A lot is going to happen in this chapter, if you don't understand something feel free to ask my writing skills aren't as good as my ability to imagine.

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Akia lays still in a bath, the water was lukewarm and getting cooler by the second.

"Should we add another bucket of warm water?" Ophelia asked and akia shook her head.

"No..This is perfect." She said with her eyes closed.

It's been 30 minutes since she got into the bath and her skin was starting to show evidence of that.

"Isn't it perhaps time for you to get out my lady?" Hazel asked, being daring enough to.

"Don't want to." Akia said and hazel backs away, putting her head down.

Akia was bored, she has been bored and at this rate she'll always be bored so what's wrong with floating in water for half an hour.

This was relaxing.

The door to the bath house opened and Juliet as well as the king came in.

The king with his hair down and robe lazily tied smiles when he sees Akia gathering the bubbles to cover her nakedness.

"You were taking quite awhile, thought things would go faster if I joined." The king said causing Akia to shudder.

"I can get out now your majesty." She said putting a hand over her chest as the king's robe was taken off him by servants.

"No, there's no need." He said, Akia averted her eyes as his manhood came into eyesight.

He gets into the water with her, even though the maids have started to fill the other bath with water.

"Is something wrong Akia?" The king asked and the girl shook her head.

"Nothing your majesty."

"Shouldn't you be preparing for the baby shower, I believe your mother and many of your cousins are coming. Surely she won't be happy to see your pretty little fingers like this."

"Mother's coming?."

"Yes she made sure to rsvp."

"I don't want to intrude it's supposed to be the Queen's party." Akia said watching as the king moved until he was right besides her in the bath.

Akia wrapped her arms around the bubbles surrounding her.

"Both The queen and I would be absolutely delighted to see you there." The king said placing a kiss on akia's shoulder. Akia shudders and moves away.

"Thank you, I'll come out to see my mother." Akia said.

"I've been thinking.." The king started

"Is it too much to ask for your hand in marriage?" And he finished causing Akia to gasp and move farther away from him.

"W-what? You said I could leave after I gave birth."

"You didn't think that was true right?, I mean to have my son grow up without his mother, especially with everything he'll have to deal with. Such a thing seems cruel don't you think?"

"You promise me that I could leave"

Akia said and then felt tears swelling up in her eyes.

She was going to be trapped here forever.

"Don't think of this as a curse my dear, this is a gift-"

"Then send it back." Akia cried loudly her nose turning red as she continues to cry.

The king yanked her body close to his own. "I'll make you happy here, I'll make sure all your needs are met."

"I wan'na go home." Akia's cried seem to only be getting louder.

The king wraps her into a hug.

"I can make you happy, you just have to let me." He whispered into her ear.

She freezes feeling his manhood pressed against her upper stomach.

She wanted to move away but how do you reject a hug from the king?.

"Anything you want is yours."

"I don't want to be here, can't I live at home with my mother?. You could send guards and maids if it pleases you."

"How will I be sure of your safety?" The king questioned and akia gasped at the fact that he was even considering it.

"I'll come back during the weekends-"

"I don't know.." the king said, sure he wanted to give her what she wanted but this seemed irresponsible.

"Please please your majesty, I'll marry you right away. Please just let me go home."

The king starts to move away, knowing he'd have to reject her request but didn't want to hurt her once again.

"I don't think so Akia. It's risking and irresponsible. My guards are good men but they can be inattentive and I can't let you get hurt."

Akia saw the doubt in his eyes and decided to poke at it.

She moved until she was sitting in his unclothed lap underwater.

She leaned against his shoulder and spoke.

April used to read her all the scandalous books that Mother wouldn't dare to read her innocence child. The stories about the nymphs and the seamen or the stories about knights who used knightlacs on women before ravishing their unconscious bodies.

Akia supposed that one was more of a scary story than it was one of the enjoyable love stories.

The nymphs in her story were never afraid and they always got what they wanted from men.

"I'll be such a good wife once mother fully prepares me for the task." Akia said, her brain wasn't even processing her own words she just wanted to get away from this palace. She picked up His hands from his side and placed them on her lower abdomen.

He moves his other hand onto her waist. Akia leaned in to his skin and whispered "Please Octavius."

His name on the girl's lips were enough to drive him insane with need. He let his hands trail down until they meet a full stop because of how tightly the Girl was closing her legs shut.

The king kisses her shoulder once more before lapping his tongue over her neck. A moan leaves the girls and her legs relax almost immediately.

The King's hands go in-between her thighs and they start to rub her core.

Akia moans unconsciously rocking back into the king's hard member.

