“No your highness” I sighed in disappointment. What if he was still angry and decided not to come?
A knock on the door made me jump out of my chair. Lucian!! Maybe a maid has come to inform his arrival but no one opened the door. Strange.
“Come in,” I said and the door opened.
“Who are you?” I heard the maid ask. I turned my head and gasped.
“Lydia!! Ylva!!” I yelled running and hugging them like a little girl
“My lady please you shouldn’t hug us” Ylva pleaded but I Ignored her.
“What are you doing here? How did you get here?”
“His highness brought us here,” Lydia said. Lucian did? “He seems to really care for you” Suddenly I felt bad for fighting with him.
“But it’s not allowed. How did father allow that?” I asked confused.
“We really don’t know my lady.” I wondered what Lucian did to make father let him take his maids. It’s something that is never allowed. Anyways I was very happy that I wasn’t alone anymore. Dismissing my maid I sat with Lydia and Ylva and told them everything that happened since I came here.
“So you are still a virgin?” Ylva asked shocked. “He must be a nice man if he agreed to wait.” He is, sometimes. I didn’t tell them about the part where he said he would burn me. I was still confused about what he meant by that.
When it was time for lunch I went to the dining room expecting Lucian to be waiting there but he wasn’t. Was he avoiding me? I just lost my appetite.
“Where is his highness?” I asked a guard feeling like a desperate wife asking for her husband all the time.
“His highness is in his study and don’t want to be disturbed.” Ignoring him I went to the study. I opened the door and walked in without knocking. Nobody was inside as I walked in and looked around. My eyes landed on a letter on his desk.
Out of curiosity, I opened it but there were only a few words written on it.
‘Watch your back. Death is coming.’
Married To The Devil’s Son
Chapter 10: Chapter 10
Watch you back. Death is coming.
Is this note written with blood? Oh, God.
“What are you doing here?” suddenly Lucian was in the study.
“What is this note?” I asked.
“It’s nothing,” he said taking it from me and putting it back.
“Is someone threatening you or is it a joke?” I asked worriedly.
“It’s nothing you need to worry about,” he said grabbing my wrist and dragging me out of the study. He had a worried look on his face which told me that there was definitely something going on.
“Did you like my present?” he asked before I could ask any further questions.
“Yes, but why? I thought you were angry with me”
“I was and I still am,” he said leading the way to the dining room “sit down and let’s eat.”
I did as he said. He had that aura that signaled danger again. He sat opposite me and when our eyes met I could see flames in them, they weren’t calm. Something was definitely different about him, maybe there is something to the rumors.
“How did you bring Lydia and Ylva?” I really wanted to know. Palace maids were never supposed to leave the palace since they can spill secrets of the palace. Once you enter the palace there is no way out, so he couldn’t have bought them. He looked up from his plate and stared at me for a while.
“I told the king…. that I would kill you otherwise,” he said calmly. I choked on my food. Coughing and breathing for air my hand grabbed the glass of water. Drinking the water slowly I could finally breathe.
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Lucian studied Hazel and waited to see the fear in her eyes even though he hoped she wouldn’t fear him but to his disappointment she did. She looked scared and confused. He was already pissed that she just two days ago thought that he would kill her or beat her just because she didn’t listen to him and now she looked at him as if he really would kill her. Maybe he was wrong when he thought she would be different. He didn’t even know why he went through all trouble to bring her maids.
” I said that because it was the only way to bring them. You don’t really think I would kill you, do you?” he said trying hard to control his anger and frustration.
“Then why did you say that you would burn me?” she asked.
“Because… that’s what you think about me. You think I am a beast who beats and kills people then you would think that I can burn them as well right?” he said standing up from his seat and hitting the table with his fist which made her jump from her seat and stare at him in shock and fear. He hated that look in her eyes so he strode out of the room not wanting to see her anymore.
Inside his study, he stared at the note.
Watch you back death is coming.
No one would dare play such jokes with him except his brothers. Taking the note he went straight to his brother’s quarter. Walking through the halls his brother’s guards looked at him with fear and hatred, but that didn’t affect him as much as Hazel’s fear of him did. Strange he was used to being feared but his wife’s fear made him angry.
The young maids stared at him with excitement. He could hear their giggles and whispers.
“He is so tall, so handsome.”
“His hair is so beautiful, so are his eyes.”
“But he is mine.”
“You wish.”