Playing with fire

The next morning, Marian woke up from her sleep. She opened her eyes and yawned loudly as she covered her mouth with the back of her hand when the blankets on her fell off. She is shocked to see herself without clothes on as she peered into the blanket and shrieked in fear.

"Oh my God! What happened? Who did this to me?" She asked no one in particular with a shaky voice as she looked around the room.

"H- How did I get here?" She continued to ask questions when a voice spoke from her side.

"I will take responsibility for what happened last night." It was Reagan. He was dressing up as he slipped the last coffee drop from his cup and dropped it noisily on the tray.

"..."

Marian couldn't say anything as words had left her mouth just when she needed it. Filled with anger and fear, she couldn't utter anything meaningful as she just panicked with tears rolling down her eyes.

"Prepare for tonight. I'll be back." He replied as he walked out of the room.

"What is happening tonight? Does he- NO, NO, NO, NO! This is not going to happen! NO!" Marian screamed in fear as she held her head with her two hands and wept bitterly, holding the blankets tight and weeping.

"I'm sorry Alec….! I didn't know how this happened, I'm sorry…" Marian cried so hard. She couldn't believe she got into bed with another man. She couldn't believe she ended up in another man's bedroom. She felt she had betrayed the love she had for Alec. She cried in stupor.

"I will not tolerate hearing another man's name being called in this house by you! I will not tolerate my mate mentioning some other guy's name at least, I'll find him and kill him." Reagan, who just entered the room exclaimed in a cool voice that sent threatening messages to Marian as her eyes froze in fear.

"Why are you doing this? What do you want from me?" She asked him but he just smirked at her.

"I bought you, remember?"

"I will work all the years of my life to repay your dirty money! I will buy my freedom, you beast!" Reagan just smiled as he took out a pipe and lit it. Her confidence seemed to amuse him.

"Touch my Alec and you will be the one to be dead by morning!" She threatened.

Those words made him angry as his countenance changed.

"Try me." He dared as he sneered at her with a deadly look which scared Marian but she still kept her cool.

"Dress up, I'm taking you somewhere with me." He replied as she was quiet and said nothing.

"I'm not going anywhere." She replied in a calm voice as she looked down.

"The butler will come and dress you up. You don't have a choice, mate. Meet me downstairs in the next fifteen minutes and you will do as I say if you want freedom." Reagan replied and walked out of the room.

"What have I gotten myself into?" Marian whimpered as tears rolled down her cheeks.

Thirty minutes before the mating ceremony;

Marian was being dragged forcefully before Reagan. Her clothes looked rough and torn as though she had been molested earlier and yes, she was by one of the captors in revenge for what happened to his late brother.

Dovkan attempted to rape Marian when he sighted her in the garden, waiting for Reagan before he finished with the meeting he had with his father. In the process of trying to force himself on her, Reagan felt a strong sensation of fear and trouble.

He sent his butler to bring his mate to him when Dovkan was caught in the act and ran away.

"Please let me go…"

"Who touched you?" He asked in a silky voice as it resonated into her ears with his eyes brooding down at her.

"WHO?" His voice thundered again in the room. The butler who was standing near the wall spoke in a shaky voice; "It was Lord Damien's son sir."

Reagan's face turned sour, his jaw ticking in anger as he turned his face to the side where the butler stood. His eyes which didn't break contact with the girl in front of him pushed his hand against the wall which now rested beside her head.

"Fetch him now!" Reagan ordered.

"Wh..o sir?" The butler stuttered in fear.

"The bastard that did this!" Reagan thundered and with the speed of lightning, the butler left the room.

"My Lord, his son is not around but the father is." The butler reported.

"You don't need me to chop your head off before you bring him before me!" And with that statement, the butler was gone and reappeared with the father of her captor.

"It's too early for a cup of coffee. To what do I owe this gesture?" Damien asked as he stretched out his hand to shake Reagan. The butler brought in a tray of coffee and cake with a knife to slice it. Reagan looked at it and in a blink of an eye, reached for the knife on the table and sliced out his first four fingers in a flash.

The girl was in shock and gripped with fear as she saw blood splattered in the room.

"This is a warning to tell your untrained son to keep his balls between his legs otherwise, I'll be forced to send him to the underworld. Now go!"

"And you, take her away." His voice sounded so hoarse as he spoke to his butler, filled with anger.

"Please let me go…" She cried on top of her voice as the butler pulled her up from her kneeling position.

"You are stuck with me and are mine alone, dead or alive."

"Please…. Please." Marian pleaded as she was being dragged away.

"I will punish you when I'm done with that bastard."