The Bride of the Zodiac King

Chapter Seven

'Put the blindfold over her eyes'.

'What?!' Ella exclaimed when she heard the order of his majesty.

She was about to turn around to look at the supposedly King when the woman stopped her.

'It's bad luck to look at your husband before marriage. It causes death!', the woman whispered to her as she twisted a  black cloth into a bandanna and tied it tightly over her eyes and Ella winced.

'Well as if it isn't bad luck enough being here!', Ella whispered back but it was loud enough for the King to hear since she heard him laugh and she could feel that he was next to her.

'You can leave now', she heard him said next to her and Ella shivered.

She did not like the idea of being semi-naked, blindfolded and alone with a man, whom she had not even seen his face or knew his name. The thought of that man looking like a beast crossed her mind and fear took over her body. She felt anxious, she wanted to rip that blindfold off so that she could look at the face of the man who was keeping her as a prisoner. Ella wondered if he had other intentions of blindfolding her, like for instance to take advantage of her. Her heart skipped a beat when he whispered close to her ear asking her to stand up. She shook her head indicating no.

' I think you are a little too stubborn for my liking!' the King said.

'I will not do everything you ask of me!, I'm  a woman, not a puppet!', Ella replied angrily.

The King laughed and bent his head close to her right ear and whispered,

' Tha's right because you are a woman that soon you'll be begging me to do everything I want with you', and then he laughed only to infuriate Ella.

Who does he think he is?!..., Ella said to herself.

'I don't beg women!',  he said.

Ella thought of him as an arrogant man who probably took women by force, because she certainly was not attracted to his type, savages! She was starting to feel cold and wanted to get out of that tub.

' Can you leave now! I need to get out of this water!', Ella angrily said.

'Anyways my dear wife to be ...I'll see you tomorrow night at the wedding..then we will probably use that blindfold for some other reason', he said as he walked away laughing and Ella quickly ripped the cloth off her eyes and looked around the room but she was all by herself.

'Damn that man ...', she said as she stood up, stepped out of the tub and grabbed what she thought must be the towel, a long piece of thick cloth which had been placed on the wooden stool next to the tub.

Ella hurried towards her bedroom and she was happy to find the place empty. On the bed, she found a pair of fresh undies, a bra and a long red silk dress which had been laid out for her. She looked around the room making sure that no one was around and then she dropped the towel and got changed. Ella sat down at the table and removed the teapot lid. The scent of coffee filled her nostrils and she could not resist, she poured some in the china cup and tasted it. Ella closed her eyes and savored the taste of coffee on her palate. She had never tasted anything like this before! She poured herself a full cup and walked over to the windows, at least she had something to comfort her, good coffee.

The curtains were opened and sun rays filled the room. Ella gasped when she realized that she was probably on the highest floor of the building she was in. She walked back to the coffee table and placed the delicate china cup down and walked back towards the large wooden windows. She tried to look for a way to open the windows but gave up when she realized that the windows could not be slide, pulled or pushed open. She hurried to the door and tried the metal handles, but the doors were locked. In anger, she hit her right hand against the door and winced in pain. She should have known better than having a go at the door, those doors looked like they could only be knocked down using a wrecking ball.

She walked over to the window blowing on her right hand, she looked down below and could only see water as she looked up, it was then that she came to realize that she was actually in a castle. It was if it was conjured from a child's storybook, a stone castle where the Princess awaits her Prince to rescue her. That made her wonder, where her knight in shining armor was. Instead, she was trapped in here with a ruthless King who thinks highly of himself as if when she would see him she will fall madly in love with him.

'Maybe I need to remind him that this was not a fairy tale ..it was like a nightmare on whatever street, planet or universe I'm in', Ella said.

She walked over to the table and looked at the basket of fruits, all the worrying and talking to herself made her hungry. She grabbed a red apple and took a bite from it and then stood there as if she was waiting for something to happen.

'I'm really losing it!', Ella said as she took another bite.

A loud knock on the bedroom door startled her making the apple slipped from her fingers and fell on the floor, she quickly picked it up and put it on the coffee, just as the fairy man from last night walked in. Ella crossed her arms over her chest and looked at him.

'Did I say you can come in?', Ella asked.

' You didn't say not to..anyways I'm only the messenger so I did not come here for chit chats. The King ordered you to come with me, so that you may choose your outfit for tomorrow. He said, his exact words, tell her nothing fancy to impress me, I've seen it all and she ain't my type', the King's messenger said with a chuckle.

Ella took in a deep breath as anger burned inside her. She should have known what type of message to expect from his majesty. She forced herself to smile.

' Tell your King.. that the feeling is mutual. I don't have to see him, I know I already hate him. Whatever he meant by seen it all, well that's all he will do look, because he will never lay one finger on me! I was not planning to impress him nor his kingdom so don't expect me to attend the wedding not even as a guest, because I'm surely not going to allow anyone to force me into marrying that savage! Now run, fly or whatever you do and go tell your King my message to him from loads of love', Ella sarcastically said with a sarcastic smile on her lips.

'I shall repeat word for word', the messenger said with a smirk and then he left the room.

When Ella heard the sound of a key turning in the door lock, she exhaled and sat down on the edge of the bed as she wondered why this was happening to her. She felt drained, she had enough of all of those dramas, all she wanted was to go back home. But how?

King Leon laughed when Memphis brought back the message from his wife to be.She surely had an attitude, actually a personality that most people cannot handle. She was a true child of Venus,  real Taureans and that made him wonder if what they say about true blood Taurean women in bed is true. Leon stood up, he surely shouldn't be thinking about that woman in his bed, he had other plans for her.

'It's going to be an interesting wedding Memphis. One which the Kingdom had never seen before.. they want  a bride I will give the ancestors one ..but after that, her torture begins!', King Leon said with a smirk.