"You are.... who are you?" She asked feeling the depth of his muscled abs.

"I am the dark lord, Your lord. Now, strip!" His tone holds a tinge of excitement and fear!

Adia did much looking than hearing, his words earlier pass on with the silence that had fully entrenched in the room, she looked more closely, touching each of his muscles, her stares would have pierced through his body if it were a dagger.

*How can a man be so beautiful? he looks like a piece of art." She thought to herself.

"Are you going to keep looking?" His voice came so deep as it jerked her back to reality.

Her eyes crinkle at the corner when she realized how far she had gone in her thoughts.

"Am sorry, I must have invaded your privacy, I was on my way to get my father his morning medicine when I stumbled upon this place." Adia tried explaining but she couldn't help herself from shying her eyes away from him.

She has always been the shy and inquisitive one, but this time she couldn't help but let the act emanate continuously.

"Did you hear me..."

"Sorry, have you always lived here?" She asked before he could say another word.

"Does that matter? you are here in my castle, looking at me weirdly as if you need something more than answers." He said in whispers.

"No, you shouldn't have any other thought, am not here to steal, I wouldn't.."

"Shush!" A stop! he placed his fingers on her lips and rubbed it slightly with his thumb as it sent sweet sensations down her system.

Yet, dangerously, Adia could swear the feeling was sweet but a wave of familiar terror filled her. She had experienced this before, this feeling might be hazardous but she loved the feeling still.

"I told you to strip!" He said and he handheld her hip tight.

"Why should I?"

"Because I want you to and I have every power to make you succumb to my wishes."

"Who are you?" She asked once again.

"No more questions." He said instantly, his hand lingered towards her neck down to her dress. Adia was shocked but would not say a word. He turned her around and forced her hand on the desk beside her.

breath caught in her throat, she blinked her eyes twice in discomfort, she knew something isn't right, but she kept her silence. Then, he grabbed the hem of her dress and pulled it up. gleamed with anxiety, he stared at her round ass and gave it a loud spank.

"Your curiosity led you here, there were valuable things in the room, if you had only one piece it could have changed your life but you looked away, my guess, you have no interest in things of value, girls tend to be materialistic but you are different." He said close to her hearings. His breath was so intoxicating that Adia had forgotten that a stranger shouldn't touch her carelessly not to talk of slapping her buttocks.

She gave no response to his words and neither to his advances, it was in reciprocate of and he knew this...

"As I said, I wouldn't steal from you, if you will let me go now?" She said not so sure.

*This feeling, this moment, it's more as if I have been waiting for this, why does it feel so familiar? why does it feel like I belong here?* She thought to herself and this time her wooden basket had slipped away from her hand.

"I can read your thoughts, I know you are not here to steal, after all, I called you here."

"What do you mean?" She asked curiously, but her curiosity was short-lived when she felt his hand lurking around her buttocks to her plumpy breast. She felt him squeezing her slowly but yet so intensely that she wouldn't say no.

"Have always waited for you, for this moment, now I shall have you." He said and grunted as he tore her dress into pieces.

"What are you doing?"

"Stay still!" He ordered with a loud voice.

She recomposed herself, kept her silence as she let him have his way with her.

The Dark Lord unzipped himself and gave his little man exposure. Adia wasn't so sure what was going to happen next, but when she felt his entrance deep into her, she couldn't help but give a loud moan from the excitement!

"Ahnnnn...." I moaned out loud from my sleep.

*

"Adia!!" I heard Vetta my neighbor and best friend yell out my name with a loud bang on the door.

"Yes?" I replied disgruntled barely recovering from my long sweet sleep she had helped at disrupting.

"Your father called for you, for how long are you going to stay in bed, your father and I are almost done with all the morning work." She said almost in annoyance and I know better than anyone that I can't ignore what comes next.

Vetta! my best friend since I was seven and one of the beautiful maidens in the village, she's dark-skinned with an endowed body that makes her look so tempting than anyone in the village. The only daughter of her mother and soon-to-be wife of the village Chief son.

"Am sorry, I wasn't planning to sleep for long, it's just this strange dream..." I explained and reluctantly got off from bed.

"Well... this is no time to talk about your dreams, put some clothes on and let's start the day's work, have fed the animals and also cleared the backyard."

"You did? that's so nice of you, I will take care of the rest, what about father? has he taken his morning medicine, that's so important you know." I asked looking around the room.

