Chapter Fourteen

Mal's POV

I stared at the clock next to my bed. 6:55 am.

6:55 am.

I wanted to scream. I needed to make breakfast, I had to. But that was in the Isle. every morning before 7 am I had to make breakfast, exactly before seven or I would get punished but now I don't. I don't and I repeat that over and over. But I had to, I needed to please King Ben.

'Mal that's NOT your job anymore' King Ben's ringing in my ears. I took a deep breath and held King Ben's jacket closer, taking a deep breath of his scent before taking slow breaths trying to relax. No punishment, he's not going to punish me. He's going to come in and talk to me, see if I'm being good. He's not going to leave me.

He's going to come in.

He's going to come in.

He's not going to send them.

After having that memory, I stayed awake through the night I felt him taunting me, ready to hurt me if I made a sound if I did something wrong. I didn't want to get in trouble not again, not with King Ben so I stayed quiet. Instead of laying against the headboard I had finally laid back down after pulling a pillow next to and wrapping it with King Ben's jacket and cuddling closer to it. But I didn't want to be, I wanted King Ben to be here with me. He was the only person I kinda trusted. I know he won't hurt me. But he was taking a long time. My thought's fluttered to the idea of him being with them, the girls that cleaned me, were they pleasuring him? Was he pleasuring them? I felt this terrible aching and painful feeling of him being with someone else.

He's mine.

I want him to be mine.

I let out a growl, I felt my eyes glow and I hugged his jacket closer to me.

Mine.

Ours… I heard a voice whisper.

I got up.

Who was that?

What was that?

I hugged King Ben's jacket closer to me. My eyes darting from one side of the room to the other. What it from outside?

Knock

My eyes moved to the door hearing a small tap against it then again and again. I flinched before slowly sinking into the bed and covering my whole body with the blanket before digging my face into King Ben's jacket and holding it closer to me.

The door opened. I heard light footsteps coming closer to me. I shut my eyes tighter breathing into the jacket to calm down

I'm safe.

I'm safe.

The footsteps finally stopped next to the bed where I was at. The bed dipped as the person sat down next to me. My body tensed. I felt them playing with my hair before leaning down and placing a kiss on my head. My tense body relaxed. There was only one person who has kissed me on my head.

King Ben.

I moved my head to his direction, laying my head against his jacket I watch him break out into a smile.

He continued to brush the hair off my face before gently running his fingers through my hair, "Did you sleep well?"

I swallowed hard before nodding digging my nose into his jacket. I looked back at him and watch his eyes winkle.

He continued to mess with my hair, "Did you have a nightmare?"

I buried my face into his jacket.

"Mal?" I didn't respond, "Did you have a nightmare?"

I looked at him before pulling the blanket closer covering my face with it. He pulled the blanket from my face and moved one of his hands to continued to touch my hair while the other held my face. I was afraid.

Was he going to get mad?

He gave me all this. My room, my bed and I can't sleep because of a nightmare. I shouldn't disturb him because I'm stupid.

"Did you have a nightmare" his eyes squinting with worried, his eyebrows knitted worried with his lips straight.

I nodded my head before looking down at his jacket.

He pulled me into his lap and hugged me closer, lifting my face so he was looking into my eyes, "Are you okay?"

I thought the nightmare before shivering and nodding my head.

King Ben gave me a questioning look before asking me again, "Are you sure?"

I opened my mouth before closing it again.

"Mal it's okay to tell me," he asked

"I-I it was a m-memory" I finally mumbled out playing with my fingers.

"I see" he responded looking at the wall in front of him before looking at me again, "Do you want to talk about?"

I shook my head, "Did anything else happen?"

Should I tell him about the voice?

"I-I"

"What happened?"

I looked around the room before leaning in and whispering, "I heard a voice."

"A voice?" he looked around, before moving to get up before I held my hand out to stop him.

"But the voice was weird" I spoke again, "it sounded like me."

He sat back down giving me a confused look, "What do you mean? What did the voice say?"

"It said ours" I finally admitted whispering after he gave me a look of desperation.

His eyebrows knitted confused, "Why did it say ours? What was going on?"

I looked at him with wide eyes before anxiously responding, "I-I don't know I was wondering if you were going to come in and I thought about you and them.."

I looked down.

He's going to hurt me!

He always told me that what he does with them was none of my business that they were better than me. King Ben has every right to be with them if he wants to. He's not mine. He's my knight, just a protector.

