1.2: Heartless

I ignored Lucius's desperate calls and I headed straight to my chamber. The silence healed my ringing ears from the entire ruckus that that man had caused. Father should know what to do with him. I will see to it that everything will go smoothly with the jail documents.

I laid down on my bed and stared at the tree outside. Just as when I was finally regaining control of tranquility, the door opened revealing the offender.

This was getting out of hand.

My father was a useless ruler.

"You should not be here."

"I know...just lend me your time," he assured with a smile.

He sat at the edge of the bed and I scooted far away from him to show my disapproval of him being in here. Where were the ippótes making rounds?

"Thank you for the generous space," he chuckled and lied down.

He quickly wrapped his arms around me and pulled me firmly to his hard body causing immediate alarm to my principles.

"Let go of me, you are not allowed to touch me, you are destroying my purity!" I shouted at him.

This was the first time that someone had invaded my personal space multiple times a day. How can someone be so persistent in disobedience? I must push him away.

I must get rid of him! He will take away my life. He will ruin everything I worked hard for!

His arms tightened around me and the strangulation of being forced into such a position was making me cease my breathing.

"Let go I say!" I wheezed out.

"I will not. Please calm yourself," he gently spoke reassuring that he had harmless intentions in which I do not believe even if my own mother was at stake.

"I am calm. Why are you here?" I questioned. My tone was slightly higher than usual.

What?

I froze in place when I felt him place a kiss on my forehead.

"Because onii misses his chii," he whispered.

I snapped out from my stupefaction and narrowed my gaze at him.

"I do not know you," I deadpanned.

"Yes you do, they just erased your memories of me," he pushed on, being a lot calmer this time compared to the first time he arrived.

"Relinquo (Leave)," I ordered. "Your visit here is meaningless."

"You're meaningful to me. Stop pushing me away," he slammed back.

"Stop being in my way," I retorted and continued with my struggle within his steel grip.

"Lucian, this is getting childish. Look at me," he demanded.

"I refuse."

His fingers pushed my chin up and I tried to resist the force and back away, however; his arm guarding my back prevented me from making a distance.

He placed a heavy leg to trap my own two legs and pushed my body further to his own, crushing me in his embrace. I gave up and let him lift my chin only for him to meet closed eyes.

"Otrolig… (Unbelievable…)" he groaned.

For a few seconds, the criminal became silent and he leaned his forehead against mine before sighing in resignation.

"If only I came home sooner...this wouldn't have happened," he murmured regretfully. "They must have deprived you of love and affection..."

They did the right thing. They made the right choice.

"It must be done," I told him. If they showed such weakness to me, I would be fragile.

"It shouldn't have been done!" he protested and a wave of silence followed thereafter.

Lucius' tense form relaxed moments later while I was devising plans on how to speed up the process of putting him behind bars for one-hundred blue moons. I will also make sure that the ippótes assigned in this wing shall meet consequences for not being in time to arrest this man.

"Have you tasted cocoa seeds?" he asked me.

"No and never, taste buds retrieve emotions. I advise you to stop piling more offenses to your list but for the sake of speeding up the process of you being tossed to jail, please, go on," I deadpanned.

A second later, I felt something soft pressing against my lips and I had to purse them to prevent whatever it was that he was forced in. Lucius poked my side and my body reacted negatively to it. My mouth opened and the small and soft object was pushed inside of my mouth. He immediately pushed my chin up and covered my lips with his hand.

"Chew it or I will never leave you alone," he threatened to cause me to reluctantly obey.

You shall pay for this farbrekher (criminal).

I clenched his arm tightly and chewed sluggishly. My strength was already drained from dealing with him. The soft seed ruptured and something thick and rich coated my mouth. My eyes opened in wonderment and I met blue eyes that were darker than my own, waiting in anticipation. He let go of my lips and the taste stayed in my tongue as it dried up and thirst spread across my cavern.

"What is it?" I questioned.

It tasted better than the bread I eat every day.

I will have to confess my crimes to the Higher-Order once this man was out of the way. The punishment will be lesser in my condition because I was forced.

"It's chocolate, what you tasted is sweet," he explained.

"I shouldn't have tasted that. It will-"

"Hiberent! (Stop!) They have lied to you. Emotions show the beauty of life. If you lock them away, you learn nothing," he scolded.

He raised my face further and forced me to look at his eyes that pinned my attention in place.

"You are beautiful Lucian but you are nothing but a monster inside. I will train you on how to use your heart. You will come with me the next time I go out."

I gave him a defiant expression. I was trained to show expressions of disapproval when it came to unreasonable simpletons.

"It's better to hurt than to be hurt. You are blind if you think otherwise," I told him.

Lucius held my face firmly and disappointment was traced to his tone of voice.

"It's better to not hurt at all. You are a creature of life, not death."

He pulled my body up with him and went to my closet. Did he really believe I'll come with him? What made him think that the Kingdom will allow him to take me?

"Your clothes are all black and white," he commented as he rummaged through it.

"It must be done," I stated.

His head popped out from the hanging clothes and he pointed his finger at me with a displeased face.

"No, it shouldn't. When you were a child your clothes were colorful. What happened?"

I was enlightened.

"I grew up and...It must be—"

"That's it, we leave tonight!" He cut me off out of frustration.

He grabbed a bag and began to stuff my clothes inside. I watched him blankly as he caused a rampage. He was too raucous. If I was sensitive like my mother, I could have whacked this man's head.

Once the dullard was finally done packing my things up, I took the chance to speak.

"I refuse to come. Please return my clothes to where they belong. I will add Invasion of territory and Damage to the property into the list of your offenses. Aren't you wealthy with years in jail?"

"Otrod'ye…(Brat...)" he hissed.