Here for the throne

Prologue

   Everything is dark. My eyes slowly drift open as I take in my surroundings. Just like before, nothing but absolute darkness. I jerk my head up when i hear a door creak open as a bright light disrupts the pitch-dark setting. A tall, frightening, dark silhouette emerges through the door slowly making its way over to me, from what i can tell the owner of the body is male. They reach me and I look at a small crevice on the floor that seems even darker than before from the surrounding area being illuminated by the light. The man gently puts a finger under my chin forcing me to look up at him, he looks as if he's smirking. "Hello love, you hungry?" he asked a hint of humor behind the words as if hes saying it just to tease me, as if knowing how hungry I actually was. I had no idea how long I had been tied to that chair, how long I'd been stuck in that room, how long i had gone without food, but i did know i was starving. So I sheepishly nodded looking down again. "What was that?" he asked, I could hear the smirk in his words, he was just toying with me now, and i couldn't do anything about it if I wanted to eat anytime soon. So instead of making a snarky remark I just mumbled a small "yes." The man nodded content and walked away still looking at me slowly letting his finger fall and turned around leaving, hopefully to get me something to eat.

    The man came back a short while later with a steaming plate and set it down on a table next to me and looked down at me before asking, "If I untie you, are you going to do something stupid?" I looked up at him and away from the food and shook my head no. I honestly didn't plan on doing anything, my main goal was getting food. "I'm going to trust you right now, but I promise  if you try anything, anything, I will not hesitate to hurt you. I'm not going to kill you, you're too important and I wouldn't get anything out of that, but trust me, it won't be the most pleasant experience of your life." He warned pointing at me and I quickly nodded not wanting to risk anything knowing he wasn't bluffing, well, not that I knew of.

    He pulled out a knife and went behind my chair cutting the rope off as I brought my hands up stretching my wrists and looked over at the food turning the chair so I could angle better and dug into the food not caring how disgusting I looked at the moment already knowing I probably looked horrible. The man pulled up a chair and sat backwards in it observing me making me feel slightly self conscious, but not enough to do anything about it.  I kept digging into my food feeling full and content once I was finished when the man moved for the first time since he sat down and opened his mouth to speak, "So, Adelia, I have some questions that I need answered." I was taken back that he knew my name, but I quickly gained my composure and cleared my throat before speaking, "Well, I have some questions of my own for you."