chapter 48

“I also heard a specific boy walked away from his mother” WAIT, HOLD UP, did I just hear BOY? Do I look like a boy, does a boy fight in wars? does a boy have sex? Is a BOY allowed to take the position of a king in a few months? Is a boy constantly ready to take the position of his father after the passing of his crown? because if he is then I can be referred to as a boy. I AM NOT A BOY

“Boy?” I asked

“You, I am talking about you Xavier”

“Father I am not a boy, I have never been just a boy because I didn’t have a childhood so PLEASE do not call me a boy”

“And who are you to give me orders on what to and what not to do”

“I am your son, you might as well fucking treat me like it”

“Swearing at your father, what have you turned into” my mother walked up to me and dragged my ear, she was just pouring petrol on a fire.

“Would you stop it, I am not a kid. You want more children, fuck yourselves I am not a baby”

“Drinking human wine can mess with your head my boy, you are moving back here” again with the ‘BOY’ word again

“No” I muttered

“What was that”

“I said I am not coming back here until my coronation, I am staying with Winter because she has school”

“The only things she needs to learn are manners, grace, and Latin. she just needs to be pretty and since she is already that she is perfect”

“My wife is not going to be a mediocre”

“Did you just call your mother a mediocre”

“I did not say that”

“You need to be taught a lesson, Et obliti estis vestri de quibus hic non?" (You have forgotten your previous ones, No?) "guards take him to the dungeon, give him the whip, till he is not so proud anymore" some people held my hands and they dragged me to the dark dungeon. I have been in this place more than I have said my own name. I knew the drill, the guards handed me to the prison guards and they led me to my 'special room'

I pulled off my shirt and stood to wait for the guy to chain me up and get this over with. When I was secure heavy chains around my wrist so I could not thrash around and make noise. The huge man took out three bullwhips from the cabinet. JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED, in this case, the doctor was my father.

I AM DEAD, he stood behind me " Are you ready?"

"As ready as I would ever be" I don't think the words were out of my mouth completely when I felt the burning pain on my back, my father told me they didn't use crystals to make these whips but they wouldn't hurt the way they did if they were just normal leather. I felt the whip on my bareback again. My eyes bolted shut, I was trying as much as possible to end the pain and just make my back numb but I could not, The whips hit my back again and again in repeated motion then it hit the back of my neck.

"Fuck!" I choked on my spit or was it my blood, I could not tell.

He hit my neck again making me grunt in pain. The man came to my front, I guess it is time for my chest now, then he would start whipping me in all places he pleases until there is no clear spot for him to hit.

He hit my chest, with the whips and it stung like hell, I hissed with pain. I could not cry for something like this, it would confirm my father's theory that I was in fact still a boy.

"Ahh" what, the fiftieth hit to my chest and next to my throat.

"That's enough" My father ordered

"Your highness" the man bowed, I looked up and saw my father take the whips from the man

"I want to do this myself since you refuse to yield an apology, I will get my pleasure from beating you up, I am going to teach you discipline. You need to know that I am ready to make you bleed whenever shit comes out of your mouth." My father set the whips down and removed his rings. "Of course, instead of whipping you I could always bring your girl and show her how to keep her mouth shut"

"NO!"

"What was that?"

"Please don't do that father, I will take her punishment"

"Okay then" my father pulled out another whip "this is for you and this is for her" he didn't even give me a chance to get ready for him he gave me a quick hard lash against my face and I hissed. My father continued hitting me. My body was bloody and sweaty, I can't let Winter see me like this. My head started to feel light as he continued flogging me in all parts of my body he could reach. I pulled on the chains but it was no use, my body was starting to feel numb but not in a good way, in a 'this beating would end and you won't be able to feel your body for a month' type of way.

I grunted as my father continued beating me up "Are you sorry Xavier?" I ignored his question

"Don't be hard-headed" he lashed me "I asked you a question are you repentant"

"Yes" I whispered, was it wrong to hate my father. He unlocked my wrists and I rubbed it, the little effort I made hurt as if I had just been thrown to the deepest parts of the fires of hell

"I will be seeing you and your girl for dinner, do not keep me waiting"

"Yes, father" I walked out of the dungeon. and to the castle, I could feel the guard's eyes on me as I walked up the stairs.

"Xavier" Camari gasped and held my hand, I hissed

"Don't touch me"

"Sorry" she pulled her hand away and held my face "you look... like shit" I scoffed, I know that "look at how bloody you are"

"I am going to take a shower, is Winter asleep"

"I think so, she has been awful quiet," Camari said

"I need to collect change if clothes and bathe in one of the guestrooms it is going to be a long soak. I walked up the steps and I could hear the workers that I passed whisper to themselves and gasp in shock

"WOULD YOU ALL GET TO WORK" I commanded and most of them scurried away. I opened the door to my room. Winter instantly flung her body against mine which I so wished she hadn't done.

"Winter get off me" I yelled in pain

"What, wh........" SCREAM