grew weaker every minute of my time locked up in that terrible place. My throat burned with thirst also, it felt like it was stuck together, my mouth dry as well. The chains I was bound with grew heavier than ever too as I continued to lose strength because of lack of food and water. Tears leaked from the sides of my eyes also without me necessarily wanting to cry.I laid there bound with chains on my wrists and on my ankles. Every minute that passed, I felt like it was going to be my last till the next. And as I sat there hardly even able to entertain a single thought, I was getting to the brink of giving up on the hope of surviving that terrible place. I tried to lie down bu
Chapter 86I laid down asleep in my dark cell almost lifeless, tortured in pain. Tired, sore and famished, I was abruptly awoken by the familiar stroke of whip on my back by someone inside my cell room. The force of the strike jerked me forward and I let out a muffled cry absent of tears. I had cried out all my tears already and still in great pains, all I could mutter was a weak groan, but before I could completely react to the pain of the strike, I heard multiple footsteps come into the cell and before I could think, I was roughly lifted up from the ground by two hefty men. They roughly dragged me outside the cell not minding for a second the bloody sores I had all over my body. They pulled me through the dungeon and confused I was, I struggled to speak as I wanted to know what was going on and where they were taking me to. “What is happening? Where are you taking me to?” I cried out softly, my voice breaking and trailing both as a result of weakness and pains.The men just ignor
Kaden’s POV:All my senses began to come alive as I slowly gained consciousness. My eyes fluttered open one eyelid at a time and they met the harsh bright light that hung above me and I squinted in pain. It was obvious I had been unconscious for some time and waking up, I felt the weakness in my body was as a result of lying down on this cold stiff bed for days and probably from all the drugs I had been administered while unconscious. Squeezing my face, I lifted my weak hands slowly to cover my eyes, still shut to protect them from the blinding lights that shone across the room. My entire body ached and I felt too numb to properly feel a thing or even move. The rest of my senses, not as sharp as before were gradually coming back. I tried sniffing around me to detect my environment and understand my situation.My mind slowly came back to full consciousness, I sniffed to detect the presence of Audrey by my side but when I could not smell her anywhere close, I started to feel annoyed t
Jacob’s POV:“Are you even listening to me Jacob? You have been sitting there numb to all that I have been saying to you without saying a single word or even as much as give me a glance, what is the matter with you?!” Elora screamed at me from my behind.I had sat down right in front of her as she kept ranting on and on about how inattentive I had become over the weeks and how ‘uncaring’ I now was; I really didn’t care though but there was no way I would say that to her.In truth she had been going on endlessly about a lot of things which at that moment, I cared less about, so I just sat lost in my own thoughts for I was tired of all her unending and incessant nagging which was all she had been doing for a while. It pissed me off all the time when she did that and it was no different then so instead of reacting angrily at her, I just ignored her as I entertained my own thoughts in mind.“Jacob?” Elora called out to me, shoving me gently on my shoulder as she breaks me from my stream
Audrey’s POV:Back at the dungeon, I sat down frustrated, trying relentlessly to free myself from the shackles that bound my hands and legs. I had grown really frustrated with everything that had happened; from the events with the council elders at the court and even Erik’s disturbing glances at me. I had barely spoken much since the elders decided that I was guilty without granting me a proper trial to hear my own plea. I was certain that there was nothing I could do to prove my innocence as they all were bent on ending me so I did not bother to put up any fight at all, I just remained calm as they dragged me back to the dungeon.Seated there, since there was nothing I could do, I simply began to entertain the idea of an escape somehow. I started to work tirelessly to unlock the chains around my wrist first. I twisted and squeezed with the hope that my powers would return to me and shatter the metals. As that seemed not to work at all, I bit with my teeth but that also was not mu
Audrey’s POVI woke up to find myself lying on the floor with my body completely drenched in water. I tried to sit up but I could feel my head spin so I held it with both my hands, my chains clashing together. As I struggled to revive, I wiped water off my face, my shackles clanging noisily. I tried to remember the events before then and I recalled being taken out of my cell room and to the courtroom where I was told by Erik and the nurse responsible for Kaden’s care that Kaden had died. I could still hear the nurse’s voice breaking the news to me ringing in my mind’s ear and it brought a feeling of sadness to me, my atmosphere suddenly changing. I could not know for sure if Erik had killed Kaden as I suspected he would do or if Kaden had truly died from his condition, all I knew was that he was dead, taking my only hope of freedom and survival along with him. My sadness overwhelmed me as I thought of Kaden and soon I burst out in hard sobs.“Oh Kaden!” I called out, letting out my
Audrey's POVI couldn't understand why Erik wouldn’t stop plotting against me, and now he had won me in the presence of that obnoxious council.I wrapped my arms around my body and squeezed myself into a dark corner of the cell, knowing fully well that today was the day of my death. A voice caught my attention and when I stood up, I immediately squealed in shock because there was someone hovering over me and it was no other person but Kaden himself."What are you doing here?" Kaden inquired as he tried to free the silver shackles off my wrists. I watched him quietly, observing how he struggled with the object."Well I'm serving the punishment for your death I guess and I'm satisfied with this punishment I guess, but I still have the feeling that you would open your eyes one day, but when you open them, just know that I was killed for your sake simply because your cousin decided to frame me up and kill you in order to have your throne.”“I know you never trusted him though but be more
Audrey’s POV:I could not believe what I was seeing, or who I was seeing rather. It had to be a dream, it just had to be. Kaden, whom everyone thought was dead, just stood there looking at everyone but me especially. I blinked my eyes twice thinking that it was just my imagination playing a trick on me, but Kaden still stood there. I raised my shackled hands to my face to rub both my eyes and when I opened them, he still stood there of course. I thought this had to be some trick most definitely or that I was simply running mad. I still could not believe it for ever since he was hospitalized, ever since he was pronounced dead, and considering with little strength in me, I had been having visions of Kaden; especially when I was told he had died. Sometimes I even saw him appear in front of me just as I was seeing that moment so it was difficult to believe he was actually there. I tried hard to rid my mind and eyes of the image of him there but he failed to vanish as he always did the