Chapter 181
Chapter 181
Sabrina’s POV:
“I totally agree, Sabrina.” The king replied. He readjusted in his seat, cleared his throat and began speaking.
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I think I might actually need that tea right now. I poured myself a cup, and out of respect I poured him one too. I took a cookie and bit into it. My gaze encouraged him to go on.
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“I was rude to you. From the very beginning. I roped you in with a madman and I accused you of being like him. Despite all your attempts to prove to me that you weren’t, I remained stubborn and dug my hell in.”
I sipped the tea. Sweet, floral and warm. It slid down my throat and warmed me up from inside. I am so loving this. I gave him an encouraging nod and he continued.
“I knew deep down that you didn’t deserve it.”
“I didn’t.”
“Let me finish.”
“Okay.”
He sighed softly. “You didn’t deserve how I treated you, and that was wrong. Whether I choose to admit it was not, you were a tribute and I treat all tributes with respect and dignity. I could have let you enjoy an easy life like the rest of the tributes.”
I nearly blurted out “you could have.” But I bit my tongue and let him continue. I was still very pissed at what he did. Everyone else got the soft life and I was branded the tunt of the litter and treated like trash. That’s how I got to be his maid in the first fucking place.
But was it his fault? I mean…it was because he thought I was like Zayn.
Okay. It was his fault alright. He should have been a better judge of character. And that is his problem, not Zayn’s.
My expression soured as I thought about Zayn, and I quickly shoved the bastard to the darkest place of my mind.
“I actually wanted to keep you around me.” He confessed. My eyes widened in shock.
“What?”
“Yes. Back then in that throne room when I passed the judgment to take you away and make you a slave. I wanted to keep you around me. I wanted to keep seeing you, even when I knew that it was selfish and heartless.”
I raised the teacup to my lips only to find it empty. I silently ate a cookie, letting this new revelation settle in my belly.
Sone deep and dark part of me gloated at that. He wanted me around. While I hated him and thought him a monster, he wanted to keep me around him.
But the logical part of me hated him for that. Why would he ruin my life just because he didn’t know what he wanted?
“You’re angry,” He said, his eyes searching my face.
“Are
you done?”
“No, not even close.”
Oh boy. This is gonna be harder than I thought.
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Chapter 181
Tm sorry too, about letting Acheron convince me to throw you out.”
That one struck a very sensitive nerve. Because that wound was still fresh and bleeding in my heart.
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“Like I meant nothing to you.” I spoke up, unable to hide the pain in my voice. “To be honest, your majesty. I pride myself on always seeing the worst case scenario. But that one took my completely by surprise?
“I know.”
“No you don’t. L…we had sex the previous night, your majesty. And the next morning you threw me out like I meant nothing to you! And there I was, thinking that maybe we shared something, Maybe it was just more than sex. I deluded myself into believing that we had a thing. Only for you to show me reality
My voice cracked towards the end and I inhaled deeply to try and ground myself,
I cannot let him see me cry. I might as well bash my head into this lovely glass table and die.
I bit my lip hard till I bled. He stared at me, his eyes dark and full of hurt and pain.
“It was stupid. I was stupid.” I scoffed. I looked away from him at a bush of white roses and angrily ate my cookie.
“No, you aren’t stupid. We did share something.”
I didn’t reply.
“We did, Sabrina. I was ..I was too proud and too blind to acknowledge it even to myself.”
I turned to face him. “And the worst part was, I don’t even know what my magic is or how it works. I didn’t know. I planned to harm you? How could I have done? How?”
“I believe you. I do.”
Somehow I don’t believe him.
“Sabrina, I regretted sending you away. barely hours later, I went after you.”
Shock ran through me.
“I sent troupes to look for you. They searched, but you were gone.”
“Yeah well because Acheron made it so. He thought even after I was gone that I was still a threat to his best friend.”
Something in the air between us shifted, and goosebumps ran down my spine. The kings eyes began to glow a brighter red, and anger filled his face.
“Acheron?” He growled.
“He didn’t tell you?”
“I’m going to kill him. He just crossed the line. And he..” He trailed off and scoffed.
I turned my head away. “I don’t care about him. I still can’t believe you send me away. That hurt, you know. Really hurt me.”
The air went back to normal.
“I’m deeply sorry. I had believed that I did you some sort of favour sending you back.”
“How? I left…I was thrown out with nothing but the clothes on my back. No money, no food, no water. How did you do me a favor, your majesty?”
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“You’re contra. That was very smart. I know that it’s going to take more than an apology to fix this between us.”
I work my check out with my tongue. “You’re right on that one
A simple sorry can’t fix the crater sized wound in my chest. The betrayal. The hurt. The disappointment. It can’t just vanish with ‘I’m sorry”
“That reminds me, what happened? How did you survive? I never got an answer?
Should I tell him or nah?
1 sighed deeply. What’s the point? Since we’re baring our souls to each other I might as well tell him about the lovely Devon and his cousin Marcel
So I did. I told him about how I was sold by Acheron and bought by Devon’s beta and all of that dark and depressing stuff I never want to relive again.
Devon” The king said when I was done. “That name sounds oddly familiar.”
“You know him?” I asked, recalling how Devon claimed to know the chronicle
I’ve met a lot of people in my lifetime. And he is irrelevant right now. I’m relieved that Caldan was able to get you out of
there
I burst out laughing, “Sorry,” I said, clamping my hand over my mouth. “It’s just ironic, isn’t it? That was also how I felt. I felt so grateful, until he showed me who he truly was and also tried to kill me.”
A few seconds of silence passed between us. The king stared at me, a hint of jealousy in his eyes. “Do you love him?”
“Devon?” I asked, playing dumb.
“Caldan. Do you love him?”
“What does that mean, your majesty? Does that question have anything to do with this conversation right now?”
He went silent for a while, then he spoke up again. “I’m being honest with you right now, Sabrina. About things that I have never spoken to you about. I would appreciate your honesty too.”
I folded my arms. “You’re not done with your apologies yet, your majesty.”
He sighed with frustration and rubbed his nose bridge. I narrowed my eyes, a thrill of pleasure running through me. Oh, that’s just a taste of how I felt for the past few months. Helpless. Frustrated. Angry.
It’s nice to see the tables turned around for once.
“I’m sorry for being a jerk to you when you came back…or rather when you were found” He looked up and met my eyes.
Oh, there’s that too.
“I was very relieved. Although it didn’t seem like that. You were fine. You weren’t dead, or severely injured. But then you were with Caldan. He announced that you were his girl. And that….that stumped me.”
He was relieved? Wow. I did not know that. For all I thought he was going to just send me right back.
I opened my mouth to say something, but he wasn’t done yet.
“I didn’t know how to feel about that, that he was the one who found you and not me.”
