Chapter 9 of chapter 1 Kept in the dark

The Isabella Pov...

In the darkness corridor, come some moaning of people in pain. As I was dragged painfully on the dungeon floor. I hate here. I hate it so much! The last time I came here, was nothing good. Which isn't for Marcus, I believe I would be dead by now. The guards dragged abruptly on me like some prey committed a terrible crime. Without hearing my pleading tears, forcefully, I was grabbed into a dirty cell. Which had to have some people in it. 

I didn't know what crime I have committed that would make the Duke punish me this way. Is that how he hates me, Lady Elsie threatened to take my life wasn't enough and he add more oil into my wound. What the hell did he want from me? 

Haven't I been a good handmaid to him, I did things I shouldn't have done and yet he ordered for me to be locked up! 

Was that the way he found me irritating and yet he chose me to be handmaid? I so much hate that bastard! He was no different compared to the ones outside. They're always the same. I cried and cried, my hands were clenched on the cell metal begging to be released. I can't survive here, it's too much to be compared to be hell. 

"Please master let's me go and I promise not in my life speak back to you. Never again!"

"It's of no use,"  a voice said behind me. I turned my head and saw a black woman laying lifelessly on the floor with some others behind her. " No one will come to save you when you're in. You're in forever" she said. 

I stopped crying and wiped my tears. I looked at her carefully. She was looking too skeleton-like just like the others. I wonder what crime they've done that makes the Duke keep them in this way. 

"No matter how hard you tried to prove yourself worthy, if you don't that's the end for you" the lady continue keeping. 

I don't know why she's here but she was extremely suffering. Suffering from the way she was been treated. Life in the dungeon was nothing but hell. As the guards in here can do anything they want to you just to please their eagle. The Men in here are heartless not compared but completely devil themselves! 

I shifted more closer to the woman laying on the floor. There wasn't just black but also white were in here too. What is their crime to receive such terrible treatment

"What is your crime madam?" I asked, trying not to suffocate in here because the smell was so bad that it's would damage the systems cells of the stomach. 

She chuckles painfully before answering my questions. "Did someone have to commit a crime before the Duke imprisoned them?" She throws a question back to me. I know I have been with Duke for some time but never had my mind come to this. 

I saw him as a commanding, overbearing, shameless, impolite, pushy, and irritating follow. He was more than that to me! 

"You didn't commit a thing?" I asked confusedly staring pitifully at the woman before me. Is this how heartless the Duke is? 

Those people seem like toys to him. 

"Well, to cut the long story short. I'm once his handmaid" 

"His handmaid?" That words shocked me to the bone, I was speechless. She was once the Duke handmaid? That's means I wasn't the first woman picked as his handmaid. What a devilishly human! 

"I have worked in this mansion for ten years. The last time he went out and comes back. He appointed me as his handmaid, it's wasn't easy being his handmaid like hell on earth. Then, my life change. He always found everything I do imperfect to his taste!" The lady said frustratingly. It seems the situation had been difficult for her. There was so much pain in her eyes and I can feel that. 

"And his mistress was of no good helping the case. She always adds more oil into the raging fire. She's like a beast on her creature. I couldn't take more of it and attend to kill him!" 

She wanted to kill the Duke, was that how bad the Duke had been to her. 

"But I never succeeded in that instead I was caught by that devilish mistress of his, Lady Elsie" she called the name with so much bitterness in her tone. I didn't object but listened to what she had to say. 

"How did you intend to do that?" I asked getting curious to know what's the lady was up that landed her here. Because if I'm in her shoes, I would also do the same. For all I have been through been his handmaid, was a pain in the ass.

"I want to poison his food before I was caught by that witch!" 

"Poison? How did you get one of those? Because I'm curious. Ever since I have arrived in this mansion. We had never been allowed to step foot outside. I didn't know how the outside world looks like again after all the days I have spent here" I explained, I was getting to get to know her points more. 

"It was given to me by someone, who works in the mansion. He said if I want to end my suffering I should apply it to his food" 

That's was strange, a worker in the mansion. I thought to myself. 

"I should have known better than that man only did it to set me up as an ally. If I shouldn't have, I would be suffering here. Even with the little treatment, I received from both the Duke and his mistress. I should have tolerated it. Now, looked at me" 

I was shocked at what to say to her at the moment. Everyone hates him because he had caused pain in the life of others and he seats here in his mansion like a king. I never judge her or criticize her. Maybe if she would behave succeeded with her job, I believe I wouldn't be here. 

But what keeps me wondering was who was the man that gave her the poison that' she holds her predicament too 

"Who's the idiot that flamed you?" 

She let out a silent laugh, " No one flames me. I choose to take his life because of the way I was treated like trash !"  With the burning looks on her deadly face, I can tell her had been through alot

"He's a beast! A beast that feeds on humans' blood! He doesn't deserve to live like a free man. His head should be rolling on the spear!" She cried. It was painful to watcher dripping on her past pains and tears running down her cheeks. 

"I understand your pain." I finally speak out. It's true I do, I know how I lose my mother in front of me by some brutal lord!  The papain was unbearable. I hate the white so much for all they do to me but my mindset changed when I meet Emma, she was nice and different. 

"Do you know anything about this guy?" 

"Who?".

"Not really, I haven't seen him before in the mansion. You know the mansion is a very big place that can hardly know all that living" 

  I don't know why I felt to know more from that person. "What about you? Are you're not his newly appointed handmaid?" 

I nodded felt embarrassed to admit I was once his handmade. Now, locked up here rushing to dead!  

"What is your crime to be here in the deadly dungeon of hell. "

"I have no crime" I uttered sadly, of course, I had no crime. If checking back on my loosen memories I always do whatever he instructed me to do with no obliged because he's a milord and master. Didn't know that bastard would twist things in his favor. 

"You didn't?" 

I shook my head firmly. "Then, you're welcome to hell," she said. "I guess the Duke would never change his dick taste. Don't you think so?" I looked at the lady. What did she mean by his dick taste? 

"Here is more than hell my dear, you just have to live until you died" 

That word shrivers me to the spine. "Died" was the last I was expecting. He wants me to die here? I pursed my lips together as the words were too hard to say and fresh new tears ran down my cheeks.

"I'm going to die". 

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