CHAPTER 15
After dinner, the king took Lady Aleesia into his study and Lorasen took Sarah to the bedroom. Sarah undressed and they both took a long luxurious bath washing each other while having sex in the warm water. The pool is cycled constantly and keeps a perfect temperature. Sarah couldn't get enough of kissing Lorasen. She found his tongue and lips addictive. He absolutely loved being with Sarah. He never smiled, laughed and felt so free in his life with a woman. She made him feel happy and at ease.
Lorasen said after drying off, "You better be careful, Sarah. I could say right now I'm getting quite attached to you. I may never want you to leave, my beautiful girl." She smiled over her shoulder at him and walked into the bedroom. He hated those terrible lash marks on her beautiful skin that King Jareth inflicted on her. It made him angry to think he got away with breaking the law and knew he could get away with it. Sarah was so lovely, gentle, caring and never deserved to be mistreated like that ever. He walked up behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her neck.
He huskily said, "You taste delicious, my beauty."
Sarah turned in his arms, put her arms around his neck and said, "You are the delicious one." She sat him down on the bed, got on her knees and put him in her mouth. She licked the tip and slid down his shaft. He gasped in pleasure. She hadn't done this to him yet. Sarah moved him up and down hitting the back of her throat. He was groaning. Her magic reached out to him and caressed his body. He loved how she felt. He watched her pleasure him. It was so erotic. Her magic was so loving and gentle. She started increasing speed and pressure. She was rolling her tongue over the head and under the base as she massaged his balls.
Lorasen called out, "Oh, my wonderful Sarah! Oh gods, you don't have a gag trigger! Oh that feels so good! I'm going to… Ahh!" He exploded in her mouth. She swallowed it all down her throat.
Unknown to them Renna had come down to Lorasen's room. She paid a maid to tell her where it was. She put on her see through nightgown and a robe over it. She was walking up to the door to knock and heard him calling out Sarah's name and cuming. Renna frowned. She heard him say after panting, "Oh my beauty, I'm falling so hard for you. You surprise me everyday. You're such a caring goddess." Renna went back to her room and pouted in her bed. She knew he cared for Sarah and her high hopes of getting in his bed tonight were dashed to the wind. She hated her.
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The next day the jeweler came to the castle and was shown into a room with a conference table stacked with empty trays. He wondered what that was about. He sat down across from the prince and Sarah.
He said, "Good day, your highness, what can I do for you today?"
The prince said, "I called you regarding my lady here, who has a paper for you to read and sign before business." The appraiser took the paper Sarah slid over to him. He read it and he gasped.
He said, "You have numerous amounts of raw stones and cut stones in the treasure you found?" Sarah nodded.
The man signed the papers and said, "Let us proceed then, please."
Sarah took out her box and wished for all the raw stones to come out until there were no more. Lorasen readied the trays as she filled each one. The appraiser was taking trays and calculating the grades which were all grade 'A'. Sarah filled tray after tray as they went. Once she finally ran out of raw stones. Sarah and Lorasen started sorting them by color to help speed the process.
Hours later, the raw gemstones were all evaluated. Sarah told the jeweler that she wanted to get the raw gemstones cut. They separated the trays from the others. She said she wanted jewelry created from them and Sarah gave him a sheet of parchment with her drawings on them. She wanted a full set of each stones she had diamonds, sapphires, rubies, emeralds, aquamarines, amethyst.
The jeweler said he would take her designs and refine them and pulled out a contract. Lorasen and Sarah went over the contract. The appraiser and jeweler would get 15% of the value to design them. They would provide the receipts. Sarah agreed and signed the papers with the total of the stones and values. They kept their copies of the contract. The appraiser arranged to pick all the stones up the next day and transport them under guard.
Sarah made an appointment in a week with him to go over the cut stones. He agreed and he left.
