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Chapter 9 - MIRROR OF MALICE

 

One stormy anniversary night, Grimhilde glided through the castle corridors like a shadow stitched from silk and intent. Her crimson gown flowed with each silent step, and her black hair spilled like ink over pale shoulders.

Lightning fractured the windows in sharp, white flashes, turning her briefly into something carved from marble and menace. Thunder rolled through the stone walls like an omen that had been waiting for her arrival.

She entered their chambers—the same room where affection had once been spoken softly and promises had once felt real. Tonight, she carried none of that sincerity. It had been replaced by patience, calculation… and the quiet certainty that the end of a reign often began in the safest places.

"My king," she purred gently, voice warm enough to pass for devotion.

Magnus looked up from his work, tension easing from his shoulders at the sight of her. "Grimhilde. You shouldn't be awake at this hour."

"And miss the anniversary?" she asked softly, stepping closer. Her fingers brushed his arm with practiced tenderness. "That would be cruel of me."

He exhaled, the faintest smile forming as he set his quill aside. "You always know how to find me when I need it most."

"Do I?" she murmured, tilting her head. "Or do you simply stop noticing when I'm already here?"

Before he could answer, she leaned in behind him, her lips near his ear. "I've missed you," she whispered.

Magnus turned slightly, caught in the pull of her presence, and rose enough to draw her into his space. "Then stay," he said quietly.

"I always do," she replied.

He guided her closer, and for a moment the world outside the chamber—the storm, the kingdom, the weight of crowns—felt distant and irrelevant.

She allowed the closeness, allowed the illusion of warmth, letting him believe in something steady.

But her eyes stayed open.

Always watching.

Always measuring.

"You're thinking too loudly again," he murmured against her.

"Am I?" she asked softly. "Or are you only now learning to hear what's always been there?"

He frowned slightly. "That sounds like a warning."

"It isn't," she said, smiling faintly. "It's clarity."

Her hand rested at his shoulder, gentle enough to be mistaken for affection.

To him, it was comfort. To her, it was position—angle, distance, opportunity. She noted everything: the way he leaned into trust, the ease in his posture, the absence of caution in a room where caution should have lived.

"You should rest tonight," she said quietly.

"And leave you to your thoughts?" he replied.

Her smile deepened. "My thoughts are harmless."

A lie so smooth it almost became truth.

Thunder cracked violently outside, and the candlelight flickered between them.

Grimhilde stepped back just enough to meet his eyes fully. "Tell me, Magnus… if I asked you to trust me completely, would you?"

He studied her for a long moment. "I already do."

The answer pleased no one but her.

Something cold and final settled behind her expression, gone as quickly as it came.

"Good," she whispered.

He reached for her hand, unaware of the shift in the air, unaware of how carefully the night had been arranged to bring him here—tired, open, unguarded.

"You're cold," he said softly.

"I always am," she replied.

He pulled her closer again, and she allowed it, resting briefly against him as if she belonged there without question.

The room grew quieter, the storm louder, and the moment stretched thin as glass.

"Stay with me," he said.

Grimhilde closed her eyes for the briefest heartbeat.

"Yes," she whispered.

She kissed him deeply, unhurried and deliberate, as if testing how much restraint he still had left. For a moment, the world seemed to narrow to the press of her lips and the quiet heat between them.

When she finally eased back, it was only by a breath, her mouth still close enough that every word she didn't speak felt intentional.

He let out a low, uneven breath, visibly shaken by how quickly she had undone his composure. His eyes lingered on her face, searching for certainty and finding only more of her quiet control.

The air between them felt charged, heavy with everything neither of them was saying out loud.

She watched him closely, almost studying him, as if she already knew the effect she was having.

Then she leaned in again, slower this time, her presence closing the distance rather than her touch.

Her fingers rose, brushing lightly along his jaw and down the side of his neck—barely there, but enough to anchor his attention completely to her.

Their kisses grew fervent.

Grimhilde unbuttoned his shirt, exposing his chest. She licked his skin, tasting salt and desire.

