• Just by simply looking at her, I could see she was frozen with freight. It was more like she is petrified of the sight of me. I need to figure out how to best calm her. I'm not exactly good at this kinda stuff but I really tried to soften my darker aura. This way she wasn't so terrified of me. I only needed her to fear me enough to not run away. But I didn't want her to fear me this badly.
When I went to lift my hand again. To clean the crusty blood off her chin and still glistening around her lip. I had to withdraw to see she was about to dodge my hand again.
"I promise, I'm not going to hurt you." I softly told her in the gentlest way I could.
Yet she showed no ounce of leeway to trust me. Saul and whoever else owned her once from the Businessman Society never showed her any kindness. I could tell by the way her eyes quivered to my hand she had been struck a lot.
Weirdly thinking this made my blood boil the wrong way. I found my eyes flickered to my darker fearsome side. Having a bond connection setting was confusing for me in the wrong way. Finding control over my anger was getting difficult, I thought. Which in turn is only scaring her away from me.
I took a breath thinking she is no longer available to be harmed by Saul. She is rightfully back home to us. I had to tell myself this to cool down from losing it.
Her adjustment to accept this as her rightful home will take time. So I need to maintain my control here to show her the less menacing side of myself.
Honestly showing affection to a hybrid-woman wasn't my thing. Matt and Mike are way better at dealing with a woman's emotional well-being and adjustment when coming into our Kingdom. Thanks to this imprint I am losing my grip on my own emotions. But I need to try soothing her enough. So she understands, I only wanna clean up her wounds. I couldn't bear the sight of looking at her open porcelain fair flesh.
In my first attempt to ease her worries, I said to her. "Well, you sure have some fight in you. Never seen anyone bring Rachel down to her knees screaming."
But yet she only kept her silence giving me this exhausted fearful look. So I continued with a faint smile, "I knew one of these days someone would put her in place."
I heard Jay and a few guys çhuckling around the large from my failed attempt to try soothing her. Maybe I didn't use the right approach like how Matt and Mike would do. But hey! I tried I told myself as I saw her mouth move to speak.
"Will I be p-punished now too?" She asked partly stuttering scared.
My men and I chuckled at her question. I was pleased to hear her voice even if it came out shaky from fear.
In a serious voice, "Why would you need to be punished?" I looked at her asking.
Although it came out strongly from how I meant to express it. But the thought of Rachel aggravated me greatly.
She said in a shaken tone, "Because I just attacked a princess."
The men chuckled in the room at her statement.
With a lot of irritation, I said firmly, "She attacked you! You only used defense to defend yourself. I have no laws against self-defense in my Kingdom. However, I do have laws against physical fights with you ladies. But being a woman you can defend yourself if that happens. Otherwise, it gives me a huge unnecessary headache. There are far more important things that matter. I shouldn't have to deal with this nonsense. Rachel should have known better than to do something so foolish!"
I rambled a bit from being so flustered about Rachel doing this to her.
"I thought I'd be punished for harming an actual princess," She said softly but less shaky.
"Don't let her venomous words poison your hearing. You are a Princess too and your rank is no different than hers. Rachel is a nasty woman most of the time and thinks she owns this Kingdom as a Primary Queen."
Ofcourse I lied to her on that princess part since Sally is exactly ranked as a Grand Duchess Queen. Which I felt my stomach cell twist whenever I said it. But I can't yet let her learn about her true identity. I have to drill this lie into her head until she exactly believes it. She isn't ready to learn about this true identity of hers. I mean she's hardly able to accept the truth about our Kingdom being her actual birthplace. On that part, I actually didn't lie to her.
As I saw her eyes studying me, "Please will you allow me to clean up your wounds?" I said in a calmer manner, "I won't hurt you. You did nothing that would be deemed as punishable."
I tried my best to show her I wasn't going to harm her.
[Author~ Stomach cells is another way to say gut. Their Kind doesn't have the same reproductive system as us. They have cells in stomach that will absorb anything they ate or drank.]