CHAPTER NINE

Eva

"I will tell your Father all about our past sweet passionate affair and how you helped me conquer his Kingdom." These words kept echoing in my head as his footsteps retreated down the hallway.

I slumped on the floor, my back resting defeatedly against the wall as my hand fisted my hair.

What am I going to do? If Father finds out then… Dread runs down my body, goosebumps along with it when different things Father could do to me runs through my mind.

I have seen what he does to people he feels betrayed him in the slightest. How he killed Uncle Joe, his cousin, when he mistakenly gave out the secret gold transfer distribution info to the wrong people, making Father lose that shipment.

I was being punished as usual to spend three days in the dungeon without even a single grain for me at that time when I heard the echoing of his defense down the torture chamber of the dungeon.

"I didn't know, brother! Please forgive me! I'm not a traitor! It was a mistake!" He kept yelling and be