The King's surrogate

Maid

I groaned crawling my sorry out of bed ignoring the pool of blood on the sheets from my beaten chest the lashes hurt and I was bruised but for the most part the injuries were nothing compared to the beat downs I got with the whip and the violin rod now I guess they just didn't have the right crack to them that the horse whip did the pain was unbearable I clenched my jaw as I rubbed my sore neck seeing the same wounds from the silver collar as always I could never figure out why they never healed I feel more lightheaded by the day the amount of strength I've lost from not eating isn't doing me any good either I feel like I could collapse any day now

I went into the bathroom looking into the mirror looking at the dried tears on my face and my smeared makeup I don't know why I even try the whip marks on my back has some what healed still blood seeping out of them I was battered and bruised ready to give up

I knew that if I didn't quickly clean this up and get downstairs to make they're food they would punish me again I hurriedly limped to the bed ripping the sheets off and limping downstairs to go wash them before my masters woke up

I limped into the kitchen making them breakfast when my masters came down

"Azariah we wil be having a guest over" she said

"Yes ma'am" I said as I took in a shaky breath

There had to be a reason they were being nicer than usual was something going to happen? I sat deep in thought as I burned the eggs I jumped as the fire alarm went off

"You stupid bitch you can't do anything right!" Yelled Sam as he turned to face me

"I-I'm s-sorry i didn't mean to" I said stuttering like an idiot

"Your just as worthless as your father!"

I backed up until I hit the wall

He said getting up from his chair and stalking towards me with his hand ready to strike

"Ill teach you another lesson bitch"

I closed my eyes ready for the hard impact on my cheek to come but it never did

I opened my eyes to Agatha's grip on sam's arm

"Enough Sam we have better things to focus on but if she doesn't do her job your free to punish her again when we get back" Agatha said with lack of emotion in her voice

Was she protecting me?

Sam kept his glare on me

"Plus we need her in one piece for tonight we can't send her to the king to damaged and bruised now can we?"

"I assumed she learned her lesson from me whipping her" Sam said glaring daggers at me

He gave me a look with an evil glint in his eye making me tremble as I quickly turned around dumping the eggs in the trash they sent me into the old library to clean it I couldn't help but look for the secret room behind the book cases I pulled all of the books down until there was none and started pushing the book case until I saw the room my dad used to hide me in as a kid a tear escaped my eyes as I thought about how he died  for me he would feed me before he fed himself I took in a shaky

He got caught stealing from Agatha and Sam and selling they're most expensive things he was later hanged when they found out a sob escaped my lips as I covered my mouth dropping the broom from my hands

I sighed as I pushed the bookcase back and put the books back up soon as I finished cleaning the moon swallowed the sun and day turned into night i started making my way upstairs when focused my gaze to a tall man coming threw the door