Deal With The Devil - S01 E34

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Deal With The Devil - S01 E34

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 34

❝Learn something everyday❞

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He wears a suit and he is well groomed. He looks handsome. I can't believe that I'm saying this. Feeling the blood rise to my cheeks as I begin to blush. "You look stunning, Fawn" He tells me but that is only thing that he says as he turns around and walks out. I follow right behind him, not sure what I should be doing. My parents used to host dinner parties all the time but my siblings and I were never invited. It was always strictly business and we did not fit into that.

"Remember to behave like a wife or you will be put into your place" He orders me to do as I walk behind him and nod my head, though I can already tell he doesn't know that but I do know that he knows I understand. I'm not sure if I'm more nervous about being there or about being with him. We stop in front of doors that I can tell lead to the dining room. I gulp when he opens the door and a long table is what I'm met with. Yet only a handful of people are there.

Three couples. "Welcome, I assume the place is to your liking" Sebastian speaks as he enters and I put on a smile on my face, a fake smile as I notice that all eyes are on me. I gulp when I walk behind him. "Your mansion does represent you, King" One of the man says and I think he's drunk. Partly because he has an almost empty bottle of wine beside him and doesn't look like he can focus. A seat is on the edge of the table which Sebastian sits and I sit on his right side with a woman beside me.

All of the people there look so formal yet so professional and I feel out of place. This is clearly not my scene and never will be but the fake smile on my face never disappears and it won't be until this night is over. I was right to dread this for I am already feeling like this was a mistake. The drunk man talks a bit to Sebastian but I don't pay attention to that. I'm too focused on looking around the room. To the royal blue walls painted with some patterns in kohl black to the oak wood in the table we sit by.

It's all fascinating. "Your first dinner?" The woman beside me asks me I look over to her. She looks to be tired and exhausted of everything it looks like. I nod my head, not trusting my voice here. She smiles sweetly to me. "Don't worry, they will talk for some time until we eat and then they will drink themselves into oblivion before the prostitutes come and they will go to the guest floor to spend the night" She whispers to me and I pale when the information sinks in.

Prostitutes? The guest floor? I feel the tears flow into my eyes but I refuse to let them fall. There is no way that I will cry now. "I understand your confusion but this is the price we pay for being married to the most powerful men to step on earth and you've got the worst yet most powerful of them all" She whispers to me. Each word she speaks, now and before is like a stab to the heart. I honestly thought we were going somewhere with our relationship. At least a friendship of some kind and then he does this.

I know he cheated on me in Paris but I thought that was only once. This is worse than anything. She says something else to me but I don't hear it. Her voice as well as everyone else's are just distant, in the background, like they aren't even here at all. I feel like I just want to scream. Somewhere that no one can hear me. This hurts more than anyone can know. Perhaps I was too blind to see his true motive in this whole thing. He's only after winning that deal. He has no intention of being with me at all.

This is all about his ego, trying to win everything. Bullying me at every chance that he gets to make me feel lesser, so he can win. I was honestly starting do believe that perhaps he just wanted... me. Was I too wrong to think that? "Let us dine" Sebastian then announces and right before my eyes doors open and waiters enter holding plates. Putting them in front of us. "Thank you" I softly and quietly say to the waiter that gave me my food. As everyone has been presented a plate with food we start to eat.

Once again Sebastian is joined in a conversation with the men and they seem to be chatting along nicely while us women sit and eat. Like we aren't here at all, we're ignored. The fake smile that had been on my face had fallen a long time ago and now I'm just looking down onto my plate and moving the food around. The appetite that I had has gone away and I don't feel hungry anymore. I feel myself sinking into the deep blue and there is nothing to save me from the crashing waves that continue to pull and drag me down below the surface.

After everyone but myself have dined the door open once again the plates are taken away by the waiters and as soon as they are gone out of the room, the doors that Sebastian and I entered through open and four women dressed in see-through night robes and it makes this whole thing real. Not only am I trapped in a marriage I never wanted but my husband cheats on me with paid women that I feel sorry for having to do this. The men stand up and walk out of the room and soon the women do too, while I stay by the table and once everyone is gone, I let the tears I've been holding in fall gracefully down my cheeks.