The Throne of Arbediin

Chapter Eight

“I’m sorry if only we have another way, we try to find another way to give you the energy, but that’s mean that you will have to remain in this state, and then it will get worse over time.” He looks at her with an apologetic face. “But I will honor your decision. If you want to remain this way and demand us to find a new way, I will do that. I don’t want to make you in an uncomfortable situation.”

Aileen looks into his eyes, sad amber eyes, his high cheekbones, and the long and lush platinum blonde hair, he's desperate, she can feel that she’s angry that he should mention everything in the first place, but she knows in her heart she fell a bit for this man, these gentlemen.

“Now after you know about this, just give me a slight tap if you agree to do it. If you don’t, just stay still and I will walk out from here.”

Aiden feels a slight tap, he cannot believe it, he asks once more and feels the slight tap again. Aiden gives a slight relief and then kisses her mouth.

“Thank you, Aileen, I will do it slowly and gently.”

Aiden then gets up from the bed and puts away his clothes, his white shirt, jeans, and then his boxer.

Her eyes got bigger when she saw him naked with his c*ck is now standing straight, which means that he got aroused, he then positioned himself between her legs. His amber eyes stare into Aileen's. And then he carefully puts his c*ck into her entrance and goes deeper and deeper.

Aileen cannot believe what is happening to her right now, a feeling of fullness in her v*gina something that she hasn’t felt, she let out a tiny whimper while Aiden thrusting slowly and so gentle repeatedly to her nether region, the strange thing is she can now lift her hands and her legs, with every move that Aiden does to her, she can feel her stamina is back, slowly but surely.

He thrust his c**k faster now, meaning that he will reach his climax soon, her tiny whimper turns into the sound of ecstasy and satisfaction, a feeling of tingling through her body, pleasure from the lovemaking, she enjoys every moment, her hands even rubbing through every inch of Aiden's slim but fit body, admiring it for her eyes only. Aiden's two hands now grabbing between the sheets, he groans a bit, and then Aileen can feel a warm liquid coursing from inside of her womb. Aiden's seed is inside of Aileen's now.

Aileen and Aiden's breathing hard, he pulls his c*ck out from Aileen’s moisten v*gina. He can see his sp*rm bursting out from her entrance. He grabs a fresh wet towel and then gently cleans her entrance. She put one of her hands in her eyes. She cannot believe how she can even enjoy everything that just happened. She should be mad, but she feels satisfied and full of vigor. She gets up from the bed while Aiden puts his clothes back.

Aiden looks at her and then sits beside her. “Are you alright?”

Aileen looks at him and then immediately slaps him hard. “You f*cking *sshole!”

Aiden rubs his reddened cheek. “I should explain everything, I’m sorry it was my mistake.” His eyes are full of regret.

“Yes, you do! Now look at me, do you really think I would not consider everything, I wouldn’t recklessly use my power if you explained everything and with no hidden meaning.” Aileen’s got hysterical, tears running from her eyes.

Aiden got surprised by it. He sweeps the tears with his hand. “I am sorry Aileen, actually I must confess, I was going to explain everything to you when you first awaken in this body, but when I saw you, I… “

She smacks his hand and gave him a disdainful look. “Don’t! I… I cannot see you right now, can you just call Daniel, I want to speak to him, please.”

Aiden goes away from her room. Before he closes the door, he glances at her. “I’ll give you time to freshen up a bit, I’m… I’m so sorry Aileen.”

He shut the door, Aileen just looking at the door with an empty gaze. She then looks into the mirror, not-so-familiar face looking back at her, smiling and satisfied. She’s wondering, was it she who enjoyed the lovemaking with Aiden earlier, or was it someone else?

Someone knocks on Aileen’s door. She opens it and sees Daniel smiling with a sympathetic eye.

“Can I come in?”

She gives him permission and lets him into the room; he sat in her bed, but when he sees her stiff reaction he prefers to go into the balcony and sitting in one of the lounge chairs. She goes to sit in the other chair. For a while, they sit in silence, no words, just two people with no words. There’s tea and cookies on the balcony, some maid who cleaned her bedroom earlier put it there, Aileen pours some tea for her and Daniel. 

“How are you dear?” Daniel initiated the conversation.

Aileen stops stirring her teacup. She looks at Daniel with a smirk. “What? Do you want to know how hurt I am that the four of them gave me some not entirely true information? Or about how I finally lost my virginity to one of them?”

“Well, all of them of course! What do you think I am, I’m your best friend, I know everything about you, you hate a liar and a baseless romance.”

“and somehow I now have all of them, yay me!”