Magnus cupped her breasts through the fabric, squeezing firmly. She moaned, arching into his touch. The room filled with the sound of their heavy breathing

Magnus pulled her onto his lap, his hands gripping her waist. Grimhilde straddled him, grinding slowly against his growing erection.

Her eyes, sharp and unyielding, locked onto his as she sank to her knees before him, the cool marble floor pressing against her skin through the thin fabric of her gown.

Her fingers deftly unbuckled his belt, pulling free the thick length of his cock, already hardening in the warm air. She wrapped her hand around the shaft, her grip firm and deliberate, jerking it slowly from base to tip. The skin slid over the rigid core, veins pulsing under her palm as she pumped with increasing rhythm.

Magnus groaned, his head tilting back against the chair's carved wood. Grimhilde leaned in, her tongue extending to glide along the full length of his cock, tracing the bulging veins and the sensitive ridge beneath the head.

She savored the salty taste of his skin, her tongue flat and wet as it dragged upward, then downward, coating him in her saliva.

She shifted lower, her hands spreading his thighs wider.

Her tongue dipped to his perineum, that tender strip of flesh between his balls and asshole. She tickled it lightly at first, the tip of her tongue flicking against the nerves clustered there—dense endings that fired sharp jolts of pleasure through his body.

The perineum stretched taut, a landscape of blood vessels threading beneath the surface, feeding the muscles that clenched involuntarily under her touch.

She pressed her tongue flat, lapping at the sensitive area, feeling the muscles contract and the nerves spark with each pass, drawing deep, ragged breaths from the king.

 

Emboldened, Grimhilde pushed his legs higher, exposing his asshole fully.

She rimmed him with deliberate circles, her tongue probing the puckered ring, tasting the musky heat.

She delved deeper, the wet muscle pushing against the tight sphincter, loosening it slightly as she swirled and sucked.

One hand continued pumping his shaft, fingers squeezing the base hard, sliding up to twist around the head, milking pre-cum that beaded and dripped.

Magnus's hips bucked, his cock throbbing in her grasp.

"By the gods, dear wife!" Magnus howled n pleasure.

She moved to his balls next, her mouth descending to lick and slurp at the heavy sac.

Her lips parted to engulf one orb, sucking gently while her tongue rolled it against the roof of her mouth.

She released it with a pop, strings of saliva connecting, then slurped the other, her hand never ceasing its steady pump on his cock. The king gripped the chair arms, knuckles whitening.

Grimhilde glided her mouth back up the base of his cock, lips parting wide to take him in.

She engulfed the head first, sucking hard, then pushed forward, her throat relaxing to deepthroat him fully.

The thick length slid past her tonsils, bulging her neck as she swallowed around him, her nose pressing into his pubic hair.

She bobbed, gagging slightly but unrelenting, her throat muscles contracting to massage his shaft.

Magnus's body jerked violently; the chair creaked under him as he nearly toppled off, his legs trembling, one boot slipping on the floor.

He caught himself, cursing under his breath, but she held him steady with her free hand on his thigh.

 

Pulling off with a gasp, strings of spit dangling from her lips, Grimhilde rose slightly and pressed her breasts together around his slick cock.

The soft, heavy globes enveloped him, her nipples hardening against his skin as she slid them up and down, tit-fucking him with slow, deliberate motions. The friction was exquisite, his cockhead peeking out from the valley of her cleavage, smeared with her saliva.

She stood, pulling him up with her, and guided him to the massive four-poster bed draped in crimson silks.

"Come my king… I don't intend to leave things unfinished."

Heavy silk curtains draped the four towering bed posts, their deep crimson fabric shimmering in the flickering light of a single candelabrum.

King Magnus lay sprawled across the rumpled sheets, his broad chest heaving, his muscular frame glistening with a sheen of sweat.

Her eyes, sharp and gleaming with predatory hunger, fixed on Magnus's exposed cock, already hard and throbbing from their earlier teasing.

Without a word, she positioned herself over his cock, turning her back to his face so he could only stare at the tantalizing sway of her body as she claimed him.

Her hand wrapped around the base of his thick shaft, fingers squeezing just enough to make him groan. She rubbed the swollen head along her slick slit, parting her folds to coat it in her warm juices.

