Chapter 62
I looked at the ceilings, I saw cobwebs and thick webs, it was as though the place hadn’t been cleaned in years.
Just then I heard footsteps approaching my cell.
“Help!, please help me!” I cried out in fear.
“Stop screaming princess,” Alpha Federico said with a smile.
“Open” he commanded and the guards beside him hurriedly opened the gates.
He walked up to me staring at my helplessness as I lay on the ground crying and coughing because of the dust that filled the air.
My face was covered with dirt and my hair was so rough.
“I see you were struggling, I would have let you out either way,” he said and signalled the guards to loose the chains on my feet.
“I am sorry about all of this Azalea, seeing you with Thomas pushes me to do things I’ll not normally do on a normal day,” Alpha Federico said calmly.
I had no more words left in me to say to his ruthless face, I didn’t want him to see me shed a tear so I wiped them off.
“Say something princess,” he said and brought his hands forward to touch my face.
“Don’t! Don’t even think about it” I said with every anger left in the fibre of my being.
My feet were sore. I managed to drag them slowly out of the dungeon and he followed me right behind.
I walked straight to my room, he stood in front of my door staring at me pitifully as if he forgot that he was the one that put me in this position a couple of hours ago.
I jammed the door and went straight to the bathroom.
Immediately I closed the bathroom doors tears fell heavily from my cheeks.
I stood in front of the mirror crying and banging the walls.
I looked at my reflection in the mirror, I looked so tattered, I looked like a bag of garbage.
The sands on the dungeon floors were dark and sticky.
I felt my hands trembling as I reached out to my brush on the corner.
I brushed my teeth, anger and sadness were the only emotions I felt at the time.
I have never felt this way before, Alpha Kade rejected me but he never for once threw me into a dungeon.
It was a few hours but it felt like a month and that is because it was done to me by Alpha Federico, by someone I loved, or rather someone I felt I loved.
Because love is far from whatever we share or will share.
This impression he left on me is going to stick for a while.
I love Alpha Federico but he was too toxic, I don’t even know if what he felt for me was love or not.
His jealousy towards Thomas gave me the wrong impression of him, well until now.
I didn’t know how much more torture I was going to take in this Palace, I wasn’t prepared for this.
When I stood In front of the mirror and saw my reflection staring back at me I could barely recognize myself.
It felt as if an old woman stood in front of me as if I had aged in a few hours.
“Is this how love was supposed to feel?”
“Is this what I need to look forward to for the rest of my life?” I thought.
I finished brushing my teeth and freshened up but the bruises on my wrist were still visible and it hurt real bad so I wore a long gown to cover it up.
I was so hungry so I walked to the kitchen and got something to eat.
No one was in sight and it was a good feeling.
I didn’t want to face anybody, not while looking like this so I had my food quietly.
As soon as I was done with my food, I walked through the hallway.
When a hand touched me from behind, I quickly spun around in fear thinking it was Alpha Federico but It was Thomas.
I quickly hugged him so tight and at that moment I felt so at peace as he wrapped his hands around me.
I closed my eyes to fuel the intensity of the hug.
I opened my eyes and I saw one of Alpha Federico’s guards, the same one that brought me food, staring at me from a distance so I immediately pulled away from Thomas.
“What is wrong?” Thomas asked, holding my wrist.
“Ouch! Ah” I screamed in pain.
“What?” He asked as he dragged my long sleeve up for a better look.
“Nothing, it’s just a minor injury,” I said with a forced smile.
“No, let me see,” he said and kept my hand in place.
“You’ve been bruised badly, I can help,” he said.
“It’s nothing, leave it,” I said and pulled my hand away placing it at my back.
“Remember the spark Azalea?” He asked.
“What sparks?” I asked, pretending to be lost.
“The spark between us in the garden” he replied.
“Oh…what about it?” I asked, trying not to care about his response as I adjusted the long-sleeved hands of my dress.
“We both felt it, it was unreal, it was magnetic it was____
“Nothing” I cut in midspeech.
“It was nothing Thomas,” I responded.
“What do you mean nothing? Sparks don’t just fly but it happened between the both of us” he said looking concerned.
I didn’t say anything, I couldn’t say anything to him.
I remember the spark between us, I remembered every detail but he doesn’t deserve to be dragged into what Alpha Federico and I are going through in our relationship.
I know exactly what those sparks meant but it’ll only give room for argument, fights, and possibly more dungeon ties.
I looked up at him, I just stared at Thomas’s face but words couldn’t find their way out as I was thinking.
He held my bruised arm up, staring at my face as he smiled at me.
“I can help suck the pain away,” he said seductively, I couldn’t help but smile.
“I would break your face before you do that!” A feminine voice interrupted.