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After a few days it was the night of the ball. Lorasen had an emerald green satin, velvet and lace dress made in an off the shoulder, scalloped lace rounded neckline, long sleeves, corseted with beautiful panels hanging down in all different cloths. He bought her a matching emerald bracelet to her emerald set of earrings, pendant and ring she made. The dress had matching high heels and emerald pins for a curly updo with a cascade of her dark curls coming down over her left shoulder trimmed and accented in gold. Her green eyes popped and stood out sparkling with the smokey eye makeup she wore and the dark burgundy lipstick. He even got her a green velvet hooded cloak with gold rope trim. She always wore her locket ring and luck ring.
Sarah had Nicodemus stay in the bedroom. She fed Nicodemus his dinner, but he wasn't going to be happy that she was going to go away. She wanted him near his litter box and toys in a familiar room.
Sarah and Lorasen left the room and immediately he started crying at the door to the hallway. Sarah felt bad for him but she knew he had to learn to be alone sometimes.
The Elven King Palloren and Lorasen were going to the ball with her. They went through a portal in the carriage. It just started to lightly snow and flurry outside. If they were similar in months it was late November now.
The carriages lined up to drop off the ball guests. When Lorasen got out with his father, they each helped her out of the carriage. Sarah thanked them. They escorted her to the coat check and the king introduced her to some of the Lords and Ladies from the Elven Kingdom. They waited for the announcement. The King went first.
The herald announced, "King Palloren of the Elven Kingdom!" The King walked down a large staircase.
The herald announced, "Prince Lorasen of the Elven Kingdom! Lady Sarah, Champion of the Labyrinth!" People gasped in the crowd of the ballroom below.
Suddenly, at the top of the staircase, someone shoved Sarah from behind and the barrier against attacks went up but it pushed her forward anyway. She fell all the way down the staircase and Lorasen saw Renna turn and run away. As he screamed and ran after Sarah. The crowd gasped and the Elven King was on his knees over Sarah checking her pulse and her breathing. Garrik was guarding the Fairy King and Queen that night so he could visit with Lorasen too. He was surprised that Lorasen was with Sarah now.
Lorasen knelt down with his father and shouted, "Get the healer!" Jareth was there and came running to see if Sarah was alright.
Jareth said, crouched down and asked, "Can I help?"
Lorasen said angrily, "No you've done enough already to her, don't you think? She is my 'Chailín' (girlfriend)." Jareth blanched.
A healer hurried down the staircase and started doing diagnostic spells on her and said, "She had broken her right femur in her leg, broken both bones on her left forearm, two cranial fractures, and two ribs. One has punctured the lung. I need to heal it and stop the bleeding." He started casting healing spells on her one after another.
Lorasen said, "Father, Renna, Lady Aleesia's daughter did this I saw her behind Sarah and I saw her fleeing in a horrid bright pink gown with bright green accents." The Elven King told his personal guards to apprehend the woman and gave her name and description. They left the room to do it.
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In a drawing room a group of four young women were laughing and giggling.
A girl in purple said giggling, "You sure showed her huh, Rennie? She won't think she's so great, all messed up from that tumble. I bet he leaves her now for you."
A girl in pale pink said, "She had it coming to her, calling Rennie names at the dinner table with the king and bringing an animal too. Ewww…"
A girl with a dark blue dress said, "I hope you don't get in trouble, Rennie. They didn't see you do it, right?"
Renna said stuck up and snottily, "Nobody saw me shove her. She is such a nasty person and she deserved it. I hope she broke her stupid ex-human neck and dies." The guards were listening at the door to what they were saying. They came in and grabbed the pink and green dressed girl as she screamed and kicked and tried to bite them. They were the two fae guards that liked Sarah. They magically bound her and were dragging her into the ballroom before everyone as she screamed and threw a fit. Her mother was standing by Sarah as she was being healed by the elven healer.
Lady Aleesia said with disdain, "Renna, how could you be so cruel? You broke five bones, two head fractures and punctured her lung. She could have bled to death and died."
