RALIA
His lips were a bit rougher against my own now, maybe as a punishment, maybe it was simply because he was angry, but it did not still fail to draw a moan from deep within my belly. I felt ashamed by the noises I was making, but he seemed to like them, because he became more gentle as he drew me to the bed beneath him, and the hands that wondered all over my body, touching me intimately did not hurt me, instead they brought me a kind of pleasure that was akin to pain.
I felt shame and embarrassment wash over me, and I closed my eyes to hide from his face. His hands suddenly went still, and he swore angrily under his breath.
My entire body tensed up because I thought he was finally going to hit me, maybe I had done something to make him angry again. My sister’s had never hit me before, but I knew it was only a matter of time before someone did.
“Open your eyes.” He commanded, and even though I did not want to, I could not disobey the commanding tone of his voice.
My eyes opened gradually and I found myself starring up into his eyes that was filled with barely controlled anger. His finger inched lower to rub me intimately again, causing a whimper to escape my lips.
“Tell me,” he murmured. “Have you ever had a lover.?”
There was a strange mixture of tenderness and anger in the way he said it that frightened me even more, and I began blabbing of how I did not have anyone who loved me except my maid, and then my mother, but I did not remember anything about my mother since she died before I was born, and so I could not really tell if she loved me.
I was frightened, and surprised when he suddenly started laughing. He paused a bit, and his gray eyes searched my green ones, I do not know what he was looking for in my expectation, but he continued laughing. Rolling off me gently, he let his fingers brush off my hair, exposing my cleavage once more.
“So you have had no lovers, and you do not even know what it means to take a lover. Why then did your sister bring you here?” He asked more sternly, and I shivered, afraid my answer might make him angry once more. I did not know what made him angry, and what made him roar into sudden laughter like he had earlier, but I wanted him to laugh instead of to be angry.
“I can tell you a joke if you want.” I offered shyly, surprising even myself.
He nodded. “Please do. Let’s see if you can come up with something more funny than the situation I have found myself in with you my little Amie.”
I wanted to ask him what situation he was in, but knowing he could easily get angry, I concentrated instead on thinking up a joke, even I knew it had to be funny. I thought for a long time, but I couldn’t come up with anything. All I could think of was the trivial playful insults I and Cheyenne cast against each other. Disappointed at myself, I remained silent.
“What Mom Amie? You can’t come up with something more funny than this situation can you?” He asked, and thankfully, he was still smiling.
Feeling less shy, I told him that I did not find our situation funny at all, instead I found it confusing. That brought another bout of laughter from him, and I could only lie still in my confusion and wait till he finished laughing.
He stood up suddenly and pulled me to him, planting a full kiss on my lips. “Let’s find your brother Mon Amie, and he must pay for this trick he played on me.”
I suddenly had an irrational fear that I was about to lose him, that he was going to one of my sisters to do the same things he had done to me to her, and my heart constricted in my chest because I knew that unlike me, she would know what to do.
I stepped forward and pressed my lips against his, wanting to keep him, to make him stay. I was still trying to figure out how to make the kiss deeper when the door flew open, and I heard the shrill scream of my oldest sister Berta.
“You stupid bitch! What are you planning to do? Bring ruin on this household? Cause my husband to lose all his fortunes?”
My handsome stranger pulled me slightly away from himself, and his eyes studied me briefly. “So the rumors are true.” He said calmly to my sister.
Berta immediately composed herself and plastered a fake smile on her face. “You must not mind my Sister Alpha Lesley. She is very stupid, and does a lot of stupid things. I’m sorry that she was bothering you.”
Without waiting for any reply from my handsome stranger who I now knew was Lesley, she grabbed my hand and started pulling me out of the room muttering something about how I had ruined my innocence and how I needed to be scourged of my sin by a hundred strokes against my bare back.
I felt real fear come over me, as I tried to free myself from her grasp. I could only hope she was not being serious. No one had flogged me before, and I couldn’t imagine anyone flogging me now, but the rest of my sisters, all except my two brothers were standing outside the door, maybe they had been drawn by the commotion. They too were muttering something about me getting flogged, one of them even seemed to think flogging me would not be enough.
“Enough of this nonsense.” Lord Lesley said from behind me, and I immediately felt reassured. This time, his angry impatience was not directed at me, but at my sisters. “This is absurd. None of you are going to flog the child. Now, the saner one among you should take her to her room, she is shaken enough by this this.”
If I was not so frightened, I would have found this moment funny because my sisters never appeared to be afraid of anyone, but they were visibly afraid of Lord Lesley.
The rest of them kept muttering, as Berta stepped forward and took my hand again. This time, I let her lead me back to my room. Hopefully, she would listen to Lord Lesley and not have me flogged.
