Forbidden Flames (on hold)

chapter 33

"Yes..." I said.

"And you didn't tell me?" he asked not looking at me.

"Lucifer! It's not about telling you. I wasn't the right person to tell you this!" I said.

"And, the person I was living with my whole life was not my father? Everyone betrayed me."

"Lucifer!" I called but he left the room and went outside the palace. I looked at him through my window but he kept going.

I went to Sophellia's room. I knocked on the door. She looked at me and gestured for me to come in.

"I am sorry for what just happened," she said.

"No, it's not your fault," I said.

"It is Lucia. I can't handle his anger now you have to do this."

"There is something I didn't tell you."

"What is it?" I asked.

She held my hand and took me to her bed, making me sit with her.

"I am going to tell you what happened to me in the past. I told him everything. This is so hard to digest. Only you can calm his anger down."

"What was that?"

She sighed and stood up. Taking a few steps, she went near the window and looked outside. She leaned on the wall and started speaking.

"My father and my mother were ruling over the witch kingdom. The kingdom where I grew up with my maids. They usually were busy with the royal works. Instead of my parents, I had the back of my maids. I wasn't allowed to go outside the palace. All twenty-one years of my life, I was locked in the palace.

One day, I decided to sneak out of the palace with my girlfriends. Tina and Sabrina were my only friends. I went out with them. Without knowing the way, I got lost in the kingdom. No one knew I was the princess, no one. I was roaming here and there and could not ask for the way. Everyone thought I was someone sneaking into their kingdom illegally.

It was night, and I was alone, walking on the sand barefoot. I looked around only to find bats that were active at night. Without any trace of water and food, I kept walking and walking. At that moment, I gave up and fell unconscious on the sand.

When I woke up, I saw a figure whose back was facing me. I tried to clear my blurry vision but I was unable to do it because I was empty inside.

I asked 'Who are you?'

He turned to me and gave me the plate filled with delicious food which I had never tried before. We talked for hours. I didn't realize it was time for me to go. I looked at him and told him I had to go.

He didn't want me to let go of him. I stood up and went outside. I turned around when I felt a hand holding my wrist.

'What's your name princess?' he asked.

I was taken aback when he called me princess but then I realized he didn't know me. I changed my expression and told him 'Sophelia'.

He kissed my hand and looked deep into my eyes. 'I'm Damon' he said.

He offered me a ride on his horse. I told him that I worked at the palace. He dropped me outside the palace. I thought it was the best night of my life.

I kept sneaking out and meeting him at night. After a few weeks, I was expecting a baby. I didn't know this was going to happen.

That night, I planned to tell him that I was the princess. I went to him. I told him that. He didn't react. I told him that I was pregnant. He wasn't expecting that. He kneeled on his knees and touched my belly. Tears were flowing from our eyes. Little did I know he was never gonna come.

I return to my palace without Damon and with a broken heart. He told me that he was here to kill me the whole time but instead, he left his trace in me which I could not refuse to keep. My parents saw me in the situation and the rumor aired like fire in the kingdom. I was carrying a devil's child.

That night I sacrificed myself for him, for his child, and his love hoping for his return but he didn't come. At last, I was exiled. I came to Lucifer's world with a new identity. Living with a pair of Royals as their daughter who was dead.

I got married to King Anthony, Fergus's father. We had Lucifer there. He knew I was pregnant. He started abusing me but I didn't take action because I had nowhere else to go.

When Lucifer was born, I met Leopard again. He worked for my father. He was the oldest man in the kingdom with vast knowledge and experience. He raised me as his daughter. He used to come to me for his help, he knew that Lucifer was not a normal child and he needed to be protected. He left the kingdom for Lucifer. Gloria, the old woman you met in the forest, was my maid. She left for me but when she left, the door to our world was locked forever."

Every word that came out of her mouth was a shock to me. She went through a lot just to prove that Lucifer and she didn't want to give up on his first love.

"Why did you leave two years ago?" I asked.