Cruel King (Royal Elite 0)

Once again, Levi and even his car are blurred.

The caption is: Royal Elite’s slut is taking more jobs.

My cheeks burn and tears blur in my eyes as I face Dan who’s watching me with the same furrowed brows. “Everyone at school saw these, didn’t they?”

He winces and I get the answer I need.

“It’s nothing, Astrid. Don’t let it get to you.”

So what if the entire school saw my orgasm face or me being manhandled?

So what if this goes viral and ruins my entire freaking future?

I’m shaking, teeth almost chattering as if I’m coming down with a cold. Tears stream down my cheeks, but I don’t feel them. I don’t feel the shame.

I’m turning numb like after Mum’s accident.

Shock. That’s what Dr Edmonds called it.

“Come here, you.” Dan gathers me in a hug and I sob into his shoulder as the phone falls to my lap.

“W-what if Dad finds out? He hates me already.”

“Stop thinking about him or anyone. Fuck whoever did this, okay? Don’t let them bring you down.”

I try, I really try to, but as soon as we get into school, it’s a complete shit show.

Everyone seems to have eyes for me. I think I’m strong, but I’m not when half the school hates me and the other half judges me.

“Slut.”

“Bitch.”

“Whore.”

Similar murmurs break everywhere I go, despite Dan’s glares. If he weren’t by my side, they would’ve attacked me full on.

“Hey, Danny!” A senior calls. “Pass over the slut once you’re done, would you?”

Dan swings at him with his hand in a fist. I pull him back at the last second, tears blurring in my eyes.

I won’t cry. I will not cry.

“I’ll go home,” I tell Dan.

Dan’s been working so hard to have the

score for engineering in Cambridge. I don’t want him to get in trouble because of me. And that’s exactly what will happen if someone else provokes him.

He clutches my shoulder. “Are you going to let them submit you into feeling weak?”

“Well, it’s not like I can stop this from going viral or go back in time and stop it from happening…” I trail off.

You might think you have a choice, but you don’t. You will bow to me.

Levi’s words explode into my brain like destructive firecrackers.

It’s not a coincidence that he was blurred while my face was clear for the entire school to see.