Maria was still getting ready for the day when Raven came charging into her room. She was shocked for a spell, but soon it was replaced with joy, however, as he began locking the door behind him before turning to her with a sharp look in his eyes, she instantly knew something was wrong.
"A-are you okay?" She asked, gulping her anxiety.
Without saying a word, Raven marched closer to her. Getting up in a rush, Maria tried to approach him herself, but as Raven's hand grabbed her by the face and pushed her back down, her eyes widened in fear and her body froze from the shock.
"AGH!" Caressing her aching back, she kept staring at Raven through a pained expression, but the mage's aggression didn't end there, as he grabbed her by the chest and pulled her up in an instant. "Wh-wha-what are you doing?!"
"Teaching you some manners!" He yelled, slapping Maria's face.
"AHHH!" Grabbing her dress by the cleavage, he tore it right off while she grunted and groaned. Then throwing her by the bed, Raven used darkness muscle fibers extending from his body to lift her in the air by her leg and tear the rest of her clothes off until she was butt naked. "AUWA! LET ME GO! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!"
Her voice tinged with desperation, she looked right into Raven's eyes–but the sharp look in his eyes inspired not hopes of mercy but fear. He was angry, beyond anything she'd ever seen. Drama was something he couldn't tolerate–especially once created by an arrogant ass who can't just let things go smoothly.
"Now look at me," moving closer and lifting her up higher, Raven brought her face to the same level as his. However, her breasts dangling upside down with the darkness chain binding her nips with her clit she could neither see from behind those mountains nor hear anything because of those chains.
And so grabbing the three-way chain at their point of intersection, Rain squeezed them tightly together to prevent it from jingling.
"Shut up!" He yelled as her punishment was yet to be over.
Letting her hang in the air for a while, Raven paced around in an attempt to hold himself back. He had plans for her, but he had to wait, but she would have to carry those tattoos even those that were clearly visible by her feet. A week was what he needed, and the day of Tia's marriage was going to be the conclusion of her punishment.
"I'll take those tattoos off, but not before I teach you a lesson," moving her by his face, Raven looked right into her eyes with a deadly expression on his face. "You might be the least likeable of my girls, and that's a hard fucking task because I have a giant monster–who I positively suspect of planning my murder once I give her what she wants."
"I-" Slapping her as soon as she opened her mouth, Raven grabbed her by the hair and brought his face a hair's breadth from her.
"I may like you Maria, but I don't love you. You have done nothing to earn that, and believe it or not I love the strangers of Athenia more than I do you..." Letting her hair go, Raven turned around with a hefty spin, however, he quickly turned right back to face her again. "You have to earn it, and that needs discipline.
I don't expect you to be a puppet who does whatever I say, but the least I expect from you is not to try to murder your own son or his lover!"
"I didn't!"
Looking through her lie as dark smoke emerged from her body, Raven knew that he had to beat some sense into her skull. However, not too fond of roughing his woman more than he already had, instead, he tied a dark leash to her neck, a gag on her mouth, and strapped her legs so she could only move by crawling on her knees.
Panting from the sudden changes, Maria's mind was beyond freaking out. Strapped like a rabid dog, she was being drugged away to the room's exit–and the mere thought of going out in such a state with her hands and legs tied, and her butt hanging out, was enough to make her skin crawl.
Thankfully for her, however, Raven was just trying to scare her for now. Her punishment still had to wait, but before that, Markus had to confirm Milo's doubts.