MATED TO THE DEVIL'S SON

Episode 8: a new secret

POV(ANASTASIA)

"there's no way he knows about it, I'm sure it's just his kind of thing right?", I said to myself chewing on a rubber candy, I stole it a year ago from a baby brought to the palace.

Of course there's no way that locker head would have found out, I rested my butt on the large dinner table in the middle of the hall where the wedding was going to take place and looked around like I was looking for something.

It still seems like a dream to me no matter how I think of it, me?, Getting married?, A month ago I was thinking about a picnic to the new orchard in the palace, two weeks ago I was thinking of creating new things in my room and now......... Now I'm getting married?, Why is destiny playing a trick on me?, Why does it seem to me like destiny wants to play me, if this is a dream it better end, I'm sick of this.

This isn't my dream, my dream is to get married to someone I love not this..... This....... Geez, I wish I have someone to comfort me right now, I'm sad.

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POV( QUEEN MEDINA)

"What the heck is happening?, I admit I don't really like This girl but getting her married to a soldier who could die at anytime in war is just too much, he has way too much enemies, but to tell the truth, I'm quite happy that she's leaving but I think this is not good, but to think of it, I think you should have gotten married to him instead Sara", I said to my 4th daughter.

"What the heck mum?!", Sara freaked out and her attitude was way too rude, "didn't you say you were crushing on him when he came?", I said to her and she frowned, "I know I said that but you just said it yourself that he has too much enemies, I don't want to die because of something I don't know about", Sara said and I laughed, "death?, Does he look like someone who would let his wife die?, This guy is f*****g rich and strong too, did you see what he did earlier?, If it was a stranger he would have killed him, we all know that, but he held back because of his brother,

That showes how protective he's going to be", I said and Sara nodded, "but mother sincerely speaking I'm quite envious of Anastasia", Sara said, "why?", I said and she smiled, "if Father dies?, Louis will become king and we would all get married to princes, and the chances of us becoming Queens is rare, but for Ana, we all know Lucian will snatch the throne from his father and she's going to be the queen, I'm so jealous of her", Sara said and I found Sense in her words, why does it have to be Anastasia, my daughter deserves him not her.

"Mum is there no way to switch the bride to me?, I want to be a queen too, she's too young to do that", Sara said and I wished there was a way, "Mum, what if you talk to father about it, maybe he might think of it?, What do you think?", Sara asked and I got lost in my thoughts.

"It's not that I can't talk to him, it's just that he hasn't spoken to me for quite a long time since he arrived which is quite annoying, that old man still knows how to annoy me, did you go and see him?", I asked her and she shaked her head slowly.

"Quit daydreaming, there's no way father would agree to that, we probably have to switch the bride our own way", Meghan my 2nd daughter said after keeping silent the whole time.

"What do you mean by switching the bride?, I mean how do we do that?", I asked and Meghan smiled, "good question, we must do it in a way that even if the truth gets out we won't be the ones to blame, we will find a scapegoat", Meghan said and I was getting anxious.

"Just get straight to the point sis", Sara said, "we poison her!", Meghan said and Sara gasped flapping her hand over her mouth, "what??", Sara said innocently and a mischievous smile came over my face,"she deserves it anyway", I said, "Mum?!, Stop this guys", Sara cried.

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POV(ANASTASIA),

The dress seemed to fit in and the texture of the silk material was out of this world, the dress was White, the length was to my ankle and it was adorned with gems, "what do you think my Lady", Madam Elina said and I smiled, "of course it's lovely, the texture is quite nice I just need you to make this arm length longer to avoid getting cold", I said and Madam Elina nodded leaving the dressing with her notepad.

I stood in front of the mirror and stared at myself with a smile on my face, maybe Lucian was right, I might look better without makeup than with make up.

"Beautiful", someone whispered into my ear and Lucian appeared in the mirror behind me, I was startled and wanted to fall, he didn't hold me which was not expected.

I got my bum on the room soft rug preventing it from hurting much, "why didn't you catch me?" I said and he smiled, "we are not married yet, I'm not allowed to touch you" he said and it was annoying.

"What do you mean by that?, What are you going to do even if we are married?", I said and stood up staring right into his eyes with anger, "have you forgotten?", Lucian asked and that got me puzzled, "Forgotten what?", I asked and Lucian smiled, and at that moment, I noticed something again, his smile, his smile had many version, a mischievous smile and a sincere one, this one isn't sincere, it's mischievous.

"What a female and a male do after getting married", Lucian said walking close to me and I simply avoided him by walking in reverse, "what are you doing, what do you mean?!", I said and my back touched the wall, he was very close to me now.

"Don't you know it?", He asked bringing his face closer to mine, "Know what?", I asked and he smiled, "our first night", he said and lifted my chin up to the tip of his finger and at that moment I noticed how short I was.

The moment was tense, "You sure you don't want to do this with your eyes closed?, Close your eyes Ana", Lucian said seductively and I knew it, he was going to kiss me, it was my first time and I wanted it to be perfect, I closed my eyes slowly and pouted my mouth, yes this was it, "my first kiss!!".

Epilogue

15 years ago, (Cosmos kingdom).

The palace maids and slaves watched how the punishment of the young Prince was carried out for stealing a piece of pie.

They tied him to a table with his face down, his young white flesh was lashed and left red bumps with blood oozing out of his back, amusingly he didn't make a sound which annoyed King Matthew, he ordered more beatings and the little boy expression was the same, he just stared, and in his young mind his thinking was to steal gold and sell it instead of a pie, the punishment would be the same anyway, but it isn't that he's, strong, it just didn't hurt him, but to everyone, they were not aware of this power in him.

And a wierd thing was, the Pie was poisoned