SWNOVELS 123 Chapter 76
Chapter 76
I was 18 years when the days of peace came to an end and a new version of life set in. It was a fateful morning and I was just done cleaning up and dressing into my casual skirt and blouse, waiting patiently for my breakfast to be brought in.
A maid hurried into my room, her face expressionless. When she knocked, I thought it was my food so I rushed to open the door, only to see her empty handed. Before I could ask her why she was here because it was unusual for anyone to visit me. She told me my father ordered for my presence in his chamber immediately.
My heart skipped as I stared back at her in shock, wondering if she was in her right senses. I really felt she was either crazy or had came to the wrong room. How would Gray call for me? Does he even know if I was alive or dead?
“Who is asking for me?” I asked again, under my breath as my brows furrowed together.
“Gray, your father ordered you come to his chamber now. Don’t waste his time!” She warned and turned away, walking fast. that I couldn’t ask any other questions before she went out of sight.
It was up to 18 good years, and I could count the few times I had seen my father, but those times, it was only because my mother used the poison to draw his attention to me.
Since, I was born, he never cared to know if I was alive or dead, and the only time he came was when I was bedridden, yet he didn’t spend anytime with me or asked how I was faring before leaving. It was so clear that he hated me so much.
With the way he talked and glare at me sometimes, I knew vividly that he resented me and I also abhorred everything about him and hoped one day I would leave his house and forget I ever had that devil as a father.
For some seconds since the maid left, I couldn’t move as my body froze in anxiety and panic. It was weird and doesn’t look right. To see a majd coming to tell me he was beckoning on me this morning was something that didn’t went well with my
instincts.
Especially when he asked that I should come to his chamber, a place where he always spend time with his wives and children. What does he want to tell me in there?
I was so shocked that I repeatedly asked myself if the maid was sure it was me, Rose, that he asked to be brought to him.
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For Dad to ask for me was as impossible as a donkey passing through the needles eye, except he has a punishment for me. it was never going to be something good, and my instincts was there with a foreboding warning to keep me trembling as I pondered on what was going to happen to me next.
My wish was to be left alone till I found a way to leave this hell hole, but It was clear now that my wishes weren’t becoming reality anymore.
No matter what it was, I would face it.
The fear building in me intensified the moment I walked into the chamber that looked just like paradise. So glamorous and amazing that I almost drool staring at how fascinating the interior design was, but on seeing the faces in the room, the beauty of the room vanished before my eyes and seemed like the hell fire.
My body heated and my palms became sweaty as my heart began to ram hard inside my chest, choking my breath while I struggled to breath and keep my balance.
The faces I dreaded were all gathered, his three wives which included my mother. It would be important to tell you all that she didn’t act like she recognized me as her daughter. My father’s mother who was my grandmother and every sons and daughters of my father had were also in the room, all seated while I stood in front of them like a lamb to be slaughtered.
It was the second time I was seeing my half brothers and sisters after they once visited me with their parents on my sick bed nine years ago. I almost cried as my heart throbbed in a twinge of shame and rejection. The difference between me and my half siblings was same with that of a slave and royal families. I was clearly the slave here.
While I stood there with my old, tattered and outdated gown, they were all clothed in expensive clothes and gold jewelries
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My half siblings were all older than me and looked so chubby and fresh with wealth written all over them, meanwhile, I was thin and suffered like an outcast,
After they had all fed their eyes with my shambled appearance and laughed to the fill, my father cleared his throat to talk, and my heart was racing in panic. The smirk and smuggy faces in front of me was a hint that something bad was about to happen to me.
My instincts of fear was finally proven right as my father dropped the bomb that almost choked me to death as I gaped and paralyzed in terror.
“Get ready for your husband. You are getting married tomorrow!”
His deep and gruffy voice sounded so cold and straight, piercing deep inside me and resounding every words he said inside my brain and causing a total disrray in my entire system.
Was this a joke? I would have believed it was one, but this man I called my father would never in his life bring me out of my room to this place to crack jokes for me.
I was struggling to breath under my shattered state as I stared into the glazed eyes of my own father, a man I hadn’t have the opportunity to look closely for a long time. His face was squeezed with frown and a sternly look that warned me not to dare speak against him.
How would I get married off like this? I thought to myself, but felt a little happy that it was an opportunity to leave this hell hole. Well, that happiness came to an end when he told me who my husband was going to be.
“Your husband is Xander Hughes. He is sending his men tomorrow to take you so get well prepared and never let them wait!” He warned, his voice emphasizing clearly on the name of my new husband like he wanted it to sink in me well, but there was no way this won’t be a joke or prank of some kind.
“Now you can leave” He concluded like he had said something I shouldn’t worry about. Others in the room giggled, and even my mother didn’t cared at all as she glued her to the child she had in her arms, petting him to sleep.
He told me to leave, but my feet wasn’t leaving the ground. I lost my ability to walk at that moment.
1 wasn’t going anywhere, waiting for him to tell me it was a huge prank. My father hated me so well, but it shouldn’t be this deep as to hand me over to that devilish man who would destroy every pinch of happiness remaining in my life. Xander was the last piece to crush an Innocent soul like me.
If there was anyone most dreaded by every person in the pack. it was Xander, who was the richest man in our pack. I had read books about him and felt the chills of his cruelty especially towards women. He had married 12 wives, or rather taken them as toy because no one had ever heard or seen him perform a wedding rite with any woman.
He was rich, but women that lived with him was in bondage all the rest of their lives. They are in his mansion, serving him. like a slave. They barely comes out so no one knew how terrible their lives were in there.
Those women offered to Xander for money were ones who their family doesn’t care about and had been a disobedient and wicked child. It was an eternal punishment to be Xander’s wife. No freedom at all. You don’t speak when not spoken to, and the worst is that your life is owned by him.
It was a life where you have no say on whatever. I knew all these because I read a lot. Who would have known that one day I would be like those unfortunate women who I had pitied and prayed not to be while reading their pathetic story.
He has no particular wife, and doesn’t have a space for love in his heart. It would be safe to say he hated love and treat women like trash that should be used and crushed under his feet.
Although, I had always wanted to leave this house at any cost. I wanted to vanished and never see the two wicked humans I had as parents, but not with getting married to a man like Xander Hughes.
Even the part of the story about him my mother had told me was equally scary and dreadful.
My father could be called a good man to be compared to him. At least he left me to be on my own while feeding me and he doesn’t hit women have with any woman, anytime.
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“What are you still standing there doing, you fool!” My father growled as he saw me still standing after he had dismissed me. I cleared my throat and sniffed back the tears which were already pouring down from my eyes.
“Dad, I don’t understand. How can I get married to Xander, that man is so cruel and evil. He isn’t marrying me but about to use me like other unfortunate women there- I would be like a paper, used once and discarded like trash all the days of my life. Why do you want to sell me out to him when you have all the money you needed?” I whimpered, shaking at the cruel fate which was about to befall me.
“Just shut up and leave now. Xander personally requested for a wife from me among my daughters so you shouldn’t worry, he will make you his official wife. He snapped aggressively, glaring at me as I sneered at him.
Someone who has dozen of concubines without any official wife, having and beating them at any slightest mistake out of his intense and wild anger issue was the man that was going to make me, a wretched soul, his official wife?
And when did my father accepted me as his daughter after abandoning me for all these years? If Xander requested for one of his daughters, then I am definitely not among because no one outside knew I was his daughters and all my life, he never treated me like one.