Realm of the forgotten

Chapter 6

Eric POV;

I don't know what came over me, but her defying me made my anger rise so much that I lashed it out at her. I felt ashamed after seeing her cry like that. I don't know what it is, but I never want to see her cry again and I can not describe what I was feeling at that moment. My main goal is to get married to her so that our family will gain power and everyone in Unzexria will fear us. She is the piece that everyone wants in this realm. She holds so much power that anyone who marries her will gain it as well. She is a pawn that my family will use to gain control over everybody in the realm.

The realm is in chaos and everyone is out to gain power to get the title King of Unzexria. It was told in the prophecy that one day the child of two eternal beings would come to Unzexria and marry a chosen one and he and she would both rule over Unzexria. All creatures will be under their rule and no one can disobey them as they will hold so much power that no one will be able to over throw them from the throne.

I know my father and mother want me to marry her just to gain power and I agreed to it myself, but something about her is creating something different inside me. The way she looked when she started to cry, something in me stirred. I couldn't look at her while she was crying and there was this feeling that screamed at me to just hold her, but I knew I couldn't.

I went straight to my bedroom after what happened, stripped my clothes and got into the shower, trying to get rid of these feelings.

I stood in the shower for more than an hour just thinking about everything, about her. Afterwards, I dried off and climbed into bed trying to fall asleep, but that proved difficult as my mind was on one person and only one person. All I knew was that I needed to distance myself from her, that she was becoming too dangerous to be close to.

Akara POV;

I cried the whole night and eventually, after many attempts to calm myself, I crawled into bed and fell into a thoughtless sleep. I cried for my family, for Richard, for everyone back home. I missed them so much and yesterday was just the breaking point for me. I couldn't take it anymore, I couldn't take anymore from him. He is the reason why I was feeling like this. I thought of how I could get him back for hurting me, making me feel like I had no hope. Each scenario that I played out all failed though.

After my whole crying session that I had, I did realize that I would not return home soon and after seeing his strength, I thought that the best way to stay alive in this situation was to do as he said, no matter how much I hated it. If I was going to survive here, I would have to be smart about my actions.

While I was thinking of all this, someone knocked on my bedroom door but didn't say who they were. I sat up in bed thinking how I should approach it. Should I be polite and tell them to come inside or should I just ignore them flat? I went with the option that would not get me in more trouble than I already am.

"Come in" I said politely to whoever was at the door.

The door opened and in strolled three women. One was holding a dark green dress and another was holding a wooden box that I had no clue what was inside and the last one was holding a tray of breakfast.

The one holding the breakfast tray spoke to me first.

"Milady, would you like breakfast?" she asked politely.

I stared at her and then the thought hit me. When last did I eat something and, obviously at that time, my stomach needed to grumble as loudly as possible.

Everyone was quiet and suddenly all three started to laugh at my stomach grumbling. The one holding the breakfast spoke to me.

"Apologies, Milady" she apologized to me.

"No stress, I haven't eaten for quite some time and to answer your question I would love to have some breakfast." I said, smiling at all three of them.

The one with the breakfast walked over to me and placed the tray on my lap and stepped back. Then she started to talk again.

"Milady, after you have eaten breakfast, I will take you to get you clean. After cleansing you, Melissa will dress you and Katherine will put your make-up on for you, then you will meet Lord Eric in the garden for a cup of tea." she explained to me.

While I was eating breakfast, which was a full English breakfast with eggs, bacon and sausage with mushrooms and toast with orange juice. I listened to her but my body went stiff at the mention of Eric's name, and WHAT? His a Lord? Lord of what? Being a dumbass?

My mind was thinking of the best way to respond and all three of them waited for my response.

"Why?" I asked them.

All three looked stunned at my question. "He requested your presence," Melissa said.

Why would he ask for my presence? If he wanted to see me, he could just walk in through my bedroom door and that's it.

I couldn't waste time thinking why he was doing all of this.