Daniel gave Aileen a sympathetic look. “Look, I don’t want you to think that I’ve defending them or anything, but I want you to give them a chance Aileen.”

“Are you crazy? Look at what happened to me, they make me into someone else without my permission, and now I have to sleep with them regularly just to maintain some stamina.

“They safe you, Aileen you've died! They risk everything to give you their precious princess body.” Daniel holds Aileen’s hand and smiles reassuringly at her. “Look, if you don’t want this new life, they will respect your decision and let your soul free, but, please… please, hear their whole story first.”

Aileen gives a long sigh and stares back at Daniel. “Okay, I will, but they have to promise me, no more holding back, they will have to tell me everything.”

“That’s my girl, now, give me an hour to talk to them about your situation. Meanwhile, you go take a long bath and then meet us all in the office room.”

“Okay…” Aileen gave Daniel a small smile. “Thank you, Daniel.”

“You’re welcome dear, now let me drink this tea first, and then I will out of your room in a flash.”

“Wait, you don’t say that you will teleport, right…”

Daniel was already gone, he was teleported from the balcony in front of Aileen, leaving an empty teacup behind. “Ugh, I will never get used to that.”

Daniel teleport to the office, almost give Fenrir a heart attack, he curses immediately when he sees the soul reader who’s now sitting in one of the chairs. 

“F*ck! After the shenanigans from Emir and his teleportation ability, now we have another sorcerer here to be put into the mix.”

“Hey! Mind you, I am more special in every way.”

“Dream on, gramps, your kind basically extinct,” Emir smirking. He was standing beside Caleb, who’s reading some new investigation report.

“But, here I am, alive and well, not extinct at all.” 

Aiden goes in and then sitting in one chair in front of Daniel, he then looks at him and then teases him. “Hmm… From the looks of it, you’re not extinct, just endangered?”

“Hahahaha… you brats, okay, want to use the ‘you’re ancient and we are the younger generation card'? How about I give you all some insight about what you all have to do when Aileen goes downstairs from her room and then sits in here demanding an answer.”

They all went silent, Fenrir the one who finally speak his mind.

“Okay, teach us then.”

Daniel, leaning backward, makes himself as comfortable as he can. “Good, now, I want you to tell Aileen about everything, including the ritual, your reason to choose her, and about the situation in Arbediin kingdom right now.”

“Simple then, we already gave her our reason to choose her, and yes, we actually will tell her the truth about the ritual and Arbediin kingdom, it’s just that the order of things changing drastically because her using Amyra's power,” Aiden answering Daniel, his eyes fixated to one of the reports. 

“Okay, and then I will tell you about her past, this one significant and you must have kept it in your mind.” Nobody’s talking, they just stare at Daniel, he takes that as a yes. “Aileen, have a childhood trauma, that’s why, she… she has a hard time to be intimate with a guy.”

Caleb goes in front of Daniel. “What do you mean to have a hard time being intimate, did she?”

“No, not her.” Daniel, take a cigar and lit it with his magic, he enjoys the exquisite taste of the expensive cigar and then continues his story. “She told me the story just once when I want to set her up with one of my acquaintances. They had a pretty good relationship, until my friend told me that they never got beyond the first base.”

“What? Really? Something was wrong with that friend of yours?” Emir chuckles, still fixated by the report.

“i***t, I know him, he’s a good guy, a bit boring but I know he meant well for Aileen, after all, they have been together for one year.” 

“The f**k! One year without something that more than a kiss?” This time it was Fenrir. 

“That’s why he knew something was wrong, he doesn’t mind any of her past, he then proposed but Aileen rejected him. Poor guy, I still remember that night, I was so angry at her, I yelled at her, she cried, and then come to the story.”

“The story that makes me what I have become now.”

All of them turn their heads, and there she is, Aileen in the body of Naura Amyra. She wears a white shirt with a legging; she smells like a fresh green tea with jasmine, her favorite soap. 

Aiden asks her with a bit of awkwardness. “Are you… are you okay?”

Aileen force herself to smile at Aiden and to the rest of them, she knows that now she needs to put on her brave face. “Yes, I’m okay now, I gather that you want to know my whole story? It’s just fair, seems you guys will do the same.”

“Of course, please sit with us.” 

Caleb offers her a chair, she takes it gratefully, just as soon as Fenrir gives her a big mug of hot chocolate.

“Oh, you know my favorite?” Aileen's eyes sparkle when she smells the sweet aroma of the hot chocolate and sips it a little. 

“Daniel told me.” He answered her with a slight grump. 

“Thank you Fenrir, I appreciate it.” Her smile so genuinely makes Fenrir blush and acting more awkward. 

“Dear, are you sure? I mean I don’t want you to have a panic attack afterward.”

