Kingly Desire (BWWM) (on hiatus)

Stone

Akia woke up, eyes fluttering open to a bright blinding light.
She blinks repeatedly trying to adjust her eyes. She swallows emptiness harshly and painfully. Her mouth and throat dry, her stomach burning in a scorching hotness.

"W-water.." She rasped.
Her lips chapped and bleeding from dryness. The siren had drank her essence along with the poison.

She heard rumbling and thrumming before someone lifted her head and put a bowl of water to her chapped lips.
She left the water travel down her throat calming the burning sensation in her mouth and throat.

The king looks down at her and she blinks as the image of his face start to adjust in her eyes.
"Are you awake now?" His voice slips through all the humming noses in her ears.

"You tried to kill yourself." The king said, his voice emotionless but his eyes had dark circles around them that showed he had some kind of remorse.

Akia averts her eyes from the man.
"They said that you've been taking it for a while."

"I know I've been cruel to you but it wasn't my intention to begin with. I never chose you Akialine. I didn't select out of a group to rape. You were chosen and because of that I couldn't let you go, even now I'm afraid that letting you slip from me whether to death or elsewhere is not an option for me." The king voice rang through Akia's ears once more.
Akia's eyes water purely out of shame.

"I didn't intend any of this. I didn't enjoy any of it either, the only time I felt alive on top of you was when you opened your legs to me on your own."

"I-I regret it." Akia said voice still fragile with the small strength that she had. She wasn't talking about the time the king and her shared a bed. Rather that she regrets taking the poison.

"I can tell, it seems pretty obvious now after your suicide attempt." The king said bitterly, Akia remains silent unsure of why he kept saying suicide attempt.

"I was cruel towards you and I'm sorry I could've been more sympathetic towards you and your family."
Kings don't apologize, most don't even know what it means to apologize.

Akia wasn't swayed though, instead she struggled to lift herself up until she saw her mother standing in the corner of the room, biting her nails.

"Mother-" Akia started and her mother puts her hand down and straightens her dress. She walks towards Akia and bends over to caress her coarse hair.

"Please leave us be." Lady Kenya pleaded to the king who hesitated.
"I mustn't leave her side." He said and Akia scoffed.
"Just for a second your majesty."

The king obliged.

Lady Kenya grabbed Akia's hand once they're alone with the guards.
"What did they say?" Lady Kenya asked.

"Did they ask who gave it to you?" The older woman asked.
"No, I felt as if I was going to die mother and I don't think the baby's gone, I finished it all too."

Akia said a little loudly, lady Kenya snapped her head to the side of the room to make sure that the guards didn't hear her.

"If you're asked where it came from say Julius gave it to you." Lady Kenya said to her daughter who's eyes were barely open now.

"Julius.., how do you know Julius mother?"
"Say he courted you in secret before you were brought to the palace."
"But he didn't..." Akia said but trailed off when she saw the intensity in her mother's eyes.

"If they find out I gave it to you I'll be beheaded my dear." Lady Kenya said shaking in a silent panic. She knew if she panicked Akia would follow after.