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This time I shouted back, “You will carry a corpse to the altar."
I heard him sigh and then his footsteps disappeared down the hall. Radley behind him like the lapdog he was.
In a sense, I was jealous. My brother had these men that would lay their life down for him in a millisecond, who lived to protect him, but I had no one to do the same for me.
I was utterly alone to face the demons in the world despite my brother’s efforts. He had no idea what it was like to be a woman; seen as a means to trade for allies or partnerships. He would never know. Instead, some poor woman would be given to him, just like I was. I only hoped my brother never became a monster like Ilya.
He returned minutes later, this time he didn’t knock or try the handle but I could hear rattling at my door, almost like a screw at the hinges.
Then my door was ripped away to reveal my brother. His nose flared, his eyes shot wide as he stared at me frustratedly.
“I won’t continue to play these childish games with you, Mia,” he said, “Radley and Thomas move the dresser.”
Within two seconds my room was free for all to walk in, my brother being the first, Radley and Thomas standing at his side.
My brother’s hands were behind his back, holding something from my view, I only knew by the droplets of some red substance on my carpeted floors trailing him.
I cautiously backed away from him as he stopped at the foot of my bed.
Suddenly a human head was dropped onto the soft mattress forcing me to scream as I scattered from the bed; the eyes of a dead man staring at me.
My body shook in the corner as I resisted the urge to vomit at the gruesome sight.
“You are fucking insane,” I muttered as I wrapped my hands around my body while my brother stared at me, Radley, and Thomas too.
“This is Levi. He was one of my guards- trustworthy, loyal. He was married and the father of two girls. Show her Levi’s family, Radley,” my brother demanded, his eyes dark like the partial corpse he threw at me.
Radley walked to me shoving his phone in my face, so I saw a once healthy, happy Levi playing with his family. The tears spilled from my eyes, my headache upgrading now to a migraine. My hands covered my mouth to silence my cries as I mourn for his wife and children.
This was what the families were about. Ruthless murder all for power.
“This is what happens when you kill the head of the fucking Banrov Family, Mia. The only reason he is dead, and you are not, is because I have managed to keep you secured here,” Michael shouted.
I said nothing as my cries echoed in the room, the men unaffected by my obvious discomfort.
“Do you think that I want to marry you to Elias Galdur?” my brother said, walking to me.
“No, but I have to.” Answering his question, he grabbed my face, his eyes softening as he looked at my tear-ridden face.
“I don’t have the resources for a war. Galdur does. And he has the name. A name that will protect you as soon as it becomes yours.”
“Are they dead?” I muttered, referring to Levi’s family.
“No, we got to them before Alexsei did.” My shoulders slumped, relieved at the news.
Alexsei was Ilya’s son, my former stepson. Not that he liked me anyways. He never failed to tell me how I could never replace his mother, or that I was there so his father didn’t die of blue balls.
He was cruel just like his father. But what could I expect after being nurtured by a beast such as Ilya?
I always thanked God, I never got pregnant. Being a mother had always been my dream, but I never wanted any child of mine to grow up with a father like Ilya; I didn’t want to bear another Alexsei.
I feared I would resent myself, or worse- them.
“Come and eat,” Michael said and led me out of the room, not before ordering Radley to get rid of Levi’s head and my now blood-stained sheets and carpet.
Chapter Six
ELIAS
