Princess of the Silver Ocean - Chapter 58

He placed the watering can down and took off his white gloves. She still had her arms crossed and just watched him as he smiled lustfully at her. He was a brown-colored kitsune, about 100 years old. His ears and tails moved as he examined her, almost salivating at how ravishing she looked. Heavy amber eyes, set deep within their sockets, widened as he watched her approach him.

There was a birthmark stretching from the top of his left cheek. It first runs towards his fairly big lips and ends under his left eye. She also noticed tiny claw marks on his hands and raised an eyebrow at that. Upon seeing that she was staring at his scratched hands, he hid them in his pockets.

“So, what brings you outside?” he asked her, “I thought you were with prince Yashiro and my niece.”

‘Okay,’ she thought, ‘Time to bring out my hidden charms and get this guy to talk. So, even if you hate doing this Astoria Chambers, let’s try to be as flirtatious as possible. Let’s get the truth out of him.’

She cleared her throat and touched his strong arms with her slender ones. She bit her lip and breathed out in what almost sounded like a moan.

“Well actually,” she spoke in an almost hoarse manner, her voice sounding low and attractive to his ears, “When Lara told me that she had an uncle, I thought to myself, ‘Wow, if she is this cute, then her uncle must be a cute man too.’ However, it seems that you are also hot and cute, which is a bonus. So, here I am.”

She twirled and trailed a finger along his arm in a flirtatious manner, batting her eyelashes at him. He let out a quick, soft moan, getting turned on as she looked up at him through her lashes. He gulped nervously.

“I-is t-that so?” he asked her, clearing his throat.

She nodded and pulled her hands away. He smiled at her, his pupils now dilated with desire.

“I will do anything you ask me to do to your body,” she softly spoke, walking around him and whispering in his ear, “but you have to answer my questions first, okay?”

He aggressively nodded at her request, not wanting to let such a chance to touch a woman as beautiful as her pass him by. She narrowed her eyes when she stood behind him and placed her hands on his shoulders, gently massaging them.

“Tell me something,” she whispered in his ear, causing them to instantly turn red.

She was so disgusted by him and did her best to hold back her anger. She was glad that she had learned such tactics through movies and at the police academy. She had multiple encounters in her line of work where she worked undercover and had to ‘seduce’ criminals into giving her information and then arresting them. Right now, she would hold back her anger until she got all her questions answered by this good-for-nothing kitsune.

“I saw bruises on Lara,” she continued, and the uncle immediately stiffened, “Why are you so tense? Relax, handsome man.”

She almost threw up, disgusted that she had to do this and speak in this manner to this foul fox. However, she was willing to do whatever it took to get him to talk and later arrest him. Well, the prince would arrest him and not her. She would just help in his arrest.

“She…” the uncle began, “That useless girl cannot do anything. After her parents died in a fire, I took her and her grandmother in. You see, I am not really her biological uncle. I was her father’s friend.”

“I see,” Astoria whispered in his ear, causing his body to shiver in desire, “Go on.”

He nodded. “When she lost her parents, I felt bad for her because she lived with her grandmother in poor conditions, and so I decided to put her and her grandmother under my care.”

“Wow,” she said, faking that she was in awe, “Not only are you handsome, but you are also very kind and generous. I love that in a man.”

He chuckled at her compliment, nodded, and added, “I am also big down there.”

She fake laughed at his statement, rolled her eyes, and continued to gently massage his shoulders.

‘Just hurry the f*ck up and tell me what I want to hear,’ she bit her lip.

“We lived in harmony here for the first two months, but then her grandmother suddenly became sick and needed oral surgery,” he said, his tone sounding malicious all of a sudden.

“I was willing to help her grandmother until I heard how much it would cost,” he sighed and tsked, “There was no way I was going to pay a million GZ’s for that. Besides that surgery, the medicine she is currently taking already costs me good fortune.”

“Uh-huh,” Astoria responded to let him know that she was still listening.

“So I suggested that she sell flowers to make up some of the money,” he said, “Then one day, she broke one of my jewel-encrusted vases because she wanted to preserve the roses she could not manage to sell that day. That vase was expensive! A whole two million GZ’s had gone down the drain!”

“Wait,” she said, pulling her hands away from his shoulders and standing in front of him, “You spent a whole two million on a vase, and you cannot even pay one million towards her grandmother’s oral surgery, is that not too cruel of you?”

He gave her a one-shoulder shrug, showing that he did not care about what happened to Lara’s grandmother.

“Okay, forget about that part,” she said, “The bruises. Tell me about the bruises I saw on her neck and body.”

“Oh those,” he said nonchalantly, “The child has a habit of being clumsy when she is cleaning and always breaks my expensive things, so I punish her-”

“By beating her up?” she cut him off, her eyes narrowed.

He shook his head ‘yes’ as if beating a five-year-old was nothing. As if it was not child abuse or cruel.

‘This bastard,’ she thought, clenching her fists.

“Does her grandmother know? Does she know that you beat up her granddau-”

He interrupted her by chuckling at her question, his body shaking with laughter.

“That old hag?” he blurted, wiping the tears from his face, “Even if she knew, there is nothing she can do since she is bedridden. Besides, it is not as if I hit her all the time. I am just preparing her for the harsh world out there. I feed and clothe her so, as her only functioning guardian, I can do whatever I want with her.”

She was overwhelmed by his words, placing her palms to her forehead. Her face was flushed with anger, and she crinkled her nose in disgust.

‘Well,’ she thought, letting out an exasperated sigh, ‘I guess the evil creatures here are no different from the criminals back in my world.’

She stared up at him, removing her palms from her forehead. She breathed out so that she could calm down and not ruin her plan to have him arrested.

‘Now that I heard his confession,’ she thought, walking towards him in a flirtatious manner, ‘I will not hold back. I am about to cuff this guy.’

She stood in front of him and smiled beautifully. His tail perked up as she looked like a Goddess at this moment. She snaked her arms around his neck, which caught him by surprise. His hands stayed on his sides, not knowing whether he should wrap them around her waist or not.

“You know,” he heard her speak, her voice soft and sultry, “it is wrong to beat up small children. Do you know that you will land up in jail for such an act?”

“Jail?” he asked her, his eyebrow raised at the mention of a foreign word he had never heard of.

‘Ah, I see,’ she realized, ‘So jails do not exist in this world, but dungeons are used instead?’

She smiled up at him and nodded. “I meant to say dungeon. You will land up in a dungeon for such a heinous act.”

He chuckled and wrapped his arms around her waist, and she flinched in surprise. “I won’t if you do not tell anyone about what I just told you, not even prince Yashiro.”

She laughed in response. “How about I cuff you, and we can take this conversation to your bedroom?”

She flirtatiously licked her lips, and he instantly nodded. She smiled, internally tilting her head back and yelling in triumph.

“Vexati,” she uttered, and the leather magic book appeared once again.

“What is that book?” he asked her, his voice holding a hint of alarm.

“Do not worry,” she reassured him, “I am looking for a spell that will cuff you since I don’t have any cuffs with me. Once I cuff you, we can go to your bedroom, and you can tell me to do anything you want.. I’ll be your servant.”