What Lies In The Shadows

Chapter 1 - The Beginning

(Alvar's Pov)

I was meeting Prince Ansel today, the man I was meant to marry in only 2 weeks. I had only met him once before and even then I knew that he was a horrible person, he treated me like his personal servant. If i could i would run, run far away from this castle, this kingdom and away from the arranged marriages my family had so many times sprung upon me. So far i had managed to get out of them but something tells me that this one might not be that easy to escape. If i don't marry Prince Ansel his father threatened to attack our kingdom and even though i hate it here i cannot let that happen to my people. 

I was standing in the courtyard when I familiar voice spoke roughly behind, it sent shivers down my spine as the words were spoken "shouldn't you be serving food", that was it. That was the last straw. I was tired of him treating my like his servant, like I should do what ever he wanted whenever he wanted it all because I was a woman! "oh will you just shut the f*ck up!" I screamed at him, but I wasn't finished. He looked shocked as if he never expected me to blow up, typical. Before he could say anything I continued "I only met you 1 month ago! I hate you; I hate how you treat me like a servant, I hate how you think you are better than everyone, I hate how you expect everyone to do what you want, what you need! I HATE YOU; I HATE EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU, I DON'T CARE IF YOU OR YOUR FAMILY ATTACK OUR KINGDOM, GO AHEAD, GO CRY TO MUMMY AND DADDY! RUN HOME, AND NEVER RETURN! I WOULD NEVER MARRY SOMEONE LIKE YOU! YOU USELESS RUNT OF A HUMAN, I JUST HOPE THAT YOU MESS WITH THE WRONG PERSON, SOMEONE WHO WILL STAB YOU AND WATCH YOU BLEED OUT WITH NO REMORSE!!!" tears were streaming down my face as I screamed at him, people were watching now, everything started talking but I couldn't hear them, I blocked everything out, I felt a mixture of feeling; anger, relief but most of all dread. Dread of what was to come, what would happen next. I saw my father storm up to me, he looked angry, angry was and understatement he was furious. I prepared myself for the usual lecture; I am a princess, I should be silent, only speak when you are spoken to, all I am worth is my beauty, I am to be owned and live the rest of by life providing children to my husband to carry on the line. What my father said was so much worse than I was prepared for, he said "you are useless!, the one thing you were meant to do you screwed up!, I am ashamed to call you my daughter!" just then Prince Ansel walked up to my father and said "I shall still take her, if she will never speak to me, and will do whatever I ask" he said the last bit with and evil glint in his eyes, it terrified me to think what he meant, but I had no say in this, after all I'm just a way of keeping a blood line going, I am not worth anything. I hung my head in defeat, I could not get out of this, my future was dark, and my life would surely be dreaded.