She's Mine

Chapter 51

Special thanks to @TraitorOfTheCrown

Lua's POV:

"What do you want from me?" I asked, gritting my teeth in annoyance. I just have the worst luck. 

She waved her hand and I was being held down, my arms being crushed in the process. I couldn't stop the scream from erupting from me, as I felt a rib bone snap. Tears were gathering in my eyes, as cries of agony ripped out of me. 

Make it stop make it stop make it stop, I begged something, anything. 

I tried to speak out, but words wouldn't form in my mouth, being replaced by shrieks instead.

Even some of the guards had a sickly sheen to their skin, as they heard the bones snap.

Make it- 

My world went dark. 

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There was something around my throat, something around my wrists, and something around my ankles, as consciousness began creeping back in. 

A cry escaped me, as I moved, chains jingling, causing the multiple broken bones to shift too, releasing blasts of agony through me. 

"I'd suggest you don't move," The queen said, her eyes completely dead and hollow as she stared at me. 

"What do you want?" I breathed out, my throat raw. 

"Your power, my darling daughter. I need your magic," 

"For what?" 

"From what was reported back, you figured out that the force isn't really our own magic. But instead, something that was manufactured for our cause." She paused before continuing her grand tale, "It needs magic to suck up and it makes that into the force power. Whilst you were here, we had been feeding you with the nullifying powder, but that wasn't nullifying, it was merely sucking your powers and transferring it to the force." Her laugh was brittle, "Ultimately, you were just injuring yourself," 

I felt for my magic and trembled in relief when I felt it still there. They hadn't sucked away everything yet. 

"Any other questions, before you live a life of being harvested," 

"Why was I sent to the other family?"

"That was a mistake on our part. A maid had realised what we were going to use our child for and had whisked you away to that mortal family. We soon found out who she was, but she wouldn't tell us where you were, even with her final breathe. We looked for you, but you were hidden from us until your stupid 'uncle' decided to hand you right back,"

"He was more of a family than you two ever were," I said, slowly beginning to freeze the chains. 

"How nice," She said back, "The full extraction will occur tonight, so you'll be powerless for a couple of weeks. Until then, I think your father wants to have a word with you," 

And with that, she strolled out of the room. It wasn't the basement room, I realised, but perhaps another torture room; designed to have people chained from the neck, wrists and ankles. 

A minute later, the king walked in, his face bandaged up so you could only see one of his eyes and his mouth. There was a knife in his hand and a piece of cloth in the other. 

I mentally prepared myself for what was to inevitably come, as the male approached. He was silent as he wrapped the cloth around my mouth, then silent as he plunged the knife into my gut. I didn't bother stopping the scream, making it extra loud right in his ear.