Mine to Claim

Chapter 3

"How are you today, my slave?"

Kestrel has just landed in front of me, having teleported to try and scare me but she fails. As always. Now that I know what exactly happens during a teleport, I am unable to be shocked because of her sudden appearance.

I don't know how many days have passed since they locked me down here; in the dungeon under the underground dungeon of this castle. The rocks of this wall are too cold. The cold has now become my friend even when I feel the fire burning within my veins.

If that fire is unleashed, the cold of this wall wouldn't stand a chance but the cold knows that I am trapped and that's why we are friends. Once my fire comes out, the cold will retreat and allow the fire to breathe in my veins and make me whole.

I am lucky that the cold ice outside this wall and embedded inside the wall has found me worthy enough to live. Otherwise, I would've long turned into stone.

"Answer me!"

The loud screech of the witch brings me out of my thoughts and I am forced to open my eyes to look at her ugly face. I wish I had burned her when I had the chance.

I just want to get out of these chains then I will exact my revenge. But that's not happening today.

Sighing a little, I look up into her eyes and softly smile at her. She frowns but then regains her composure and I somehow feel what she's feeling right now about me. She thinks that I am not stable. That I am mentally unstable somehow, deranged.

A soft laugh escapes from me as her emotions peek through her mind.

"What do you want today, Kestrel?" I ask, knowing full well what she plans to do. She has done it before.

Kestrel smirks at me, waving at my chains and that easily those chains leave my wrists. But before I can summon my energy, she has me under her spell and then she's touching me. She has a firm hold on my hand and my neck as she sucks my energy from out of my pores, draining me little by little.

"No," I gasp as once again the pain sets in and I become helpless to do nothing but let the pain flow through me.

"In pain, are you?" she asks but I don't respond. I will not give her the satisfaction of knowing how badly her and Wulfric's torture hurt me. The day of my eighteenth birthday was just the beginning.

But since that day, all I'm feeling is pain. Wulfric raped me multiple times. Then my powers were unleashed. Then Kestrel got her hands on me and I was subdued. Then they tied me here in this dungeon to rot. Now she has been coming to drain my energy because she knows that these chains are not helping to keep my energy from flowing.

It's like a tub filling with water. The moment she drains me, my will and heritage pour their magic into me, filling me up, just on the brink of overflowing. But before I can overflow, she gets to know about it too. I don't know how but this has happened now twenty-six times since I was bound to these chains.

Every time I feel that my energy will overflow, Kestrel shows up the next moment and drains me of my energy making me go back to feel nothing but pain.

"Do you know what day it is, my slave?" she asks, bending down to lift my face. I shake my head slightly because I can't think beyond the pain.

"You turn nineteen today, my slave. Happy birthday," she laughs in my face and that fast I recall my twin sister. She's always on my mind making me wonder if she ever had a man's dirty hands on her body. If not then it's good.

I just hope that she's living a good life, far from these monsters.

"On the occasion of your birthday, Xavier has allowed you to be freed for some time," she whispers but I don't feel happiness. All I feel is dread. I know something bad is going to happen. She smiles her mischievous smile and my heart starts thudding inside my chest.