Consumed By The Ocean💙

9. Predator

 7th day of my 15 days countdown. I had just woke up and was staring at the white ceiling cluelessly. Then I turned my gaze to my left. There he was, sleeping with almost no worry in the world after turning my whole world upside down. 

His eyelashes. They were beautiful and unusually long. I unconsciously lifted my hand to touch his thick long lashes, I know that's stupid but I could not even do that because the moment my hand hovered over his face, he opened his eyes with a jerk and held my hand in an iron grip.

He looked at my hand than at me, his expressions were murderous. 

'Relax.......not that I have anything to kill you with or something.' I said while taking my hand back and then turning to my side, facing my back to him.

I felt him shift and get closer and just after few seconds he was playing with my hair. He said after a while of playing 'It's okay Gemma. I forgive you. Must be very difficult for you to resist a man like me.'

'Excuse me?' I turned only to find him just inches close to my face, his head supported by his elbow and hand, as his face hovered inches above mine.

'And honestly Gemma, you are actually beautiful enough to be beside the King of Ionia.....' he continued saying, ignoring my 'excuse me', his eyes travelling between my eyes and my lips. No more lying to you guys.........I swear I was turned on so bad.

'.........but then again......you have human blood in you.' and that's how he flipped the switch to OFF mode. His tone again held disgust and he again made me feel pathetic. 

He chuckled seeing me all angry and got up. That shameless man started removing his shirt then and there only. 

'Fuck. Off' I could care less about cussing at that time. He deserved it.

'Oh trust me, I will. Once I am the King of Ionia, I'll definitely find a wife for myself. Suitable one, I must add. I am done being a celibate all my life.' and he left to shower.

And it shocked me to the core............THIS man who looked like he knows all the ways to please a woman in the bed........was a VIRGIN?!

He came out of the shower, no not in a towel but fully dressed in a loose white shirt and pant like they show in period dramas and fully groomed. I was still in the bed.

'Meet me at breakfast table. We're going out today.' he said in a total commanding tone and left.

Okay. Now that sounded something interesting. That sounded something worth trying to escape to me.

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We were standing right at the gate of the palace. There was a wall of water infront of us and my insides began churning by just thinking of the fact that we have to go into water. 

Following the evil Prince, I also began walking towards the wall. The water hit me on the face first and soon I was completely in the water, struggling to swim. 

'What? You can't swim?' he asked me with a 'Seriously' look. I opened my mouth to speak but I couldn't. Okay weird I know.

'Okay she cannot even talk in water.' Theseus mumbled to himself while swimming towards me. He took my hand started dragging me through water. I know that did not make any sense but.......whatever!

The train of my gown danced elegantly behind me as Theseus guided us through the large blue mass. As we swam through the Ocean, I realized that Ocean was not just the inky blue monster that I always thought, would swallow me. 

Hell, it was not even a monster..........It was beautiful. It had all the colors of nature in it. Through my burning eyes, I saw it all.

I didn't know where we were going so I squeezed Theseus's hand. He looked back with a questioning look.

'You want to know where we are going?' he asked me and I nodded.

'You'll see yourself' he replied and kept swimming.

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After almost 15 minutes, we were floating in front of a huge market. A freaking market underwater! That was the second most amazing thing I saw today!

As we swam through the market, I saw some people looking at Theseus with fear while others looked at him with disgust. But he seemed least bothered by that. 

Through the market, we swam towards a big building which looked ditto like the Colosseum back in Rome. A lot of noise was coming from inside, it seemed like a lot of people had gathered there. 

As we moved inside and people took in Theseus's presence, they fell silent. Theseus smirked and we made our way towards the seats. People sat almost 6 seats apart from us.

I realized that we are here to watch a theatre play. They play started and as it progressed, I realized that it was actually the story of the Evil Prince of Ionia, who was sitting right beside me, that was being enacted there.

And when the scene of Theseus winning over his brother and killing him came, beside me, Theseus gave a low and evil laughter. It was very clear. He did not regret even anything. The King punished Theseus to something called 'Depths of Death' and the play ended.

After the play ended, Theseus made me look towards him by pulling my chin. He looked deep in my eyes and we he found what he wanted, which was fear of him, he smirked.

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Theseus told me that he came out after many days so he wants to swim a little bit more before going and he also added that I have no option but to stick around him, which was true.

We were swimming somewhere outside the city, when I heard some strange noises coming from my left side. I pulled on Theseus's hand and pointed in that direction. He also looked there with a cold expression and then began swimming towards that direction.

It was a big and wide creak on the ocean ground and we floating on it's edge. The weird noises were coming from the darkness that the creak held. It was so dark and deep that nothing could be seem. 

'These are the Depths of Death...........where I spent past 5 years captive.' Theseus said beside me and just stared down in the darkness. He spent 5 freaking years there?!

'My Lord' came a whisper from down there. All those dangerous beasts were now under Theseus's command. I looked at Theseus and his expressions looked like he was having a replay of his days down there, in his mind.

'Do you know Gemma what is the punishment of a Child born through the union of Land and Ocean?' he asked me, still looking at the creak.

I nodded. He looked up at me, his facial expressions dead serious as he said 'The parent is executed............and the child is sent here........in the Depths of death.'

As his words seeped in my mind, I started imagining this happening to me and as I did.........my Thalassophobia was triggered just at the thought of what all sorts of sea monsters could be inside.

I began panting due to the panic attack that was rising in my chest.

Theseus pulled me by my both hands so I turned to look at him. He placed my both hands on his chest and I immediately clutched his shirt. I was again and again looking at the creak. So he forcefully made me look at him by clutching my jaw painfully in his hand.

'Don't worry, Gorgeous.......' he said with a smirk on his face. '........the only predator in this ocean, that will prey on you..........is me.'