Chapter 4: Spoils of War
Cordelia couldn’t believe the princess would save her – she was nothing but a lowly maid in waiting!
"What are you doing, slave?!" Ugly Pig’s saliva rained down on the princess. "The insolence of this woman!"
As gross as it seemed, the princess didn’t even flinch a tiny bit and only stared back at the mad overseer.
She had caught the whip just in time, but the spikes unfortunately dug up around her wrist and created awful gashes. Blood trickled along her raised arm and down towards her ragged dress.
Drip, drip, drip. Blood as red as the princess’ eyes and hair dropped.
Elys was injured, but the pain that throbbed in her arm was nothing compared to the horrors that her people had to go through, and all the more of the women who were with her right now.
She wasn’t thinking straight when Ugly Pig attacked Cordelia.
All that ever rushed through her head at the time was that it wasn’t right for him to whip her.
Ugly Pig gulped down a lump stuck in his throat as the blazing eyes of Elys stared at him.
"L-let go, you stupid woman!" he stuttered. "Let go or I’ll have you hanged by the neck!"
Hanging. It had been the cause of death of Elys’ mother when the vampires attacked the Whitecaster Castle.