Esther stood there not knowing if she heard the king right, he didn't look at her face with his back facing her,he repeated himself again but this time he looked at her with those deadly eyes of his. " Just leave before I do something crazy!" He roared and she went backwards, her eyes wide at the corners. "W-what....?" She tried to say something but her voice broke with the pain and disbelief she was feeling, "queen Helena! See to it that Esther leaves the palace at once!!" He ordered and Esther was over shocked with this. Helena herself was shocked, what was going on here? She never imagined this day to come, the bitch was going to leave the palace?
The whole palace was a mess with all the spilled blood and limps of others and the news about Esther's affair was something else. As if knowing that the party was over, all the guests started leaving with their families that came along. Esther held on to the wall to stand properly not willing to give in to the pain she was feeling in her heart, she looked at the king hoping that he would look into her eyes and her eyes would have said it all to him.' I didn't do anything, my mate!' but he didn't want to see her face, he had smelled her scent on the stranger and that alone made his blood boil, only if he could kill the soul of that ass, how dare he touch her? He was the only one supposed to have her scent and not the other way round! He yelled out making everyone frightened,he was loosing it completely and turned to look at Esther again. "I told you to leave Esther! Just leave and never return!" He said with an enraged voice and with that the guards came in to grab Esther's arm, he would have smashed their heads for touching her before but now, he didn't do anything even though their mating bond pushed him to get her back to him, he didn't and just closed his eyes to endure the pain. It was like separating his soul from his body and a normal vampire would scream out of pain because of that, the sweat coated on his face was evidence of him suffering. He could still hear her screaming, damn it! He knew his mate had an explanation to all of this but...
Esther was left outside the gates of the palace in the dark, she shivered due to the sudden change of the weather and she stared at the palace. Some years ago she would have loved it, her freedom from the demon king because she didn't love him but now, she didn't want to go. She would give everything to stay by his side, fresh tears rolled down her cheeks and the guards at the gate looked at her with pity, they preferred her to Helena in the palace. The loud sound of thunder made her shiver even more, were things going to get this worst? She turned around and stared at the forest road leading to the town ahead of her and sighed, she was not sure if she would make it to the village before the rain.
"Your highness" a voice made Helena smile, " you know what to do, right?" She asked him and he bowed at her. " Leave at once!" Helena stood at her window with a wide smile on her face, her happiness was now certain in the palace. As Esther walked down the hilled road from the palace, she heard footsteps and turned around but no one was behind her, she knew how unsafe she was now that the king had kicked her out of the palace and she needed to protect herself and her baby. Esther hurried her steps and now took the forest path, she had no idea what direction she was going but the footsteps double up, telling her that some people were following her and her senses picked up the sound of weapons, swords or arrows maybe! And her breathing increased. She was scared to death and only hoped that the gods would take care of her and her child, it started drizzling and even getting heavy. The forest became hard to walk through with all the mud on the ground, staining her whole body. And when she was sure no one knew where she was hiding, Esther came out from the big hole created in the huge tree only to meet with an arrow that went through her thigh, with the force it came with..... Esther fell on her face and she screamed out, her hands touching her belly before turning to lay on her back. She took in a deep breath to calm herself but that didn't help, the rain was now very angry beating the hell out of anything that came out in it, she was so sad that she didn't notice her abdominal pain from the palace, her eyes filled with pain and she tried her best not to scream out. Her eyes were hurting badly and she knew that she won't be able to see the bright light in the next morning. She gathered up the courage to pull out the arrow from her leg and her eyes widened because of pain, she covered her mouth to prevent the scream and she cried. She teared a piece of her dress and tied her wound, she heard clashes of metals in the forest and painful scream of men, it continued for sometime before it ended. She tried to get up but her leg gave her away back to the ground and she groaned, the figure that watched her in the rain made her stuck in place. She couldn't see it clearly, her vision was getting blurry, wet from the rain it just stood there and her instincts told her that he was not going to hurt her. She finally got on her feet with the help of the stick the shadow threw to her and didn't get to say thanks because after picking it up, he was gone...
Her pain was now doubling up and she couldn't walk fast anymore, she moved one leg at a time. She moved again and felt warm liquid flow down her thighs, she froze in place, her hands went under her dress and her hands got the flowing liquid, the moon light had not come out due to the rain and she didn't see anything. She now felt the pain shooting from her back to her front, "Ah! She cried softly, not wanting to attract any harm to herself and her child. The more she moved the more she felt the pain from her abdomen down to her core, her walking turned funny with her not being able to close her thighs not walk straight because of her wound and she kept talking to herself, telling herself that she was going to be okay. She managed to come out of the forest to the muddy ground itself, her eyes darting from one side to another. " Help, help me!" She tried to shout but it only came out too small for anyone to hear through the rain, the stick fell from her hand and she clutched her abdomen it was then her eyes widened when she saw her dress wet with blood. The touches on the walls of the villagers told her, her wound was not bleeding that much because she had tied it hard..."please, help me" she cried out when she saw an old lady coming to the well in the middle of the town. The woman didn't want to come near her, she was scared of her, Esther couldn't move and her legs gave up when the lady didn't make an attempt to help her. The woman panicked now and ran to her, " please, please am not a bad person, help me.....my, my child!" She said and the woman went around knocking on some particular doors. Esther noticed how they all glanced at her before making effort to come over and help her, they came holding sheets and towels, blankets and gathered around her. "She's needs help!" One said before another woman walked through the crowd to her, she hard grey eyes and Esther had no strength to talk or to scream again. She looked at them with blurry eyes, picking up what they kept on saying 'push!'
The pain became so unbearable that she wished she could just die and everything would just end, the consistent expanding of her birth carnal made her legs shake. She could feel hands in her core which hurt like hell but she could say anything than to look up at the heavens, she felt them pull out her baby out of her cervix and she screamed out from pain with all she got. Her eyes were still wide and she watched them, beat the hell out of her baby until it kicked and started crying out, Esther took in a deep breath finally giving into her pain, " its a boy, you have a baby boy!" The said and Esther smiled after feeling her baby's smooth skin. They discarded her dress and placed the baby on her chest, his cry only filled the background now and she closed her eyes, taking in his scent and the cry filled her with joy... now she wanted to live!