6 - What Goes Around, Comes Around

"Charmy ..." He trailed off. His gaze, which had been piercing, now dropped and turned away from me.

There was a look of confusion on his usually arrogant face. I snorted in annoyance, disgust, and disappointment at him.

'He came all the way here, saved me, but still can't choose between me and that damn Omega.' I thought, sneering at how the uncertainty of his attitude.

"Forget it. You just live with that Charmy of yours. Let go of me now, I want to live alone and away from you," I said and prepared to walk away.

Just as I turned my body to face him, he pulled my hand so forcefully that I almost fell over. I snapped back angrily at him, and he got even rougher with me.

"Let me go!" I snapped in defiance. Now one hand was choking my neck in front of everyone.

"Shut up, cheap Omega," his voice roared angrily in my ear, as his eyes flashed a fiery red.

"Let me get this straight in case you forget," he continued sharply. "I bought you, remember? At a great price. Your job now is to serve me. Do you want me to punish you for daring to run away from your master?"

My lips were locked thanks to his hands choking me. My breathing was labored, and he seemed to have no intention of letting me go. It was only when I made a resigned noise, asking him to have mercy on me, that he removed his hands from me.

"Cough! Cough!" I fell with a cough, losing my breath.

From down here, his gaze looked at me so lowly and contemptuously. I thought to myself, where did his possessiveness go a minute ago?

'It's like I'm dealing with an Alpha with a different personality.' I thought.

"Your Majesty, your royal carriage is ready. The troops you requested have also arrived on the spot." One of the soldiers, wearing a military cap and armed with a firearm, approached us.

Hilbert did not come alone; he prepared a special vehicle to take me back to the palace. He had planned it all along.

"Lizzbeth." He called out to me, who was still sitting on the ground, and dragged my hand roughly. "Get into the royal carriage right now. And don't you dare run away if you don't want me to hurt your father."

He pulled me by the hair. It was an inappropriate way to do it, considering he was already a king known to many people. He did this cruel thing in front of many people without shame.

One carriage was used to transport the two of us. That's right, just him and me in it. Throughout the journey, I felt like I was being strangled by an imaginary rope that cut off my airway.

Arriving at the palace, the thing I feared happened. He held me hostage in a prison. On my feet, iron weights were hanging from an iron ball. He bound me with the chain like a wild dog.

"Hilbert! You don't have to do this!" I yelled at him even though it was too late. My strength was no match for him who was an Alpha.

Every time I fought back, he pushed my body to the floor. The abuse he gave me was like earth and sky from what he did to me before, considering just moments ago he was hugging me in front of everyone.

And let out how anxious he felt for me.

"Honey! What are you doing with this cheap Omega? You promised to get rid of her, didn't you!"

Charmy's voice boomed through my torment. The tapping of her high heels was noisy on the floor. Her quick steps complained with the silence of the wind. And when she reached me, she slapped me.

/slap!/

She pulled my hair roughly. Then she dropped cold water on my face until I was soaked.

"Are you choosing her over me now!?" she screeched at Hilbert. Her fingers pointed at me as if I had taken a country from her. Even though she the one who had tortured me.

"What are you talking about, sweetheart? I've already rejected her. She is no longer anything to me," Hilbert replied, placing a brief kiss on her lips. In front of me.

"I've already rejected Lizzbeth. And you know why I bought her for as a slave? So that I could use her body. You and her are different, dear," he called again.

It felt like I had walked into a theatre, and was watching a live drama-filled cinema performance. Hilbert's acting in front of Charmy was really bad.

How could he say he had rejected me when he was the one who forced me to return to this castle and would not allow me to leave?

"Let's go into the room, darling," Charmy said, her arms wrapped around Hilbert's neck very intimately. In between their hot kisses, she deliberately glanced at me.

My body was soaking wet, with chains around my legs, and clothes in tatters. Like the world was spinning, Charmy, who used to live as a slave, was now swapping positions with me.

Now, I was the one in her position.

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"This is your room. You only get two meals a day. And you are forbidden to touch anything in this palace without my knowledge. Understood?"

Charmy confiscated all the valuables I had. After the wedding was over, I was asked to move into Hilbert's palace located in the centre of the city boundary.

As a former princess who lost her royal status, I still had a few luxury things left from my pack. My father gave me enough money to keep me from starving. But without Hilbert's knowledge, Charmy confiscated everything.

She even locked me up in this prison, which instead of giving me a room. It was winter outside. I, who was supposed to sleep in the same bed with Hilbert, was made to suffer by her.

"Don't you dare say anything to Hilbert. Understand?" she threatened, my fancy dress was confiscated by her, and left me with only shabby clothes.

"Now, I want to have breakfast with Hilbert. You eat here and don't go near him!" she snapped at me.

A bowl of cold rice porridge was thrown at me, as this morning's breakfast menu. The servants who saw this torture could only remain silent, even though they knew I was the real princess here.

My mind still doesn't reach an understanding, how could a servant like Charmy get so close to Hilbert? To the point where she had complete control and power over this palace, which I didn't even get to whys.

"You poor thing, Lizzbeth. You must be freezing in that prison. How about I give you something warm?"