(From Leandro's Perspective)
It was ten when I got a glimpse of Ella coming this way. I had been waiting for her. Even though according to the deal, she was supposed to go back to the cave on her own, I came here every night to take her. I did not know why, but I felt that I needed to.
"Why are you late? I've been waiting for you here," I said coldly to her.
She shrugged. "Who told you to wait? You are the one who told me that I'm to go back to the cave on my own. I haven't told you to wait for me."
"Just be grateful. I can't go look for you in the whole forest when you'll cry out my name seeing the Orgades," I said.
"Well, Jed and I were talking and then we met Edrich on our way. Time passed in a moment," she said.
"You and Jed were talking? Perhaps because of that talking, I can smell a man from you," I said. I could help the anger I felt inside.
"What?"
"Were you two just talking? Or was there a bit touchy thing going on?" I asked, my tone controlled.
"Have you lost your mind? Let's go. I'm hungry," she said and started walking.
I quickly walked up to her. I could not understand why I was feeling this way. But I wanted nothing more than to kick that Jed's face. And if he and Ella did something, I was going to kill him. Yeah, killing seemed like a good idea.
"Did you two sleep together?" I asked.
She stopped and looked at me with a shocked expression on her face. Then she quickly fixed her face and said, "Why do you care, Leandro? It's not part of the deal that I can't sleep with someone. It's my choice."
"That means you slept with him?" I asked angrily.
"That's none of your business," she snarled.
I did not talk to her the whole way. I wanted to kill that boy right away. How dare he touch her! He dared to sleep with her! Now she was behaving as if it was nothing. There was only one thing that I wanted more than to kill the boy. I wanted to pin her right away on the forest ground and fuck her. I wanted her to see that no one could make her feel good than me.
I could easily do that. I was stronger and bigger than her. I could easily overpower her. But I would not do it. I would never do this if she did not say yes.
After reaching the cave, she went to take a shower as usual. I could not get the thought of anyone else touching her out of my head. I made chicken soup.
She came and sat down for dinner. She did not seem to be bothered at all. Why would she be? She just had a great time with that boy. I wished I could show her what a great time meant.
"Your father killed a girl today," she said.
I did not say anything. I was looking at her skin that was visible from the huge shirt she was wearing, trying to find any sign of bite marks or red sucking spots.
"Well, they had anal sex. The girl pooped," she said and I looked at her. I could not read her expression. "... on your father's thing, you know. He took her to the dungeon and bit her up with a hot whip. She could not take it. She died right there. Edrich told me. That's why I got late."
Father was always like this. He would kill a human without mercy, without thinking twice. I would do that too, but at least, I had a reason. I would never kill anyone without a reason or for a silly reason. But father never listened.
I did not know what to say to her. I could not even understand if she was scared. She remained expressionless.
"I know the girl. Remember I told you that there were two girls who had come to work in the castle as well? Perhaps I haven't. Well, one of the girls had red hair. She was very beautiful and had a perfect curvy body, you know. She might be two or three years older than me. She was very confident too. She even kept smiling when one of the guards spanked her ass. Jed said she is a sex worker. She was, I mean. It's her. Your father killed her. Jed and I had to clean the room. It took us so long that I could not go look for... well, never mind. The other girl is your brother's slave. I haven't seen her since the first day. Edrich told us that your father said he will choose his slave himself this time. Where do you think he's going to look for a slave? In a brothel? Or perhaps he's gonna barge into someone's house and ask for the female living there at the cost of silvers," she said, sipping on the soup.
I remained quiet. She did not seem angry and her face was set. But I could sense the disgust in her voice.
"By the way, I'm going to be late tomorrow. I don't know when I can return. You don't have to come to pick me up," she said.
"Why? Are you going somewhere?" I asked.
"Yeah. I promised Jed that I'll go to his place, I mean, Edrich's place."
"At night?"
"Yes."
We were already done with the dinner. She went to the bedroom. I made my way to the bedroom as well after I was done cleaning the dishes.
I found her sitting on the bed, reading a notebook. "Time to fulfill the deal," I said.
She did not look at me but placed the notebook aside. I walked up to her and looked down at her. She looked a bit sad. But I did not care. My mind was already telling me to rip the shirt off her body. But as I could not do that, I at least needed to feel her lips. It would perhaps calm me down a bit. Besides, I was determined to let her know that no one could ever kiss her better than me, not even that Jed.
She was swinging her leg, sitting on the mattress. She looked so precious. I bent down and pressed my lips to hers. She fell backward on the bed even though she was trying not to.
I was on top of her, savoring her lips, taking as much as I could. I entwined our hands. She was trembling under me, probably for need as well.
I was careful about not crashing her with my weight. I tried to keep the kiss gentle, but I could not. The kiss got filled with need as I fiercely moved my lips against hers. It got even more intense when I felt her kissing back with almost the same passion.
I sucked on her bottom lip. She never opened her lips on her own. I always had to bite her lips or suck on her bottom lip to make her part those sweet pink rims.
I inserted my tongue inside her mouth. Our mouth seemed to fit together with undoubted perfection. My member had gotten rock hard. There was no way I would be able to control myself anymore.
"Fuck!" I snarled, breaking away from the kiss hastily. I looked down at her. Perfect- It was the only thing that I could say seeing her little pale figure on the mattress, her face and neck flushed, her lips swollen and wet, her eyes saying unspoken unknown words of a completely different language.
Why? Why did she have to sleep with that boy? Was I not enough for her? Why did she not just tell me to fuck her if she wanted it so bad?
I left the room angrily and very quickly. If I stayed there any longer, there was a chance I would do something she would not want me to. I went straight into the bathroom.
The anger I felt, was more than anger. There was something mixed with the feeling. But I did not know what. Perhaps I knew. But I did not want to admit it.
Jealousy.