Chapter 53

Brianna

I woke up on a cold hard surface, feeling lightheaded and my eyes were groggy and I wondered where I was.

I opened my eyes and looked around and saw that I was on the floor in the dungeon?

No that can’t be it, my eyes must be deceiving me.

I tried getting up but I was held back by something cold around my arms and feet.

I looked down to my body and noticed that my hands and legs were chained together and I could not get up.

What?

Why was I in the dungeon and chained to the ground?

Why would Zade do this to me? After everything we have been through together.

This was not right, I didn’t deserve this treatment.

I tried casting a spell to break free but the chains were magic resistant.

Of course it would be, Zade was not going to take any chances.

All these didn’t matter, once Zade sees that Alexa is dead, he would have no choice to come back to me.

Only me because I’m the one for him and no one else.

I succumbed to the chains holding me blind together as I sat up in the corner expectantly, waiting for Zade.

A few moments later, I heard footstep approaching and I was eager to know who it was.

My heart skipped a beat when I saw that it was Zade but the smile on my face suddenly turned sour when I noticed that he was looking at me with rage and not of love.

He was standing at the opposite side of the cell while I was behind bars, on the cold floor looking up at his handsome yet cold face.

“Bri,” he started saying and my smile grew as I heard him call me the name only he calls me. “Sorry Brianna. You don’t deserved to be regarded in a friendly manner,” he spat out angrily at me as he eyed me and my smile turned sour once again.

I tried my best to get up on my feet even with the restaurant and moved closer to him where he was but he moved back as if I repelled or disgusted him.

“Zade,” I called out to him lovingly. “Why are you crying like this?” I questioned him but I got in return was a cold glare, “we have been through a lot together, are you going to just put me away because of a woman you just met?” I asked again trying my best to guilt trip him and make him forgive me but from the look on his face, that was not going to work.

“Oh shut up!” He yelled at me angrily. “You keep going on about saying you have been though a lot with me but that’s a fucking lie,” he growled at me still looking at me with disgust.

I could not bear to watch him look at me like that. He was meant to be looking at me lovingly, like I was the best person on earth and not like this.

“I practically raised you and kept you by my side and you dare do this to me?” He yelled at me angrily. “If I was told you would do such a thing I would have said it was a lie and could never happen and I would beheaded the person who dared utter such,” he let out this time his voice somber and filled with hurt.

“But look at you, look at what you’ve done,” he said as he shook his head. “You disgust me!” He spat out.

“Oh please, stop saying all of that. I love you and you know love makes one do crazy things, you are not one to judge,” I yelled at him.

I was hurt that he was not going to accept my love but instead he was just going on talking about how I hurt him.

He was not one to judge because he too kidnapped Alexa just to be with her so where did I go wrong in trying to have him all to myself.

“How dare you raise your voice at me!?” He growled at me. “You should be begging for my forgiveness and not here running your mouth and saying rubbish,” he said chastising me, his eyes beaming with anger.

“Just accept me Zade,” I say to him softly. “The woman you are doing all these for is dead, there is no need to fight this, we were meant to be, we are meant for each other,” I say to him trying to cajole him and he burst out into laughter.

Not a joyous laughter but a mocking one.

Was he mocking me? What the fuck?

As if he had read my mind, he spoke up. “Me and you?” He questioned like he could not believe this ears. “Why would I stoop so low to date you? Even if I had no mate, I would never consider you fit to date,” he spat out amidst laughter.

His words went straight to my heart, shattering it. How dare he say those words to me?

‘He doesn’t mean it, he is just angry,’ my subconscious said to me but that didn’t help. I was still feeling dejected at how he had outrightly rejected me and belittled me.

“And jokes on you because, my mate is alive and well,” he said with a big smile on his face and immediately those words came out of his mouth, Alexa came down the stairs and into view.

“What!?” I yelled out loud.

I was shocked and I wondered how she was still alive and well.

“That is not possible, you couldn’t have survived. The poison I gave you was sure to have killed you,” I say to her my voice barely above a whisper and just stared at me with a look of disgust like I was a piece of trash.

She didn’t say anything in return but she moved closer to me and open up the cage as she walked inside and raised her hands giving a slap on my face.

The place her hand had landed on hurt like a bitch and I could not touch it because my hands were in chains.

“What the hell?” I yelled at her as I struggled to get closer to her. “You dare slap me? You would pay for this!” I yelled at her her but she didn’t seem phased.

“You really think you could get rid of me?” She spat out letting out a bitter laughter. “Fool,” she added as she walked away from me back out of the cell.

I was enraged, how dare she? Her audacity!!

But I was confused as to what happened, why was she still alive? She should be dead, no one that consumes the poison lives more than a minutes.

Something is wrong.

“I honestly should asked you to be killed,” Zade said drawing me out of my thoughts. “But I can’t just have your blood on my hands, you’re dear to me and no matter why it is you had done, I can’t just bear to kill you,” he let out his voice a mixture of pain, anger and sadness.

What does he have in mind to do to me? Killing me would be better option because as long as I am alive, they would know no peace and I would always come back to be with my true love.

“I would leave you here and would decide what to do with you,” he spoke up and Alexa just rolled her eyes.

“You should just kill her,” Alexa said under her breathe.

Of course she would say that. Bitch!

“We would discuss this better, let’s go and leave this place,” he cajoled her and she just nodded her head and made her way back up to the palace while Sade followed behind her.

“Zade! Please don’t leave me here,” I shouted behind him but ignored me as their footsteps faded away.

I fell to the floor dejected and heartbroken, how could Zade do this to me?

Minutes later, I heard footsteps and saw that it was one of the guards.

“What are you doing here?” I asked him.

“His highness asked me to stay here and keep an eye on you,” he replied coldly as he continued keeping a straight face.

Good, Zade just gave me a way to escape.

I casted a spell to bewitch and it worked like I had expected.

“Come unchain me and let me out,” I whispered to him seductively and he didn’t hesitate before he came closer to me and open the cell then unchained me.

He moved away as I came out of the cell and began walking gently out of the dungeon.

There was a secret route out of the palace that no one else but me knew, I quietly made me way there as I escaped from the palace.

I would be back Zade, mark my words.

You both would know no peace…