The tip nudged her entrance, gathering her wetness until it glistened.

'Feel how ready I am for you, my king,' she purred, her voice a low, venomous whisper that sent shivers down his spine. 'But tonight, you don't take me. I take you.'

Slowly, deliberately, she sank down. Her pussy stretched around his girth, the tight ring of muscle yielding inch by inch as she impaled herself.

Magnus gasped, his hands fisting the sheets as her inner walls clenched tight, rippling with greedy contractions that milked him from the start.

She bottomed out with a satisfied hiss, her ass pressing flush against his thighs, his cock buried to the hilt in her heat.

'So full,' she moaned, rocking her hips experimentally, feeling every vein drag against her sensitive folds.

Then she rode him hard. Her ass cheeks slapped against his thighs with rhythmic smacks, the sound echoing off the chamber walls like applause for her dominance.

She ground her hips in tight circles, twisting to savor the friction, her pussy gripping him like a vice.

Magnus couldn't hold back; his large hands gripped her thighs, fingers digging into her soft flesh as he thrust up to meet her descent.

'Yes, Grimhilde,' he grunted, voice rough with need. 'Ride like you own me!'

Her breasts bounced wildly with each brutal movement, heavy and swaying, nipples tracing invisible arcs in the air.

Moans spilled from her lips, raw and unrestrained, filling the room as sweat slicked their joined bodies.

She ground her clit against his pubic bone on every downstroke, sparks of pleasure building in her core.

But beneath the ecstasy, her eyes held a darker pleasure—a sadistic gleam that promised more than just release. She fucked his cock relentlessly, gasping and moaning as her body demanded everything he had.

Leaning forward, she braced her hands on his knees, sliding his cock free with a wet pop!

It stood slick and shining with her arousal, veins pulsing.

She teased it mercilessly, dragging the head between her pussy and asshole, nudging each entrance in turn.

The tip pressed against her dripping folds, then lower, circling the puckered ring of her ass.

'Which hole do you want now, husband?' she taunted, glancing over her shoulder with a wicked smile. 'My pussy's dripping for you still, but my ass... oh, it craves something rougher.'

Magnus bucked his hips, desperate. 'Take me anywhere,' he begged, voice strained. 'Just don't stop!'

With a throaty laugh, she positioned the head at her forbidden entrance. She pushed down slowly, her ass resisting at first, the tight muscle stretching painfully around his girth.

Inch by inch, she forced him inside, the burn mixing with forbidden pleasure as her sphincter clenched and released.

'By the gods, you're splitting me open,' she gasped, but her tone dripped with delight. Fully seated, she paused, savoring the fullness, then began to ride him with her ass.

Up and down she went, her cheeks spreading wide with each plunge, the slick slide easier now as her arousal lubed the way.

Magnus's hands roamed to her plump ass cheeks, gripping them hard, spreading them further to watch his cock disappear into her depths.

'Your arse is so tight,' he growled, thrusting up to match her pace. 'Milking me dry.'

She rode faster, the slap of skin louder, her moans turning to cries as the friction ignited nerves she rarely touched.

Her sadistic lust fueled her, the power of using him like this making her pussy clench emptily, juices dripping down to coat his balls.

After long minutes of this anal pounding, her body trembling on the edge, she climbed off him abruptly.

Magnus panted heavily, chest rising and falling, his cock twitching in the cool air, slick with her essence and smeared with the evidence of her ass.

'Not done yet, my king' she whispered, her voice laced with menace.

 

She reached for the silk curtains, yanking a length free from one post.

With swift, practiced motions, she grabbed his left wrist, tying it securely to the bed post, the fabric biting into his skin.

He watched, aroused and intrigued, as she repeated the process with his right wrist on the opposite post.

His arms stretched wide, pulling his body taut across the bed, leaving him exposed and helpless.

'What are you doing?' he asked, a mix of excitement and uncertainty in his tone.

Grimhilde straddled his waist, her breasts brushing his chest as she leaned in close, her lips grazing his ear. 'I'm going to play a game, my love,' she teased, her fingers trailing down his bound arms. 'Trust me. Let me show you true surrender.'

