An Unfortunate Fate

Katarina's POV

I knew I had no choice but to tell the little story I had made up in my head so that was what I did. I told him the family I was from and that the necklace belonged to me, but even at that he still refused to believe my story.

"Why won't you believe me?" I asked a bit confused about where I had gone wrong.

"Because I remember hearing clearly that the first child of the doctor was born blind," he pointed to me. "You, my lady, are not blind. You can see clearly. I'm sure you can see the flies that pass by the day and the frogs at night. That does not look like what a blind woman would do. 

"If the doctor has given birth to a blind girl, you are not her. You are rather an imposter acting like one who isn't a blind girl. You might have her face and have her things but like I have been saying for the past few minutes, you are still not her."

I could not argue with the prince who literally lived in this land as I was the visitor in another person's body so I was kind of caught in a fix here. 

I didn't know how I was going to explain to the man that I was a soul from the future back in the past but stuck in another person's body because I had died during my own time, killed by my husband and my sister but I have to go through this old body of this girl and win a certain challenge before i would have a second chance to get back into my own body and get back to the future. 

It wasn't looking like the kind of story one would be able to tell and get away with an eye batting at one.

"I also know what the latesivyoea step daughter looks like," he said as I knew he was referring to Jamie. "Unlike the blind girl, that one gets to go around and go to every function because of your supposed disability."

I immediately thought up a lie I knew would help me a little.

"I started to see about a year ago but have chosen to keep pretending to be blind because it's been fun watching people still think I'm blind."

I immediately regretted saying a year because that looked too long a time. I should have said a week or maybe a month, but a year was so long ago I could only pray we haven't met during that period.

What I said fell on deaf ears as the man shook his head with a scoff.

"I don't know if you think I am stupid or something but that's not how it works around here. I already saved you from people who wanted to kill you, I could call them back and have them take you away but this time I'll go with them to watch them actually kill you for lying to me. Of course before they kill you, I'll make sure you explain to me who you truly are since you don't want to tell the truth to me."

"Please, don't do that."

"Oh but I will," he chuckled. "You are a thief for having that on your neck when you are not the girl you are supposed to be. I am convinced those men caught you in the act but you ran away from them and ran into me. And I was too stupid to have saved you. This is one of the reasons I don't get involved in petty stuff."

He snapped his fingers as he ordered for his guards to arrest me.

"Please!" I yelled. "Let me explain."

"You had your chance young lady," he said. "But you chose to lie to a prince. Now you will be thrown in jail where you will rot until I remember that something like you exists there."

"Please!" I was convinced that my life, which had moved from bad to worse, was now going to have a terrible ending for me.

"First, I'll take you to see if I can get your step mother involved in this so I can see if she can identify you as her property or not."

I couldn't believe that this royal stranger chose to go to my step mother and sister and when he got there he revealed that I wasn't blind to them as I was once. Now my cover was blown and I was exposed. There was nothing I could do to get back my honor and my revenge.

Sure I was happy to see that they were shocked and they could not do anything about it, but that was it. My cover was blown and I was done for.

I was thrown behind bars as the man stood outside my cell, watching me pace around.

"I wish I could vow out your eyes and feed it to you so you'd see how it tastes," I threatened the prince. I didn't care about his royalty anymore. He had done the impossible to me as. I hated him for it.

He laughed which only made me want to really kill him as he waved me off.

"You should save your strength. You'll need it as you spend your time in here. Have a pleasant rest."

After he left, I was convinced that all the characters in this story were assholes, especially the male ones 

I was forced to admit to myself that getting the main character a happy ending was going to be harder than I had initially assumed. Now my entire life was about to change and I was mad thinking about it.

Why could he not believe me? Why did he wait until this moment to really show me who he truly was under that skin of his?

Why save me when he would treat me like this?

"Oh Jane," I sighed. "Your story is worse than I thought."