CHAPTER 140
BRIANNA’S POV
“What…?” I stuttered in shock, disoriented as my eyes bulged from its sockets.
“Yes, princess,” he flashed me a benign smile, appearing harmless and innocent as opposed to his true self. “We’ll have to get rid of it. I can’t have you carrying another man’s child when you know fully well you belong to me and me alone. That’s infidelity. And you know how much I hate kids,” he added, his face twisting in disgust and revulsion as though he had a personal vendetta against children.
“No… never…!!” I cried out in despair, agitated. I was like a caged animal, thrashing against the ropes. Though the effort was futile and only earned me pain that’ll probably leave marks and bruises around my wrists and ankles, I didn’t mind. I kept thrashing. “You are coming nowhere close to my unborn children…”
“Did you just say ‘your unborn children’?” He cut me off, leaning forward. He had a baffled expression tinged with anger and jealousy on his face and at once, I wished I could take my words back, but it was too late already.
I didn’t respond. I only wished I hadn’t said that. But what difference would it make if he were still bent on getting rid of the pregnancy? I made it clear that if he ever tried to harm my babies, I’d kill him myself. I didn’t know how to go about it. I wasn’t a murderer. I had only killed once-one of Hermes’s guard when I had wanted to escape before. But it was born out of my desperate need to survive and make it out of the castle. When it comes to something. Something as important as my unborn children, I’d do whatever it takes. And right now, I wanted nothing more than to kill Hermes, to get all this madness over with.
“That means you’re expecting twins if I’m not mistaken,” he figured it out himself. But I still kept calm, glaring at him, my tightened jaw quivering with rage. If only eyes could kill then I would have killed this man a long time ago. “This just keeps getting interesting. I’m going to have so much fun…”
“If you ever try to harm them, I swear I’ll kill you!” I shot at him in a fit of reckless anger.
“You’ll do what?…”
The devil returned to his eyes as he snarled, his rage palpable. He launched at me, grabbing a fistful of my hair and yanking it harshly. My head was forced back, my face tilting upward to meet his. The sharp pain in my scalp made me grit my teeth, struggling to stifle the agony.
“You take me for granted, Brianna. I don’t like it one bit. I warned you but you’ve become so stubborn I don’t know what you’ve turned into. And now, I’m going to teach you a lesson so you won’t do it again. I’m going to teach you to become a good, obedient pet again.”
He left my hair and my head forcefully fell back on the bed, my hair splattering on the sheets and all over my face. I struggled to shake them off and my eyes widened in fear as I saw him draw out a pen knife from his pocket.
“Just like old times,” he said as he flashed out the blade, a glint of menace wandering in his eyes as he hovered over it before his gaze returned to me. “I told you any form of disrespect will result in you losing a body part. Did you think I was joking?
“No…. no….,” I swallowed with difficulty and tried to find my voice. “Please don’t…I’m sorry.” I tried but unsuccessfully to get away from him, breathing hard to the extent my lungs and heart hurt.
Ripping off the top of my gown, he placed the blunt side of the blade on my exposed heaving cleavage, slowly trailing it down till he reached my belly button and stopped.
“How about we start by cutting your stomach open?” A deadly gleam illuminated his eyes as he asked that, looking at me to see my reaction.
“No…” I shook my head rapidly in intense agony, tears rushing down my cheeks. “Please don’t… Don’t harm my babies. I’ll do anything, just don’t harm them…. please…” I maintained eye contact with him, pleading with everything in me.
His lips curved to a smug smile. “I love it when you beg me like this. It’s a clear indication I have your life at my fingertips, and any little misstep could lead to a fatal fall. And you know perfectly you and I don’t want that.”
I tried to struggle but he snapped at me. “Stop struggling!! It’s of no use. You’re only hurting yourself, and the tip of this blade might just accidentally dig into your belly. Tell me, do you want that?!”
I shook my head like a frightened little girl and stayed calm, taking deep breaths and wishing this moment would end so he’d take that blade away from my stomach and not harm my babies.
Sighing, he smiled warmly at me before taking away the blade and flipping it back to its handle. I breathed out in relief, but on edge as I didn’t know what to expect next from him. His erratic nature only made him more deadly, and the thought of what he could do to me in this state made icy thorns of fear twist around my heart.
He got up and started taking slow dramatic steps to the door. I wanted him out already. I wanted for him to leave me be even for a second but he turned back to me when he reached the door.
“I can’t get rid of it this way. It could kill you in the process. And I love you too much to want to kill you. I can punish you and fuck your brains out, but definitely not kill you. So we are going to do this the easy way where you just have to take a strong potion to flush them out or the hard way where I will have to call a surgeon to sedate and operate on you. Or better still do it myself. How hard can it be? Then punish you for being so stubborn to let me use the hard way.”
He laughed, the eeriness in his laughter echoing across the room and causing the hairs in my body to rise.
“It’s left for you to choose because, after your welcome dinner party tonight, we’ll be getting down to business first thing in the morning. The maids will be coming to prep soon. So be a good princess and let them do their work or else I won’t be lenient with you this time. Goodbye love, it’s nice to have you back. I can’t wait to be inside you again,” he blew a kiss and beamed lustfully before leaving. I heard the locks of the door squeaking from outside as he tampered with it, a grim reminder he was trapping me here even though I could barely move as I was tied to this bedpost.
My head spun wildly at the thought of what to do. After the pointless party, he planned to throw this evening, he’ll commence with his brutal plans to terminate my pregnancy and assault me once more. I couldn’t let that happen. I had moved past that chapter in my life and vowed never to let it happen again. I had less than 12 hours to come up with a plan to escape this place in one piece and ensure the survival of me and my unborn twins.