𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑪𝑨𝑷𝑻𝑨𝑰𝑵'𝑺 𝑷𝑹𝑰𝑵𝑪𝑬𝑺𝑺

➣Chapter 8

Raindrops flowed slowly on the cold glass of her window on a dark, cold day. She had been sitting in the window for days, not taking her eyes off the raging sea that had been raging since the day she had left. She didn't really want to eat either, and all she kept thinking was that she could run away. She could steal a ship, and since Jack had taught her how to steer it, she could luckily find him again. She refused to give up the hope of being together. But it seemed impossible since her parents kept her in careful custodity so that she would not disappear again.

They had dinner that evening, to which they invited the prince to introduce him and the girl to one another. At first she obviously refused to go down to eat, but in the end she could do nothing else. Her stomach was in a knot, and she blazed with rage and frustration as she walked down the marble stairs with an expressionless face in one of her new dresses. As she walked in all the men stood up the greet her, and the prince also kissed her hand. Alyssa didn't feel comfortable at all, and wished she could have gotten out of there right now. Her fiancé was surprisingly polite, and even good looking, but that didn't change anything. She didn't want to be there, and there was no way to marry that man.

Chills ran through her body, and started to feel nauseaus right in that moment they they started to discuss the date of their wedding, which they apparently wanted to keep on the weekend. She felt dizzy, and stood up from the table after only eating a little from the food, then excused herself to leave. She thought it was because of the stress of hearing these unpleasant things, so she went to wash her face and lay down on the bed to rest a bit. She couldn't keep her mind off her lover, and kept wondering where he could be, and if he even remembered her.

He did. Every morning and night, and all the time in the day. His heart was hurting for real, and he couldn't find anything to ease the pain. He would have gave up everything to see her and be with her even for a minute. It was the worst feeling he ever felt in his life.

The only thing she had from him was the bracelet, that she kept a padlock under her jewelry box inside the drawer. She hid it well, and made sure noone can find it, but she took it out every single day, to see and touch it, evoking their memories when they were together.

Her strange sickness didn't go away even in days, so her mother decided to check her with a doctor. Of course she was against this idea, thinking it's nothing serious, but the parents insisted. She was feeling very uncomfortable during the examination, but the real surprise only hit her when the doctor came up with an unexpected and debilitating news; she was expecting a child.

Even the air froze in the room as the extraordinary announcement ripped through the girl like a bolt of lightning, her mouth slightly opening, both in shock and joy at the same time. Happiness was slowly replaced by anxiety and she asked the doctor not to tell her parents, but it was her duty to. The parents were very angry, especially her mother bore it hard.

"How is this possible?! What did you do, Alyssa?! How could you do that?! Your purity's gone, you've become unclean and worthless! You let a filthy pirate take advantage of you! How are you going to stand infront of your fiancé now?" Her mother raged, her father was just walking in the back of the room, holding his head in stress.

"Mother, I was not taken advantage of! You know nothing about the person I was with!"

"Stop, Alyssa! I hope you know there's no way to keep that child!" She said, and that was when the girl lost her patience, jumped up from the bed, and grabbed a dagger from under her dress, pointing it towards her mom.

"No one can come near me or my child! Do you understand?! Or you will all die! This is my child, from the man I love with all my heart. Noone can take them away from me. Never." She yelled, with her other hand protectively on her growing bump.