"Alright." was all I could say to them.

I finished my breakfast feeling very full and the one that gave me the breakfast was ushering me to the bathroom. I didn't even know her name.

"Excuse me, but what is your name?" I asked her.

"I'm Stella, Milady" she replied.

"Nice to meet you Stella, Melissa, Katherine, I'm Akara". I introduced myself to them before going into the bathroom thinking I was going alone only to see Stella right behind me.

I turned to look at her and asked her what she was doing, following me into the bathroom.

"I am here to clean you, Milady," she said politely.

"I can do that myself, thank you." I said to her a bit harshly.

"But, Milady, it is one of the rules in the castle," she said.

Rules? I thought to myself. Great...

"And let me guess I can not refuse you to clean me as it would either bring me in trouble or it would bring you in trouble, am I correct?"

She stared at me with wide eyes and only nodded. "Okay fine, do what you must."I said to her.

She ran a bubble bath and washed my body and hair. After the bath, I dried myself off and went back into the bedroom. Melissa was waiting for me. I walked over to her so that she could get me dressed. The dress that she was going to put on me was a dark green strapped corset dress that flared out from the waist down. When she put the dress on me I loved it, it fitted like a glove on me. I went over to Katherine, who made a natural make-up look, which I thought looked stunning as my crystal clear blue eyes popped more with the make-up she did.

I took a quick look at myself in the mirror and was satisfied with how I looked, not that it mattered anyway.

The girls escorted me from the castle to the garden where Eric was waiting for me. It was a gravel path. It took atleast 5 minutes for us to arrive at the place he was waiting, which was under a black steel gazebo in the middle of the beautiful garden. He was sitting at a table that had a tea set placed with little snacks as well. He looked up in my direction and for a moment my breath was caught in my throat at how handsome he looked. This was the first time that I had seen him like this. Before, I never paid attention. He also seemed caught off guard about something. Then I noticed something in his eyes, lust, which just made me more confused. I put that in the back of my mind and walked straight towards him and when I was at the table he held his hand out to me to take. I looked back and forth at his hand and his face, thinking about what he wanted me to do. I placed my hands in his and then the most bizarre thing happened. He kissed my hand while looking at me straight with lustful eyes. I just stared at him, bewildered.

"Good morning Akara, you look very breathtaking today." he said in a husky voice.

"Good morning Eric, thank you." I said, keeping my answers short, not wanting him to see that I was taken aback by his beauty. He wore a black and red suit with a black coat. His black hair was gelled to the side and he was clean shaven, his face look that of a Greek god. His eyes were very dark, almost black I would say, while his skin looked like a pale light blue color. He was built. His muscles could be seen even through the suit that he wore.

I think he saw that I was literally checking him out as he smiled and said " You like the view, darling."

I changed the subject. "Why did you want to see my presence?" I asked while thinking why he looked different.

"Ah yes, about that. I wanted to discuss our marriage arrangement with you?" he said, smiling.

"Oh yes, the part where I am forced to marry you?" I said with a hint of anger in my tone.

"Yes, there is a reason for that which you will soon find out," he said seriously.

"Oh, now there is a reason for you forcing me to marry you, I would love to hear that. Please do tell me while I sit here and hear this wonderful excuse that you have come up with!" I said sarcastically, as I was now over playing games with him.

"In time you will find out, my dear. But for now you can ask me one question before we discuss the wedding," he said.

I thought about what he said and knew immediately that he would literally answer one of my questions. Should I ask him why me? Or what was up with your eyes earlier? I sat for five minutes thinking, then I decided on one question that I would like to answer.

"Your skin is not a normal color and your strength isn't that of a normal human, so my question is, what are you?" I said.

He looked quite shocked at my question but then smiled, looked straight at my eyes.

"Ah, so that is the question you want an answer to. I knew I couldn't keep it a secret from you for long," he said, smiling.

"I, my dear, am what you would call in your world a Vampire," he said proudly.