My OBSESSION

I could hear the sounds of swords tearing and piercing into flesh, the racing heartbeats, the roars and feel the heaviness of the air. In fact my heartbeat was the loudest. I thought I had finally gotten my fairytale or at least just entered into a book of fairytale, when I married my husband Nedan.

But from the noises I am hearing, I knew we were attacked.

I saw my husband, fighting intensely with his opponent. I didn't quite know what happened next but all I could see were hybrids of dead bodies around me. Then the carriage door flew open and I was dragged out by hefty men. What was happening? Then I saw my husband, he knelt on the floor, looking so vulnerable and weak. I wanted to run to him but was held captive.

"You're beautiful, just like the rumors" I heard a voice spoke. My head snapped to it's owner and I was beyond shocked. He's real?

Standing before me was a heavenly handsome but heartless creature. He looked like the description of the devil himself and at the same time, a Greek god from a very beautiful painting. His fiery golden eyes blazed, it was very intoxicating and hard to ignore. His silver hair was damped with sweats and his lips curved up, posing a very triumphant smirk at me. He lifted his right hand to me and grabbed my chin with his fingers, raising it up for me to face him even more. I was frozen from his touch. His touch felt familiar but very scary. It was as if, just one touch had paralyzed my entire being, sending shivers down my spine. I shudder at his one touch. I tried looking away, fear and confusion hanging in my eyes, but his intoxicating eyes and one of his hands touching me, had made me totally frozen.

"You will fit for a good entertainment, won't you" he uttered, still wearing that devilish smirk. "What did we do to you? What... What did my husband did to you" I managed to ask.

"Just bored and decided to create some entertainment for myself" he said, letting go of my face and heading to my husband's direction.

"Nedan!" I cried out, trying to free myself to run to my husband. "Let her go" I heard the heartless creature say, his broad shoulders facing me. Immediately gaining my freedom from their strong hold, I ran to my helpless and weak husband. "Nedan.." I held his face to look at me.

" Don't leave me please, not after I have found you" i cried and pulled him into a tight hug, not letting go of him. "Nayla..." He coughed out and I slowly pulled away to look at his face. "Please take care of yourself for me. I love you Nayla..." I heard him say. My heart broke into many pieces, because I knew he meant goodbye. I refused to let him go. My knees gave up their strength and I fell to the ground with Nedan lifelessly resting on my chests.

I cried my heart out, refusing to accept the scene in front of my eyes. I didn't get the liberty to mourn my husband because the heartless man dragged me away from my husband and right in front of my very own eyes, he heartlessly slashed him in the stomach and then slightly in his neck, creating a very deep cut.

"Seize her and keep her for me" he then threw me into the hands of those hefty men. "You did well Verin" I heard a woman's voice from behind me and my head snapped to find her. A very breathtaking lady then stood before me.

Her beautiful and flawless long hair slapped my face and her smooth thin hands reached for my neck and in a few seconds, I felt strangled. "Do not strangle her! I need her!" I heard the heartless man who must be the one called Verin spoke. "Since you have ended her husband, what use do you have of her?" The beautiful lady spoke. Her voice, filled with confidence and authority, soft, melodious and seductive. It was as if she was seducing him in this situation. "It will be decided as time goes on" the bloodsucker, Verin suddenly walked up to a horse.

"Take care of him, I have something else to do." He said nonchalantly as he looked at my lifeless husband and rode away immediately after getting into the horse.

The hefty men dragged me to a horse and forcefully binded me up.

They threw me on top of the horse and one of the men sat in front of me, while I lay on my stomach, on top of the horse, tied up like a pitiful prisoner. I was a princess who had just became a Queen.

I was in a trance as I realized we were in a very hidden place. It had thorns and sharp branches that formed as flowers, we went further into a very big, i mean gigantic gates and walls. The thorns were growing on those walls like as if the cement of the wall were soils for the thorns and sharp branches that covered the large walls.

The gates had sharp arrow shaped knives at the tip of the gates.

The surrounding was quite eerie and scary, but my mind was too foggy to notice that. Yeah, staring at my surrounding sent even more chills to my already numb body. The gates flew open and a mysterious kingdom came into view. The people looked quite scary but they all minded their own business. People were mostly dressed in black and they even looked gothic.

The soldiers wore these mysterious kind of military wear i have never imagined. It was pitch black, strong leathey top and trousers, but their armours wear was quite stronger. It was made of thick metal.

We rode even farther, deep into the kingdom.

There, a very hunted looking palace could be seen. It was huge, or rather spacious. As the palace's gates flew open, the spacious premises was decorated with beautiful flowers- orchids, lilies, sunflowers etc, with different colours. There was a tree which stood close, almost besides the palace's gates. The palace was breathtaking.

It looked super scary from afar but was paradise-like. The walls were pitch black but the pillars were crystals.

The kingdom was divided into three majestic-like buildings but a long verandah was the only thing that linked these three majestic-like buildings.