RALIAI was confined to my room after that, and not even Cheyenne was allowed to see me. I spent the first few hours in fear of what would happen, if my family would listen to the Alpha, Lord Lesley, and spare me, or if they would go ahead and have me flogged. I could already figure out what had happened. James had set me up to cause misfortune for one of my sisters, or my other brother. I was so tired of my family using me as a mere pawn in their childish games of jealousy. I heard Helena was set to marry a Count, and this was no small feat because Helena is now considered to be quite old and still unmarried, plus a Count is quite powerful. I learnt James sent me down dressed like a whore so that Alpha Lesley would defile me, and then Helena’s luck would be spoiled. A tear slipped down my cheek and I did not bother to wipe it. The makeup Cheyenne put on my face was probably spoiled by now. I just wondered why my family could not blame James instead for what had happened,
RALIA Unable to understand anything, I watched as he pulled away from me feeling a little bit of regret. Surprising to me, I longed for the warmness of his embrace, the feel of his strong arms around me and his warm breaths caressing my bare skin.He probably has charmed me with his handsomeness because I don't understand this thingy feeling in my stomach. We finally got to his house and he led me to a room."This will be your room from now on"he said coldly with that lovely deep voice that makes my heart flutter."Someone would come to help you get comfortable". I watched as he leaves without sparing me another glance.I looked around the room, it looks quite comfortable. And somehow it doesn't feel like a cage- just like my former room.I looked through the window, it has a nice view. I could spend all day watching the city from up here. I moved and sat on the bed, it feels comfortable. But something's missing, I might never get to see Cheyenne again; I'm really going to
I watched her face in the mirror as she brushed my hair quietly. RALIA She looks nothing like Cheyenne, I know she can't pass as a replacement for her.At that moment, I longed for Cheyenne, I longed for the fun moments we had together when talk about our fantasies. I longed for the days she brings cards to my room, I miss being defeated by her, I miss her cheating me in the card games. I snapped back to reality when I felt a light tap on my shoulder. "We are done mam" she said formally."Let's head downstairs for breakfast".I nodded and followed her downstairs.LESLEYI sat impatiently on the dinning table wondering what could be taking so long.Is she that hard to dress up?A few minutes passed before I heard gentle footsteps on the staircase. My jaw drooped when I looked up.I had always known she's beautiful right from the first time I set my eyes on her but right now, her beauty is undiscribable. She looked like a water goddess whose sole aim is seduction, like a morn
RALIAHe quickly stood up with a disappointed look plastered all over his face causing me to immediately regret my actions. I don't know why, maybe it’s because I love him but I always feel like pleasing handsome man in front of me, I always want to do only the things that would make him happy with me. But he isn't looking particularly happy right now. "Go to sleep" he said with his hoarse voice before I could figure out what to do to make things right..“get dressed in the morning I’ll show you to the garden”.I felt a pang of pain in my heart the moment he shut the door behind him. “I didn’t mean to react that way, I was just taking aback because he was touching me so intimately. I must have annoyed him with my action, I must find a way to make things right tomorrow”.I couldn’t get any sleep the whole night because I was lost in thought, thinking of a way to make things right.It was dawn already, I got up early so I can dress up to impress him.I was scouting through my ward
RALIA It was already dawn by the time I woke up, we had just gotten to the house. He lifted me up and made for the entrance. I offered to walk on my own but he would have none of it, he insisted on carrying me till we got to my room. All this while I couldn’t get my eyes off his face, my eyes kept searching his handsome face with arms wrapped around his neck. He placed me gently on the bed and tried to get up but I won’t let go of his neck. He planted a soft kiss on my lips, the kiss gets deeper and more intimate by the second. A moan escaped my lips before I could stop myself. I was starting to get lost in the moment when he suddenly pulled away. He gently unwrapped my arms from his neck and stood up. “get some sleep, you must be tired” he said before walking out and shutting the door. I felt a little bit disappointed, I wanted him to stay. I wanted to get to spend more time with him. I wondered what I could do in order to make him spend more time with me. LESLEY I walked in
RALIAWe finally got to a destination, and he stopped. The whole place looked void of people, more like a desert.“where is this place?” I asked him“you would find out very soon” he answered.He seemed to be searching for something with his palm on the ground.He eventually got to a point and stopped. I watched his claws grow and his eyes turned red then suddenly there was a vibration under the ground like a small earthquake.And then a mighty tower building which I could swear wasn’t there emanated from the ground causing the whole environment to shake, the area which seemed deserted now looked like a small city.I opened my mouth and watched in awe.He held my hand and led me inside. The inside of the building is something indescribable, though it looked like an abandoned building, it cannot also be written off completely because it looked like something that was once a beautiful mansion.It looked big and magnificient, almost like a palace“wait for me here” he said and walked int
RALIAThat night I had a bad dream. I saw a little boy being tied up and tortured by a group of werewolves.He cried and pleaded for mercy but they wouldn’t listen, they continued torturing him ruthlessly.They used hot metals to burn his skin after tearing his flesh with their claws.I felt so much pity for the young lad, wishing I could take away his pain.That little boy who was tied up and being tortured, letting out agonizing screams which fell on deaf ears is Lesley.I jerked up from my sleep with tears running down my cheeks. So Lesley went through all of these, no wonder he was always so cold.I decided from then that I would make sure he doesn’t feel any more pain, I would love him with all of my heart until when he learns to love me back.It doesn’t matter that he doesn’t love me now, I must surely find a way to make him love me.Then I remembered everything we shared last night, I stretched my arms to the other side of the bed hoping to hold him, but it seemed like he alrea
RALIAI still had amazement written over me as we rode back to the house.I didn’t believe I could actually speak to the moon goddess. This new realization had made me short of words.To my surprise when we got to the house he held my hand as he led me to the dining hall.‘isn’t it too late to eat?’ I wondered as we sat down and he began to open the food that had already being served.“we skipped dinner” he said “I won’t let you go to bed on an empty stomach”“but I am not hungry” I answered but my stomach betrayed me immediately by letting out a very loud growl.“are you sure” he asked with a lopsided grin.I felt the butterflies in my belly just with that single gesture of his. And just like that, his small smiled brightened my mood.If that was all I got from him today, then it is enough to brighten my entire day.I smiled a little and started gulping all the food down hungrily. That night I dreamt that Lesley fell in love with me, I became so special to him that he couldn’t