She swallowed. Hard. She could see the danger glinting in those metallic grey eyes –somehow welcoming and luring her in. She then knew that he was not kidding in the least and she could somehow feel that this man was no angel.
Her instincts told her that he was bad news through and through, and she knew deep down in her heart that the moment she gives him the go ahead to carry on and devour her, he was going to do it without hesitation. He was not a chivalrous prince on a white horse who was going to save the damsel in distress –namely, her.
Still, she would rather give herself to the devil than marry that man that her father had arranged for her. The very same man who had driven Ellaine, her sister, to take her own life when she was still at the peak of her existence.
That monster, Brandon Haze, the man she was arranged to marry tomorrow, was a business mogul and the richest man in Dalenn. He had the greatest influence in their country's politics and everything that was related to it. And now that the Dalennish monarchy was on the verge of collapse, Elle's father, King Markus Eves was just desperate to do anything and everything to save his throne. Even if it meant marrying off the only daughter that he had left, to the same monster who had raped his first born.
Elle had hated her father since the day of her forced engagement to Brandon Haze. She has tried her best to tell the king that he had witnessed it herself when Brandon Haze, that monster, had assaulted her older sister Ellaine who was only seventeen at that time, four years ago.
She herself, was fifteen then and had tried to tell what she witnessed to their father. But the King had asked for evidence and when they asked her sister, Ellaine has completely denied it. Elle knew that something was off, and she had tried to persuade Ellaine to tell the truth and expose Brandon. But Ellaine kept silent.
The night before Ellaine took her own life inside her room, she had told Elle everything that had happened to her. After Ellaine's funeral, Elle had tried her best to expose the man but her father punished her instead. She did not have ant evidence and her father did not believe her. The king, her once loving father, had gradually spiraled down into madness over the years just because he could not accept the truth that the Dalennish monarchy was on the brink of collapse under his rule.
Izabelle would be lying if she said that she did not care for their royal household. She care. Very much so. But she believed that it was time for their country to not to be ruled by monarchs anymore. The people had voiced out and expressed that they had wanted the abolishment of the monarchy ever since she could remember. And the people's demands were getting worse by the year. And as she grew up and saw more of the situation of their country, she had started to side with the opinions of her country men. If only her father could see and accept that.
For years, her father had been doing everything to strengthen the collapsing monarchy so that his rule as king could continue until his last breath.
And the most certain method for his plan to work was to marry his daughter off to the country's most powerful man, his own daughter's rapist, Brandon Haze. Elle would never accept such a fate of marrying that monster. Over her dead body!
"Then..."she finally answered.
Gathering all the courage that she had in her, she stared into those pair of cold grey eyes. "Go on... Devour me."
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A/N: Welcome to my newest book everyone! How's the first chapter so far? Do leave a comment.
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