Because of the separation, there were three premises, which was also decorated with beautiful flowers. I was taken to the third building of the palace. The tall palace was beautiful but not compared to this third building i was standing before. Being mercilessly dragged inside through the balcony, I saw beautiful paintings, on the wall.

The painting was about the division of the sun and moon. There were creepy creatures that hide in the shadows of the painting on the moon side, but they looked very powerful.

The sun side on the other hand had paintings of humans doing their own activities while rain poured on them. The painting was so mesmerizing....

I was led to a large room. It was beautiful but I didn't have the strength to admire, I was having a hard time agreeing with the fact that I've been widowed by this heartless man. I was pushed on the big bed of the room and the hefty guards watched my every move. I crawled out of the bed and sat on the floor beside the bed.

My knee was up and I rested my head in between them, while my long light pink wedding dress was now tainted with bloodred- my husband's blood. I was heartbroken, I finally thought I would be happy after getting married to Nedan.

He was a gentleman and kind. He made my racing heart to calm and didn't rush the wedding, giving me time to accept him. I fell in love with him in just short period of time, because of his attitude. To me, he was my true husband material.

I had always been an outcast, I was considered evil because I was different.

I acted different, my features were quite different from the people from my kingdom. I started noticing the difference in me when I was just 8. I was playing with my 2 brothers, I am the only female child, my father considered female a burden,but he saw me as a tool of gaining more power, marrying me off to a powerful kingdom and becoming allies with them. My father had 3 wives, my mother died when I was just five. My mother was my father's favourite queen, so because of her, I guess he was kind to spare me. My wicked stepmothers painted me black, calling me the reason for my mother's death, calling me evil, just to make me miserable, but it never bugged me, till when I became 8 years old. I was playing with my 2 brothers, since my step brothers hated me. While playing, because of my inquisitiveness, I led them to a very dark cave quite far away outside the palace, I begged that we sneak out to go an adventure. Reaching the cave, we were attacked my dangerous poisonous snakes. My older brother Rien was the first one to get attacked, I tried saving him and also got attacked too. My immediate younger brother Faran ran away in fear. Rather than being dead or wounded, I started healing. It was a very big shock, I didn't want my brother to die, not knowing what to do, I licked and sucked out the poison from his bitten leg, and then we managed to reach the palace, were the physician treated us. My father was very angry with me. Rather than thanking me, my own brothers called me evil, because I healed before them.

Seeing I always bring trouble, I was then sent to a far off small palace.

There, I was securely guarded so that I won't cause any more trouble and I was abandoned there for many years.

I got no love ever since, not even my own brothers or father ever visited me. Then later on, I was taken back to the palace, I was happy, thinking they wanted me back and they wanted to patch things up, but I was deeply wrong.

Instead, an alliance was fixed, I was to get married to Nedan. I was quite scared, I don't want to get married just right away, I wanted to first feel freedom a little. But Nedan was a gentleman, he was considerate, he became my friend and he didn't rush the marriage. That only made my heart melt, then I made up my mind to marry him, I thought I would finally be happy. But unfortunately, My husband was brutally killed by this beast. I cried my eyes out, i just wanted to die too. What I hated about life was that I was born. If it were to be my choice, I rather not be born. Or even if I should be born, then not as a princess, were I'm being hated and still restricted. I was a hated caged bird, that wasn't given freedom to live it's life, and wasn't given love either.

And now, my fate had crossed path with this heartless beast. Then I felt chilling in the room, the windows were shot, doors closed but there was a slight opening in the bedside window. I peed out the crystalized glass windows to check if the weather had changed, maybe it wanted to rain, I guess.

But to my shock, it looked quite peaceful, even though it was getting to night. It didn't look like it was going to rain. I noticed someone close behind me, and the chilling increased with every seconds, sending cold shivers down my spine, making the tiny hairs on the back of my neck stand, sensing danger. I wanted to turn my head to look at the person standing behind me, but felt restricted, as I felt strong arms rapping themselves on me while my back brushed against hard chessled chest. "I know you are mourning your husband, but I want some entertainment tonight" I heard him say. "Why don't you just kill me, just like you killed my husband" I retorted back angrily, trying to get away from his hold. "You're proving stubborn..." I felt his hands slightly and slowly brushing the sides of my neck. "Please let go of me" I begged. I was already feeling scared of this man, when suddenly I felt all the anger in me boil. "I said you should leave me alone..." I angrily yelled and with all the strength I could muster, I managed to get away from him. I ran away from him, very far away, reaching the door when one of the hefty guards blocked my way, grabbing my arms and twisting it behind my back, making me wince in pain.

"Come in..." The heartless man spoke, turning his back on me, staring at the windows. Two maids then came inside. "Prepare her, make her beautiful.... I will have some entertainment tonight" he suddenly turned around, facing me with a devilish smirk plastered on his sinfully, breathtaking face. My heart thudded loudly in my chest, I will rather die than let him touch me!

