Ruthless

Awakening

Eden's POV

Four days. It has been four sun rises, four nights full of stars, since the last time I saw Rhea Lombardi. Four days since I've seen Nadia. The mistress of the house was in fact around, the air was tense and very cold even for the palace. Some say she has the ability to make the temperature rise or drop, it all depends on her mood. I couldn't get my last words to her out of my mind. She did not speak after them, we ate in silence, we came back in silence and she went to her dormitory in silence and I was for once afraid of that silence. Rhea is unpredictable, yet there was this agonizing calmness in her eye almost as if I could see her heart freezing all over. She is a master when it comes to hiding emotions, it is what she does best and surely she was not failing at deceiving.

I believe part of Rhea Lombardi was hurting.

It was not until the sixth day at noon that I heard from her. I had gone back to work to keep myself sane and my sister was by my side at all times doing just as so. I missed my brother and without the queen's presence I could not see him. I dared to break the silence, open the doors to the world where Rhea actually feels and it was again a very frightful sight. Heavy music played from her bedroom, loud rock music this time. There was laughter and lots of noises which is why I entered the bedroom.

Five girls were in the room all semi naked, they were clearly out of their right minds I knew what Rhea had done to them to get them like that. They were all laughing with eyes blazing, they were high off the queen's sexual energy. They were all gorgeous maidens of the palace, the entire bedroom was a mess especially the bed. It did not take a genius to know what they all had been doing. In fact, I've seen it before.

The girls looked my way and bit their lips, as if I was another one ready to join their pleasurable paradise. Rhea was nowhere to be seen but I felt her near, the room was dim and dark, the goosebumps on my skin surely came from her essence.

"Rhea?" I asked unsure. The girls smiled wider, the name alone was ecstasy to them.

"Well hello maiden." A voice whispered next to my ear, it made me recoil back. The air felt hot on my skin. Her eyes were burning bright, her long dark maine was in a high ponytail, the lingerie on her delicate body truly made her look like the goddess she is and the long bridal see through gown was not helping. She was seduction incarnate and seeing a woman with so much power in such delicacies surely made my breath catch in my throat. But the look in her eyes was a far gone one, she was here but her mind was not. She has been feeding all these days meaning her sexual aura is even higher than normal. Her body is just glowing, it made me wonder if she had stopped feeding for a while. The time she was actually being more tolerable. Even her scent was alluring, addicting.

I averted my eyes elsewhere other than her body, yet I could still feel her smirk. "I want to see my brother." My words came out low and unsure but she still heard them even over the loud music. She laughed out loud as if I've just told her a joke.

"Oh, you are being serious." She smirked once again, this time I was staring directly at her, the coldness was back in those eyes even when they are shining like the sun itself. "You want to see your brother?" I stood my ground and stared at the queen with certainty. "I will allow with only one condition." I bit back my tongue, allowing her to carry on with her dreadful sentences.

"Meet me in the afternoon on the back garden. Only after, will you be able to see the young Matheo." I nodded once. My feet stood on the same place unable to move, her scent was intoxicating and truth be told and kept from her, that I have missed the dark haired queen.

"Is that all?" She asked with a smirk playing at the corner of her red lips. In a dark corner of my imagination, I grabbed her face and connected our lips, shaking my head from those thoughts I only walked away from her chambers. The music continued blasting once the doors shut and the giggles appeared again. It made my blood run thick inside my veins. She is such a sick son of a --