"Mal, what do you mean 'you and them' who is them?"

I wanted to hit myself against the wall. He should know what I'm talking about. He's the King! He should have more than one. More than he did. Why did keep wanting me to spell it out? Was he trying to get me riled up? Was he messing with my head? Was this his way of showing me I was inferior?

I looked at him before pouting a bit and responding bitterly, "Them as in your-" my eye twitched before I let out a growl "Ours"

My eyes widen and I placed a hand on his arm, "See." I looked around the room, there it is again.

I moved to look at King Ben, he gave me an utterly disbelieve look, "Princess I didn't hear anything"

I looked at him, "But I just heard them say ours" his eyebrows knitted in confusion before breaking into a smile, I gave him a questioning look, "What?"

"Princess, that was you." he held my face when I looked down.

It was not me!

"No," I mumbled, knitting my eyebrows and glaring a bit before dropping it.

He let out a small laugh, "Princess, that your dragon." He looked at me again more serious, "See when your dragon feels territorial and protective of what's hers. Dragons make sure you know by proving or showing or even claiming what's theirs is whether it is an object a place or a person." Looking at my shocked face he continued, "For example, yesterday at my office you know how my eyes were glowing, they were gold." He paused looking for my approval to continue and with a nod he did, "My beast was angry because he thought he couldn't keep safe what's his." I gave him another nod, "So princess, like I was worried about what's mine you were worrying about what's yours" he booed my nose before smiling, "Mal, what were you thinking about that made your dragon want to stake your claim."

I gulped.

"I-I was thinking of you with the" I muttered out

"Them?" he shook his head "Okay that's the second time. Who is them?"

"You know," I messed with my fingers "those girls.." I growled out

He lifted my head giving me a questioning glance, "You mean Evie, Jane, and Lonnie?"

I bit the inside of my cheek. How did he know their names?

Even he didn't remember theirs, he said their names don't matter. He said he only remembered my name, that I should feel special.

I felt my breathing quicken, was I not more important to King Ben? Is that why he can remember their names? Because they were better than me?

"Why did you think of them?" he questioned again.

I wanted to hold back my tongue, did he want me to be bold? Was he toying with me? I held back my tears, was he trying to prove a point?

I took a deep breath, "Because they are pleasing you."
My 'dragon', I guess growled again.

"Mal, that's not true." he cleared his throat, "Princess, they are my friends and there already with other people"

I lifted my head, "Not with you?" I gave him a confused look, "But he had three others?"

His eyes changed, they flickered gold before he took a deep breath before nuzzling my head, "Mal you are the only one in my life. Okay?"

I nodded my head.

Even if I didn't believe him.

"Now let's go get breakfast." he moved to get up but I didn't move.

Instead of moving me pulled me with him so he was carrying me out of the room, as I walked to the dining room peacefully with my head buried into his neck. I moved and noticed we are at the door of the dining room he added, "I'm going to introduce you to some people okay?"

I gulped before nodding and hiding my face into his neck once again. I heard him open the door and the chattering of the room died down. He continued to move until he was sitting down. Instead of putting me onto a different chair he pulled me with him and moved me so I was sitting on his lap. I tilted my head to look at who was sitting down at the table. The girls were there with 3 guys and King Ben's parents.

"Hi Mal" The blue-haired girl, Evie smiled giving me a wave. I gave a small wave before turning my back and moving closer to King Ben.

He lifted my head, "Mal, I want to introduce you to everyone. You can trust them as you trust me." I looked into his eyes, he was giving me a smile with his eyes shining with approval. I bit my lip, before looking at them, who were all giving me smiles and back at Ben, who gave me a nod.

Was this his way of telling me he wanted space?

He didn't want me?

Was he tired of me?

Of my problems?

I felt tears stinging my eyes before shaking my head and putting my arms around him. King Ben took a sharp breath in when one of my tears touched his neck before pulling me away from hiding on his neck. One hand was holding my waist while the other was holding my face gently.

"Princess, what's wrong?" He wiped my tears away.

With a hoarse voice, I mumbled as best as I could in tears, "You don't want me"

"Oh no, princess that's not true." He wiped my tears " I'll be there for you but I thought you would want to have friends"

I shook my head.

