Chapter 7 - Struggle

Days became hell for me, the days I pose butt naked became daily, all of the people in the mansion knew, however, they didn't care, they were paid a lot of money to make their mouths close,

No words were spread outside the mansion, the first time I came here, they knew that the duke will do this to me,

"Please stop, please stop, please stop",

I said to the clock, the clock continued ticking, and my hope are lowering,

Time never waits for everyone, whether they are rich or poor, time always goes on.

The clock then hits the 1 o'clock then the head maid, Olivia barges in the door, I started to tremble from fear,

Not again, not again, I don't want to.

I said over my thoughts,

The head maid approached me,

"It is time now, lady pia",

I stood up and I continued walking towards the long hall,

The servants don't care about what's happening, more like they were used to it.

The hallway became shorter each time, the place felt suffocating, each step I take, each breathe became heavier, so this is what my sister came through, I think suicide was the only option everyone had here,

As I step inside the white manor, the pictures were full of me, a picture that focused on certain things, the clacking of my heels on the tiles,

"I want to stop"

I want someone to take me away from this hell, maybe I would be free again, maybe I would be happy again...

I came inside the gallery, and the duke is standing with his apron on, smiling at me like I am some kind of object,

"Hello pia, have you thought of what pose you would make?",

I sat at the chair holding both my boobs, showing off a seductive face,

"What a joke, it looks like I'm enjoying it".

The duke finished showing me his final product,

"What do you think, you're beautiful aren't you?"

He said smiling like a kid, being proud of his artwork,

"Mmph y-yes, i-it's beautiful",

I replied crying with a smile, I felt all disgusted whenever he showed me his art,

".... This is no good",

He pulled me to make me stand, and I was trembling at how he looked insane so different from how he always smiled, he kicked the chair on the floor and immediately took the couch at the side,

"Lie there",

He said while biting his lips and tapping his fingers on his arms,

I laid down there stiff,

"Pose like you are seducing someone",

How would I know how to seduce someone,

I laid resting my head on the couch's side,

"Wow so beautiful, I will call this piece innocent seduction' ",

I hinted with a slight smile,

The day ended, and another picture of mine was made and hung in the hallway, I came inside the room and headed to the bathroom I looked at the mirror,

"Coward",

"I hate you! I hate you! I hate you!"

Sniffles,

"I hate you, I hate you, I hate you!!!"

I said all over myself, why do I continue living this way?

At that time I became determined to run away, the head maid leaves once I'm in front of the white manor, and by the time I come inside, I will look for a different door, to get out.

[The next day]

I stayed calm as gossip followed Olivia, the more we get closer to the manor the more my heart beats,

"Well I must leave you here now, My lady"

Olivia left, and now I came in, I took off my heels so that the clacking sound wouldn't be heard I ran barefooted to a different direction of the studio, I ran and I ran until I saw the studio door, the red door was in front of me,

And I realized that the building was made circular and it only has one window, 1 room, and one entrance and exit...

What the? I came back running to the exit, and when I opened it, four knights were standing in front of it,

Clack clack clack, the sound of footsteps hitting the tiles, send me shudders, scared of the footsteps that I am familiar with, I turned around and I saw the duke smiling angrily,

"What are you doing, Pia?"

The duke said, and he grabbed my shoulders tightly, that it may cause some bruise, he then pulled me towards his studio, and push me to the couch,

"Ugh" I shouted hurt,

"Are you about to escape?!"

He said while making a scary face,

"Do you know how many gold coins I've been investing in you",

He approaches me and grabs my hair pulling it towards my back,

"Huh? Do you?",

I cried only getting scared and disappointed that I wasn't able to run away,

The duke took his hands off my hair and shouted,

"Ahhh! I should have known that this will happen, Niña also did plan to run away back then",

I gulped and got scared when he mentioned my sister,

"What?"

I looked at him trembling,

"Yeah your sister tried to escape too, do you know what I did? I put her in the cage for a year so that she would learn to behave",

He started saying those things like he is proud of what he did and that he will also do it to me,

He came close to this wall that was hidden with blinds, and he took it off showing all of the pictures of my sister, it made me want to puke seeing everything about my sister's life here made me miserable, and I started to lose my mind,

I shouted taking one of the blades that the duke used for his pen, I tried to run approaching him to stab him, but then all of a sudden men in black robes came in, putting me against the floor,

"I will kill you, I will kill you!",

Putting an angry curse as to how I did to Penelope back then, Kill intent and murder aura.

"Yes, yes, I like that face! I will start to paint you right now",

Duke took his pen and his canvas and started drawing me while I was struggling with those men in black robes strength, I couldn't see my face but I know for sure all my faces were wanted to kill a bug,

I kept struggling until I lost my energy, huffing and puffing through the air as I felt suffocated by the situation,

I fell asleep from exhaustion.