“They are here, catch them.” I heard someone yell.
Callum took his sword out ready to fight.
“Don’t.” I said. He looked at me confused.
“But My Lady…”
“I will take care of this.” I interrupted him. I didn’t want him to fight because he would probably lose.
They were just too many, he wouldn’t be able to fight all of them.
The men surrounded us with their horses. One of them got off the horse and approached us.
His gaze moved over me then he smirked.
“Our little princess is wearing rags I see.” He smirked. “What happened?” He asked mockingly and then his men laughed.
His gaze moved over to Callum.
“I only need the princess alive. I think your time on earth has come to an end old friend.” He told Callum with a faked sad expression.
Callum stood in the same place his expression unwavering.
“There is no need to pretend to be brave when you are going to die. Why can’t you beg for your life while you can?”
“You won’t kill him.” I said.
The man looked at me then laughed.
“Why wouldn’t I?”
“Because I will make sure to remember your face and tell my husband to kill you in the most painful way.” I said.
He laughed again.
“That’s only if he finds me, little princess.” He said.
“Oh, he will. The devil finds its way everywhere. By now he is probably on his way while planning your death and everyone’s here.”
I could see that he got a bit scared. It was working.
“You fear the crown prince?” I asked speaking louder to everyone. “Well, then you fear the wrong person. The worst prince Pierre can do is kill you, but prince Lucian will torture you, kill you and then torture you again in hell, because trust me none of you is going to heaven.” I threatened.
They looked at each other hesitantly for a while.
“What are you waiting for.” Their commander yelled. “Tie them up!”
Married To The Devils Son.
Chapter 47
They threw us into a cellar with our hands tied behind our back.
“Don’t touch the Lady. The crown prince wants her untouched.” Their commander told the men. His gaze shifted to Callum.
“You can do whatever you want with him.” He said and left.
The two men that were left with us walked toward Callum with a smug look on their faces.
“Leave him alone if you care to live.” I told them.
Turning their head they looked at me.
“You can’t kill me because the crown prince wants me alive. Before you take me to him Lucian will already be here and if he finds that one of his men is dead or hurt he won’t be happy.” I said with conviction in my voice. “I don’t think you have seen him unhappy, have you?”
They looked at each other, one of them clearly more scared than the other.
“Trust me you don’t want to see him like that?” I added.
“That’s only rumors. Don’t try and scare us, Lady.” One of them said.
“Rumors?” I laughed. ” There is no smoke without fire and oh… you should be scared. No one wants to be burned alive.”
Now they were clearly scared. It was visible in their eyes.
“By tonight Lucian will already be here. Think about it. If you want to live you will let us go and I will spare your lives, and maybe even tell my husband to make you join his army. And if you want to die, well then ask God for forgiveness because if you go to hell…” I shook my head “Lucian will enjoy torturing you for eternity.”
Their gazes shifted between me and Callum in confusion then they decided to leave us alone.
“My Lady, You are very clever,” Callum said once they left.
“Not clever enough though. They didn’t let us go.”
“They will.” He said.
“How do you know?”
“They were very afraid and as time goes by their fear will grow.”
“I hope so.” I sighed.
After sitting in the cellar for so long I got cramp in my legs and my stomach growled. Callum looked at me wearing an apologetic look on his face.
“I am alright.” I assured him.
Soon after, we heard the fumbling of keys and the door to the cellar opened. The two scared soldiers entered still looking afraid.
Without a word, they began to untie our hands.
“Let’s go.” One of them whispered. “The men are drinking outside. Most of them are intoxicated so we can leave if we are very quiet.” He explained.
He was right. As we made our way out we could hear their loud voices and laughter as they sat around a fire. Without them noticing we snuck into the woods and began to run as fast as we could.
We kept running until I couldn’t anymore.
“My Lady, are you alright?” Callum asked when I stopped.
“Yes, I just need to breathe a moment,” I said breathless, but the truth was my legs were hurting so much after sitting for a long time and I didn’t have energy since I hadn’t eaten the whole day.
“We have to continue.” One of the men said. “They have horses they can easily come after us.”
As soon as he finished the sentence Callum slit both their throats letting their bodies fall to the ground.
“Callum?” I breathed shocked.
“They betrayed their prince.” He stated simply. “We should keep moving.”
Taking their weapons we continued to run.
I don’t know how long we have been running or walking but my legs were hurting so much, my throat was so dry and my head began to spin. But I continued walking in spite of all that. If I wanted to live, if I wanted to see Lucian again I had to keep moving.
Eventually, as I kept walking my legs gave in and everything went black.
I woke up from someone splashing water on my face. I opened my eyes with a groan.
“My Lady, drink this.” Callum said holding a bottle of water next to my mouth.
I gulped the water down quickly.
“Where are we?”
We were surrounded by trees and there was a small lake to the left.
“Unfortunately not far away.”
“Then we should go.” I said standing up abruptly which led to me losing my balance.
Before I fell Callum caught me. “I don’t think you can walk My Lady. Your leg is swollen.”
“Of course I can w…” I shrieked in pain as I shifted my weight on my left leg.
“Sit down.” Callum urged helping me.
“But we can’t just be sitting here.” I protested. It was already morning and he had said that we hadn’t come far. “I will try to walk.”
“There is no point in that.” He said calmly. “We are surrounded. I tried to find a way out but they are everywhere right now.”
“Then what should we do?” I asked.