King Ben pulled me closer, "Mal..you know how yesterday you went to the library with my mom" I nodded my head, "you had fun didn't you?" I hesitate but nodded my head, "well it's going to be like that but now you're going to have more people and I'll be checking in okay?"

I shook my head, "No" the tears came back.

He lifted my head, his eyes softened when they saw the tears running down, "Mal.." he pulled me closer, "How about we try it? It only going to be for a little while and if you don't like will try something different" the tears ran down but I finally nodded my head. I didn't want to disappoint him.

He wrapped his arms around me and pulled me into a hug. Once he was sure I was fine he turned to everyone else. I was still holding on to him hiding my face into his chest. The door was opened and a woman with white hair walked in carrying a stack of fluffy golden round pancakes that's at least what King Ben called them yesterday when he was feeding them to me. A man follows her with a plate of a similar stack but with square-shaped holes. They both walked around asking which they would prefer to have and how many.

"What do you want one, dear," the lady asked King Ben like everyone else. I moved around to get a better look at the lady while still hiding my face.

The lady was petite with white hair pulled in a low bun. The top of her head was covered with a golden hat matching her outfit that was designed with swirls and small colored leaves and a white chef's apron. Moving to her face, the first thing I noticed was the wrinkles next to her beautiful blue eyes fitting because it showed that she smiled a lot like she was now. Her thin lips were arched up in a smile.

"One please," King Ben stated before thanking her.

I thought she was going to leave but instead, her gaze moved to me, "And how many would you like dear?" My eyes widen when she asked, was I supposed to answer her? I turned to look at King Ben, who gave me a nod of encouragement along with a smile, I turned back and lifted a finger. She smiled and placed the single pancake onto King Ben's plate.

"Lumiere" the man holding the other stack stopped and smiled at King Ben, "can you give me three waffles?"

"Ah finally trying to match your dad's hunger ey" Ben let out a laugh before shaking his head.

"Actually Mal and I are going to share"

The man though did not by that, "Excuses, excuses" but placed the waffles onto the plate, he was tall with a golden outfit his hair was starting to turn grey standing out from his normal chocolate brown hair, his eyes like the woman had wrinkles on the sides of his brown eyes.

And just like that everyone began to grab things from the table. Some of them got fruit or the sticky stuff in the bottle. Some grabbed something to drink milk, the water of that orange drink. As everything was happening I flinched when I felt some hands go around my waist before relaxing again when I realized it was King Ben.

"Okay, princess," he said leaning down to my ear, "I'm going to teach you how to properly eat pancakes and waffles." I nodded my head. I watched as his hands moved to the plate, tearing the pancakes into tiny pieces before doing the same to one of the waffles while leaving the other two alone.

"Okay now one last thing.." he spoke out loud moving his gaze to me before looking at the table, "Carlos can you pass me the strawberries."

Carlos I'm assuming nodded his head, with a mouth full of food passed the berries that I wanted to try yesterday, the only difference was that the plate was divided, on one side they were cut into pieces while in the other they were whole.

"Now you take a waffle to fill on the side with strawberries" he did just that, "put some syrup on top and fold it in half and eat it." he brought the folded waffle close to my mouth with a napkin on his other hand in case anything spilled.

I took a bite.

My eyes widen and I continued to swallow before I took another bite. My mouth was full of sweet crunchy food when I tried to close my mouth I couldn't because I bite a huge piece off letting a small bit of the waffle stick out of my mouth. King Ben let out a small chuckle at my expression before eating the waffle himself. Once I was done swallowing I was disappointed to see that King Ben had already finished the entire waffle. Luckily he had started making another one. And when where finished with that he used his fork to feed me and himself some pancakes while letting me devour some strawberries.


Ahhh again sorry but here is the second update.

I'm soo freakin excited to post the next chapters they are in my opinion super interesting.

BUT bring news.

good news is, I was kinda planning what I wanted to add and I think it's going to have about 30 or more chapters.

The bad news is that I might have to update TWICE a MONTH or stop until I get a vacation.

I seriously don't have time to write and if I do write it's because I'm not doing my homework.

I was super excited for the chapters I haven't written because I wanted it to come out before Halloween but I don't think it's going to happen

I'm SOOORRYYY

Also just to be clear I AM NOT giving up in this story

Questions

why do you think King Stephan wants to find Uma?

how long before Mal remembers everything?

Will Gaton Jr. get out the Isle?

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If I have to only update TWICE a MONTH Ill let you guys know