He nodded; eyes dark with desire. 'I trust you,' he murmured, though a flicker of doubt crossed his face.

Satisfied, she spat on his cock, her saliva mixing with the remnants of their joining, making it glisten anew.

She climbed over him once more, facing him this time, and sank her pussy down onto his length. The familiar stretch made them both groan, her walls enveloping him in wet heat. She rode him steadily at first, hips rolling in languid circles, drawing out the pleasure.

But soon, her aggression surfaced. She fucked him harder, slamming down with force that shook the bed frame, her pussy clenching rhythmically around his cock.

'Take it!' she snarled, rolling her hips to grind deep.

Her hand cracked across his face in a sharp slap, the sting making him yelp even as his hips bucked up.

'Suck my breasts,' she commanded, shoving one into his mouth. He latched on eagerly, tongue swirling around her nipple, teeth grazing as she forced his head closer with her free hand.

Another slap followed, then another, her palm leaving red marks on his cheeks while she rode him mercilessly, her ass bouncing against his thighs.

'Harder, my king,' she hissed, her sadistic lust blooming fully now, eyes wild with the thrill of control.

'Worship me while I fuck you senseless!'

Magnus moaned around her breast, sucking harder, his body straining against the bonds as pleasure and pain intertwined.

 

As they fucked, the window creaked open on an unseen breeze, and her raven— a massive, ebony-feathered beast with beady eyes like polished obsidian—fluttered into the room.

It perched on the bedside table, its head tilting as it observed the scene. From its vantage, it saw everything: Grimhilde's naked form undulating atop the bound king, her pale skin flushed, breasts heaving with each aggressive thrust.

Magnus's face, marked with handprints, twisted in a mix of ecstasy and submission, his cock plunging in and out of her soaked pussy, slick sounds filling the air. The raven's gaze lingered on their joined bodies, the queen's juices dripping down his shaft, pooling on the sheets, and the king's muscles straining against the silk ties.

 

Suddenly, the raven took flight, wings beating silently as it landed on Magnus's chest, talons digging into his sweat-slicked skin for purchase.

Grimhilde didn't falter, her hips still pistoning, pussy squeezing his cock as she laughed softly at the bird's boldness.

"Have you lost your mind, bird?" Magnus shouted in disgust. "By all that's cursed—begone, dark omen!"

 

In an instant, the raven attacked. Its powerful beak darted forward, pecking viciously at Magnus's right eye!

The sharp point pierced the socket with a wet crunch, tearing the orb free in a spray of blood and vitreous fluid.

Magnus screamed, a guttural howl that shook the chamber, his body arching in agony beneath her.

'What—ahh! Gods, no!' he wailed, thrashing against the bonds. 'Ahhh—! My face—! Grimhilde—help me!'

But his wife only pinned him down, her weight unrelenting as she continued to ride his cock.

The raven didn't stop. It seized the dangling eye in its beak, shaking its head to rip it fully from the socket.

Blood poured down Magnus's face, mixing with tears of shock and pain.

The bird crushed the eye with a sickening pop, beak grinding the soft tissue into chunks before swallowing it whole in large, gulping bites—first the jelly-like center, then the fibrous remnants, its throat bulging as it ingested the horrid morsel.

Magnus's screams intensified, raw and animalistic, as the raven turned to his left eye. It pecked again, beak plunging deep, tearing the delicate organ with brutal efficiency.

Another spray of gore, and the eye was out, the socket a ragged, bleeding hollow. The raven repeated the process: crushing, breaking, tearing the eye into swallowable pieces before gulping them down, feathers now flecked with crimson.

The king howled in unrelenting pain, his body convulsing, every nerve alight with torment. 'Stop it! Grimhilde, make it stop!' he begged, voice breaking into sobs, but she only laughed—a deep, throaty sound of pure sadistic delight.

Her pussy clenched tighter around his twitching cock, the horror fueling her lust to new heights. She rode him faster, hips slamming down, forcing him deeper even as his world dissolved into darkness and agony.

'Oh, my blind king,' she mocked, slapping his bloodied face again, her nails raking his cheeks. 'Feel me now. Feel how your suffering makes me wet.'

