Bound with fear

Ready to step out

………………. Anya busied herself getting me ready to go out as I sat in front of an antique looking vanity table, Anya’s eyes were cast down and she wouldn’t’ look at me.

“Anya… is everything alright?” she quickly looked at me through the mirror and then went back to my hair

“Yes my lady” she nodded

“Did my Father touch you” she shook her head “Then why are you so scared?”

“He watched me pack the rest of your things and he wouldn’t let Robbie stay with me” her voice was low and hushed “And then I wondered where he was taking me until I saw you and Iagan” her eyes met mine again in the mirror “And I’m scared for you and my brother” she moved to the front of me and dropped to her knees “I feel like something is going to happen and Iagan will be made to pay” I reached for her hands

“Iagan is my guardian and I will not let anything happen to him I promise you that” I smiled at her “He means to much to me to let that happen even my Father will have to back away before I let anything happen to him or to you for that matter” Tears filled her eyes

“What about a broken heart Mo Bhean?” she looked down “I’ll go get the dress you’re to wear tonight” she got up and moved to the trunk Iagan had brought in the room earlier

“What do you mean a broken heart?’ I turned on the chair

“Nothing… my mind didn’t realize what I was saying” she shook her head as she walked over with a dress I looked at it

Where is the rest of it?”

“This is it” she smiled “things here are a little different so Iagan spoke of” she waited while I stripped out of the long silver gown I was wearing and pulled on the short black dress she knelt back on the floor and held the shoes while I stepped into them. “You look beautiful” she looked at me “Any man would think so” I looked in the oval long mirror. I looked so different the only time I’d shown my body like this was when I was training

“Not every man Anya” I sighed as she handed me my purse “Some men are beyond the reach of even and immortal” the door to my room opened and my Father walked in

“You look perfect Mo Inion” he smiled “Leave us” he looked at Anya, she bowed her head and made for the door.

“You scare her” I tipped my head and looked at him

“She fears me and fear is good in a servant” he walked round me

“Remember she is in my charge now Father you do not touch her”

“And I made you that promise” he stood back in front of me “You’re Guardian is waiting for you”

“He is also in my charge”

‘He is s fool and he has to remember his place and you must not allow him to cross the line with you” his eyes seemed to pierce through me “He has whores in his standing her can be with he is not Immortal and therefore he should not even think of you in that way” the room seemed to vibrate as my father spoke “You have a job to do and a Family to avenge, think of your dead and lost brothers and the wrongs done to them” his face softened “We mourn for them together… we will try to bring Seth back into us and raise whatever child shall come in our family” I looked at him

“Am I expected to…?”

“You are expected to make Brae have no choice but to want you more than any other woman he’s ever wanted” My Father’s voice was low next to my ear “It may not happen the first time you and he are together but you will become ready to take his seed” I tried to hide the shiver that ran up and down my spine “We will destroy those who destroyed us… I know I have your honor and your blood tie to make it happen” I inhaled deeply as images of my Brother all fighting in the courtyard at my father home training the way I had filled my thoughts “They would have been proud to call you their sister and to fight along side you” the three of them looked strong and unwavering in my mind and I felt a warmth from the image making me want to take out the people that had taken my brothers from me “Good” my Father murmured “you feel the draw in you…now go and begin your duty”