The pain

Those tattoos!!!

They sent some wrong kind of signal all though her body, the burning sensation that something extremely wrong was going on here filled the air.

As she walked out of the door trailing the second guy that had unlocked her from the chains, her head started spinning again.

The lightening flash and she could swear she heard the sound of people chattering and suckering and laughing like they were mocking her.

She was about opening her mouth to ask why the children and women would shut her mouth ehem her vision cleared again and she saw that there were no women and children anywhere near this place.

It was just men!

The hall way was filled with men dressed in the same uniform of black all through, starting from the crown on their head to the soles of their feet.

And then there was those tattoos!

But that wasn't the main reason why her head was spinning, her head was spinning Because of the presence of the man that was sitting right across the hallway.

Immediately she set eyes on him, she instantly recognized that this would be the leader the second guy had spoken about.

Perfect jawline yet had a brutal looking face that could make his opponent succumb to their knees.

He almost looked like the beast himself.

The aura he was exuding was quite choky.

The perfect example of a devil seated on the throne.

And then he held a very annoying smile that was really beautiful yet at the same time smirky.

Everything about his aura and personality exudes leadership anf then those tattoos.

It was all over his body!

Thats when she realized that the tattoos here not only imprinted on their body, it was all over the place.

On the walls, on the chair and literally everywhere.

And each time her face made contact with that of the the beast, her head ached like she had seen it somewhere before.

"I see you're awake, Carly. Take a seat." The leader commanded with an eerie smile plastered on his face amd it made Carly remain glued to where she was but the only thing was, this time she wasn't the one trailing anybody behind.

This time, the guy that had unlocked her chains was standing right behind her.

"Do as you're told." The guy growled and hit her on her back.

"Why? Am I some kind of puppet? I demand to know who you are and what you want from me. In my book, its not too much to ask." Carly yelled loosing her self control.

Her initial plan was to exactly as she was told but she didnt know what came over her.

If it was the drawing of the beast or if it was absolutely with the fact that she was going crazy.

There was no denying ut now, she was going crazy and those drawings were not doing any good I'm helping.

"Quite feisty, I see. Would you please make Carly seat, Ubba?" The leader of the guard asked staring at the man gat had unlocked Carly and he nodded.

"Of course, my Lord." He affitmed and drew out two swords from their sheet that were strapped to his waist.

Before Carly would realize what was happening, Ubba had used the sword and began drawing lines on her leg, cutting deeper as he shred her flesh open and blood hushed out.

But when her brain registered the pain was when the line he was engraving on her body became more than just a cut, ut was like he was planning on drawing a pit on her leg as the sword made contact with her limbs.

"Arghhh...please stop. Stop it." Carly cried as tears gushed out of her eyes.

"There's only one way to end thus Carly. The earlier you begin acting like a good girl that you will vex the better for you." Ubba answered and Carly felt get heart break in a million pieces.

The pain, the blood!

Just what had she done to deserve all this!

What had she done to awaken a demon on his throne?

As the sword came to her skin again, she immediately drew out the chair and sat on it as her face was wet with tears.

Her eyes were red and her vision blurry.

Her hair was a mess and in all that, all the leader of these people did was to smile.

"What do you want from me?" Carly asked as her voice was choking up with tears and the burning pain that became registering all 9her her body especially her heart was the cut on her leg.

Time they said healed every wound but she was going to suffer for a long while before this wound healed.

And she knew for one that though time healed every wound, the scar was always present and whenever she set her eyes on it, it was only going to make the pain worse.

"Wrong question, Carly. You don't get to ask what I want from you, maybe you can try asking yourself what you have to offer. Your question should be why? Why were you kidnapped?" The man questioned maintaining his another smile that pissed Carly off the more.

"I've been asking that question since I awakened and no one wanted to give an answer, did you tink I'll keep asking?" Carly scoffed clicking her tongue.

"So you don't want to know?" The man sled still holding his smile while raising one of his eye brows and that raised her curiosity.

Of course she wanted to know why she was been held hostage.

"Why?" She simply asked as the pain on her leg was not going her any good, she almost felt like she would pass out.

Even as she sat, she just stared at the ground trying her best to avoid any eye contact with the drawing of the beast.

It made her feel dizzy and if there was anything she wanted to do at thus moment, was yo preserve her sanity for as long as she could.

"You became too curious." The man said and brought a glass of wine that had been served to him to his lips.

"Curious of what?" Carly asked almost immediately and he held his glass of wine for awhile like he was in deep thought before dropping the cup like he decided whatever he was thinking about, she didnt deserve to know.

"Forgive my manners and feel free to help yourself." He said and that was when Carly even realized that the table was filled with variety of dishes.

Now she was certain her sense organs were no linger working.

"I don't care about the food. What was I curious about?" Carly asked staring at me, her eyes filled with hope that he would at least answer her questions.

"You should care about the food, Carly. Be careful what you wish for. Who served plain black coffee without milk or sugar?" The leader yelled and the chefs hurdled together running towards them.

"I asked for a cappuccino, an espresso!!!!!" He yelled and immediately, they began clearing the table hurriedly.

"I'm very sorry for the mistake, my lord. Pleasebave mercy, the chefs would deliver a cappuccino to you soon." The head chef said and it was visible the fright they had when it came to him.

He was none other than Uthred, the devil in his prime.

The King of underworld.

"Excuse me Zane." Uthred called oh to the head chef and the man halted in his steps.

"My lord." He answered visibly shaking.

"Do you still value your life and job?" Uthred asked and Zane nodded his head repeatedly.

"I need to hear you answer my question." Carly finally said when he was done talking to the chefs.

"I don't need to answer you Carly, get some food ad get as plenty rest as you can. It would be a long ride." The man said and stood up.

"And try to get used to the drawing of the beast," he said trailing the drawing on the wall with the tip of his fingers, "you'd be seeing a lot of it where we are going."