Prologue

“Did you steal the gold from your father young boy?” I hear coming from the woman I despise or in other words my step mother, I want to ignore her but father is looking at us from upstairs, things will get problematic if I do.                            

“No, I did not” I said in an elegant voice, she looked at me as I was blatantly lying to her, she clicked her tongue as she walked back upstairs.

I see the two maids whispering to each other while looking at me, I thought to myself good thing he got enough money to hire maids back as I thought that I started walking downstairs to the basement, it's about time I paid her a visit.

I try to visit her at least once a day since she's most of the time locked down there looking at the floor, I opened the door into the dark basement, I try to look for the light lamp that is around the cage, as I turned it on I hear the chain shackles move around “it's ok it's just me” I said, her face started to show as the light took over the darkness, yes she is indeed the Bennett's family slave.

My name is Arthur Bennett and I am the son Charles Bennett and Isabel Bennett, my mother died when I was 12 years old about 4 years ago, she died from sickness, it was then when she was brought here the first Bennett's family slave, my father needed a slave because he was paying women to have sex with him and couldn't afford to hold the maids, you could say that I fell in love at the first sight I saw her, she was stunningly beautiful with dark hair and brown eyes.

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I had heard rumors that a girl at my age was sold to the slave market, because she was a mistress's child, and apperantly it's not often that a girl at my age is enslaved.

I remember sneaking food to her the first time, she had been eating nothing more than one meal per day, for a girl that is my age it was clearly not enough as I often heard her stomach growl, I offered her a piece of bread and water, it was the most that I could do for her.

“You will get into trouble lord Arthur”, those were the first words I heard from her mouth, she had been prohibited to talk to any of the Bennett family members including me.

“No please eat up and please stop calling me lord, a-” I forgot that I hadn't had her name yet.

“May I ask your name?” I asked in a gentle way, the only thing I didn't want was for her to find me hostile.

“I don't have one, I have a vague memory that my mom used to call me by some name but I don't remember what it was, sorry l- Arthur”, She hesitated on the honorific.

“Do you want a name?” I asked after five seconds of silence, she nodded.

“Then what about we pick one?”, she nodded again, she had been looking at the floor the whole time.

I suggested first “what about Ariel”, she said nothing and kept looking at the floor.

I thought for a second and suggested again “what about Helena”, She shook her head in denial and opened her mouth “I like the first one Arthur”, She looked like she was happy with that Ariel.

“Then it's decided, Ariel”, I said with a smile on my face.

“Yes” she responded and then countered my smile with her own, I was quite surprised by that smile and looked away while blushing, that's the story of when I met her 4 years ago and how our story started from there.