"It's very full of you to ask now, when you are done dressing meet me in the backyard there's something I need to tell you." There came her response as she beamed in excitement.

"What's the occasion? did something good happen?"

"You will know when you are done." She said and left with that.

Her absence jolted back my memory to the dream I had...

I Adia have never been in contact with any man, the only man in my life is my father. How then can I explain this strange dream that felt so real?

The only thing that made sense is me walking into a castle filled with gold and treasure, at least I will know my situation calls for me to dream about treasure. Father's medicine cost quite a fortune and I need to get it every morning. Then Vetta's wedding? it wouldn't be fair to go empty-handed when she's always been there for me. More so, I have debt issues that are needed to sort out.

So, that treasure would explain a whole lot of things, not me exploring my lustful desires in a dream.

"Pheww...." I sighed out loud and took a look at myself in the mirror my late mother left me.

Mother died when I was just 3 and it explains why life has been hard for me, am all Father has, This is no time for me to dawdle away on some stupid dreams.

So, I thought.

As soon as I was done dressing, I picked my basket and nervously wrinkled my hands as I walked with heavy footsteps to the backyard. Vetta seemed so excited earlier on, this must be good news.

Well... here, good news doesn't come every day.

"Adia." She called.

"Ohh did the Chief son get you something shinny? why are you so excited," I said as we both giggled.

"Not Simone, it's Veronica."

"Urghh!!" I had to show my dissatisfaction just with the mention of that name, now I know why she's so excited and why she wanted to talk in the backyard. It's a secret, her secret, something no one knows about her except for me.

"Vetta you promised."

"Yes I did, but that was then. We made out last night, our body collided in unison."

"Vetta, stop! do you want to incriminate yourself and get hanged? stay away from Veronica, you promised to leave a good life with Simone and have many kids."

"But I don't love him, will you hear me out first? we agreed to go somewhere far away, where no one knows about us, just me and Veronica, I love her Adia and you are the only one that can help, you are the only one that understands, I don't like Simone, I can't even stand the sight of him."

"But, Veronica is a woman like you! it makes no sense, how do you expect your mother to accept this?"

"Am not planning to tell her, this is why I need your help, promise to take care of mother whilst am gone."

"No way! you are not..." My eyebrows knitted in annoyance and my blood was boiling in fury, she dare not leave her mother behind because of this. I thought to myself but when I heard the distant clashing of swords I stopped and looked back towards the other house next to mine.

There were barbaric chanting that came slow and grew faster and violent as we heard it.

"It's a raid!!" Vetta said first.

"Father!" I said in a haste and made to run towards the front door.

"Wait! it's dangerous there, let's run for our lives first."

"Are you nuts? there's no way am leaving my father out there when I know his situation." I said in utmost fear.

However, the noise from the other side of the village was growing more violent and restless, terror-filled the air. Have always known a day like this would come but I never expected it to be so soon.

Who would expect a village like this to survive a few decades? There's no legalized authority here to strengthen the village sovereignty, everything is run based on what it is and what's not.

I took a second glance at Vetta who was utterly disorganized and unsettled.

"If you are going to stay here you should, all I know is that I need to find father." That was my last statement, I held the Hem of my dress and run back to the front door. blood became paints of terror and dread, lifeless bodies scattered on the ground. Yet, I knew not to run for my life.

My father's life became my priority, looking around dazed I quivered on my feet trying to find father amidst the tragedy that has befallen. Cries vibrated deep into my hearings and it was visible I needed saving.

Wicked men chanting victoriously, I was surrounded by them, all that was left were in ruins, except for father and a few of the villagers coerced at one side. I looked more closely and saw Vetta amidst them too.

It didn't even last minutes, all it took to destroy the village was a few seconds... I thought to myself.

"Father! Vetta!." I finally said.

"What should we do with this one?" one of the men asked with a grin that barely shows his middle teeth.

"Leave her! separate her from the rest she belongs to me." There came his deep hoarse voice I would recognize anywhere, it was only for a few hours or minutes, it wasn't real but I will recognize it anywhere.

I raised my gaze high and stared into his eyes, if This wasn't a raid I would say I have lost my mind completely.

His blue eyes and curly hairs, his dark aurora he easily exudes, I remembered them well in my dreams. He called himself...

*The dark lord.* Right at this moment I knew the meaning of my dreams. I knew this isn't just any raid for my Lord is here, my master, my ruin!

It's I Adia, and the dark lord.