CHAPTER 70

Larisa fluttered her lashes open, it would have taken longer for her to be awake but the cold floor she laid on quickly awakened her senses. She sat up from the cold floor she was lying on, as she observed her surroundings, the dim light was the only source of light in the dark room and it didn't help much to brighten up the place. There was no window in the place but the air was cold and the freezing cold bit her skin as she shuddered slightly. The ground she sat on was damp and cold as well and she wondered where she was.

She tried to move until she realized her hands were being cuffed to a chain, sticking out from the wall behind her. The place looked like a dungeon like in the medieval times, she wondered where on earth she was.

The only exit in the place was a door and she panicked in fear as she remembered that she was being kidnapped and she prayed silently that Lothaire would save her, she believed he would come for her even though he had no idea where she was, but she believed strongly in him.

She was wearing pants and a long sleeve shirt but it didn't stop the cold from affecting her, it was as good as useless. She wondered if she would die from the cold before her kidnappers got to her. She knew it would be useless trying to get out from the heavy chains, but she tried anyways even though it turned out to be a futile try. She gave up as she sat silently on the cold hard floor, awaiting Lothaire to burst through those doors any moment from then. She had hated it whenever he treated her like a damsel in distress but at that moment she would be a damsel in distress and she needed Lothaire to save her.

The place was silent and the freezing cold pierced through her skin like a thousand tiny sharp daggers, it was painful and very uncomfortable, she was already turning numb and pale, her pink, glossy lips quickly lost it's colour and gloss as it turned pale and dry, but her behind was the most affected as it came in contact with the hard and cold floor, blood stopped circulating through her behind and legs, it felt numb she couldn't move it anymore, so she sat there frozen on the floor, waiting for Lothaire to save her. He wasn't her knight in shining armour, he was her fiery demon that would burn the world down with flames of hell for her but would never let a flame touch her.

Her eyes felt heavy again but she didn't want to lose consciousness again, she didn't know who the kidnappers were and what they were capable of doing so she struggled to maintain consciousness. Her eyes still felt heavy and her breathing slowly became unstable as the freezing cold didn't stop unleashing it's brutality on her. She realized just how weak she really was and she could finally understand why Lothaire had been so scared of hurting her.

Her eyes became heavier and she found it difficult to keep them open. 'She would just close them for a bit' She thought inwardly as it didn't seem like a bad idea to her. She was about to finally close her eyes when the door shut open abruptly. Her eyes immediately shot open and she jolted awake as her heart raced hard in her chest, thinking Lothaire had come to save her, her gaze averted to the door and her sense of relief immediately died down as quickly as it came.

It was dark and would have been hard to make out the figure coming into the dark room but it was obvious to her that it wasn't Lothaire, everything about him was imprinted on her mind, his golden eyes would have glowed in the darkness and his towering huge figure couldn't be compared to that of the scrawny man's who snickered at her by the door side, disgust and hate visible in his actions and movements.

"She's awake!" She heard the man's croaky voice say loudly as he informed the others, he was wearing very thick clothes, so the cold didn't bother him as well as the other group of men who scurried one by one into the room, looking down at her like she was an abomination.

"Taahh!" A man spat at her. 'Well that was disgusting but what the hell was happening? She thought inwardly as she managed to clean off the slimy substance on her face even with the biting cold making it extremely hard and painful to move.

She realized why she was being placed in such a torturous and freezing cold dungeon, they were obviously punishing her but for what? She didn't do anything wrong, her mind wandered to her father but he was still her father and no matter how angry he was at her for marrying a strange man he wouldn't do something so barbaric to her. He was a civilized man, that much she knew.

"So this is the devil's wife!" She heard a man say loudly, contempt and hate visible in his voice. 'What did they mean by that? Did they know what Lothaire was? How on earth did they know?' Many thoughts wandered in her head as she stared at them with widened eyes in confusion and fear as they all hovered above her like they were about to stone her to death.

"We've finally gotten him at the palm of our hands, no doubt, he'll come after you and you'll be leading him straight to his end and we will finally put the devil back in hell where he belongs!!" Another bulky man said with confidence and the rest of them cheered at his words. She realized they were trying to get rid of Lothaire which sounded rather funny to her but she was in no place to laugh as she was in a dangerous situation herself as she was a fragile human in the midst of dangerous men that hated her. She examined them and they looked like normal humans so she wondered if they were in any way sane because a vampire couldn't take out Lothaire so she wondered what they were planning to do.

"W..What are y..you ta..talking a..about?" She stuttered in a low tune, her mouth felt dry from the cold and it was incredibly hard to form words with her parched throat.

The man crouched down to her level as he glared at her.

"I'm saying, that we'll be sending you and that devil back to hell!" He growled viciously and she shivered more in fear rather than the cold. They seemed too confident for mere humans who were waging war with the devil himself. She wondered if it was bravery or stupidity.

"I..I d..don't know w..what you're talking about..." She feigned ignorance as she shuddered from the cold. She could barely feel anything anymore.

The men laughed loudly at her words and she gulped, knowing they doubted her.

"You can pretend all you want but it's over for him, we're taking our Empire back, it belongs to humans, not demons and humans should be the ones to rule!" The man stated firmly with a hard tone between gritted teeth. Larisa gulped at his words, Lothaire was impossible to kill but why did she have an unnerving feeling, why did she feel so uneasy?

"You should let me go before he comes for you all. You can't kill him!" She yelled with confidence, but they laughed at her words.

"Watch us!" The man hissed in anger and she gulped at how high their confidence level was.

"Who are you guys?!" She questioned with a firm voice, she didn't want to appear weak in front of those blood thirsty men.

"We're a secret society against the rule of sinful creatures, ruling our Empire, it doesn't belong to them, it belongs to us and we're taking it back!" The man explained with angry eyes. She finally understood why she was kidnapped but she didn't understand how they were going to get rid of Lothaire, she knew they couldn't.

"What do you want with me? I have no business with any of you!" She stated out with a weak voice.

"You're the devil's wife, an abomination to your kind, that's why you're going to be punished for your sins!" He hissed angrily and she whimpered in fear.

His eyes screened through her body offensively and she gulped in fear, knowing what was going through his mind. Adrenaline flowed through her veins, there was no way she could defend herself against those men if the tried to force themselves on her, she felt numb and it hurt like hell if she moved, she wouldn't even be able to put up a fight if she wanted. Her heart thumped loudly against her chest as the man grabbed her and moved her closer to himself. The chains rattled loudly and it hurt her wrist as it moved, but she couldn't feel the pain, all she could feel was fear.

The men laughed loudly as he straddled her, trapping her small figure between his bulky one as he roughly made her back touch the ground which was painful but sh ignored it. She forced her limbs to work and she ignored the pain as she kicked and punched at him, no! This wasn't happening! The man had a dirty smirk on his face and for once in her life, she felt hate and she wanted nothing more than for Lothaire to unleash his wrath on them all without a bit of mercy, she wanted them all dead!