BLUE FLAME 💙🖤MAVEN CALORE X OC 🖤💙

Part III. Spy

Part III. Spy

Aurora's POV

Day one of being Maven's little yes girl.

I knew he was calculated, but honestly... what he's asking me to do... I don't know if I have it in me.

"It's all very simple really." He assures me. "You're going to initiate yourself into the Scarlett Guard, and become my spy."

"With all do respect King Maven... I really don't think I can do that..."

"You will." He protests, reminding me that I have no say in the matter whatsoever. As if I could possibly forget the power he holds over me. "Otherwise, I might suddenly find myself in a less forgiving mood about..." he pauses with a devious smirk forming on his lips. "Well you know, your little secret that you shared with me."

"Right... of course." I gulped anxiously looking up at him.

"Glad we understand each other." He states in a domineering tone. "So as I was saying, all you have to do is talk to your friend and find out what her connections are to the Scarlett Guard." He continued.

"Ok. I'll do it." I nod.

"Good girl." He patronizes, looking down at me with that all too familiar devilish grin that's oddly and sickeningly satisfying to me.

"So... I- uh... is there anything else that you needed?" I shivered through my words.

I hated the nervous wreck Maven turned me into.

Every single time, without fail. He doesn't even have to try. Just being in his presence practically makes me forget my own name.

He chuckles looking down at me in contempt.

"Rory is it?" He queries and my brows furrow in confusion.

"I... I don't understand sir-"

"Your name." He says blankly. "It's Rory isn't it?"

"Oh right, of course." I laugh through my nerves. "It's actually Aurora. Aurora Rowan." I correct him to which he just disdains. "But um... Rory works too. That's totally fine if you want to call me that, whatever you wanna call me is fine..." I trail off.

Why am I like this?

"Perfect. Well then Rory," he emphasizes his nickname for me which sends flutters to my stomach. "What I need from you right now is to do exactly what I said. And if you can manage to not screw that up, then maybe I'll have further use for you."

"O-okay King Maven." I stuttered.

That last part caused my heart rate to pick up uncontrollably.

'If I can manage to not screw that up'

What the hell does he mean by that? Like I even have to ask...

But still, I mean where does he get off on saying that?

As if I wasn't already feeling uneasy about this dreadful situation before, I most certainly am now.

I'll admit it, I have a tendency to screw things up every now and then. And by 'now and then' I mean it's actually quite often. Too often.

What can I say? Trouble just seems to find it's way to me. Hell, that's how I got here in the first place. I must be some sort of magnet for it I suppose.

It's not the best feeling in the world. And it doesn't make it any better when Maven, who practically holds my life in his hands, is now telling me that he won't have any use for me unless I can break out of my accident prone ways and successfully become his spy.

I know where my fate lies if he no longer has use for me. It'd be pointless to even ask him to further explain what he meant by that. So I don't.

I just nod my head in compliance and bid him adieu as I commence the journey back to my servant chambers.

By now it's late, and I'm exhausted. All I want to do is sink into my bed and dream about living in a world that is anything but this.

Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if Maven killed me... at least I'd be reunited with my family.

It sounds really fucked up, and maybe it is.

I won't pretend that I'm the picture of mental health and stability right now. It's hard to imagine a time that I ever was, if such a time exists. But ever since I lost my family to that awful fire, it's been so hard to hold myself together and pretend like I actually still have a will to go on. I honestly don't think that I do, not much of one anyway.

Perhaps that's why I keep doing idiotic, reckless things like this. Maybe I'm just hoping, waiting for an impending doom to finally set me free from this cruel world.

A world that would let such horrible things happen that we have no control over. All we can do is watch the people we love suffer and get up every day like our existence isn't pure torture. Absolute misery.

But I digress. I suppose it isn't all bad. At least I still have some friends. For now anyway. No doubt I'll lose them all to Maven's diabolical plans for the Scarlett Guard.

I'll have to talk to my friend Willow tomorrow to find out exactly what she knows about that organization and see if she can get me in. But it'll all just be for show, because I'm not actually joining their revolution. I'll have to report everything back to his highness. Maven Calore. That evil snake. Beautiful and sinister creature.

He's like a poison. So deadly, yet I just find myself getting more and more wrapped up in his web. I hate it. I hate the way I crave him.

It's not like anything could ever happen between us anyway. I know I need to let this go. He'd never look at me like that. He's the Silver King, and I'm just his little servant girl.

And even if that weren't the case, technically he is still married. To that Lakelander woman. It makes my blood boil in ways I can't explain.

I despise the lakelanders. I know they were behind that attack on my village. They started that fire. They killed my family. And I will never forgive them for it.

But I suppose I'll save my rage for another day. I'm too tired to think about it right now. I just want to shut my brain off. I'll need all the rest and energy I can get for tomorrow. Especially if I'm going to successfully get recruited into the Scarlet Guard. Sure Maven is intimidating, but so are they. And I've never been one to consider myself a good liar, quite the opposite unfortunately. If they sense that I'm being dishonest about my intentions I'm scared of what they might do. But if I don't do this, I'll be even more scared of what Maven will definitely do.

So I guess it's settled.

I'm going to con my way into the Scarlett Guard.

Author's Note:

— Omg I'm so sorry about taking so long to update. I think it's been like a month or so. I really meant to update sooner, it's just life's been so hectic between school and other stuff😔😔 I promise I'm really gonna try to be more consistent with my writing moving forward. But anyways I hope you all enjoy this chapter, I know it's kinda of short but more updates are coming soon. <<33