22 ~ Princess high on Velina

CASSANDRA POV

My eyes glaring at her with the expectation of a positive reply but her ignorant glare of her broke my heart.

"Alice, please, I need your help,"

I muttered slowly pretending as if I wasn't even saying anything.

She lifted her gaze slowly and muttered.

"What help? I don't think you need any help, it's us who need help,"

I could understand her anger but wait, why was she angry with me?

"I know, we all need help right now? That's why I came to you,"

She stood up all of sudden.

"Why did you come to me? Hn? What do you know about us? How are we?, here, all you care is to warm the bed for that so called king and dress like a princess,"

I blinked shockingly as her words hit me hard.

"They killed my husband, they killed my son,"

Tears collected in her eyes.

"They killed my brother too,"

I stated.

"Yeah, I can see clearly how much you hating this royal treatment,"

She tinted me with arrogant sarcasm and it hurt me.

I closed my eyes in defeat and opened them again to request more.

“Alice, please, I want your help, to save all of us,” a tear slipped through my eyes.

"Alright, I will help you, what's your plan? Do you know how many people they have killed? Do you know how scary and dangerous they are? They have killed every single soldier of our Kingdom and you are still dreaming to fight back. It's a suicide,"

She horrified me with a deep tone.

All the confidence I had was shattered into pieces now. I didn't know how much they had suffered and what was the story behind all this raging anger.

"I want to try at least,"

I muttered slowly looking into her eyes for the first time.

She chuckled with a tear that slipped her eyes.

"Try it and then the remainings blood will also be flowed in the sea,"

This hit me hard. Making me realise what I was actually thinking.

"We need to go back, you have to meet the lord,"

The attendee who came with me reminded me.

I nodded silently and walked along with her. My gaze silently begging Alice to at least consider my request. I knew that my pain was nothing in front of them and she was right in her place too.

The reality hit me hard. We were broken, caged, enslaved. Till now, my heart refused to accept the reality maybe because I wasn't treated the way many were treated like, maybe because my attention was just fixed on Ryan. But, still there was something in me that knew that we would escape and we would win.

With a heavy heart, I came back to my chamber where I was asked to have my lunch but my appetite was lost just like my hopes and wishes.

The reality with which I got familiar today was enough to break the last ounce of confidence I had in me.

"You need to get ready,"

The attendee asked me.

I just looked at her blankly, my heart crying, where the hell my life was leading me to, was it over? Was it finished? This was the thing people call living.

Walking insensibly with her, I found myself in the Whorehouse house. But, there was no fright, no anger, nothing in me. Why be scared, angry and hurt when this was my life. This was what I had to do?

And over it, Ryan told me to be ready as he was planning to spend the night with me.

As usual the Whorehouse was filled with lust, nakedness and ugly talks. The women who seemed shameless to me before, now make sense. They were the one who accepted what destiny had to give. Well, this was the easiest thing to get over the unbearable pain and dissatisfaction. Accept what you have.

But, all this wasn't making any sense to me. I wanted my revenge, the blood of him for the blood of my brother. I wanted freedom from us.

My eyes landed on a woman who was laughing wholeheartedly when a man was standing close to her, he had caged her against the wall in the corner of the room, which I could easily see through the open door. This was common.

She giggled even more when the man started to pull her gown up to her thighs. My heart started to race. His fingers touched her core that I could easily sense with the position. There was blush on her cheek along with a cut mark below her jawline.

Everyone had a story, I felt it because I couldn't accept that they were here because of their wish.

I continued walking to the designer's room who had to make me ready for the night.

My thoughts were packed with the visions I saw today. My people in the dungeons, chained, suffering, hurt, lost and here I was wearing the expensive apparels.

My sight looked at myself from tip to toe in the white gown which had shown much of my cleavage. The only support to keep the cloth against my breast was the strings that were tied over my shoulder.

She added the fragrance and a tint of beetroot gel over my lips for extra redness and softness.

My hairs were left open that danced up to my hips, she added a little glossy gel to my hair which made them shine extraordinarily in the dark red color. My eyes looked slightly swollen.

But, again the question hit me.

Who I was? Which creature? What kind of soul?

Should I accept my destiny or I could fight?

And, if the fight? What was the cost? What was the cost of my freedom? Definitely the whole women of my Kingdom. They would be killed brutally, the children would be murdered and I didn't want this freedom.

A tear slipped my eyes.

"I want a glass of velina,"

"The sex desire booster?"

The attendee asked.

I nodded.

This was the drink that was given to the couple for their first time in the Reges Kingdom on demand. It was to increase the desires of women and men for their partners while the same was abandoned for unmarried women. I didn't know much about it but it was because the soldiers had to stay on borders all the time and were allotted only a few days leave. Because of which the population of Reges was decreasing. So, the scientists of the Kingdom had developed the Velina to keep the couple high for lust and increase the fertility rate of women too.

"Why do you need that?"

She inquired about thinning her eyebrows.

My nerves were high with rage and pain, as if I wanted to destroy myself.

"I want it,"

I stated.

"Okay,"

The attendee nodded and left to bring it. I was only feeling the hurt and pain. The loss and destruction of mine.

She came back after some time and handed me over a glass of it. Transparent liquid, I looked at it.

"Are you sure?" She took a pause to look at me.

"This will make you feel hot and your desires will be boosted for intercourse. Are you sure? I mean, the lord mig-"

"If destruction was my destiny, then let me get destroyed insanely,"

My lips blabbering the anger for myself, for my incapabilities.

I brought the liquid closer to my lips and drank it on the go. There was a burning sensation incurred through my throat. I cried with the bitter taste.

The tears slipped through my eyes remembering my family, kingdom, and my brother. All the moments I spent there.

"One more,"

"You will feel pain,"

She warned me with big eyes.

"ONE MORE!"

I said aloud.

She nodded and quickly brought more glass.

The more tears slipped through my eyes remembering my brother and the women I saw today.

I was useless.

I brought it to my lips and drank again.

"TAKE ME TO RYAN'S CHAMBER NOW,"

I glared at her.