ILL-FATED JOURNEY™

Chapter 24

avenue of pain.

One benefit though was that he left me alone for the moment, so my muscles could get

 accustomed and build memory he said. I didn't care about the why, all I cared about was the

fact I was getting a break from my duty as it were for the foreseeable future. I needed one too. I

was getting way too eager for nightfall and the traitor was loving all the attention she got when

 Vlad was around.

It was getting harder to remember my goal, especially when every night after we had sex, he

would cuddle with me till I fell asleep and wake me up calling me 'Love'. Another thing I had to

nip in the bud real quick. He was making a mockery of the emotion and of me every time he said

it and somehow, I just knew he was laughing at me every time he said it.

As for the training from hell that was beginning to progress nicely as the weeks and months

wore on. I graduated to sparring and lived the opportunity to punch him in the face but sadly I

hadn't managed the task as yet, but I was looking forward to the day like it was my wedding day.

Unfortunately, all good things never last in this place as I found out that my nightly activities

with the prince had borne fruit. I was sparring with him in the gym when I got the sudden urge to

throw up. Unable to hold it back any longer, I rushed to the bathrooms to let it out. After two 

such mornings, the doctor was summoned, and I learned two things that obviously I was 

pregnant and two the doctor's assistant was an OB GYN. They had been planning for this day it 

seemed.

I was put on pre-natal vitamins and given a special diet. The next Czar must be specially cared 

for from the womb it seems. The news of my pregnancy spread through the castle and all were 

pleased and prayed I would be blessed with a son. All my training had unfortunately been 

stopped even when I argued that I could still do it, he refused, and the gym was now off-limits to 

me again.

After two months of light exercises and being babied to death, I wanted to kill something. Even 

his treatment of me during sex had changed, he was no longer domineering and rough, now he 

was tender, slow and teasing. That was worst part of all this, Vladimir was being...sweet. I 

ground my teeth just thinking about it. Actually, the worst part was that everyone didn't notice 

that I didn't want this baby.

Well not everyone, the prince must have had an inkling because I was never left alone after he 

found out. Mila followed me everywhere even to the bathroom! When I griped about it, she said, 

'the prince just wanted to make sure nothing happens to you, Your Highness, you are carrying