Princess Sophia''s POV


    "Ahh!" I said a bit loudly as I stood from my lying position. I felt pain all over my body; my head, my neck, my back, everywhere. I tried to stretch to see if there was going to be any difference but there was none. I was in serious pain.


    I must have slept with the wrong posture so it was bound to take a little time to heal. As soon as the journey began, I justy down in the carriage and slept the sleep that had eluded me all through the night. Since it was midnight and the ce was so dark, I was within my rights to fall asleep.


    I lifted both hands of mine as I stretched once more. Rays of light shined inside the carriage to signify that it was sunrise already. We had journeyed all night, yet we weren''t at the destination yet. I began to wonder just how far the ce was and if I was being taken to the right ce at all.


    I noticed that the carriage had slowed down a bit so I assumed that we were probably almost there or even there but probably not at the exact building we were supposed to be at.


    I looked up, hoping to see some nice things. I expected to see and full of beautiful flowers and people who wore amazing apparel but I was met with something else.


    I was shocked to see bushes all around and dirt littered all over the floor. I saw flies flying around as the birds pped their wings and flew around in excitement.


    The smell too. It was horrible and took me down memoryne. There was only one set of people who had such an awful stench. The Rogues. It had to be them. They smelled like shit and I couldn''t stand them at all. Now, it seemed I was right there in their midst, with nowhere to go.


    I lifted my brows as we drove into the wooden gates that I had spotted from afar. As I saw the gates, something in me told me that it was where we were headed but I refused to believe it. The environment looked so messy. I was hoping that since we were heading to the abode of the person in charge, the area should have looked very tidy. How wrong I was! It seemed to me like the Rogues had nothing to do with the word, ''Tidy.''


    "Where is this ce?" I asked the guard close to me but he simply ignored me and kept looking straight ahead and it annoyed me. He was just a guard. He had no right to treat me that way and if I had my way, I''d have dealt with him mercilessly. He was simply lucky to have met me when I''d been stripped of my powers as a Princess. If only I could get it back quickly enough. It was part of my ns to do that.


    "Where are we headed?" I asked him again, aware that I was pestering him. This time, he turned around to face me and gave me a very haughty look that immediately sent shivers down my spine. He looked like he was ready to hit me with his fists. I didn''t know him from anywhere, so I kept wondering if I''d offended him and how.


    "We''ve reached our destination," he said to me with a straight face. "You''ll know more when you get to meet our master."


    That was all it took. I kept mute and waited for the carriage to stop and soon enough, it did. The guard got down first and then helped me get down too.


    I took a deep breath and tried to look around to observe my surroundings but before I could do that, the harsh guard grabbed me by the wrist and pulled me rather violently. "Follow me," he yelled at me as he kept moving.


    I grumbled, hoping to get him to treat me better. "I''m ady. You should be more gentle. You don''t have to pull me this way," I protested but he didn''t care. He just kept pulling me against my will.


    Dn''s POV


    "She''s here, Dn. The abduction was very sessful, just like you said it''ll be," Johnny said to me with a smile on his face as I stood from my bed to wee our new guest.


    "Am I ever wrong?" I asked him with a smirk on my face, before tapping him on the left shoulder and walking out of the room. "Where is she?"


    "Eighth room by the left."


    "Thank you." I walked down the hallway to the room where Sophia was kept and opened the door very slowly before majestically walking into the room.


    I wanted to make my entrance very dramatic and I did. I knew she might have had her doubts as to whether it was truly me or someone else trying to deceive her through me.


    The second she set her eyes on me, she immediately got up from where she formerly sat with shock written all over her face. From the way her mouth went open, I could tell exactly what she had in mind.


    "I thought all these were a joke when I heard about your request and all. I felt someone might just have been using your name to try to carry out his schemes,* she said, still looking marvelled. "Now that I''ve seen you, I can truly believe that it''s true."


    I just smirked and ran my eyes through her body hungrily. She didn''t look like she used to. There was a clear difference.


    I noticed that she had gotten a lot slimmer than thest time we met and she also looked so tattered. I felt it was the way that they treated her there. They must have starved her sometimes and made her have her bath less frequently as she did have some sort of stench that I didn''t like, although it was nothingpared to that of most of the Rogues.


    "I need to leave now, Sophia," I said to her, scratching my hair. "The maids will attend to you. They''ll help you clean up before serving you some food. After that, please find a way to get some rest. You need it. I''ll also advise you to take your time to get used to your surroundings."


    She seemed to have something to say but I didn''t have the time for all of that. "I''ll be back here in two days so I can talk to you and then, we''ll have a very crucial discussion concerning our n. This n has already been mapped out. We need to strategize as we''re in the execution phase."


    As I finished talking and turned to leave, I heard her make a sound and I began to get upset as to why she just wouldn''t be quiet.


    "Whatever it is you have to say would have to wait," I interrupted her. "I have very important matters to attend to right now. Do have a great time here, Sophia," I said to her and I left the room with my guards following behind.