Warning: This chapter contains adult content including a graphic rape scene. If you do not wish to read it please continue with Chapter Six where I will give a brief summary of this chapter before continuing the story.

Chapter Five

A few days after they had returned to the Ondore Estate, Ashelynn was in the drawing room when the door opened.

"Ashelynn! I came by to see you about a week ago and found out you had taken a trip to Archades. You never told me you were taking a trip." Kyzel! Ashelynn had completely forgotten about him. How could I forget about him? She looked at him and felt an overwhelming sense of guilt. Here was a man she had been in love with (or so she had thought), who was in love with her, and she had forgotten about him. Somehow she had fallen so completely for Vayne that any feelings she had for Kyzel had disappeared. All that she felt now was guilt and a sense of . . . well she didn't know how to explain it but the thought of having to break his heart by telling him she was going to marry another man made her feel like the worst person in Ivalice. But she smiled at him and said,

"It was a last-minute thing. I didn't know we were going until the night before we left. There wasn't enough time to tell you." Her heart clenched in pain and guilt. She walked over to the couch and sat down, patting the cushion beside her. Kyzel walked over and sat next to her.

"So how was Archades? I've never been there." He asked. So Ashelynn told him about the towering buildings and the strange way the people determined social status. She knew she needed to tell him about her upcoming marriage but she couldn't come up with an easy way to tell him. "I missed you." He said, leaning towards her to kiss her. She turned her head away and the kiss landed on her cheek. Kyzel looked confused, and she could see fear and pain enter his eyes as he could sense that something was wrong.

"Ashelynn?" He asked tentatively. Ashelynn got up and walked over to where she could look out. She tried to compose her thoughts.

"Please forgive me Kyzel but . . ." She swallowed hard. "My father has made an arrangement for me to marry someone else." Kyzel looked devastated. Tears started forming in Ashelynn's eyes. She had never wanted to hurt this man.

"Who is the lucky man?" He asked.

"Vayne Solidor, the Emperor of Archadia's son. Well one of them. Kyzel, I am so sorry, please forgive me."

"And duty and responsibility requires you to do this. A union of House Ondore and House Solidor means a union of Bhujerba and the Archadian empire." He reasoned. She nodded. She was grateful he understood and was taking it so well as it made it easier on her. She turned back around and stared outside. He got up and walked up behind her. Suddenly her mouth was covered in a handkerchief that was then tied behind her head. Before she could react, her arms were pinned down at her sides as he wrapped one arm around her. The other arm wrapped around her also but held what felt like a dagger to her throat.

"You will do exactly what I say, or I will slice that pretty little neck of yours open. Do you understand?" She tried to say yes, but the handkerchief in her mouth made it impossible so she nodded. That caused the blade to cut a little bit and she cried out, the sound muffled by the gag in her mouth. He turned her around and with the dagger still pressed to her neck told her to sit down on the floor with her legs straight. She did so, while her mind frantically scrambled for a way out of this or a way to alert someone. He knelt in front of her and told her to put her arms behind her. Then with the full weight of his body he pressed himself down on top of her forcing her to lay down with her arms stuck behind her. It was at this moment that Ashelynn knew what he intended to do. She tried to shake her head no and her eyes filled with tears. Ignoring her, he just loosened the string holding her top garment together then moving each side of the material out of the way, he took the dagger and sliced her bra open revealing her breasts. He looked at them and said,

"Oh Ashelynn, you have very nice breasts." Then he put his head down and sucked on her nipple, to her surprise, it hardened. He laughed. "See, your body will still respond to my touch." He sucked on the other one, hardening that tip, then he lifted his body up and pulled her skirt up and out of the way. He pulled her panties down and off. Then he pressed her knees apart and pulled himself out of his trousers. He then laid down on top of her and holding himself up with his arms, he penetrated her, tearing her maidenhead. Ashelynn suddenly felt an intense pain that radiated through her body, seeming to course through every nerve.

"Oh Ashelynn, you feel so good. Gods, you are tight." He gasped. Ashelynn tried to buck him off. He moaned, then started moving, his pace quick. Each thrust he tried to make as hard, deep and fast as he could. Ashelynn, not realizing what she was doing, kept trying to buck him off, tears streaming down her face. Due in part to her movements, he finished quickly. After he had pulled out he looked down and seeing the blood on her legs and the floor he smirked.

"So you were a virgin. Now Vayne won't want you. You're used goods. Nobody will marry a whore like you. As it is, the only reason I ever wanted you was because you have an incredible body to warm my bed and give me an heir. Also being the daughter of the Marquis, marriage to you means one day that man will rule Bhujerba. And those are the only reasons that Vayne Solidor, or any man, will ever want you, dirty little whore." He laughed cruelly and started toward the door. Ashelynn was humiliated. She turned around and tried to cover herself as best she could. She pulled her skirt back down covering her bottom and thighs and pulled the sides of fabric close together and restrung the strings tying them together to cover her chest again. Then she stood up shakily and went to a corner. Facing the wall she sat down and hugging her knees to her chest, she lowered her head and wept, filled with shame and humiliation. She just wanted to curl up and die. Kyzel just laughed at her again before the door opened.

Please review. Sorry this chapter took longer than expected. I will have the next chapter up in the next few days. (Fingers crossed).