Tainted

1| Yet Another Lashing

Sitting in my cell like room, I try my best to pull myself together as I impatiently waited for the king to give me yet another lashing. Which I would say is the fourth time this week. And my mistake?

I entered the room that was supposed to be empty to clean it up because I thought the king would be out working. And I was met with the most disgusting sight I have ever laid my eyes on. The king was pleasuring himself with a woman, one that was not even his wife but none other than the Head Chef. So you definitely can blame me.

But I can't unsee what I saw, it was a rather disgusting sight. How I wish I never saw that.

Breathe in

Breathe out

In and out

I kept telling myself so as to stay came as I sat on the cold stone floor waiting for the king to come give me a beating. Soon after the king came barging in and the door opening giving me a fair view of angry King Larry with the whip the same one he has used to flog me for the past 13 years held tightly in his right hand.

He had a grim look on his face and his eyes held a mixture of both anger and hatred staring a him made a shiver run down my spine and I froze. He walked to where I sat slowly making the room more tense and I suddenly felt hot I looked around the room seeing if there is anywhere to hit but there we none. Great fear gripped me as he came closer and as he held the whip higher, I moved farther away until I felt the cold wall against my back.

It is time to face my horrible fate once more.

I cold my eyes waiting for the impact and that is exactly what I got. I let our a painful scream as the whip came in contact with my skin forcefully and I could fell blood slide down my back as the whip tore my skin. He kept hitting my skin again and again and again seeming unsatisfied. I kept on begging for mercy but he didn't seem to hear me as he was blinded with anger and hatred.

I moved from one place to another in order to escape the painful lashes but he hit me every time narrowly missing me few times. I let out another shout as it whipped the already injured part of my skin but he still didn't stop.

I should be used to this pain by now, it should be a part of me. Why am I still screaming? Why am I still shouting?

He finally stopped hitting me when he got tried and maybe satisfied and he stood in front of me breathing heavily with a bloody look his eyes.

He stared down at my quivering form with disgust in his eyes and spat at me. I cleaned the spit of my cheeks and looked down still crying.

"That will show you, you stupid girl. Next time you will know when to enter your King's room. Barge into my room again and I will do something worst than beating you. Don you get me?" He said angrily I whimpered and looked at him.

"Y-yes m-m-my Ki-king." I stuttered and he didn't look pleased.

"Get up at once and speak audibly." He yelled and I gathered all my strength and got up and faced him.

"I am so-sorry my King." I said in between sobs trying to keep my voice steady looking at his face, which I realized later was a big mistake.
Because he gave me a look of disgust anger then he gave a a hot slap.

"Are you supposed to look at the face of your King, I didn't want to say anything the first two times you did it but you did a third time you stupid brat." He said holding my hair in his hands tightly and I whimpered as I felt the sharp pain in my skull.

"I am sorry my king it wouldn't happen again." I said to him and he let go of my hair forcefully causing me to loss my balance. He gave me one last look and walked to the door.

"You will not get any food for four days you are only allowed to drink water, that is your punishment. Better watch yourself girl or you might just have yourself dead just like your mama." He said to me as I lower my head and I bit my lower lip to stop the sob that was about to come out. Saying that he left and locked the door behind me.

I sat carefully with my back barely against the wall as I cried my eyes out again and again until they ached.

I wished my Pa was here and still alive, if my Pa was here none of these bad things will be happening to me. I will be with him in our little cottage living happily. But I am here instead, life is so hard on me and my life suck badly.

I finally pulled myself together and went out the door limping and I headed to the general bathrooms where the maids and servants both male and female servants have their baths.

Walking down the hall with my clothes held close to my chest I saw eyes looking a me, few of them gave me sorry looks while others look at me with disgust and some even laughed.

"Serves her right." I even heard one say, it was Martha for some reason she hates me and I have no idea why. Because you know we are both in the same places, she's a slave and I'm a slave also so I don't know her problem.

Hurriedly walking to the general bathroom I bumped into a guard who definitely didn't look happy about. Big red eyes stared down at me with complete disgust and his face was red with angry. I could have sworn I saw fumes coming out of his ear and his vein around his forehead contracted as look at me with anger.

"Can you watch where you are going you stupid thing." He spat out angrily and I quiver where I stood.

"I am very sorry Sir Todd." I said to him head bowed as I waited for him to tell me to leave.

"Get your disgusting self out of my sight." He said to me and I literally ran while limping to the general bathroom. Entering it I turned on the tap and the water flowed into the rusted steel bucket. Pulling my blood stain and clothes and dumping them to the side to me washed later I picked up the bailer and poured the ice cold what on my head down to my feet. I hissed as the cold water flowed down the injures I sustain and shiver at how cold the water was. After getting the dried blood of my body and waist length strawberry blonde hair which grow widely because of lack of maintenance, I took the hair in my head and squeezed it to drain out the water because you know I have no towel. I put on my second and only pair of clothes and wore it and bent down though it was hard to wash my other pain. After washing it I came out of the bathroom and limped to the back of the servant quarter to hang it to dry.

Limping back into the servants quarter I saw the head chef Lady Molly coming to my direction with a bowl of dirty dishes in her hands. As soon as she saw me she gave me a very nasty look and I mean nasty which I surely think would make her face hurt.

"Good day Lady Chef." I greeted with a bow as she passed me but she didn't answer me or even look at me and I walked passed her.

"Wait." She said with her permanently cracked voice from constant shouting as I froze in my spot. "Take this dishes and wash they at the back, I don't want to see a speck of dirt on them." She said to me.

The King has given me a lashing and now you want to give me my own punishment, how wonderful. I said under my breath.

"Did you say something?" She asked with furrowing brows and I shock my head and turned around to go to the back of the servant quarters leaving her in the alone hallway.

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Hello my good people, I hope y'all enjoyed the first chapter. And I also hope it's not to much😅😅

How do you see the way the king treated the girl?

If you were in her shoes how do you feel?

Please continue encouraging me, I really need the boost.

Xoxo,
Taty A.