TOAW Themarie : How to Poison a Swan

Chapter One

Chapter One

Matured Content.

"Good Morning, Miss." Haven groaned as she got awoken by the eldest maid that services their mansion. She looked around the bed to see nobody else beside her but only herself, bare beneath the sheets, the sunlight streaking through the white sheer curtains. She slowly looked up to the maid and cleared her throat.

"Can I have the room for myself?" Haven softly asked as she covered herself with the soft blanket even more. The old maid looks at her intensely for a good minute before speaking once again.

"Milady has left." The woman stayed still and looked at her from her chest to Haven's face. Haven rolled her eyes at the look the woman gave her because she was clearly naked beneath the silk blanket.

"Yes, I know. I am aware of that, thank you." Haven mumbled her answer and took a deep breath before she brushed her brunette hair back using her fingers. It has been months ever since she has been married to Themarie. For some reason, the ring around her finger kept reminding her of that. Arrangedly married to the one she has a crush on and she never thought she would start hating the idea of it.

"Did you two make love last night?" The old woman couldn't help but ask when Haven kept adjusting the way the blanket is around her body.

Haven groaned and rolled her eyes as to why this maid really has to snoop in with her business. "God no." She shakes her head.

"I usually sleep naked." Haven reasoned.

The old woman's brows raised. "Beside the Milady?" She crossed her arms and Haven's eyelids twitched because of it. So bossy and observant. It's quite something to expect that these are the persons that surround Themarie. Themarie was as well as ice cold and downright an attitude.

"Okay fine, we did something. Happy?" Haven admitted, pissed off so early in the morning and she groaned whilst touching her head and brushing back her hair all over again.

"You don't need to lie to me, Miss." The woman smiles, her wrinkles wrinkled and Haven looked away whilst rolling her eyes. It was quite ironic that Themarie and her weren't in some special loving situation but managed to be intimate on some nights. Only in the darkest of hours where only the both of them were alive and the rest of the world is half-asleep.

Haven cautiously crossed her arms. "I'm just not too open with the idea of sharing to you about my intimacy with Themarie. All of you know what she and I clearly are. If we did have sex, it's not like there's laced love there. It's just a voluntary giving of relief to the person." THe maids in this mansion knew why they got married and to be honest, in Haven's situation she gave herself to Themarie in a way to relieve the woman at times. That was the only moment she found herself needed by Themarie.

She looks beside her. The empty space on her bed.

Haven was only needed during times of relief and once done. She's left all alone.

"So you fucked?" The woman says with great force and she squints her eyes at Haven for that. The younger woman looks at the old maid in shock, Haven's mouth gaped open a little at the vulgar word she heard.

Haven lets out an irritated breath. "Fuck, yes. Can you leave me alone now?" She said in a pissed off manner and the old woman chuckled. Haven really has having her life fucked up and ruined all for the sake of her family and all for this pathetic little crush of her that made her stay and ruin her dignity.

Married off to an arrogant woman she barely knew, giving her purity to her, to the woman who doesn't love her for who she is but for what she could provide which was pleasure. This was no love in marriage but Haven was stupid enough to think she'll sow something out of a forced love.