The Mute Slave: Back For Revenge

Enslaved

It felt just like yesterday when Maria fell off the cliff to the Silver Crest territory and found her mate who rejected her like garbage. She wasn’t fortunate like her sister who found a mate who sacrificed everything to be with her.

The whip landed on Maria’s skin again and she quickly picks up the weapon that has been used by the warriors training for proper cleaning and safe keeping. That has been her job for three years now, washing, cleaning and cooking for men who beat her at every chance they get.

It will soon be dusk and Maria hurry to finish her work for the day so she could get a bread to eat and not starve for another day. She has been able to lift her lips so food will go into her throat but she still hasn’t regained her voice.

“There is no more food” the lady in charge of meal said looking with disdain at her dirty stretched out palms.

“Why?” she questioned.

“Because you are a taboo, a rogue like you does not deserve to eat anything of the Silver Crest” she rebuked her and pushes her off.

Maria manages not to fall down and walk out of the kitchen to her cage house which Jay has been so generous to share with her. A meter from the cage house, Jay run towards her to welcome back home after the long day work.

She pick him up and give him a warm furry hug as he stick out his tongue to tell her how much he has missed her, Maria drop him in front of the cage and he grab unto her legs with his paws not letting go.

Maria dart her eyes and sees the usual small container sitting on the little dirty cloth she has been using to shield herself from cold. It was a very clean green cloth but using it for three years now without washing has turned it to a rag.

The food container has always appear at the cage whenever she did not get any food for the day, it’s like a watching angel that knows when she is starving and when she is not. It started two months after she was made a slave by Luna.

She has get beaten for no reason and bullied by literally everyone around here after the news that she was a rogue who had escaped to seek shelter.

The Silver Crest is known to be cruel to Rogues and would rather not have anything at all to do with them so it was infuriates them to know one is living with them in the same space though she lives a little far from the main houses.

She pick up the container to see what the angel has brought for her this time, it was bread and two fishes, she quickly dip her hand into it and give one of the fishes to Jay which he took happily and finish in a twinkle of an eye.

Maria sit down to have her meal while guessing who would have brought the food to her, even though she only spend few moments with him, she wished it was him that has brought meals for her or perhaps send someone to always feed her.

No matter how strong the feelings he shared with Lena is, the bonds between them should be stronger than that.

With that joyful thought, she pick up the bread to have a good bite but before she could tear it with her teeth, two ladies appear in front of her looking fierce.

Maria drop the bread wondering what she has done wrong to have anyone come to her place but when two other ladies, Lena and Naira appear behind the ladies, she guessed what it was about.

“It’s true Lena” Naira said crossing her arms.

“You b***h” Lena cussed her breathes coming up as her anger rises inside of her.

She grab Maria by the hair and yank her by it making the food in her hands drop to the ground and smash it with her shoes.

“How dare you steal from me?” she yelled furiously that Maria thought she was talking about something else.

She wanted so badly to tell her that someone had dropped it in her cage for her and that she didn’t steal it but she know it was hopeless to try to talk now.

“Just get her punished by the law, no need to dirty your hands Lena” Naira said looking scornfully at her.

“No, I want her to be get rid of, I am sick and tired of seeing her every day, I want her ripped apart and toss to vultures”

Lena scream on top of her voice and toss Maria out in a loud thud, she signal to the two ladies to grab her and they did quickly and firmly so she won’t escape.

They dragged her to the punishment ground where four men are holding big thrashing sticks ready to be use on her, Lena grab her from the ladies and push her down making her hit her face on the ground and hurting her nose badly.

Maria tried to get up and escape before she really get killed but Lena held her down with her boots and won’t let her go, she tried hard to fight and questioned why she is about to get killed but she could only make soundless struggle.

The men carried her off Lena’s feet and dropped her on a straw mat, they rolled her in and in few seconds the big sticks rain on her like heavy raindrops.

Maria could feel every bones in her body breaking and blood getting drained from her brain causing her face turn all red from the heavy beating, she spurts out blood but it did not stop and at that moment she wished for death to take her quickly. She could feel the presence of Janine and her Aunt Mary calling out to her.

Just as she thought it was all over for her, she heard the voice she hasn’t heard in a long time and her eyes open up slightly to take a glance. The beating also stopped abruptly and she felt lose unconsciousness her body and mind unable to bear the agonizing pain.

Cleaven manage to keep Prince from coming out at the sight of the terrible state he is staring at, he was equally furious and if not for the love he has for Lena, he swear he would have ordered her to be killed right away.

He picked up the sticks angrily and smash it hard on the men holding them, letting it break on their bodies, he clenched his fists as he turned to Lena who look afraid and anxious and managed not to scratch her eyes out.

“Cleaven…?”

“Don’t even dare” he warned her and turns away his attention the almost lifeless body of the girl lying inside the mat.

Looking at her right now, he felt so sorry for neglecting her all these years just to please Lena, he had literally pretended that she never existed just so Lena won’t have any complain and yet she does this. He has seen her cruelty in battles but never has he imagined she is also cruel when not on battle field.

“She was stealing!” Lena yelled with shaking rage as he tried to pick her up

“I gave the food to her” Cleaven replied raising his voice at her and she felt her shell folding down.

She bite her lips angrily letting her blood out as she watch Cleaven take the girl into his arms, hugging her carefully and gently and carry her away from the place.