“Don’t you dare lie to me for I know exactly who you are, Sara.” The queen said in a cold voice, her words coming sharper than blades, her eyes lost all the softness they had earlier and stared at her with a deadly glare.
Sara wanted to gulp but even that was impossible with how dry her throat felt at the moment, not to mention she was petrified, she feared that even that small motion of gulping would send her head across the room as she notices the guards had their hands on their sword handles, ready to decapitate her if she made one wrong move.
Sara felt exposed to her bare skin when she heard the queen say her name, she had some hope before, to tell another lie and stall a little until she is able to make it to the carriage, but the queen had blown that off entirely and pinned her to a corner without even moving, her cold blue eyes were more than enough as she stared at Sara with enough intensity to murder her if looks could kill.
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Recommended song for this chapter: avava Inouva, IdirThis cannot be happening…It can’t be real…Sara thought as she held her head between her hands, her breaths coming out in small loud gasps, too absorbed in her thoughts and horror to even try and calm herself, her heart was beating like a drum, the violent pulsations resonating in her ears, and every cell in her body shivered with fear.She didn’t care about the small carriage speeding up, she didn’t care about the bumpy road that cause her to be thrown off her seat several times, she didn’t care about how dark nor cold it was inside the carriage.She didn’t even realize, for she was imprisoned inside a toxic bubble of doubts and fears, she was reliving the whole night in her head over and over again, for the first few times, everything looked so magical and surreal, the feeling of being carried above the clouds washed over her, and a faint smiled gra
“It is getting denser day by day. My Lord, and closer to our borders.” Eren only nodded at the old man standing a couple of steps behind him while they both stared outside the black glass.The glass tower was one of his favorite places in the world, it highest room, where he was standing now, had only the four pillars and the roof made out of stones, the walls were completely made of black yet translucid volcanic glass, allowing him to watch his empire from all directions.The shadows empire.For centuries the humans thought that the outcaste demons were living like wild animals in the dark forest, lurking around like rogues, hunting and feeding on everything that moved, and it was true at first. The demons, right after being cursed and banned by the so-called Gods, had no idea how to survive in those impossible conditions right at the edges of the world were darkness and death took over, and the sun never graced the lands with its warmth and light.
“Wa…ta…” Sara whispered again, her mind swinging from consciousness to unconsciousness, she had barely any recollection of what happened to her, just scary fragments that couldn’t be true, she didn’t know why was she feeling that horrible pain and dryness in her throat, all she knew was she needed water, badly.She tried to open her eyes, but her eyelids felt so heavy, she tried to open them several times but it was useless not to mention painful, and the dull pain in her face was slowly getting stronger, her shoulders felt as if they were about to split and have her arms ruptured from the rest of her body, her wrists were pressed against something cold and painful.That wasn’t what bothered her the most though, Sara thought, it was instead the way she felt her entire body being pulled down as if the gravity had intensified, as if she was falling down but not hitting any bottom.“Wat…er” Sara mumbled
“Comfortable, My fair lady?” Eren asked in the calmest tone while looking straight at the girl’s teary eyes, as if he didn’t just break most of her bones then whipped her with metal whips, ones that caused her skin to bust open with it lashes.Sara couldn’t even scream anymore, she gave up screaming after the first few whips, not only she didn’t have any strength left in her to scream, not only her throat was too painful to make such high noises, but her screams seemed to satisfy the monster in front of her, it seemed to make him more cruel and thirsty for her pain, the louder she screamed the harsher his torture became.Instead of screaming, Sara decided to hold her breath with each hit, not that it made things easier, in fact, each time she felt the whip make contact with her skin she thought it was fire initiated on that spot then spread all over body, her lungs would burn as air escaped them, only to be stuck in her throat, each
“What have you done to her?” Geraldine flinched and took few steps back, terrified by the way the shadows lord was looking at her while radiating with that terrifying aura of his.It was uncommon, rare even, to see Eren burst out like this, he was known to be a cold hearted person whose every move and word were planned, it was one of the things that lead him to be the lord of the shadows empire without him having any heritage and claims over the lordship position, the shadow lord was not only strong but also smart, sharp, and very efficient when it came to controlling his barely existing emotions.However, he was seething with anger as he stood in the cell in front of the unconscious hybrid, his eyes completely red and black, his fury palpable in the air and his shadows danced around the dark cell like hidden wolves, his fists clenched tightly to the point where his veins were visible.“Answer me!” Geraldine gasped and took a jump back, o
“The hybrid had fallen into the hands of the demons!” Henry raised his eyebrow at his raging brother sitting across the desk, the second prince, who was a manly version of his twin, Nara, was trembling with anger, the young king wanted to ask his brother of how he knew about such news, as he himself only learned from the demon they captured, but the prince barely gave him any chance to as he kept on raging about the matter.“She was right here, and she slipped away!”“We didn’t know it was her at the time, Nicholas.” Henry sighed, tired of his brother talking over and over about the matter, the girl he met that night was indeed unique but he never thought she was his half-sister, nor the hybrid the demons were after, no wonder he felt that close to her.There were no doubts left that the half-sister they never knew was the hybrid the demons wer
Sara opened her eyes slowly, the heavy eyelids not helping her at all, but on the good side there was barely any light to adjust to, just a fading orange flame somewhere in the place she was in casting a faint light and creating dancing shadows.Before she could even draw her first conscious breath, Sara was yet again attacked by the memories of all the things that happened to her in the last days, she froze, not daring to even breath, too afraid it would alert the monsters.The lump that gathered in her eyes was painful, heavy, and big. However, she didn’t dare to swallow it, what if the demoness was still there? Waiting for her to wake up just to torture her into unconsciousness again?Sara, being her father’s precious daughter, grew up without receiving a single hit in her life, her father was the kind to use emotional blackmailing against her when he wanted to punish her, while the priests never dared to raise a hand on her, not even in that time
“Fine!” Eren sighed tiredly when Sara refused to move, “But don’t think for a second that you are fooling anyone! I know you are awake.”Eren stared at the girl lying in his bed, he had so many things on his plate, such as receiving and discussing with the guests from the other empires and preparing for the expedition toward the center, however, for days and nights he had sat next to the bed, watching over the unconscious girl.For the first time in his life, Eren felt helpless, he was always the man with a plan, and a couple of back up plans in his pocket in case the main one didn’t work, he was the person who used his strength and wits to overcome any kind of hardships, except for this one.As days passed, Sara’s wounds healed little by little leaving behind several scars, and just like that time when she had a cold, her healing and regeneration process were much faster than normal, but even with all her wounds close,