Judging from the weather and the sunrise, I can tell that it was already about 7am in the morning. I don't know how long we have been walking but I'm sure we have walked a long distance because my legs are already aching and I doubt if I can move them for another three minutes.
The devil walked like a soldier. Like he doesn't really feel any pain. He walks like he could walk from earth into hell.
Well, hell is where he belongs.
" I can't walk anymore," I cry out and he halt his steps.
All my life, I've lived as a princess and I'm not used to walking long distances by foot.
I'm carried by carriages and horses.
He smirked and I felt his eyes on me. If only he knows how much I hated that silver eyes that hunted by dreams.
" Don't you have a horse?" I asked in a painful tone and painful expression on my face.
Only the heavens knows how much I want my legs to be dipped into hot water and massaged properly.
" The horse is right before us." He said in that same mean, cold tone of his and I was forced to look up.
Surprisingly, there is a black midnight horse before us. This horse wasn't there before and I didn't here it gallop in our direction.
How did he do it? How did the horse end up right in front of us immediately after I talked about it?
He is weird, strange and scarier than before.
" Are you coming or you want me to send him away?" He asked sternly and I quickly shook my head.
Trekking is the last thing on my mind right now. I want to sit down and rest my feet.
I stepped forward slowly and stood beside the horse. It was huge and taller than me. Before I could raise my leg and mount it, I felt a tight grip above my waist and the next thing I felt was my ass on top of the horse.
I gasped in daze and embarrassment. The tingling sensation that ran through me wasn't an hallucination. It was real and I can still feel it.
I felt his breath on my neck and I lost my breath for God knows how long.
" Hold the rope and ride," he instructed me and I felt my shaky hands reaching forward for the rope.
' Ride the horse, push him off and ru away Valerie,' my consciousness screamed at me.
But is that a good thing to do. This horse must probably know its owner and how sure am I that he won't throw me off after noticing that his owner was no longer riding on it?
I heard a thud beside me and I looked sideways to see him standing by the horse.
" Move back," he said and I wondered if he is referring to me or the horse.
" Now, Valerie." He growled and I felt my butt moving back on the horse.
He mounted the horse swiftly and his back was now on my face. I could smell his earthly smell from his cloak and I felt myself shifting forward, closer to him.
The horse trotted forward and I fell backward. A scream left my mouth as the fear of falling off the horse hits me hard.
" Fool," I heard him curse and I felt a cold grip around my wrist and I was pulled up, back on the horse.
I gasped, my heart thumped in my chest that I could hear the sound in my ear.
" We don't have time to waste for your dramas. Hold on or I will dump you here." He threatened and I quickly wrapped my arms around his waist.
I don't want to be dumb in the middle of nowhere. I'm just a crown princess who has lived in the walls of the castle for all her life. A princess who doesn't know what and how dangerous the outside world is.
My life outside the castle feels like hell but I have no choice. I don't even know the condition I'm in. I don't know my left and right. It's just so confusing.
We rode through the thick forest, wind wheezing past my face as I hold on tight to him.
I couldn't open my eyes fully from the effect the wind had on them but I knew we are still in the woods.
The horse slowed down and I let out a sigh of relief. I opened my eyes to see where we are.
My eyes widened. I couldn't believe my eyes. We are in town!
I can loose him here and run away.
For the first time, a smile crept to myself and I felt the ray of hope In my heart.
" We are in one of the towns of Sin city," he says and irked.
What type of name is that?
" The royal armies are not here yet. So, you will be safe for a night or two." He said and I pulled away from him.
" I am not safe with the murderer that killed my father." I gritted and hated the fact that I can't see his expression.
" You should be grateful to the murderer because if he hadn't come for you, someone would have does and you would have been somewhere far away, surrounded by evil." He responded and his voice sounds distant.
What does he mean by someone would have come for me? He is making things up to plant the seed of fear in my heart?
Is he not evil enough? He is most cruel and evil person I've met.
He turned my paradise into hell and made me walk miles. Made me eat dry bread with no wine. He killed my father and framed me as the murderer by taking me away. I hate him. I detest him.
" If you think that i will see you as my savior, then you're wrong." I snapped and turned to look away.