"What I mean is that if I let sex control me, that will be the end of me."
Vernon leaned back to make himself comfortable, "Elaborate further for me."
"If I had to beg for sex now, what about later on?"
Vernon nodded, "Who said I would make you beg constantly."
"Do you hear yourself? Beg all the time, so you would want me to beg for you to sleep with me?"
"Yes, I mean what makes you think that you are good in bed?"
Sylvia's mouth dropped, "How had she not thought of that? What if he didn't find her desirable in bed?"
Vernon chuckled, and that was the first time she had heard him do it sincerely, "Close your mouth, you don't want a fly in there."
Sylvia closed her mouth slowly,
"How cute."
She turned to him,
"Now I'm spouting nonsense." As he shook his head.
She smiled inwards,
"You're reading into it too much."
She snapped back to him, "I'm not."
He got up and knew that he was getting ready for bed, Sylvia also went to do the same thing. She came out and Vernon was on the bed.
He was shirtless as per usual, and Sylvia refused to gawk at him and climbed on the bed. She slept on her side, facing away from him.
"Face me."
"I prefer sleeping this way, My King."
"It's an order."
Tyrant, she said it in her head, she turned to him and was shocked he was close to her, when had he lay down.
She averted his gaze,
"Look at me."
Sylvia shook her head, "I can't."
"Why not My Queen?"
"I fear you."
"You fear your husband?"
"You did say, you were the King before you were my husband."
"How I love a manipulative Queen."
"What?"
"Using my words against me."
"How is that manipulative?"
"Using it to your advantage."
"What? I am merely stating the truth, you don't like being wrong."
"What?"
"I said you don't like being wrong."
"Are you calling me a coward?"
"You see My King, you like putting words into my mouth."
"Thread carefully My Queen."
"That is all I ever have done My King, you are the one that provokes without a reason."
"I am picking on you."
"Yes."
"My Queen."
Sylvia got up and dashed to the door,
"What are you doing?" Vernon asked confused.
"I'm leaving if you dare lay a hand on me."
Vernon sat up, "Are you threatening me, Sylvia?"
"No, I'm merely stating the truth. My parents have never laid a hand on me and I refuse to conform to your rules."
"You refuse?"
"Yes, you deceived me!"
"I deceived you?"
"Yes, you acted as if you would love me, care for me, and for what? Why would you do that? You took the chance for me to be happy with someone who would truly love me." Her voice cracked.
"You want to defy me?"
"I hate you with every fiber of my being Vernon, I wish I had never met you. Why me? Of all the women, why me?"
"Your beauty."
"That is all that you saw from me?"
"Yes, how could I pass on the fairest woman I have ever set my eyes on."
"That is all? You planned to make my life a living hell?"
"Yes, I mean this is proof that beauty can only take you so far."
She scoffed, "Rich coming from someone like you."
"What does that mean?"
"You look down on beauty when you are the same."
"How am I the same?"
"The main thing that attracted me to you was your looks, Vernon, if you didn't have them, I would have not looked at you twice."
Vernon's face crinkled, "What did you say?"
"I said, without your looks, I would have not looked at you twice. I would not have given you the time of day that I gave you."
"Sylvia."
"Yes? Sylvia what? You're going to beat me up? What's new under the sun except your frail ego."
Vernon got up from the bed and he looked at her with so much venom but Sylvia did not care, let him kill her.
It would be better than the way that she was living at the moment. She was not living, all Sylvia was was a prisoner.
Let him disown her and she would rather go back to her parents as a failure, if they refused her too, she would find a way to survive.
"So your beauty means nothing to you?"
"What does it matter? If you treat me as a commoner, I doubt that you even treat commoners the way that you treat me. Let's get this over and done with. I'm no longer afraid. I hate it here and let's end it once and for all."
"Fine Sylvia, let's do it right now, your wish is my command."
Sylvia did not move as Vernon sauntered towards her.
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