Filed to story: The Alpha Kings Hated Slave
“Have you forgotten her condition, my king? She can’t. Not in this condition when she is most vulnerable!”
Silence.
Then. “In my life, I have known several strong women. But Danika and Vetta will remain the strongest women I have ever met.”
“That is without doubt, Your Majesty,” she conceded with a calming smile.
“She will be fine, Baski. She will be more than fine. She has all qualities of a great leader. That much I know is true.”
That last statement… There was something about it…
Then it all suddenly dawned on her. All of it.
“I see what you’re doing,” she whispered, her eyes widening.
Her words were met with silence.
“You’re pushing her away. Letting her go. You’re having second thoughts that she might not be who she truly seems. You think all she needs from you is her freedom, and that is why she ‘pretends’ to love you so unconditionally.” Her mind whirled through every aspect. “You think it’s why she’s so loving-so kind, so different from her father. You think it’s because she’s still a slave?”
More silence was her response, but his tensed shoulders and rigid back confirmed her claims more than anything.
“No! No, Lucien!” Baski called his name so desperately. “That is who she is! Danika loves you so much! She loves you more than you can ever imagine!”
He cringed. “Have you seen me, Baski?” he asked at last.
“I-I do not understand.”
“Have you seen me? All of me?” He turned then, glancing at her with an unreadable face, but eyes pinched with indescribable pain. “I am a horror to little children. There are more scars on my body than flesh. My mind is a complete dark place and I tether the very edge of insanity.”
His eyes closed. “She is all keeping me sane. Standing between me and a huge cliff of nothingness. I think about her more than anything else. More than my duties. More than my people. She has come to mean so much to me-so much, it’s frightening.”
“Then don’t let her go! Please, my king!”
“I have no control when it comes to her. I act against my better judgement. For a man like me, it is not an easy feat. She is a slave, and yet she managed to have an unsurmountable power over me even without trying.” A broad shoulder lifted and fell. “You will not understand, Baski.”
“Oh, King Lucien.” A step forward, she took his hand into hers. “You are the most cultured and controlled man I have ever known, but there is nothing wrong with caring for a woman in a way that is uncontrollably.”
“For a man like me, there is.” He walked away from the window, striding to the other side of the room where the huge table occupied. “Do you remember what happened that day? The day I saw her lying on that hay with the slave trainer.”
Of course, Baski remembered. How could she ever forget that day? She also began to have an idea what he was driving at.
“I lost it completely. Having to live the next few days with the thoughts that all she showed me was a lie-that she had beensharing her body with other men-you have no idea what that did to me.”
No, she did have an idea. She could still remember clearly.
“I made a few bad decisions. I had no care in the world-not of anybody. Not of my people.” In steady strides, he walked back to the window. “I took out the rough part on Vetta. Poor woman took everything I had to give. I was almost insane, Baski-all because of Danika.”
Poor man. Being so in love with a woman and having no idea what to do about it. He thinks he can stop it. There is no stopping a feeling as intense as the love he has for her. Baski kept her mouth shut, knowing he wouldn’t appreciate her analysis now. Instead, she tried another way. “You are only human, my king. Any man would have went crazy too knowing that his woman shares her body with other men.”
“But Vetta is my woman too, Baski.” His voice was so low, Baski had to strain to make out his words. “And yet, I don’t see myself being half as mad.”
Because she’s not the woman you love. She placed her hand on his arm. “There is nothing wrong with lov-caring about a woman in that way. It is most beautiful, I assure you.”
“But she isn’t just any woman, Baski. She’s King Cone’s daughter. And she is in slavery.”
“I thought we established that Danika is very different from her father,” she stated firmly.
“We do. I know that much more than you do, but she’s a slave, and a slave will do anything to get out of slavery. You know this as much as I do. We were there before.”
“We were,” she conceded.
He nodded once. “A slave will do everything to get out of slavery, including pretending to love your master.” He turned away again and faced the window because he did not want Baski to see his pain. “Pretending that his mind isn’t too dark for you.
That his scars isn’t too scary for you. That-” A pause. “-That That his sexual urges aren’t too much for you.”
“But Lucien!”
“I want her with an intensity that is frightening, Baski. A year and two months as my slave-my property-has not dampened that want at all, but instead it only grew. I wanted her even when I hated her, but now? Now, I crave her…badly. Her present condition has not been a dampener at all.”
“Then keep her close! She is yours!” Baski intervened vehemently.
He lowered his head and stared at the empty lane. Two guards patrolled by. “It is not my decision to make anymore. I am giving her a choice.”
“No, you aren’t. To uncollar her is to give her a choice, but to make her a queen is to take the choice of her ever staying away from her. Please, don’t do it. Please. You deserve to be happy! She deserves to be happy too!”
He would not budge. “She has a duty to her people. Once I uncollar her, being a free person isn’t an option, Baski. She was a princess. Her father’s throne is empty. She has a duty to fill it.”
Baski cut in. “And hold a royal banquet and take a husband who will rule with her. And produce heirs to the throne,” she paused. “She will be forced to take a husband byduty
! She is very beautiful and she has power! Another man will have her! Are you truly okay with it?” But even as she asked, she knew that he was not okay with it at all. His fists were clenched tightly to his sides.
“A man who will be deserving of her. Who isn’t battling insanity with so many scars on him and a hunger for her that always has her breathing through the nose to keep the pain of the intercourse at bay.” He spared her a glance. “You know I am not a normal man. Cone made sure of that.”
“She knows too, my king. She knows and yet, she loves you wholeheartedly.”
Silence met her words.
Baski shook her head miserably. “But that is what all this is about? You do not believe. You think she will grab the freedom and power you offer, take to her kingdom in a flash, drop all her pretense of loving you, get married to a man of her dreams, and live happily ever after.”
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