Sovereign

Exile

Rossiya Pov

I walked right passed Ares, making a beeline for my room. I wasn't in a state to face anyone right now, not because of the hurt I felt but because I still didn't have complete control over my bloodlust and didn't want to attack him if he ticked me off.

The fight with the knight commander helped blow off a lot of steam but I knew that it wouldn't end there, call it a gut feeling or whatever. I hadn't really explained this to anyone but sometimes when I saw red, there was only one singular purpose on my mind; kill. It didn't happen a lot but when it did, it's grip was unrelenting.

I went straight to the shower when I got to my room, needing to cool my body down after it's almost natural reaction to Ares' heated gaze. I didn't like the obvious attraction between us cause it made me no better than Hades and I didn't like the fact that I wanted to explore it even more. We all know how that ended with Luc the last time, he bolted. Maybe I was just that bad of a kisser.

After my shower I wrapped myself in a towel, only to meet him in the middle of my room; this art of concealment he always had going on was really annoying. Speak of the devil they say. "I'm pretty sure walking into the queen's room as you please is an offense war god," I said tilting my chin up, holding his stare. His eyes burned but they hid something behind them, something I couldn't place.

"Oh?" He taunted and took one step towards me. I resisted the urge to step back and just narrowed my eyes at him, "yeah, oh."

While I fought to maintain eye contact his eyes dragged down from my face to my bare legs and back up again. That look, that look made something heat up in my belly and I'm not talking about butterflies. With a small smirk as if challenging me he took two more steps toward me while I fought to stay rooted to my spot.

Ares kept taking painfully slow steps towards me until he was close enough for me to get drunk on his scent. Then to my surprise he bent down and the proximity of his face to my girl down there made my eyes roll back in anticipation but when he stood back up my face went beet red.

"You should probably keep these where not just anyone would see them after they've served their purpose my queen," he said while holding in front of my face lace panties. Red. Lace. Panties. I was too stunned to speak, let alone move as he put them in my hand and turned away. I was embarrassed, overwhelmingly so; but I was also so turned on that I felt warmth leak from me.

It took me a good hour to collect my thoughts after that and by collect my thoughts, I meant resisting the urge to explore the extent of my arousal. What was happening to me? It didn't feel like cheating,in fact it felt similar to Hades but that couldn't be right. After deciding that I was ready to show my face outside my room again I made my way to the kitchen, girl's gotta eat.

However when I got there the kitchen was empty, just like the rest of the wing; well except for Ares and Hypnos but that's besides the point. "Where are the maids?" I asked and the two just looked at each other then at me, Hypnos was about to speak when another voice interrupted him from behind me.

"The king summons you to the throne room my Lady."

I turned to see a rather uncomfortable looking knight and back at the other two who stood up immediately. As we walked out of the southern wing I noticed that there were still servants in all the parts of the castle, all except mine. What was going on now? I mean sure I didn't grow up being waited on hand and foot but things were different now...

We were led to a large door that seemed to be made of literal sapphire. Come to think of it this place was covered in gemstones so it shouldn't be surprising. The two knights standing guard opened it as if it was nothing and I immediately locked eyes with the lady from last night, cozily sitting on the throne beside my mate. Well it's no wonder everyone thought her to be his love interest when he acted like this.

"You called?" I said to him while never leaving that woman's stare.

"Eyes over here Rossiya," he said, voice sounding like music to my ears. I broke eye contact with her first and paid attention to him like he'd so graciously asked.

"You called?"

"Yes, unfortunately putting you in the southern wing of the castle to keep you from causing havoc with your barbaric habits has proven to be useless. Not only did you attack your own staff but you also went to attack one of my best commanders, why?"

I felt the shock of his words but I couldn't get around the gut wrenching pain to process them fast enough. He wanted to isolate me because he thought I was a savage.... "You'll answer when speaking to the king speaks to you savage."

"I'm sure you do a lot more for him than just open your mouth to speak wench," I snarled while clenching my fists. Red mist was beginning to float around the corners of my eyes again.

She looked at Hades for assistance but he had his cold eyes focused on me. "And to answer your question, yes I did teach those maids a lesson because they were disrespecting me as your queen but you seem to be completely fine with that seeing as you left me at the door of my new home last night for your slut with cheaply dyed hair."

Hypnos and Ares stifled their laughter, "and as for your precious knight commander; he challenged me himself after I defended myself yet again because of the blatant disrespect which again was caused by none other than yours truly," I confined trying to hide the pain in my voice.

"So yes Hades, I will defend myself against that kind of disrespect since you have no interest in doing so and your staff clearly has no home training and if that makes me a barbarian or a savage in your eyes because news flash buddy, your opinion of me holds very little value."

That muscle in his neck was ticking again and his eyes held a storm but so did mine. I wasn't going to let him bully me at all. If he wanted a savage I'll be sure to give him one.

A cruel smile plastered his lips and a chill ran down my spine. "Fine then, be that way but as you've already noticed you didn't have any knights of your own and now because you're a danger to my poorly trained trained staff I'm taking them away as well but that's not all; you are hereby expelled from the castle effective immediately and will be sent to the Larimar palace."

"Leave."

I took one last look at his mistress and left the throne room holding back tears.

A/N
It's times like this I wonder if I should just kill off Hades and be done with it cause I'm giving myself anger issues 💀

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