back to reality

I took in a deep breath, trying my possible best to keep my heart rate steady. “Fuck” I muttered under my breath.

I closed my eyes. Steady breaths till I did not feel like I was going to die. It was always like this. Every time I remembered that night, or tried to remember the face of the man who saved me, my heart felt like it was going to give out.

“Hey!” the head maid, Lauretta said, calling from the door said, she looked at me with one of disdain “get the fuck up, the master is coming today”

She sneered, before she left me at the door. Contrary to what others might think, she was not an old lady. If anything, she was closer to my age than you might think. She had green eyes that made you want to stare a second longer and the body of a goddess but that was all destroyed by her nasty attitude.

“Did you hear me because I swear..” she said, making her way into the room

“I heard” I said, barely giving her the attention she was trying to get. She scoffed leaving me alone to my thoughts.

I sighed when I was alone with my thoughts again.

Two years and I had never seen the ‘master’ they always talked about. When I woke up from the accident two years back, I found myself here, in the old looking castle with people that looked like they should be models.

“Don’t even bother running away, the Master would find you and it would be an experience worse than death.” Lauretta had told me as soon as I opened my eyes.

Honestly, I did not mind it. I had no family that I was going to willingly go back to and I did not have any will to live, so I did not fight it. Plus it was good food and a roof over my head, what more could I ask for?

I sighed, deciding that it was time to get in the shower.

**

The air felt… different. Apart from it being busier than normal, it felt as though the air was… “Get your stupid ass out of the way and….” Lauretta stopped, looking at me from head to toe. “This is not the cloth I laid down for you” she said, fixing me a stare.

“ummm… the dress was a bit too itchy and…” I sighed, the dress was ugly. Yellow had never been my color to begin with not to talk of a yellow satin dress. It was not! In any way made for someone like me.

“I don’t care if the dress is too itchy or it’s about to take your life, you better put it the fuck on or else….” She was cut off by the doors of the hall opening.

“all hail your majesty” someone shouted, causing everyone, including Lauretta to bow their head.

I looked around, a bit confused before I was dragged into a kneeling position. “Show some respect” she muttered.

Footsteps echoed in the room, for some reason the closer the footsteps, the louder my heart beat got.

something definitely did not feel right

“You, get up” his voice came, shaking me to my core. I recognized that voice.

I froze for a moment, as his shoes where in my line of vision as I kept my head bowed down. “m…my lord” Lauretta said, raising her head. It was so obvious how large her smile.

“I was not talking to you.” He said, his voice cold “I am talking…”I could see a little bit of movement from my peripheral vision before his voice came, so close to my ear “to you love” I snapped my head towards him, almost hitting him in the process if not for his fast reflexes.

“y..you” I said in a bit of shock. He was the man. The same man that met me that  night, the night when...

“show some respect when talking to the master” Lauretta said, her voice holding every bit of condensation.

He turned to look at her, that impressive feeling dying from his eyes immediately he looked at her. “everyone is dismissed” he said, straightening his back to go back to his full height.

I scrambled to my feet, wanting to get out of his sight as soon as possible because something about him just made me want to cower.

“not you” he said, turning to me, causing me to freeze. “you follow me” I nodded.

I followed behind him, wondering what in the world he needed me for.

I took in a deep breath as we approached the part of the castle no one had ever dared to step foot into before.

“Happy 25TH” he said, causing me to freeze. ‘how did he know?’ I thought to myself, looking at him with shock “it is your birthday is it not?” he said, crossing his legs over each other.

“yes.. it is” I stood there, ignoring his gaze. The awkwardness in the room could be cut with a knife.

“anyways, I would like to get down to it.. strip” he said in the most unbothered tone in the world.

“what????!!!!” I looked at him, wondering if he was unserious or not…

He looked at me like I had grown a second head, wanting nothing more than to say something. It was quite obvious that he very much wanted to say something but instead, he pinched the bridge of his nose.

“I said… strip” he looked at me. “or would you prefer..” he stood up from where he sat, taking a step towards me and forcing me to take one back.

“look now, I do not have all the time in the…” I zoned him out, looking around for the best escape “hey” he said, pulling me into his hold, giving me no other option than to be in the same space, breathing the same air as him. “I am talking to you” he said, grabbing my face rather tightly, that I could look at no other place but at him. “so I suggest you look at me when I am fucking talking to you, or I swear, I would not be very patient” i gulped seeing the look on his face..