"I don't want you to go, I don't want any man to look at you and I don't want to risk you falling for someone else." The king spoke his true feelings. Akia replies with a loud Moan as she felt his fingers thumbing at her entrance. He puts a hand on her mouth, muffling her scream as his two fingers enter her.

He fingers her slowly waiting for her to adjust.

"You smell so good, so intoxicating and rich. Your skin is soft, vibrant and beautiful. I thought you were beautiful for such a long time." The king said before increasing his speed, Akia cried as his other hand cups her breast and he rolls it around before pinching the nipple.

She comes and falls back against the king's body.

"I can't let you go home love, I'm sorry."

The king leaves her to get into the new bath on the other side.

The maids stripped and joined him in the bath with soft sponges and flowers.

Akia was shocked and fell back into the tub.

The king tries not to look at the girl, he shouldn't embarrass her with his gaze. He bathes quickly and exits the tub with Akia still in the bath.

"We should go now, the queen will be coming anytime now to also take her bath." Ophelia said and akia refused to get out once more.

"Please don't complicate things my lady, just leave when you're being asked to." Ophelia said more sinisterly.

"Leave.." Akia said and everyone freezes. "I SAID LEAVE." Ophelia pulled her dress up and led the other two maids out with her.

Akia remains in the water, staring blankly at the wall wondering what adventure her sister was on now.

"When I tell you to go, you run straight out that door. Do you understand me?" Donovan whispered.

"No.. what about you?"

"Just go. I'll meet you out there I promise."

Donovan picked up a basket from his side and tossed it at one of the huge men. The men growled and run towards him.

"GO NOW." Donovan said and April bolted, sliding directly between the two men. As she runs out to the field she turns around feeling ashamed for leaving behind another person.

April stands out side for a while, her heart beating rapidly, she paces back and forward. Making herself angrier and angrier by the minute.

She runs back into the house with both her boot knives in her hands. She goes to pull the door open when Donovan opens the door, he is bloody and without clothing. He grabs her hand and pulls her with him. She shrugs him off wondering what had happened in the House.

She runs into the now closed door to see the child eating a pile of something skin like on the floor while the mother has busy trying to cut the hand of one of the men who tried to attack her.

Blood was splattered everywhere.

"Please spare us, the boy is the son of our dear king. I must protect him with my life. Even if my actions are cruel.. I must do it in the name of our royal highness." The woman mumbled.

April felt her heart unsettle.

So the king was keeping this half breed mutation alive.

This beast that fed on humans alive.

" mommy tells me I'm gonna be king one day." The little boy says before pulling the meat out of his mouth to talk to the woman in front of him.

April stomach churns and she tastes acid in her mouth threatening to spill.

April goes back to her horse to see Donovan fully clothed and feeding the horse.

"You spared them?" She asked and Donovan nodded.

"They'll kill and feed again, such a thing is never a good idea."

"Then why didn't you killed them yourself." Donovan questioned.

April started to walk ahead, Donovan walked the horse behind her.

"Don't you wanna know how I did it?"

Donovan asked and April turned around and smiles.

"Of course I want to know how you did it!" April said spinning around and smiling brightly.

Donovan felt time freeze and his two hearts started beating rapidly.

"Is this what fear feels like?" He questioned April is confused by the question.

"Huh?"

"Some people say that fear and love have the same symptoms that's all." He explains but this only deemed more confusion on the brown skinned women.

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Akia has fallen asleep floating peacefully on the water.

The bathhouse door opens and the queen walks in to see the girl.

"What is she doing here?, get her out of my sight immediately." The queen said and Mina goes over to Akia and taps her awake softly.

"The queen would like a private bath" mina spoke to her and akia nods and stands before getting a bath robe thrown at her by the queen.

"Even around other maidens please try to be decent." The queen said and akia bowed watching as the queen's headdress is taken off and then her braids.

Akia was in absolute awe at how beautiful the queen was.

From her gorgeous hair to her bright green eyes and the red sprinkles on her face.

She was beautiful, and deathly rare.

Akia had heard stories of people with her hair color and red specks being burned at the stake up north for being supposedly connected to a type of witch called sirens.

"I hope you enjoy your bath your majesty."

"I will." The queen said, her dislike for the girl very evident in her voice.

"My party tonight, you'll be expected to attend." The queen said and akia nods, "yes." Akia said and the queen raised a brow.

"Yes what?"

"Yes your highness." Akia clarified herself and start to walk out the bathhouse.

"What a pathetic little girl, to think she would even be considered concubine material is so shameful to my palace." The queen said to her maidens and akia heard the words all too clearly.

She wanted to retort back, to tell the queen that this wasn't her choice, that every second of this was excruciating for her but how could she dare stand against the queen's words.

The sun was starting to set meaning the festivities were just about to begin. On top of the palace were 7 women.

