COLD (Twisted Forbidden Tales) Book One

Chapter Three

QUEEN ( The Past II )

What they wanted was my child's blood and not the child itself. I watched the guard's expressions as their gazes became even hungrier.The vines held my legs in place again as Rose chuckled and continued to clean me. When she finished she glanced at my stepmother who gave her a signal to continue.

Confused for a moment, I soon found out what that meant. My first time had already been taken in the most brutal way what more could she want from me. Finnigan had tortured me long enough that I was sure that I had conceived a child. The bile rose up in my stomach and how disgusted I felt, but I froze in the next instant as Rose's hands and mouth began to wander all over my body. My cries of no and to stop made Finnigan and the Queen laugh even more and her guards even more turned on.

I closed my eyes tight, willing my body not to respond. I could feel her presence near me and I slowly opened my eyes. Why hadn't I just kept them closed? At least I could pretend in my mind that now and the past three months weren't real. She stood above me still naked, her p***y on full display. I knew what she wanted me to do, I had been subjected to it several times before whenever she needed a quick fix.

She had long known my secret and used it against me in the months of her captivity. The many things over the past months before my captivity became clearer. Rose had been the trap all along and that was why I ended up in that tower from the beginning.

This was how she'd make me pay. My body began to respond and tears ran down my face. The sting of salt in my tears kept me alert from the swollen part of my face. The vines around my ankles moved to spread my legs wider as Rose's head stood between my legs. I tried not to gasp, but my stepmother grabbed my head, yanking my hair hard, tightening her grip as she positioned me.

"Why?" I whispered, my body in despair, unable to stand Rose's actions. My body began to release. The queen descended upon me riding out her pleasure. She heard my question but only answered after she'd finished.

"It's because you are so beautiful sweet Princess Talia, and I just can't have anyone around more beautiful than me."

Rose stood up as well, with hatred still in her eyes. My heart was broken, I was beyond betrayed. I thought Rose cared for me and that she understood my pain. The hatred she said she had for the Queen was actually the hatred she had for me. The Queen praised Rose with a kiss, moaning as she did so.

"Hmmm Talia, you really do taste sweet," she said, licking her lips. She then took a look at her guards and said, " Have Fun!"

She encouraged her guards as they each had their way with me, some more than once, others at the same time. My screams were non-existent. I lost my voice a long time ago. My body couldn't take the onslaught of penetrations, biting, slaps, and punches from her guards when I tried to fight and resist. They took their pleasure in any way they could. I passed out after some time. When I woke up, all I felt was pain, hatred, sorrow, and the strongest urge for vengeance. If I lived through this, I would make sure hell descended upon my stepmother and all who betrayed me.

I welcomed death as something snapped and broke inside me, the earth around me began to shake as blood began to flow from the lower half of my body. The vines no longer restrained me. The Queen and her guards had long gone. The child I had conceived was dying. I felt the special mark on my stomach dissipating. My wrists had been cut as well.

It was said that my blood was the highest in power for transference in this state when a child was conceived, because it activated the purity of longevity and special abilities within my blood. She wanted Finnigan and her to reign forever, slowly taking over our neighboring kingdoms, but she was in for a sweet surprise.

My consciousness left me and the calming warmth of death slowly lulled me to everlasting sleep. It was unbeknown to me at the time that this was not death, but the start of my new beginning. The things that Silas, Selene, and the Seven witnessed that long torturous night birthed a bond stronger than blood. They reached me in time before I succumbed to death completely. Inducing me into a coma with the help of Seth's special elixir. This sleep would last for 10 years with the exception of a soulmate rising.

During this time, they each would take turns nursing my mind, body, and soul back to health with a once-month supplement elixir. If the latter did not happen within ten years' time, Seth would wake me and our plan for revenge and returning the true heir to the Stone kingdom would begin. My body was placed in a special bed and hidden away deep in the Forbidden Forest underneath the Old Wisdom Tree.