Chapter 3

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I ran back into the castle my heart pounding. I heard angry shouts coming from behind me. Had I really just shouted at the future king. I quickly hid behind a cupboard as a few knights ran past me. What would they do to me. Surely they couldn't kill me or anything for just getting angry at him, he was being an arse anyway. Thinking the coast was clear I stepped out from behind the cupboard. Suddenly I felt hands grab me from behind. I felt my self being dragged backwards towards. The guards, I guessed, opened a pair of great oak doors and continued to drag me along the cold hard marble floor. About halfway across the room they let go of me and I felt myself bang against the extremely hard floor, sending shockwaves up my body. A piece of cloth was plastered over my mouth and eyes preventing me from speaking or seeing where I was being taken.
I'm going to die. I said to myself. Jackson would accuse me of defying him in some way and then the king would behead me. I would die anyway, had I come here or not. Death was clearly just fate for me and I could not escape it either here or in...
I felt my self chained by ice cold metal cuffs against rough wall with tiny shards of metal sticking out that scraped all down my bare arms and neck. The cloth across my face was suddenly torn off . The room was dark and circular, torture devices surrounded me and were still gleaming with blood from their victims. At the centre of the room stood a buff man with an evil glint in his eye. The burly man who was coated in scars and bruising hung a piece a metal that had two buckets hanging off either end onto my shoulders
"Do you know why your here?" The man said walking confidently up to me. My head was hunched over my body and my hair hung limply across my face, as to not show my loathing and sheer terror. He strode up close to me and pulled my hair away from my face. He tilted my chin up to look up at him and my eyes bore into his, reflecting pure hatred towards him.
"Your such a beauty, it's such as same that you turned out to be rude and disrespectful to the prince. I'm the Keeper, and it's my job to deal with little troublemakers like you ." He spat at me before letting go of my face. He reached out for two large metal balls which he carried with ease and dropped them into each of the buckets around my neck. I screamed as the weight of the excruciatingly heavy metal balls weighed down on my neck. I felt them dig down into my flesh, nearly crushing my bones. I felt tears roll down my face and my body slump into desperation.
"I think that's enough" a voice said from the shadows.
"Sire, for the punishment to work you have to let them suffer for at least three hours." The keeper responded.
"I said that's enough." The voice repeated.
"If you want to gain any benefit from this..."
"I SAID THAT'S ENOUGH." The voice yelled as the man stepped out from the gloom of the torture instruments .
"I hope that this ordeal will make you a loyal servant, and one who will do what ever the prince says ?" The keeper grumbled as Prince Jackson walked up close to me his hand on my shoulders. I screamed into his eyes in both anger and pain.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." He muttered under his breath, he lifted the the buckets off me without a sign of difficulty. I looked around with bleary eyes to see that the scarred man seemed to have disappeared, probably due to my high pitched screaming. Jackson released my hands from the cuffs and I dropped to the floor. I slipped into unconsciousness just as I felt his arms sweep me up and carry me out of the room.

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"What sort of a man are you? She's been here two days and you are already torturing her. Bless us all for when you become king." I heard Eldred cry. Eldred clearly wasn't worried about Jackson torturing him as Jackson clearly held respect for Eldred. I kept my eyes shut as I wanted to listen to their conversation.
"I know, I know. It was a mistake but I needed to show her that I won't let her mess me around. I don't want it to happen again. I need someone I can trust." Jackson said heartily.
"Well I think you've blown it now Jackson. Surely Malcolm is reliable, you don't need Tania?" Eldred argued.
"Malcolm is about as useful as a dog. You can tell it to do things and it will be loyal but when it comes down to it, all it is is a dog." I sighed suddenly without realising and totally blew my cover.
I fluttered my eye lids open to see both of them sitting on the bed on which I lay. I eyes winced as they adjusted to the light. I tried to sit up but the agony in my shoulders pulled me right back down into my pillow.
"I hope you've learned your lesson." Jackson said quickly not really thinking through what he was going to say.
"I think Jackson means to say that he is sorry and it won't happen again as long as you don't disobey him." Eldred said grimacing at Jackson for his lack of sympathy.
"Right come on you can lie on my bed I'm sure it will be much more comfortable. Plus I have a crazy amount of training I need to do so I'll get one of the knights to watch you because I am certain that Eldred will have plenty of work to be getting in with." Jackson decided, Eldred nodded and didn't protest as Jackson picked me up gently and stood me on my feet.
"What if I'd rather stay here?" I requested.
"You have no say in the matter." Jackson said as he helped me up the staircase. As soon was we reached the top he put his arm around my waist and guided me along the corridors.
"Do you know what you are gaining out of this?" The prince said smirking to himself as i limped slowly beside him.
"What?" I snapped
"No need to be angry with me" he retorted.
"ANGRY? Your the one who put tons of metal on my shoulders and stood there while I screamed." I cried.
"I had to teach you a lesson. And now you get the pleasure of sleeping in my bed, I might even join you after training." He looked at me suggestively.
"Don't even go there!"
"Relax I'll save that till your in full health, and make it a night you'll remember."
"Who said I ever want to have sex with you?"
"Everyone does, every girl in this Kingdom and probably the ones surrounding it would kill to do it with me."
"Your quite an ass you do know that?" I remarked.
"An ass who could easily let go and watch you tumble to the ground."
"You wouldn't."
"Watch me sweetheart."

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