Dedicated to my mother thank you for always
Supporting me in my every decision I love you.

"Did you get the head, Katherine?" Alexander's booming voice echoed across the hall. Alexander was standing in front of his throne with his back facing me and his hands clasped behind his back.

I threw the bloodied sack close to his feet, "Yes, of course, I did it was fairly easy and I swear to God, the death court has the worst security considering the amount of threats the court is facing. Did I mention that the poor soul even pissed himself when he beheld me?" I said with a wicked smirk of triumph. He finally turned around and looked in my direction then at the bloodied sack.

"Very well then, name your price Katherine." With a flick of his wrist and the knot on the top of the sack came undone revealing a pale and bloody head.

Alexander grasped the head of his brother by its dark black midnight hair and lifted it up, smiling at it. I tried to search for any kind of remorse or sadness in his eyes as he beheld his brother's head but found none.

"I need new clothes, jewels and a new phone for god sake," I said waving my now broken phone, he merely nodded his head. "Anything else you want to say to me or I can go and take a bath, I'm all covered in gore," I said looking down at my bloody black leather jumpsuit and grimacing.

I had been tasked to kill Alexander's elder brother Trevon, who was the ruler of the death court for stealing one of our warriors to get information from him and then brutally killing him and leaving his head on the border.

Alexander was never on good terms with the death court because when he was a child, his brother killed Alexander's and his own father so that he could have the access to the throne and kicked him out of their palace and left him to die on the streets.

An old lady found him starving and shivering on the streets so she took him to her care. It really was a miracle that he was even alive.

From that day, he swore to himself that he would take the revenge of his father's death by the hands of his own brother. The need for revenge was like a rat gnawing at his soul, relentless, unceasing. It could only be stopped by the cold steel of a rat trap, a trap that he would devise himself.

I looked at Alexander and he seemed to be brushing off some invisible specks of dirt off his white t-shirt and waited for his reply, gritting my teeth, "I'm going to take that as a no then — okay bye, I'm going to sleep and I would really appreciate it if nobody disturbs me for at least five hours." I said waving and turned to leave

"A guest is going to be visiting us tonight at 9:00 pm. Make sure to dress well, the guest is important," he said without looking at me.

"I always dress well." I scowled. I rubbed my pendant and it started glowing and turned warm in my hand. I see a flash of light and before I even know it I'm in my room.

I sighed and walked towards the bathroom in a desperate need of taking a hot shower.

With half a thought hot steaming water filled the bathtub — I took my pendant off, the one I have been wearing for eighteen years and stripped. I stepped into the bathtub, adjusting to the temperature of the water and slowly sank down. A sigh escaped my lips at the feeling of hot water caressing my skin. My eyes landed on the candle and I flicked my finger to lit the candle up. I reached for the lavender smelled shampoo and poured a generous amount of it in my palm and rub it on my head slowly, sighing at the feeling.

My thoughts wandered to the guest who was going to visit us today I wonder who it was. I slowly stood up from the bathtub, my skin already missing the warm caress of the water. I quickly put my pendant back on. I rubbed my body with a towel until I was all dry. I didn't bother changing into anything and walked back into my room, I plopped down onto my bed and quickly slipped into oblivion.

❀❀❀ ❀❀❀ ❀❀❀

I woke up to loud banging on my door "Lady Katherine! Lady Katherine!" someone was yelling.

I rubbed my eyes and grunted, "Come in." I yelled and the door opened with a creak and one of our workers, Xander, was standing there.

"This better be important, come closer, what is it?" I said glaring at him, he gaped as his eyes landed on my bare breasts. I rolled my eyes and snarled.

"My eyes are here you fool," I said pointing to my eyes.

"Uh...I...Lord Alexander has asked for you to get ready and come downstairs. The guest will be arriving in an hour," he said stammering. I growled and waved my hand in dismissal. He quickly scurried out of the room closing the door with a quiet click.

I got out of the bed and put a thin blue chiffon robe on and walked towards my closet. I rummaged through my clothes trying to find something nice to wear. When I couldn't decide what to wear I finally gave up and asked a worker to send my maid Anna.

After five minutes Anna came inside and gasped, "Holy shit Kath! What have you been doing, look at all the mess you have made now who is going to clean all this mess." she fussed picking up the clothes from the floor.

"I can't find anything nice to wear. Alex told me that a special guest is going to visit us today and I only have an hour to get ready. So please, stop fussing around and help me get ready."

"Okay okay, I am going to find something acceptable for you to wear just sit here patiently." She said rolling her eyes and began looking through my closet. After about three minutes she pulled out a red mini dress with a low v neck and long off-shoulder sleeves with a tiered skirt. It was tight around the bodice and loose and flowing from the waist.

"It's pretty," I said, eyeing the dress and pulling it out of her grasp and touching the smooth fabric. I thanked her and kissed her cheek before going into the changing room. I slipped on my red lacy underwear and carefully put my dress on it already had padded cups attached to it, which was a good thing because the dress was backless so I couldn't wear a bra and my breasts don't stay perky without a bra. The dress reached until my mid-thigh and also was comfortable.

I walked out of the changing room and when Anna beheld me her green eyes lit up with awe as she said, "Wow Kath you're looking so beautiful and here, look I found matching shoes I hope you will like it." She held out red high heels with flat platforms. I nodded my head.

I sat down before my vanity dresser and started doing my makeup. I applied light orange shade on my lids and did a winged liner. I also applied false lashes even though I had really long lashes and for lips, I applied dark red lipstick. I had straightened my red wavy hair and then again curled my hair and applied hair spray.

I heard knocking on the door and asked Anna to check who it was it was the same worker that came earlier, "What is it, Xander?" I asked impatiently.

"Lord Alexander is calling you the guest has arrived," he said and walked away. I checked myself in the mirror one last time and walked outside.

There was a feeling of uneasiness deep down in my chest like something bad was about to happen. I shook my head and pushed that feeling aside and descended down the stairs. As I walked towards the hall I heard deep laughter. I knew it was not coming from Alexander so it must be someone else, probably the guest.

I put a slight smile on my face as I caught a glance of Alexander, I walked towards him but suddenly came to a stop as I saw who was there sitting with Alexander. Drinking our wine. I thought the ground might fall out beneath my feet and wished that I hadn't eaten anything.
——————————–——————————————————————————————————
Authors note
Eekkk....😬soo did you guys like it? I hope you did and if there were any mistakes or something im extremely sorry for that.
If you like it so please
Vote🧚🏻‍♀️
Follow🧚🏻‍♀️
Comment🧚🏻‍♀️
-Hoorain