4 Chapter 4: Living With The Ruthless Prince?

"Live with you...?" Ivery looked up at his handsome face

"So, what will your decision be?" Luther calmly asked

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"Alright" Ivery oddly felt like living with him would be better than living in the Hollow's Castle...

"Good, although I was just joking about the killing you part.." Luther smirked

A giant cloud of black mist surrounded Ivery and Luther and when Ivery looked around she noticed that she was in an enormous elegantly styled room, the room was beautiful, pure silver furniture, the white carpet floors without a trace of any stains, a huge black Persian rug that almost covered a large portion of the room.

Ivery felt she was laying on something incredibly soft, she looked down and realized she was on a giant bed, and Luther was on top of her, looking down at her.

She tried to slip away, feeling uncomfortable.

"Don't think about escaping me" Luther whispered next to her ear

Her ears burned and her mind was lost as soon as his enchanting voice entered her ears. She looked into his beautiful purple eyes, falling deeper into his spell. She didn't understand why she felt this way..

She didn't quite understand the emotions she was currently feeling....what did it all mean?

She barely knew him and didn't have any feelings for him and she assumed that he didn't feel any particular way about her either, so why?

He looked into her big ruby eyes and couldn't help but stare into the beautiful gems.

Ivery pushed Luther down on the bed and his back hit the soft mattress underneath him. Her ruby eyes looked straight down into his dark purple eyes.

"What are your real intentions?" Ivery narrowed her eyes and asked

"This is the first time I've ever been pushed down.." Luther smiled

"Don't evade the question" Ivery wasn't going to fall for his seductive words

"I told you, I'm bored" Luther looked up at Ivery

"You did all of this just because you're bored?" Ivery looked down at Luther with confusion

"Yes, so entertain me...Inanna" He smirked

"What do you really want from me?" Ivery felt uneasy about him, she wasn't necessarily terrified of him, she's dealt with far worst people in her life

Luther sighed "I'm not going to kill you, if that's what you're worried about"

"I'm not worried about that, so don't dodge my question.." Ivery sighed

"I want you.." Luther said to her, continuing to play with her hair

"You want me? Why me?" Ivery swatted his hand away, she almost had no words, out of all the girls in the world he could choose from in this world, he wanted a castaway princess from an abandoned castle?

"I want a fiance that has magic that could fairly match my own, I don't tolerate the weak, and so far you're the only girl who's able to meet most of my qualifications" He told her his true intentions

"That's the only reason you want me to marry you?" Ivery asked

"It's the only reason I can think of...is there a problem?" He raised an eyebrow not understanding her question at all

"You're only supposed to marry the people you love...I wouldn't marry you for a lousy reason like that.." Ivery said and looked down at him with cold eyes

"Love? It's rare for royalty to marry with love as the reason....and I don't love anyone, so marriage with you should be fine, I don't really see the problem.." Luther had a confused expression when he noticed the cold look in her eyes, completely oblivious to the term "love"

Ivery felt like she wasn't going to win this conversation with him...

"Why do you even want someone like me? Aren't you engaged to my sister? Princess Xia?" Ivery looked deeper into his eyes

"It's just a political arrangement that I didn't agree to, and even if I do marry that worthless child of a concubine, she's not even equivalent to a grain of sand" Luther scoffed

"But at least she's a titled princess, what good can come from being engaged to a castaway?" Ivery sighed again

"Regardless of your title, you still have royal blood, meaning you are more than qualified to be my wife" Luther smiled at Ivery

"If title matters so much to you then even if you're not a recognized princess of the Lilith Empire, you'll become a princess of Fresia once we are married" Luther rubbed her head

Ivery thought it over and came to the conclusion that maybe this is the path she needs to go down if she wants to change Princess Inanna's fate....getting married to a powerful prince would be a great advantage...

All she had to do was live with him and marry him...she doubted that they'd ever fall in love with each other..

This wasn't her ideal way of getting "proposed" to, but then again...it's not her life, it's Inanna's..

"If I do agree to this, you absolutely can't kill me.." Ivery said

"I was never planning on killing you" Luther was getting tired of reassuring her that he wasn't going to harm her

"Just had to make sure.." Ivery didn't want to make any mistakes

"Now that it's settled, how about we get you cleaned up, you have to look presentable if you're going to be my fiance" Luther's eyes looked at her matted blonde hair and dirty white dress

"Oh right..." Ivery touched her hair and it was dry, tangled, and almost fluffy

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"Are you planning to sit on me all day? Or are you going to get up?" Luther smiled

"Oh.." Ivery realized she got too carried away earlier

Ivery got off of Luther and sat on the bed. Luther sat up and looked at her once more, he smirked at her calm expression.

She watched Luther get up and leave the room and as soon as he exited the room, it felt cold and empty.

With a room this enormous and only occupied by one person, you'd definitely feel lonely.

Ivery turned her head when the doors opened and three maids walked in the room.

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Ivery noticed the terrified look on their faces, she figured Luther ordered them to come, and probably threatened their lives while he was at it.

The maids grabbed Ivery and took her out of the room.

They all hastily walked down the endless halls and brought Ivery into a private bathing area, for a bathing area, it was tremendously huge.

The ceiling was higher than anything she could've imagined, and the bath was like an overextended pool, the steam that was being emitted from the hot water covered the entire room.

The maids requested her to take off her clothes and told her to get into the water. She did exactly as they requested and took off her dirty white dress. She cautiously stepped into the hot water and sat down.

She felt pleasurably relaxed and closed her eyes. Suddenly she felt her hair being grabbed and felt it being brushed, the brush got stuck at some knots in her hair and the maids forcefully brushed through it, causing much pain to Ivery.

Flinching at the painful detangling of her hair, the maids then lathered her hair with soap and massaged it into her scalp.

Bubbles were everywhere, the maid took a medium-sized wooden bucket and dipped it in the water, then the maid poured the water over Ivery's head, washing all of the bubbles away.

The maid brushed through her hair again and this time the brush went through easily, the maid poured some oil into Ivery's hair and massaged it into her scalp.

The maid grabbed a pair of scissors and cut off Ivery's split ends.

The maids directed Ivery to sit on a stool, Ivery did as requested and sat down. They scrubbed her body down and made sure that every single part of her body was cleaned off.

Her skin felt smooth to the touch. The second maid washed Ivery's face and rubbed some sort of cream on her face.

They wrapped a towel around Ivery's wet hair and wrapped a towel around her body and took her to a dressing room near the bathing area.

Ivery dried herself until the maids came back with a beautiful burgundy dress, the floral designs on the dress made it look more elegant and pleasing to the eye.

They put the dress on Ivery and fixed her hair. Ivery sat down and let them put a shiny pair of red heels on her feet.

Ivery tried to stand up in the heels but she had no experience wearing them, in her world all she wore were boots and sneakers.

The maids helped her walk as they led her out of the dressing room, they took her back to Luther's bedroom and left her in the vacant room.

She aimlessly walked around the room, trying to get used to the heels. She had never worn heels before in her original world..

She stumbled when she tried her best to walk straight and suddenly fell backward.

Her life flashed before her eyes as she lost her footing.

She then felt a strong pair of hands grab her before her head hit the floor. She looked up and saw..

"Prince Luther?"

"What were you doing?" Luther raised an eyebrow

"Walking around..." Ivery nervously chuckled

"Can you stand?" Luther asked

"Yes" Ivery got out of Luther's hold and turned around to face him

Luther scanned her and nodded his head in approval.

He stepped forward and pulled her closer to him, he ran his fingers straight through her straight silky hair.

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