Also founding out that the Emperor sent a messager earlier before our arrival to inform Ajax that our meeting that was supposed to happen in two days time has been cancelled due to overlapping schedule meets that the Emperor had to attend then he move the meeting to one week from now which is his birthday ball. So now we have to stay in the Capital for a whole week also we all need to go shopping for a clothes for the ball and a gift for the special boy too. Great. If I wasn't crazy I would think that my psychopath brother planned this. Well I'm here now I just have to suck it up and just go with it. Also I need to find out what happened in fathers investigation also why did the timeline move up so fast, also if it's moved up does that mean they know about the prophecy?
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Seraphina (POV-Past life flashback.)
There are somethings in life you plan for: like for me it was finding someone who could love me for me and we would get married and run away from my Fathers house. Far way from his torture, pain and his hold over my life. Then one day it happened, I found a man that loves me, that cares for me and sees me. Without hesitation we married quickly then I left home and everything that was in it and I made a promise to myself that the pain I went through in that house will not follow me in to my marriage. So I thought…
Two years in my marriage the man I called my husband has changed. Everything around me had also changed . At first I thought I would forgave him for the things he was doing to me but then when I hit my limit I knew that the man I gave my heart and soul to was a monster just like my Father.
That is when I try running away I didn't have much but I told Lizzy that we should leave and run away . At that time Lizzy was in love with Sir Brandon who was my husband general In the guards and she didn't want to leave him. I understood so I planned on running away by myself and in time we could meet up again so time in the future.
Then the night came for me to leave but I got caught. My husband found out about my plan from one of the other maids that he was sleeping with. The maid found a train ticket I had purchased and my pack bag after that my husband took everything from me leaving my room bare and lock me up for days without food nor water. Then one day he unlocked the door and came in the room with a plate of food and a cup of water in hand then put them on the nearest table by the door the turned and walked out then quickly came back in the room with a black leather sack and put the sack on the floor near where I was laying. I looked up at him as my legs were pulled to my chest in disgust.
"What do you want husband " I spat out. My black hair covered my back and part of the sides of my body as it cascaded on to the cold floor.
"Oh sweetheart I see you still have spirit in you. I thought since your father use to beat you everyday he would have broken some part of your soul but I was wrong. Well, your father has always done things half ass so I didn't expect much from him." He said as he crouch over me.
"Wait you…knew…you knew-"
"That Father-in-law dearest was beating you? Yes. Also your elder brother Landon and Ajax, will not really Ajax he just watched never helping you once. I think he enjoyed it since it's part of his statistic nature." He finished off well smiling joylessly.
"Here, I got you a present" he said as he pushed the black leather sack towards me. "Open it. I promise you will love it."
I looked down on the sack having a bad feeling.
"OPEN IT!" He shouts as his words ego in the empty room. I flinched and quickly reach out and grad the sack to open it.
As I open the sack a smell of rot came out of it that made me cover my nose. I look up at my husband as he looked back at me still waiting for me to open and see more, so I do. I know that if I don't do what he tell me he will leave me here for the next week with no food again. As I reach into the sack I feel a thick wet texture with a thin hay like feel then my hands touched a cold skin like texture that makes me pull my hands out to see it's covered in blood.
"Well you see sweetheart, I was think of ways on punishing you for trying to leave your loving husband. I mean I took your broken weak self from the brick of death and brought you to my home." He said as he stood up to his full height over me.
"I feed you, clothed you and made sure that people around you respected you as my wife and what do you do you try to run away. They only things I wanted was for you to shut your mouth and do as you told. I mean you are living like a queen anyways. What is so hard about that?"
My hands are shaking uncontrollably as I listen to my husband speak. That's when I realised I haven't seen Lizzy since I was locked up. Every time my husband used to chain me up and leave me to stave Lizzy always came in to check up on me and take care of me. She always used to sneak in food for me to eat when no one else came but she hasn't come over once. I look up at my husband, terror all over my face.
"Lizzy…" I whispered out "where is Lizzy?"
He stops and smiles cruelly and then looks at the sack on the floor by my feet. I follow his gaze to leather sack which is now pulled down half way open showing a severed head with familiar brown hair, discolour grey pale skin and lifeless eyes that looked straight at me. My body goes cold.
"Lizzy" I breathe out.
"Well, as I said before I had to punish you somehow since you tried to run from me and I knew that she was the one who was helping you to run and I knew that if I just lock you up you would try to run away and again with her help and we don't want that now sweetheart, so I cut the problem out. Well more like severed it's head serve it to you in the leather sack as a gift. Now that women will not brainwash you in running again. Right sweetheart?"