"What happened to the rest of your coven mikalen?"

"We were trying to take our last blood line from a werewolf and some wrench came out of nowhere and killed my coven."

"A human?" Ophelia asked and mikalen nodded.

"A human girl." She corrected as she started to pull on her jester costume just like the other women.

A younger blonde witch starts to put colorful makeup on her face. Before painting her lips into a wide smile and her eye in a long liner.

Mikalen noticed the other women had different designs on their faces.

"You'll all go through the main entrance just like everyone else. The guards are going to ask for an invitation and you give them this plank." Ophelia said and the women all nodded before bowing.

The witches hopped from one chamber to another, until the reached the palace walls which they jumped over as well.

They see the long line outside of people dressed in fancy dresses trying to enter the palace and they go to the back of the line.

Inside the palace Akia was getting dressed in a tight fitting fancy blue dress with embedded flowers on it.

Her corset couldn't fit her anymore and the maiden gasped about that being the baby but most of them knew it was about the fact that she consumed mass amounts of food everyday.

Akia walked into the party with three maidens behind her holding her dress from touching the floor.

The king was in awe at the beauty in front of him. She was dressed in a simple blue dress and her hair was dressed to look like a lion's mane but to him it was stunning.

She was seated at a table to the side while the king and queen were already placed In their designated thrones.

"Wine please." The king called out to the maidens that started bring in large jugs of wine into the room that guest were still being seated at.

Michael was behind the king and Juliet was besides the king.

Clast was behind the queen and Mina was besides her.

They were all safety shields Incase the worst was going to happen.

Akia tried to keep her posture from falling but all she really wanted to do was lay down and go to sleep.

She didn't even notice when her mother entered the grand hall.

"Cousin Akia!" A girl about akia's age said waking Akia up from her blank state.

"Beth?" Akia asked before practically squealing and clinging on to her older cousin.

"Akia.."

Akia heard her mother's voice and tears start to form in her eyes.

"Mama" She says whilst tears streamed down her face.

"Sh don't cry baby, mama has come to save you."

Everyone takes a sit and turns to the king who started making a toast about how beautiful and fertile his wife is. Everyone clapped just like they did last year at the last baby shower.

"She's going to give us a mighty prince." The king said and the audience cheered ignoring the fact that he used 'prince' instead of 'king' to describe the new member of the royal family.

The queen frowned but once the king looked at her she smiled brightly.

"I think you mean King dear." She said before taking a sip of her drink.

"Sorry I didn't hear that my love, could you repeat yourself?" The king said but she shakes herself smiling at the king.

The queen stands up and begins to make a speech, the entire hall fell silent.

"I had a dream recently where I met my child, a beautiful baby boy with eyes Golden like the sun before it sets and he looked just like his equally handsome father. "

"The SUN KING" a minister yelled causing everyone to cheer.

Akia's eyes widen.

"Yes, the sun king, our beautiful son is coming and my past pregnancy have just been a testament of his strength my king, I feel it in my veins." The queen says passionately.

"If you deem it true then so do I my love." The king said from his throne before extending his wine glass for the toast.

"It's your supportive nature that has brought me to bring you this gift your highness." The queen said and a court of jesters interest. All in silly bright costumes and face paint.

"I know much you like to laugh. So I brought you comedians for your enjoyment." The queen said and the king replies.

"Oh honey you know I prefer the tongue of a sailor over a comedian when it comes to laughter." The king said " you'll enjoy them, I promise." The queen said and the king nods his head.

The jesters bow to the king before they start dancing ritualistically.

"Our king is mighty and brave." One jester started " What do you call a vampire without fangs?

your Mother-in-law." The jestered said.

"A woman married a werewolf in the south but she's put an ad out, turns out been having trouble potty training."

People blinked at that one.

The hall remained silent

"A man meets another man in the brothel, he says Brother? I'm glad you're here as well, I thought I was the only one who was pathetic enough to engage with the whores here, the other man snickered and goes 'you don't have to come if you don't want to short stick.'" The jester said with a flamboyant tone and this time roared in laughter.

The king himself not finding it funny at all.

"A woman tells the carpenter that she can't pay him in full, the carpenter said don't worry your daughter has already paid In full."

The joke was obscene, and perhaps too racy for the ears of the king.

The other jesters started dancing again jumping and sashaying while speaking in tongues.

Michael zoned in his hearing

"chuĭte ni luna i sŭbudi silata na nashiya tsar."

His skin started burning.

"Hey. Watch yourself- such jokes in front of the king-"

"WITCHES" Michael screamed scaring everyone.

"They're are witches-" Michael said

"Get Akia and the queen to safety now!" The king yelled and his guards came charging.

The jesters had disappeared.

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