"Why are you here in the first place Venera?" Micha inquired, taking a seat on the linenless bed.   "So, it is a long story Micha, but I want you to listen to all of it before you speak," she said and continued recounting the events of the past two days.   "So you have slept in the same bed, but you haven't slept together? Then how do you explain that the laundry lady and the blood on the sheets?" he asked.   "Well... I bled all over the prince, the bed, and myself, I mean. I guess it is better that they think we slept together than the truth." she concluded, defeatedly.   Without skipping a beat, Micha turned around to the prince, "And you, what do you have to say, Felix? Why are you playing with her heart if you have already made up your mind and taken her to bed? I thought about you as more of a gentleman."   "Believe me, I never imagined this either. I never thought I would f

*Trigger warning - whipping, blood, wounds.* Venera couldn't just stay closed in her room all day, so she begged Manny to take her out to the gardens. "It is inhumane to make me stay in my room Manny. I have no phone service, no TV, literally nothing to do. Can't you take me to the gardens? Isn't there a library I can borrow a book from in this castle?" she ranted to Manny through the open door. He just shrugged and sighed. "I wish I could, lady, but my orders are to keep you here and take you out for meals only," he reiterated. "But I could have something that may interest you." Just as he was about to continue his explanation, his gaze froze on something in the direction of the staircase. Venera heard multiple footsteps and sprung from her chair, lunged for her backpack, and threw it under the bed. Next she broke the glass that contained the glucofine shot she had studied earli