As the queen was guided upstairs to Micah's bedroom, everyone they passed looked up at them in surprise, and some in shock. They wondered silently what was going on, but they knew better than to ask the Don directly. Upon arriving upstairs, Dimitri stayed behind in the hallway while Micah escorted the queen into his room. After closing the door behind them, Micah gestured to a chair next to his bed and said, "Sit," before taking a seat himself. The queen sat down in silence while watching Micah's face, searching for his emotions, trying to find out what he was thinking right now but Micah did not face her properly so she just leaned back and waited curiously.
"So here we are! Let me be clear, under no circumstances you are to leave this house without me or with one of my men, either my second in command Marco or Dimitri guarding you, not even the garden, understood? Good! Now as you might have guessed already, this is MY bedroom and I like having my own space so here is what we will do, you see that door over there yes? Well, that door leads to the room next to mine, it is the only one that is next to mine with a connected door to mine, for special guests so to speak so that will be your room from now on but make no mistake, outside in the hallway are two of my man twenty-four seven standing guard so you can not leave your room without noticing so if you need anything or want to leave you ask me by just knocking and or calling my name or just simply ask one of the guards in the hallway, understood?" Micah explained to the queen who just nodded in understanding.
"Why all this?" The queen asks surprised by the sudden upgrade in her surroundings, not expecting to be held captive in this kind of luxury but being happy with it anyway.
"What do you mean, I don't understand your question," Micah asked while grabbing a bottle of water.
"Well I wasn't expecting to be kept locked up in such a nice room as this so" she replied sincerely.
"Yeah me neither so that makes two of us! But it is either this or in one of the other guests' rooms but then you would be on your own and for that I don't trust you....yet so I rather keep you as close as possible to me so I can keep an eye ok you" Micah explained to her after he finishes the remaining water.
"So....what now?" She asked while making herself comfortable, enjoying the new feeling of being in a warmer space with soft blankets.
"We talk, keeping your end of the bargain!" Micah stated simply.
"But before you go I must confess I already know a bit of your background story but the holes I need to be filled are why did you take me and what did you do to me and why? And what is your plan? I get it that you are very upset and I would be if I saw my parents getting killed before my eyes too....my father was killed by a rival enemy of ours.....so I kinda understand, but to take it out on strangers? Why not go after and kill the ones who are responsible and why do I keep having dreams of a girl that looks like you who whispers your name in my head even though you hate it so much?" Micah asked eagerly to know all these answers.
The queen sighed. She knew all the answers to his questions, but her question was, would she answer them? Could she find it within herself to answer them?
She stood up and slowly walked over to his bedroom window and stood in front of it while gazing outside.
"This world, your world has given me and my family nothing but pain, even though we were happy in the beginning. I am half-human, you know do you have any idea what it feels like to belong nowhere, to be an Outkast, to be laughed at, people thinking you are a freak, Micah? Probably you don't! I never felt like I belonged. the day they killed my parents, they took everything that I had in this world from me, that I ever loved! And that by the hands of a mortal human who I gave my heart and soul to, next to my innocence! So excuse me if I am not particularly fond of human beings!" She stated flatly while her cold gaze landed on Micah, making an unwanted shiver run down his spine.
"Did your parents know about your struggles?" He replied to her softly, not wanting to upset her so she would do something stupid, not while he finally had gotten her to start talking!
"No, I never told them, I didn't want to upset them!" She only stated while facing him half.
"I get that, but Snowfl..."
"One more time you call me that and that will be the last word you will ever speak, you understand? Deal or no deal!" She shuddered in anger as her eyes started to glow again, making Micah gulp.
"What about Snow?....only snow okay? because I am getting tired of not knowing who I am dealing with! He muttered.
After a long pause which seemed more like hours that had passed rather than minutes, the queen slightly nodded her head.
"Only Snow and ONLY by you and nobody else!" She whispered back to him, not understanding why on earth was agreeing with it and why she was feeling somehow funny when she was in the same room as Micah!
"Good, Snow it is then! Now that is out of the way, what about the rest, like why me? What do you want with me?"
"You, you stole from me my dear and nobody lives another day to steal from.me, except you Micah, now tell me why is that? What is so special about you huh?"
Taken aback a bit by Snow's questions, he did not answer directly but waited just enough to unscramble his thoughts a bit.
"You and your awful men have stolen stones from me so you need to be punished for that, so that is why I did what it did, and besides I was in much need of a new slave since my old one ended up dead and I find sexually co portable so, that's that!" She stated at last making, him gasp softly.
"And you think the king of the underworld would let himself be used as a mere sex slave? Well, those days are over honey, because now, you are in MY world!" He grinned wickedly.