Renna said practically spitting venom, "Too bad she didn't die, for insulting me and whoring herself to the Prince! I heard him having sex in his room that night with that nasty human fae filth! She thinks she's better than me and I showed her she's nothing but trash compared to me!"
Lady Aleesia reared back and smacked the hell out of her daughter yelling, "I did not teach you to act so cruel to people, you are a spoiled disgusting little deviate!"
Aleesia turned and walked away telling the king, "Do as you will your majesty. She tried to murder her."
Renna stomped her foot and screamed, "Mother! Mother! How dare you walk away from me, you stupid bitch!" The room gasped and couldn't believe the vile girl could call her mother such disgusting names. Then Renna belted out a shrill scream in high pitched shrieking ear piercing tones. Everyone covered their eats and gasped at such a display. Lorasen backhanded her hard across the mouth busting her lip to shut her up. It worked for the moment.
King Palloren said with loud authority, "Take her back to the castle dungeon and put her in shackles and let her rot for now until the tortured are ready to deal with her!" They roughly yanked her away as she started shrill shrieking again and kept screaming like a banshee until they turned the corner at the top of the stairs out of sight. There was a loud sound of a punch to her face that shut her up.
The healer said, looking up from kneeling down by Sarah, "I healed her ribs, leg, arm, head and sealed the hole in her lung. You need to get her completely immobilized and move her home to your own healer, so the bones harden. She needs elixirs for that." Jareth made a litter appear on the floor next to Sarah's body to carry her. Lorasen and the healer took her up the stairs on the litter, after placing her gently on it, to get her in a carriage to go back home. He sent the guards to bring the carriage around and placed her cloak over her to keep her warm on the way.
The Elven King said to the Unicorn King, "Dermott, I'm sure you understand that I must go. She is a beautiful, loving girl and I have grown quite fond of her. My son is terribly upset and hurt over this."
The King of the Unicorns said, "Of course, it's such a shame I couldn't meet her, she is so very beautiful. Peace to you Palloren and the girl." They nodded and the Elven King hurried up the stairs to catch up. Jareth hoped Sarah would be ok. He was worried, but upset that a jealous rival could do something so cruel and crass to her of all people. Then he thought of what he did and was no different. It depressed him and he started drinking.
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In the dungeon back at the castle, the guards physically threw Renna flinging her hard into a wall with shackles magically appearing on her wrists. The one fae guard backhanded her in the mouth to stop her shrieks again, really bloodying her mouth but good to match the bruise on her jaw from before they left the Unicorn Kingdom.
He menacingly said, "You hurt a friend of ours and a kinsman! Be lucky you lose your head soon, stupid girl! The torture has been called to make you suffer extreme pain until you beg to be beheaded to stop the pain. We may get to torture you but before that I hope." She started screaming again but got punched in the mouth again, so she switched to crying at hearing she may be tortured and die. They left her there to scream herself out in worry.
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Lorasen and his father took Sarah back to the castle. The healer got her in the healing room and started forcing elixirs down her throat that hardened the bones to promote healing. The healer removed her of all her clothing and put her in a cotton nightgown with Lorasen there watching over her helping. She had huge blooming bruises on her legs, abdomen and arms.
The healer said compassionately, "We won't know if she is ok, until she wakes up. It could affect her memory or more complications could develop like brain swelling. My assistant and I will watch over her closely, your highness. She is safe with us. Who gave that lovely girl whip lashes?"
Lorasen said growling, "A cruel damn fool! I want to go change my clothes and take her dress and cloak back to the room. I'll bring her kitten and his belongings. I'll then sit with her for a while. Her kitten misses her and will just snuggle up to her and need to be fed three times. He will have his litter box." The healer nodded.
Lorasen came back with Nicodemus, his food bag and his litter box. The kitten was struggling and wiggling in his hands to get to Sarah. He sat him on the cot and he started sniffing her and went up to her head and curled into her neck as she laid there. He started licking her cheek a few times and laid his head down. Lorasen held her hand sitting in a chair next to her.