Then the maids meekly led me through the spacious corridor, having beautiful paintings of different kinds. It was like I was in a museum, or an art studio. We stopped at a big silver door, as it opened,my jaws dropped in complete awe at the site I saw, this palace is quite big I guess. The room was very broad. There were different sections of cabinets were jewelries, diamonds, elegant dresses and wears that gives significant to the wearers, breathtaking footwears crystalized with different colours of any kind. Varieties of peacock fans and crowns.

I couldn't even register the rest in my head because I was dragged to another door inside the room.

Once inside, I was dumbfounded once again, because these door opened up a very beautiful spa resort. The beautiful big jacuzzi tub made out of pure diamonds, the blue crystal wall, the massage chairs or rather bed, the spa equipments and the astonishing mirrors everywhere. If not for my hatred and mourning heart, I will have been rolling on the floor in pure excitement and wonders.

I didn't know what happened next, my dress was ripped off, falling on the floor, the torn fabrics of my wedding dress. No! That was my wedding dress, the dress Nedan had given me! Fresh tears hung at the corner of my eyes, threatening to fall. I covered my breasts with my right hands while I squatted down immediately, as if my bare skin would be covered completely.

I was made to sit in the bathtub, which was already filled up with water and foams and some beautiful fragrance oil, that made my nose tingle. Then I was being bathed my the maids, scrub and scrub... Then after, they made me wear a transparent green singlet nightgown which was in v-neck reaching the middle space of my breasts, revealing the whiteness and freshness of my breasts. The nightgown was just few inches below my knee which was quite uncomfortable for me, especially after it being these transparent. I looked at the maids with teary eyes, telling them silently that I was uncomfortable but they ignored me. Soon, i was in a very beautiful and broad room. I first came into a parlour, the white sofas, big and long, soft and fluffy, the diamond big table,laid down with different fruits in an ivory colour basket.

At each corners had antique furniture - the love shaped flower vase, a mysterious ice sculpture of a lady naked lady, gracefully kneeling and holding the sun. A beautiful ivory carving of a neon tetra fish. Everything was ancient but beautiful. I walked further into the bedroom section and my mouth separated, creating a small o on my lips. At first, I thought the first room was Verin's but it wasn't and these was ten times astonishing than the first room. His white king-sized bed, the gigantic pillows, the massive walldrope, the ancient white bedside table. The windows were diamond made. The chandeliers was also diamond made, but had the shape of an orchid flower.

I sat on the soft bed, my hair was damped with oils and laid at my left shoulder, making my right shoulder and back , bare and visible. The maids looked at me one more time to make sure I was okay. Isn't these enough, I was like a doll at moment, my lips painted pink, my cheeks had pink blushes, wearing pink eyeshadows and my eyelashes fluttered like a butterfly above my emerald gem eyes.

They left without a word and after what seemed like hours, the heartless creature arrived. He stood there looking at me for a while, as my heart pound hard in my chest. I immediately scattered my hair, using them to cover my bare shoulders and back. My hands flew to my exposed chests and I turned away, facing my left side, in front of the headboard. I can't look at him, he's heartless. His cruel, I belong to Nedan, he's my first love. I don't think I will be able to forget him or fall in love with someone else ever again!

He crossed the distance between us. "You're indeed very gorgeous, and stubborn..." He trailed off, as he bent low, to my level, holding some strands of my brown hair and sniffing them. He searched for my eyes with his and caught them, he smirked seductively at me. "I like this stubborness about you" he sniffed my hair even deeper, as if savoring the scent. He then grabbed my shoulders and pinned me on the bed, him over me, looking at me with lustful eyes, I swallowed, sweats of fear, decorating my forehead. "Just let me taste you beauty..." His hands started wandering around my chests. His hands slowly brushing my neck then to my collarbones down to my breasts. Then his left hand roamed upwards, grabbing my neck, pinning me even harder as if strangling me, while his right grabbed my left breast, squeezing it hard. I moaned, not from pleasure but from pain and fear.

His hands slowly trailed down to my already exposed laps, he slid his hand into my nightgown through my thighs, slowly moving upwards, tingling my bellybutton and then he reached my left breast, his hands now touching it, barely. He squeezed it very hard than the first time, I moaned again from the pressure and pain. "P..please st...stop" i manage to beg, more like a whisper. He didn't stop. He then went to the right one and did the same thing. My legs moved up and down, brushing each other, I was trying to break loose but god he was too strong!

My face was already burning from embarrassment and fear, the tears that I had been trying so hard to hide started flowing from the corners of my eyes, like a never ending river. I shot my eyes closed, i was helpless. I didn't know what to do, his every touch, make my body shudder and my heart thudded even louder. Suddenly he stopped, i opened my eyes slowly to look at him, he pulled away and stood up, looking at me for a moment before he walked to the bathroom in utter silence. What happened?!