95. Ice Apsaras
As the plane landed.
Veera was escorted out and she saw many people with the red robes.
“Traitor!”
“You’re going to pay for betraying us!”
As she walked down the street, Veera could see she was clearly welcomed with the nasty stares.
Clara smirked; she was loving the walk of shame Veera was receiving. But Veera didn’t care, her main goal was to get Emerald and her aunt back to safety.
Some picked up stones to hit her. A few stones hit Veera and she was shocked that the Apsaras around her saw as if she was some kind of villain to them. Another set of stones then came at her and Veera raised her arms to block them, however the man guiding her suddenly came Infront of Veera and shielded her. Much to her surprise. He froze the stones instantly and then crushed them with his powers.
“The next person to throw something at her, will end up in the pit of snakes.” Announced the guy.
The clan of Apsara’s dispersed fearing him. Clara sighed looking at Veera’s sudden hero.
“Valerio no need to defend her, she deserved that.” Clara glared and walked off ahead.
The man sighed and turned around to see a streak of blood going down her temple, that Veera wasn’t even aware off. She was too focused to see who attacked her next.
Valerio brushed his cool thumb over her sudden wound and healed it quite quickly for Veera, leaving her speechless and stunned by his sudden kindness. Veera stepped away from him getting back her personal space.
“Why?”
“Why what Miss Veera?”
“Why did you do that? Shouldn’t you be with the ‘I hate you too’ club?”
Valerio chuckled. The thick dark haired curled man, with a dimple on his chin shook his head.
“I don’t hate you Veera, I just don’t like the fact that those blood hounds are messing with you.”
“They’re wolves not blood hounds.” Veera defended.
“Same thing.”
Veera glared at him as she walked away from him.
Valerio escorted her to the cave like castle with a waterfall coming from it. They entered and soon Veera was then guided to a room.
“I’m not going to be a prisoner here Valerio. I want to see aunt Rita and Emerald.”
“All in good time. Now rest up you’ve had a long flight.”
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Valerio and Clara bowed down to their Master.
“The lost Apsara is here my lord.” Clara broke the good news, making Orlov grin from ear to ear.
“Excellent. Make sure you have guards watching over her. We don’t want her escaping.” He made a sinister gesture towards them both motioning to their necks.
“I’ll personally keep an eye on her my lord.” Valerio said.
“Good.” Orlov got up from his seat and made other plans. Tomorrow was an important day. He went down to the dungeons where his precious prisoners were and Rita quickly woke up Emerald.
They’ve been treated like slaves, given less to eat and drink. They were given rags to wear to clean the castle floor and walls. Stones were thrown at them whilst they worked and Emerald was doing her best not to break down. Luckily for them, they weren’t harassed by guard men around the castle grounds on Orlovs orders. One that tried to have his way with Emerald was burnt alive by Orlov himself. He hated that kind of scene.
Orlov on the other hand took quite a fancy too Rita. Only because she had a strong mind barrier that he couldn’t invade. Unlike Emerald, he could easily mess with hers with ease.
“Guess who’s here?” He grinned making Rita easily stand up and grabbing the jail bars.
“You stay the hell away from her you crazy –”
“Rita, Rita, Rita! My you know how to fire me up.” Orlov made a fireball and struck at the wall behind of Rita fast. He bellowed a laugh looking back at a very angry hot lady.
“You think you can scare me?!”
“No. I know you’re not scared of me however..” Orlov came inside the cellar and went towards Emerald who began crying hot tears. Last time he came to see her, he’d hypnotised her into blowing up many balloons for his 410 birthday party.
She was afraid what he’d hypnotise her to do next.
“No, no!!! Please, Rita help!!” Emerald shrieked and Orlov laughed grabbing hold of her like a damn villain that he was.
“Orlov! Let go of her! Take me instead?” Rita did her best to get his attention. She couldn’t stand seeing her being toyed around like this.
“The offer is tempting, but I think I’ll have her instead?”
“No!” Emerald closed her eyes as he cornered her to the wall and Rita began shouting foul words at Orlov. But he didn’t pay her no attention.
