𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴

𝙩𝙚𝙣

10. Manipulating

The brothers and Arie were eating the food they made They have been cooking for the past 1 hour. Turns out, Ace could cook.

The food was incredible, the brothers made sure everything present was liked by Their Princess.

However, Ariel was barely present in the conversation. She was missing him! She wanted to go back to her normal life though she never liked washing the dishes or drying the laundry.

She wanted to embrace him and never let him go. Her thoughts were interrupted by Alexander. "Are you there?" He questioned, taking another bite of the spicy ramen. No reply was heard!

"You're thinking of him, aren't you Princess?" It was Ace who asked her. The look on his gorgeous face said he knew everything. The brothers could read her like an open book.

" H-ow do- do you kno-w? She whispered

"Do you want us to let him go?" Xavier queried.

"You will let him go?" She interrogated with a glint of hope in her eyes.

"Yes! But we have some conditions" Ace snarled as he dug his fork into the pasta.

"Wh-what conditions?"

"Marry us"

"Wh-what?"

"You heard him? Marry us!"

"No! I-I will never ma-rry you all"

"Okay, then be ready to see that fucker all tortured."

She slapped him! She slapped Xavier :(

"You shouldn't have done that" he warned her.

'That wasn't a good idea'

She thought as they started to drag her, the triplets indeed lived up to her dreaded expectations when in the next scene Ariel found herself blindfolded and gagged as she sat squirming in the car.

She tried screaming but her screams were muffled. Suddenly her blindfold was removed and once her eyes adjusted to the light she found a horrific scene in front of her. The gag was finally removed.

Enzo and Sofie

They were tied to chairs and Enzo appeared to be bleeding. He looked like he was barely keeping his swollen eyes open, which he was.

Ariel thrashed in the hold of Xavier, she screamed and cried at the sight of her family in this condition. Xavier's tight hold didn't let her escape.

She saw the other two heading toward her family and her hysteria increased. Ace grabbed Sofie's hair and made her face up, while Alexander went to the poor Enzo.

Ariel screamed, falling onto her knees as she begged for him to stop it. Tears gushed out her eyes and she crawled to him, at his feet and begged- clasping her palms together.

The newfound confidence left her body as quickly as it came.

"Please don't do this."