His cock, betraying his pain, spasmed inside her, the twisted mix of sensations pushing him over the edge. It twitched violently, erupting in hot spurts of cum that flooded her pussy, coating her walls as she ground down to milk every drop.

Grimhilde threw her head back, her own orgasm crashing through her, pussy fluttering around his pulsing shaft.

She laughed through her moans, the sound echoing with dark triumph as the raven returned to its perch, beak dripping with gore. Magnus's howls faded to whimpers, his body limp in the bonds, forever changed by her cruel game.

As the raven finished, hopping away with gore on its beak, Grimhilde milked every drop, still chuckling.

"Why…?" The word tore out of the king, ragged and uneven, as if it cost him something just to speak. His voice trembled under the strain, breath hitching between each syllable. "After everything—why would you do this to me?!"

"Because you made it inevitable," she said, her voice barely above a whisper—yet it struck harder than anything else.

She dismounted, his spent cock slipping out with a wet sound. Cum leaked from her, but her face was twisted in triumph. Magnus sobbed, blind and broken, pleading incoherently. "Mercy... please..." His voice was weak, blood bubbling from his mouth.

He tugged weakly at the restraints, voice breaking as panic finally overtook shock. "Stop—please… don't do this…" The words came out uneven and desperate.

She didn't answer at first. Instead, she stepped closer, her hands working at the knots with practiced efficiency. One by one, the bindings loosened, the pressure easing from his wrists.

The silence between them felt heavier than the ropes had.

"Why are you not saying anything…?" he asked, suspicion threading through his fear. "What are you going to do?"

She paused only for a moment, fingers still resting on the final knot. Her eyes met his empty sockets—steady, unreadable. Then she finished loosening it.

 

Grimhilde seized him by the hair and dragged him across the cold stone floor with merciless force. His body jolted and stumbled after her, limbs too weak to find purchase.

Every attempt to brace himself failed, leaving him sliding and collapsing in broken, helpless motions as she pulled him onward. His cock leaking fluids. Every breath was a struggle, every step a torment.

His strength had drained, his body slack and quivering from blood loss, and yet she forced him onward, toward the alcove she had prepared.

The world around him had collapsed into sound and sensation alone—the scrape of stone beneath him, the drag of his own breathing, the distant echo of her steps guiding his fate. Panic rose in sharp waves, but there was nowhere for it to go.

"Please…" his voice cracked, barely holding together. "I can't… I can't move… I can't see…"

His fingers clawed weakly at the floor, searching for anything solid enough to stop her, to stop this, but his strength gave out almost immediately. He was weightless in her grip, reduced to something she could move at will.

Grimhilde did not answer. She did not slow. She simply dragged him through the darkness ahead, as though his fear was nothing more than background noise in a story already written.

She dragged him into the narrow space within the room, forcing him through a tight opening until there was nowhere left to turn. The moment he was inside, she shoved him forward.

He stumbled blindly, the cold stone striking him hard as he hit the wall, breath breaking as he tried to understand where he was.

But there was no world left to understand.

The absence where sight should have been made everything worse—an endless, shifting void that swallowed orientation, depth, certainty.

The room itself felt wrong—too small, too final—like it had been waiting.

Grimhilde crouched before him, crimson gown pooling around her like spilled ink, black hair falling forward over her shoulders. Her movements were calm, deliberate, as if time itself bent to her patience.

He trembled, disoriented and weak, pressing instinctively back against the stone behind him. "Please…" he rasped. "I don't understand… what are you doing?"

She didn't answer.

Instead, she lifted the first brick and set it into place.

The sound echoed like a judgment.

The pressure shifted immediately. Not just physical—but absolute. The opening behind her ceased to feel like an exit and became something being actively erased.

His breath caught, turning sharp and broken as panic surged through him. He pushed forward instinctively, but there was nowhere to go. The space itself refused him.

"Grimhilde…" His voice cracked. "Please… stop…"

Another brick.

The world narrowed further.

He struck out weakly, hands scraping stone, searching for anything that could give way, but every movement met only resistance. The room answered him with silence and compression.

"No…wife" he whispered, breaking. "Don't leave me here…"

Brick by brick, she continued.

