Beastly

Who is king

She sat on a bench in the garden for the rest of the evening thinking of how her life would be now that she was here, could she possibly get married to a man like the lord of Nightfalls, she couldn't even picture herself on a wedding gown and matching down the isle to him ,her groom,she took a deep breath,if she would not be able to get him to postpone the marriage so that she would adapt to the idea,then she would have no choice than to find her way out of here no matter what it takes,she would also give him reasons on why she was definitely a bad choice to be married to,in fact she would show him what a bad choice he had made by choosing her and just like that she started cooking up plans in her head.

"Milady,we have to get you ready for dinner."said the voice of a maid behind her .

"Good lords!"she exclaimed as she stood hurriedly from the bench.

"I am sorry milady,I didn't mean to startle you."she said with a bow but her face remain low.

"No, it's not a problem,I was just too deep in thought."Thrianna said as she studied the girl before her,she had wavy black hair that fell just above her shoulder,she wasn't too tall but she was taller than her.it would be nice if she could have someone to talk to her like her sisters did without actually looking scared or stoic and this one looked the stoic part.

"What is your name?"Thrianna asked .

"Rose, your grace."she said bowing again.

"Ok."Thrianna said nothing further, she lead her to her room and she was dressed in an ivory silk gown with a bow done around it at the waist region,she wondered who the gowns belonged to ,her hair was pulled up with matching ribbons.

She had been told that he would be having dinner with her as well,she would speak to him there.

She took a deep breath and walked into the dinning hall,he was seated at the far end of the table and dressed in black throughout and the only other colour being his white cravat,she didn't look past his necktie as she was already close to him and didn't want it to seem like she was staring.

"Good evening,milord."she said as she dipped a courtesy and as she took the sit held out for her by the butler which was just beside him.

"Good evening, Cathrianna,I hear you took a tour of the castle."he said as soon as she sat down,her name sounded so good coming from him and for the second time she reminded herself that it wasn't a good sign.

"Yes, I did."she said as she picked her cutleries.

"If I had known earlier I would have taken you around myself."he said.

Thank goodness he didn't,she thought.

"I have something to ask of you ,milord."she said as her pulse began to pick up of which he noted.

"You may ask what ever you please."he said dropping his cutleries back on the table.

"I wish of you to extend the wedding a bit further and-"

"That of course ,is out of the question."he said cutting through her words.

"But I wasn't done yet."she said dropping her's.

"I have no wish to hear what so ever you have to say about the wedding and you would drop this topic at once."he said calmly getting back to his food.

"You can not tell me what to do."she said clenching her fists that were in her lap below the table.

"Oh,I can and I will."he said as a smile appeared on his face.

Oh! this arrogant....argh!,she was done eating.

"We would see about that."she said as she stood with a speed that almost knocked the chair down,she had tried to talk to him sensibly now she would go the other way around,she turned and left the hall.

Did she just walk out on him,it seemed like she didn't know who is king around here and he would surely teach her that,no woman had ever dared to walk out on him,he sat for a while just looking at the door through which she exited and what in the world did she mean by,they would see about that?.

She soaked in the hot bath, she really hadn't experienced this kind of weather before,it was so cold here and she could really get used to this,she relaxed tossing her neck back as she sighed,the weather was alot worse during the night time,she shivered quite alot the previous night and she wondered yet again how she could leave in a place like this.

After her bath she was helped into a night dress by Rose who seemed to be her lady-in-waiting, she really needed to get acquainted with the staff of the palace, that would be for tomorrow, she thought.

Stepping back into the room she found he was already there so she sent Rose away as she didn't seem comfortable with him around,she sat on the chair by the dressing table as she combed her hair, seeming like she didn't care about his presence in the room whereas it affected her a great deal and he was undressing and she was watching him through the mirror,first was his cravat and then his waist coat and when he took off his shirt she held her breath,she should look away but it was so hard to look away from such a magnificent torso,he looked like a Greek god,how could someone be this good looking?, and just as her thoughts made to stray further he sent her a dashing smile that suggested he knew her thoughts and colour rose to her cheeks as she looked away , he would probably think she was slobbering over him,great!

He lay on the bed looking in her direction,she combed her hair for what seemed like hours dreading the fact that she would be in bed with a man.

"Are you going to keep doing that?"she heard him say and she could have sworn she heard a small smile in his voice.

"No, I'm almost done."she said placing the comb back on the table with hesitation,she braided her hair to the side and finally she stood from the chair and walked over to the bed.