“Open your eyes pretty, it’s time to greet your friend.” Orlov squeezed her hand just enough for her to open up. With his gaze locked with her Orlov smirked getting hold of her mind.
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Veera walked back and fourth in her room. There was no way she was going to sleep tonight.
She missed Ares greatly and she couldn’t wait to be in his arms as soon as she got of this damn island with Rita and Emerald. She prayed for them to be alive and well because if they weren’t, she was going to bring hell to Orlov the bastard that took them.
She couldn’t exactly use the window to escape since there was a massive waterfall right outside her cave like window. She had no intentions of jumping out at a great height.
So Veera decided to use the other door.
Which was locked.
She plucked out a little pin from her hair and got to work. Like a lock smith, Veera managed to open the room with ease. She tiptoed out of her room like pink panther and silently walked down the hallway.
She spotted two guards and got an attention of one.
He came by, just about to say something to her but Veera quickly sucker punched him and wrestled him. All her fighting lessons paid off and the guy fell limp to the floor. She quickly dragged him back to the room, and stripped him of his red robe.
“What are you doing?”
Veera froze going on her fighting stance looking back at Valerio who’d caught her, red handed.
“I’m going to find where you’re keeping my friends.”
“You know I can easily stop you right?”
He moved quite fast and pushed her towards the wall. Veera fell down, but she got up again, however Valerio gripped her wrists and pinned her towards the wall, freezing her hands and wrist in ice.
Veera moaned out in pain feeling the sudden icy coolness chill her fingers and bones.
The guard came too and Valerio slapped the robe back to him.
“Get out, and tell no one about what just happened.” He ordered.
“Yes my lord!” The guard scurried away, in fear. Veera noticed that she was up against a powerful Apsara afterall.
“You shouldn’t have tried to escape like that Veera. You could have put yourself and I in a lot of danger.” Valerio closed the door behind him and looked at Veera, who was in an icy situation. He was quite charmed by her feistiness.
“Danger?” she asked a little puzzled.
“My duty is to make sure that you don’t escape. If you do, then the boss here will have my head.”
Veera scoffed.
“I really don’t care.” She snapped.
Valerio grinned back loving the way she looked at him in a heated manner. He grabbed her jaw and closed the space between her and came close. She was quite beautiful up close and Valerio could easily have his way with her. However, he was not the type of guy who easily took advantage of a girl who didn’t have feelings for him. Veera went to close her eyes but Valerio dodged her parted lips and whispered in her ear.
“I know you do.”
He moved away and turned on his heel, ready to lock her back in her room. But Veera wouldn’t allow him to walk away. Not after pinning her like a popsicle to the wall. A little part of her was scared of him, after all she was dealing with the snowman himself.
She groaned, healing herself through the ice quickly. Valerio turned around to his surprise she broke his ice with her bare hands from the wall. Clearly, he had no idea, whom he was messing with.
“Is that all you got? Punk!”
Valerio smirked back, seeing Veera flick her wrists getting her numbness out.
“You’re stronger than you look. I’m impressed.”
“Are you going to let me out of this room or not?” Veera fired looking quite impatient now.
“I’d like to say not. However, I guess you deserve a little reward after getting out of my ice hold like that.”
He pulled the door open for her.
Veera looked at him shocked, surprised and puzzled once again.
“What are you waiting for? Don’t you wish to see a friend?”
“You’re going to take me to meet one of them?”
“Do you see anyone else around?”
Valerio exited the room, leaving Veera no choice but to follow him out.
He guided her carefully, and much to her surprise he caught a patrolling guard and knocked him out cold.
“Why are you helping me?”
“Because I want to.”
Valerio took her hand and guided her down another hallway and another one, distracting the guards along the way and going towards a laundry room, where he got her a fresh-looking red robe.
She couldn’t understand his motive, but for now Veera had no choice but to trust him.
They came towards a black door.
He opened it and Veera saw a spiralling staircase going down.
“You have 5 minutes. Now go.”
Veera nodded her head in thanks as she went down. Valerio stood guard cursing at his good nature.