Each one reduced the world he could sense—distance collapsing, air thickening, sound becoming trapped in tighter and tighter space. His strength faltered, movements slowing from desperation into instinctive, failing resistance.

"Please—" he rasped again, voice barely holding together now. "I'm still here…I love you!"

Another brick.

The remaining opening became something smaller than certainty, smaller than hope—just a diminishing fragment of presence beyond the stone.

And then it was almost gone.

His last strength gathered into one broken surge, a final attempt to be heard, to be real in the face of what was happening.

"Stop please!!!"

But the room did not respond.

Only stone answered stone.

"Noooooo…!!!"

With a final shove, she sealed the last brick into place!

King Magnus's form was now completely pressed behind the wall, a living grave of stone and mortar. Cold pressed against his bloodied body from every side, every breath a torment, every heartbeat a hammer of panic.

He thrashed feebly, pounding the stone with trembling fists, muffled cries echoing faintly through the tiny cavity.

Grimhilde straightened, her lithe body slick with sweat that cascaded in rivulets down her pale skin burying her husband alive within the unyielding stone wall.

His head protruding like a macabre sentinel, hollow eye sockets weeping blood while his final, ragged breaths rattled faintly from the encroaching mortar that crushed his ribs and pinned his cum-smeared cock in eternal confinement.

"Exquisite in bed… utterly meaningless in life," she whispered, fingers brushing the final seam of stone. "The only thing I ever loved was your body beneath me. Everything else—your heart, your loyalty, your life—was expendable."

Her full breasts heaved with satisfied exertion, nipples still peaked and glistening from the night's savage debauchery.

The heavy globes rising and falling as she traced a hand over their curves, pinching a taut bud to send fresh sparks of pleasure through her core.

Satisfaction radiated from her predatory smile, pussy throbbing with aftershocks of multiple orgasms fueled by his torment, juices mingling with his seed trickling down her thighs as she savored the absolute dominion.

The raven flew and perched on her shoulder croaking approval while she dipped fingers into her soaked folds once more, rubbing her swollen clit to chase another peak from the sight of his fading life.

 Her sadistic lust unquenched and ever-hungry for the next dark conquest.

Grimhilde turned from the bricked-up alcove without a word, as if the sound on the other side no longer mattered—or perhaps had never mattered at all.

The castle itself seemed to hold its breath as she moved through its corridors, bare footsteps fading into the cold hush of stone.

Grimhilde did not slow.

In the lower chamber, she retrieved a gilded Magic Mirror, lifting it with the same calm elegance she used for everything else, as though nothing in the world could weigh upon her.

When she returned, she faced the sealed alcove. The wall was newly finished—clean, deliberate, absolute.

And from within it came the last faint echoes of protest, a voice still broke through—distant, muffled, fractured by earth and enchantment.

It rose in desperate shouts, then collapsed into ragged crying, as though the walls themselves were swallowing him breath by breath.

Without reaction, she raised the mirror and hung it above the bricked-up space. Its surface gleamed softly in the torchlight, reflecting only her serene, untroubled face.

"Now the world sees only perfection," she murmured, smoothing the edges, "while your grave lies here… hidden forever, alive beneath the stone."

 

Years passed. Behind the wall, King Magnus's cries had long since faded into silence. His body, once bloodied and struggling, had withered away, leaving only a brittle skeleton pressed into the stone grave Grimhilde had crafted.

Each bone rested in agonized alignment, a grim testament to the years he had spent trapped alive, blind and helpless, every heartbeat once a monument to her cruelty.

The Magic Mirror still hung over the wall, gleaming flawlessly, reflecting only Grimhilde's serene, flawless visage.

To the world, the queen remained untouchable, her beauty and power unquestioned.

 

As the king's daughter grew, unaware of the fate of her father, the castle whispered rumors of illness and disappearance.

Yet behind the gilded glass and cold stone, Magnus's skeleton remained pressed against the unforgiving walls, a silent, horrifying monument to Grimhilde's ambition and cruelty.

The mirror immortalized her triumph, hiding the living grave she had created and preserving her ruthless legacy for all to see only in her flawless reflection.

 

 

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