She put the half-empty mug of hot chocolate on the table, while she gave Daniel a reassuring smile. “I will be okay, don’t worry about me.” Aileen then looks around, Aiden, Caleb, Fenrir, and Emir, who wait for her full story. She takes a long breath. “My story begins when I was just a 7 years old girl with a loving father and mother. I have a happy life, my fathers actually an aristocrat, with the rank of Lord.”

The revelation surprised the four of them, they know Aileen lost her parents, but they never know she was blue blood herself.

“The name back then was Aliena Jackson Monteview, daughter of the Lord Monteview. Father of mine was a family man with an abundance of love for my mother and me and then comes that wretched night. My parents entertaining some guests, a foreign guest with my father’s uncle, named Gregor.” She took a sip of hot chocolate, and then continue her story. “As usual, when the adults were having a party until nights out, the children have to go to sleep, my nanny back then was an old one, she was my father’s nanny as well, I consider her more like a grandmother than a nanny. Anyhow, I slept pretty quickly back then, until I heard a disturbing sound, a scream so loud I immediately wake up and jump from my bed.”

Her hand is now shaking, she takes a sip of the hot chocolate again to calm her nerves. 

“That’s when I realized there’s a body in my bedroom, my nanny's dead body, right next to my bed, someone… someone slashed her neck badly, I can see her open wound on her neck, fresh blood spurting, and her face, I… I never forgot the terror on her face that becomes permanent after she died. I run, away from my room, and go instinctively to my parent's room… I… “

She cries, still shaken uncontrollably and her face fills with fear. She tries to build up more courage. When she feels a pair of hands are now touching hers, try to calm her down. 

Aiden smile, she takes Aileen's shaken hands into his. “If you don’t want to continue we understand.”

“No… no, I must… I have to, I need to do this… I… I will do this.”

She let go of Aiden's hands and then take a sip of her hot chocolate. She then continues the story. “I run to their room, I take a peek and there they are, my father, being tied to the chair, he was still alive, badly beaten but alive, his eyes swollen from the beating and his tears runnings from his face, he begs someone to stop, and that's when I realize why my father cried badly, I saw my mother in the bedroom with Gregor, he… he r*pes her in front of my father, and not just him, there were three other men with him, they were all naked, two of them hold my mom in the bed while… while that vile Gregor repeatedly r*pe and torture her in front of my father.”

“F*ck!” Fenrir cursing, he stares at Aileen, thinking what kind of life that this poor woman has been through. 

“It got even worse after he was done with her, he let those three other men, rape and torture my mother, my mother weak nature, with the constantly torturing and raping from those men, she… she died right there on the bed, while one of her torturers still inside her, enjoying her lifeless body.”

“Oh, my… that’s…” Caleb cannot even put a word about what happened, the vile crime, and the trauma that they put on this woman's mind. 

“I finally knew the answered, Gregor want my father’s title, he cannot have it by law, so he orchestrates a very cruel and vile plan to kill my whole family, he makes it like someone robbing my house and torture my father and mother, and then he shot my father, right into his head, my kind father, my beautiful mother, my loving nanny, I lost everything that night.” 

Aileen looks at everyone one by one. They have the same expression, sympathy, and sadness. “You guys may wonder why they haven’t killed me back then, well, they plan to kill me last, I don’t know because of their conscience not to kill a sleeping and innocent child, or just because I was just an easy target to kill later. I make sure he regrets letting me go back then. I run away through the forest and to the village nearby, some delicate lady saw me and brought me to the nearest police station.”

Emir, the one who was silent all this time is finally speaking his mind. “What happened afterward?”

“They captured Gregor and his accomplished, the verdict, die by hanging, all of them. I was 12th when Gregor got executed, afterward, the title goes to my distant relative, they were nice enough to take care of me until I was legally an adult, I used my small inheritance to have a higher education, I changed my name to Aileen, and then here I am, not just a different name, but somehow a different body as well.”

The clockwork from the hallway makes tick sounds, the silence after the story is so tense, and filled with sorrow. Daniel stood up from his chair. He goes to hug Aileen tightly, her defense was finally crumbled, she cried so hard on Daniel's warm embrace, while Aiden, Caleb, Fenrir, and Emir watching the scene.

They waited for a while until Aileen finally calms down. Her eyes are red and a bit swollen, but she finally regains her composure, her hands not shaking anymore.

“Now, you know the truth. For us to be even, I need to know your story, about Naura Amyra and your mission.”

The four of them look at each other, Aiden sits on his desk, his hands are on the table, his eyes calm, and staring back at Aileen.

“Well, where do you want us to begin?”

-End of Chapter 8-