Possessive Demands

I watched Prince Otis, eagerly waiting for an answer to the question I asked him.

"Yes, I have to marry her," he said to me and I nodded. I don’t even know why I asked that question when I also knew the exact answer.

"Okay" I said almost in a whisper as I had lost my voice immediately.

"If I really love you and want to keep you alive, I have to do it, I cannot just tell my father that I'm not interested and wouldn't marry her because I don't love her. No, that's the worst mistake I would ever make because he is going to kill you” Prince explained to me as he held my hand in his almost delicately.

"So, this is the last time am going to see you? I mean, once you are married then it will be wrong to be together”

"I know” he said shortly before adding, “if I disobey my father then I will never be able to succeed my father as the next king and abolished some of the laws and slavery rules," Prince replied.

I could feel my heart churning on the inside. Even though I know I can do nothing t