Chained to the prince of darkness by Lunasads (books for 10th graders TXT) 📖

"Long time ago, very very long time ago, there was a woman, who used to live in the forest away from any civilization, away from any enlightenment. She lived with her family, her old mother, her old father, and two younger siblings. They had their small hut near the lake and a small yard on which they used to grow vegetables and other necessaries."

"What does this have to do with me," I asked cutting him off. Why was he telling me all this?

He sighed.

"If you want all the answers to your questions. Please bear with me, your—Sarah,"

I nodded feeling embarrassed.

"So where were we, oh yes—, they were happy with whatever they had, they were happy with each other. Everything was perfect but there was one problem. The woman was married but were abandoned by her husband because the woman was barren. She was infertile, she could never become a mother."

He glanced at me and continued.

"Even though she was infertile, she never felt embarrassed about that. Her younger siblings were ten years younger than her, she loved them like her own, which she could never have."

Why should someone feel embarrassed about being infertile?

Ridiculous.

"They spent their days in the backyard, sowing seeds, growing vegetables, spending time with family, playing in the lake and doing all the fun things. But nothing can always stay the way it is. One day her mother get sick and started coughing blood. All of them got scared, they didn't know what to do. They had nowhere to go, cause their home was in the middle of the forest. Her father told her that he was going to take their mother to the village for treatment, which was forty miles away from their home. She wanted to go with them but looking back at her siblings, she didn't want to leave them alone too. Her parents went away and she stayed back with her siblings. Being twins, her siblings were quite naughty—"

He stopped like he was stopped by something, his face color changed, and his ears quirked up, his eyes widened for a few seconds and then he nodded like he was talking to someone.

"One unfateful night when she was making dinner and called out for her little brother. After getting no response she called her sister next but still no response. She felt weird because her siblings never unheard of her. She went to their room to call them for dinner."

"She didn't find them there. Thinking they must be playing near the lake, she went there looking for them, but there was no sign of them. She got worried. It was unusual for them to go somewhere without telling her. It was dark, late at night but she was not going to back down till she found them."

"As she was going further, she started feeling scared. She stopped as she heard yelling and grunting. And this gets her more scared because no one ever come to this forest. She his behind the tree and peeked around the corner. She saw three men with their horses and two men setting up the tent. But that's not what caught her off guard, a thing which shook her was that there stood a man bigger than rest looking in her way. She started running away from there. She didn't even get the time to take two steps, she was immediately tackled to the ground by a large body. She screamed as he looked up. A large wolf was hovering over her with his bare canines. She didn't realize what happened but the next moment her neck was punctured by his two canines."

Scared. I was scared. I still don't know why was he telling me this, but whatever he was telling was making me scared. 

"She fainted. The next day when she opened her eyes she found herself at the same spot where she fainted last night but this time it was not dark, the sun was hovering above the sky. Everything seemed the same but she felt something different. She felt herself being tied, she tries to move but her body was restricted by something."

"She felt scared and helpless. Her heart was beating drastically. She looked around herself but didn't find anything, there was nothing, no one, but she was tied. Her ears shot up as she heard cracking of a twig. She looked here and there frantically and screamed with newly found energy as a large wolf come towards her. It was the same one that attacked her last night. She wanted to get away but looking at that wolf made her scared for her life." 

"The wolf neared her and sniffed in the air. And looked down at her. And with a loud bowl, he turned into a man. The woman was scared, but seeing a man turning into a wolf was unbelieving for her."

"The man unshackled her and dragged her towards the opposite end of the forest. Her protests, struggles were in vain. After reaching his camp, the man again tied her. Her mind was occupied with the thought of her siblings."

"The man took her to his palace and kept her captive there. She tried to run away many times but failed miserably. The man would come to check on her but never laid a finger on her. "

"She accepted her fate there. Never she try to run away. She felt herself falling for him, maybe Stockholm syndrome. The man was already in love with her. He married her after a year. He knew about her infertility, and never mistreated her for that."

One day her mind again drifted back to her family, she wanted to know what had happened to them. She asked the man to take her there and he agreed. They went there and she saw that her family was still there. She told them all about him. And she asked her siblings where were they that night. They told her they were in a cave behind the lake. 

Her mother was healthy now and so was her family. The man treated her family like his own. During their stay there, she started observing the behavior of her sister, she was acting weird. She tried to ask her what happened but she refused to tell her anything.