6 Breeder for the beast

I fell to the ground and the last thing I heard was that sinful growl, the last thing I felt was it's claws digging into my flew. 

A creaking sound woke me up, my eyes shot open and the memories from last night hit me like a plague.

I felt different, I felt as if I was foreign under my own skin, so this is really why I was brought here, to be the wife of a beast?. 

The smell of peppermint oil and lavender filled the small dark room, my throat was patched and I was suffering a throbbing migraine.

"Mrs Alaxia, you're awake, thank heavens." Amaray said cheerfully, she brought a brass bowl containing ointment and applied it on my forehead.

I inched away from her when I felt my head burning.

"Please stay still Mrs Alaxia, we have to heal your wounds." She said to me with pity in her eyes.

" What happened, where am I?." I asked her looking around the room, it was small and dark, it had only one window which was the only entrance light could fall through.

"We're in the dungeon." She said to me sympathetically, she was not the prisoner, I was.

"What?!." I asked trying to get up but my legs were chained to the ground.

"Why, what did I do wrong?." I asked her.

She stood from the small stool and brought a bowl filled with scented water, the water was still warm and she massaged my ankle because it was swollen from the tightness of the chain.

" Mrs Alaxia, you did not do anything wrong." She reassured me.

" Why am I here, why am I being held captive in the dungeon if I didn't do anything?." I asked her.

" What do you remember from the encounter with the beast?." Amaray asked me.

" Last night, he pounded on the door, I blacked out I can't remember much." I admitted.

" I'm sorry Mrs Alaxia but you have been here for a week now, it was not last night, it was seven days ago." Amaray told me, my eye brows shot together in confusion. 

"The Beast... He broke into your bedroom and he uhm, he attacked you... He didn't badly injure you, the moon goddess showed mercy on you and he left you there and when I came in the morning, I met you there motionless with blood all over you and these wounds and I..." She buried her face in her hand and she started crying.

I didn't persuade her to continue, I could not even process what she was saying but I felt pain. 

" He asked me to bring you here." 

"Who?."

" Mr Leonard." 

" Then why am I locked up?." I asked

" Because it is known to him that anybody the beast touches dies instantly, when I informed him that you were still breathing he said you were a witch." 

Suddenly there were loud and hard footsteps making it's way to the small stuffy room, Leonard appeared at the door, his features were rugged and rough.

His hard eyes held no hint of warmth, they stared daggers at me and made me recoil, his lips were pressed and his jaw was tight.

"Leave us " He said icily.

Amaray started to stand up, I crawled towards her and held the hem of her skirt.

"Please don't leave me here with him." I begged her my shoulders were quivering in fear.

She cried and pulled her grown from my grip and ran out.

He closed the dungeon door and made his way to me.

I crawled backwards till my back was pressed on the cold wall.

" I see you're healing very quickly." He said with no emotions at all, he just radiated a hard dark aura that caused me to fear...

"Why are you still alive?." He asked me harshly.

"Y-you... Wanted me dead?." I asked him.

A wicked snarl forged on his face.

" Don't you dare act ignorant. Anyone the beast touches dies... Why are you still alive. This curse was made to kill everyone that I touch... Liliac, tell me the truth!." He yelled.

" I don't know." I mumbled.

He grabbed a handful of my hair and pulled it.

"You just be a witch." He accused.

"No." I cried. 

" You really don't know?." He asked

"P-please let g-go, it hurts " I begged with tears streaming down my eyes, he looked down at his hands as if it was not his own and he freed me immediately and moved backwards.

Without another word he left the room and he left the dungeon door open.

I needed to escape from here.

Amaray appeared in the door holding a white gown almost similar to the one I was wearing.

"What is that?." I asked her pointing to a bottle.

"For the pain... Mr Alaxia has requested that I get you ready for... The intercourse, it's happening now." Amaray said, I could sense urgency in her movements. 

"Wait what, stop please." I asked as she started to get my dress off me.

"Stop fighting this!." She said firmly but her voice was filled with pity and kindness.

"No." I cried

"Mr Alaxia's life just turned around because of you Liliac, you should be glad." Amaray said.

"What?." I asked her, what was she talking about?. 

"The curse." She simply said.

"I don't get you." I told her.

"The curse doesn't allow him to have a child, not because he is impotent but because the curse acts as a barrier, since you didn't die when the beast touched you, it is possible that the curse doesn't work on it, it's possible that you're immune to it." She said pulling the white dress over my head.

She parted my lips with her hands and poured the liquid on my tongue, it tasted bitter sweet.

"You're going to have a baby for him." She said almost joyfully.

"I'm going to be a breeder for a beast." I corrected her. 

She handed me a glass of water and I gulped it down too quickly.

" More." I told her and she ran out and came back almost immediately with another one. 

She pulled my hair and combed it.

" You're ready." She said undoing the locks from my ankle, and pulling me up the dark stair case, we reached the light and it stung my eyes because I had been in the dark for so long.

She pulled me into Leonard's bedroom.

"Mr Alaxia, She's here." Amaray said and then she quickly left and locked the door.

Leonard turned to me, his eyes were still hard but this time it was mixed with lust and want, he looked like he was going to devour me.

He took in the image of me and he nodded his head contentedly and without saying anything more, he pointed to his bed. 

This was my fate.