Archery pain

Playing with her hair the next day was Saturday, she had stayed awake for the greater part of the night before she finally drifted off to sleep.

After taking her bath that morning, she put on a short gown packed her hair up with a hairband and left her room.

She walked down the hall to the front porch there were a few people insight and they were all busy doing one thing or the other, everywhere looked serene so she guessed that he might be at home.

Since she had nothing to do she figured she might as well go check up on her brother,in the small town and know how he had been faring.

She passed by some workers and she greeted them politely,they replied with a wave some with a smile.

She knew the news of her being the master's mistress must have spread among the workers from the way they looked at her she knew that they pitied her greatly.

She hadn't reached the first gate when she saw him, her heart skipped a beat. She didn't expect to see him on her way out so,she was nervous but she regained her stance immediately.

He was playing archery,there was a middle-aged man holding his quiver for him he had just fired a shot at the target when he saw her passing by.

Nerfetiti had just glanced at him for a second before continuing on her way although as a mistress it was proper to let him know where she was headed she didn't want to draw on his attention, if she knew he was there she wouldn't even follow that route.

When Rodriguez saw her something came to his mind and he turned and said something to the guard standing by the side, the man nodded and ran towards Nerfetiti.

When Nerfetiti saw him approach her heart skipped a bit.,"Miss the boss wants to see you."The guard said and Nerfetiti turned to look at Rodriguez, his expression was aloof and he,was still keenly playing with the bow.

Her throat tightened but she didn't say a word she just turned and walked towards him, after last night's humiliation she knew that he could do anything wicked and thoroughly evil so if she wanted to stay for the next one year and save her brother she had to do everything he said.

Although she needed to see her brother,she would not ask him to let her go he might as well find a reason to never let her see him.

Her face was emotionless as she appeared before him, he didn't glance at her much more than a second;,"Place the chair in front of the target." He commanded and the guard took a chair and kept in front of the target.

"Go sit there," he said to her picking up an arrow from the quiver.The middle-aged man was taken aback.Was he about to shoot her to death?

Nerfetiti stared at him for a few seconds then she turned around and pushed her legs towards the chair and sat down.

Rodriguez held the arrow to the bow his index finger placed above the arrow with the middle and ring fingers below the arrow, he closed his left eye as he aimed.

Nerfetiti watched him her heart slamming against her chest, although she wanted him to kill her and end the torment she was in, but she was still afraid, afraid that she wouldn't die immediately afraid that it would hurt too much

He held the arrow pointing to her head.Visibly Nerfetiti appeared calm but there were visible beads of sweat forming on her foreheads and her palms fisted on top of her laps.

Rodriguez held the arrow closing his left eye, he pulled it backward and after about three secondsh let it go.The sound caused Nerfetiti's eyes to shut reflexively as she braced herself for the impact.

She felt something slice through her hair land on the wood behind her and the next second her hair came pouring down her shoulders, she had very long hair,so when it fell it covered most of her face.

Everyone froze as they waited for him to shoot her,their hearts in their mouths as they watched him let go of the arrow the middle-aged man shut his eyes not wanting to see what became of such a beautiful woman.

He was Rodriguez's butler and he had been with him for years, he knew how heartless he was and he wasn't expecting anything less; although he had not seen him hurt a woman he would not be surprised if he hurt her.

He waited for a scream but he heard none, after three seconds he opened his eyes only to see the lady with her hair covering her face.

The arrow had cut through her hairband and it held it on the wooden target.

Turning to look at Rodriguez, he saw him dropping the bow and going to take out all the arrows on the target and he heaved a sigh of relief.It would have been tragic if he had aimed lower.

Nerfetiti exhaled a breath she didn't know that she was holding, she raised her hand to touch her head but she felt no pain.

He,must be very good at archery to miss her skull so narrowly.,"Where are you off to?" He asked,emotionless and with a plain voice removing the arrows from the target.

Nerfetiti pushed her hair behind her ear and,sat up in the chair;,"I wanted to take a walk in the city;I haven't been out for days.",She replied her tone emotionless.

Rodriguez took the arrows and walked back to the table he put the arrows back into the quiver and gave the butler the bow..

"From now onwards,you only leave the mansion when I want you to and you have,to be accompanied by my guards, is that clear?"He asked;tilting his head slightly.

Nerfetitinodded;she thought for a moment, remembering something she said;"your guards took away my phone the day l came here,can I have it back please?"

That was the perfect opportunity to ask for her phone,she might not get to ask him for it again.

Rodriguez stared at her figure for a moment; "I'll look into that."

He said and walked away,his butler and his guards following immediately.