"How are you feeling, Princess?" Miss Zoya asked, genuinely concerned, and Elliana nodded at her with a mild smile.
"I am doing good. I hope I don’t bother," She whispered softly, and Miss Zoya raised her gaze to their Prince walking downstairs, and she gulped.
The prince was angry and even a bird could tell that.
Three hours ago, Miss Zoya was called into the guest room Princess was staying temporarily and asked to change the blood stained bedsheets while their prince stood with a passed-out princess in his arms, wrapped in a towel, in the corner of the room.
Later, the prince walked down and told them to replace the bathtub in the bathroom because he ended up breaking it and asked all the male guards to leave the palace and guard outside.
The only males allowed in the palace were, the chef because Princess only likes his hand-cooked food, Lucas and Ambrose, whose movents were limited to the seventh floor and terrace and then straight out. They weren’t even allowed to stop in the hall for any purpose.
She didn’t know what happened in that room, but ever since the prince ca out, he had been scowling.
"Are you feeling good?" Sebastian asked Elliana, and the girl who woke up dressed in a towel alone in the bed nodded with a soft blush on her cheeks, and he grabbed her cheeks between his index finger and thumb before pulling them.
"Would you like to address what you did to then?" Sebastian asked, and Elliana who thought he was talking about their activity in the bathroom where she pleased him, blushed even harder before turning around.
She wanted to hide a face and bury herself in the ground now. How could he call her out after they -
"Look how deep it is," Sebastian said, and Elliana turned around with narrowed brows, her gaze falling on his neck that he exposed by siding his collar.
She looked down with a cheeky smile. It was her mark on him.
Sebastian’s lips twitched, and he bit the inside of his cheeks to suppress his smiles.
"Are you sure you weren’t a vampire in your last life?" He murmured before evening his collar.
He grabbed her small hand before pulling her to the sofa of the main hall.
"I have a few questions to ask you, princess," Sebastian said to her before he looked at the caretaker who imdiately nodded and left with the other workers.
Sebastian noticed Lucas going straight towards the stairs, probably to his office, and stopped him.
"Lucas, bring that thing here," Sebastian ordered.
The subordinate looked at the princess sitting on the sofa with a confused expression and didn’t know if it was a good ti to do what the prince was thinking of doing.
"Well, sir," Lucas walked to them and pulled out the thing from his pocket, making Elliana’s gaze imdiately darken which she quickly hid behind her innocent facade.
She looked at the bottle intrigued.
"Do you recognize this bottle?" Sebastian asked.
Elliana knew if the prince had gotten his hands on this bottle and asked her specifically, he probably knew the constituents inside it and there was no use hiding it. But of course, she wasn’t a fool to agree to it imdiately.
Her brain cells started working as she nodded softly.
"Of course, I know. Isn’t this my spray? But the one I have is not so big. Did you get this for ?" Elliana took the bottle from Sebastian’s hands, and Lucas’s gaze froze on the princess.
Was she admitting that she had been using the scent-hiding spray? But then, it didn’t sound too weird to him. Maybe that is exactly how she had snuck out of the palace to save their prince that night.
He quickly masked his expression and cleared his throat before taking a few steps, maintaining his distance from her.
Lucas knew that she would just co with another set of lies, and while he knew she was doing it all for his prince, it still made him feel guilty.
"Do you know what’s inside it?" Sebastian asked, and Elliana nodded, surprising Lucas.
"It’s a Lavender perfu. Unique I must say. It was recomnded, more like given to by a prisoner nad-" Elliana stopped, looking down at her feet.
"Have I ever told you I was once a prisoner of the most dangerous prison for the deadliest human criminals? The Malevolent Prison?" Elliana asked, and Sebastian humd.
"I know," Sebastian noticed her every expression clearly.
"One of the prisoners there gifted this perfu on my eighteenth birthday. Since I turned eighteen in the prison and didn’t have anyone from the family to co et , they, the other prisoners in my cell had celebrated my birthday.
There were three more things I received from them. But this perfu has been the closest to . It has this unique lavender sll, and no matter how hard I try, I haven’t been able to make a similar one of it," Elliana said before she hugged Sebastian out of the blue.
"Thank you, Mr. Marino, for noticing such small things about even when you are so busy all the ti. I was indeed running low on it," Elliana said, and Sebastian felt rooted to his place, his gaze neutral.
It was a perfect story. There were no loopholes around it. Or were there that he couldn’t see?
She has always been obsessed with perfus from what he has seen so far, and she indeed likes the sll of lavender and Jasmine scented things while her favorite scents differ to a wide range.
There was no reason why she wouldn’t like this scent, and why this gift wouldn’t be her favorite.
Moreover, he has never seen her buying the scent, she has been using the sa bottle ever since she ca so he can’t say that she has been buying illegally either.
She loved researching new things. Didn’t she ask him if he would give her his saliva for her to run so tests on it too? There was no doubt a girl like her would be infatuated with this strange composition too.
"So, I am guessing you don’t know anything about who sells them or where your friend got them from, right?" Sebastian asked, and Elliana smiled at him.
Well, was this the ti when she could have her revenge on them for catching her off-guard?
"I don’t know the exact details, but she said that her brother buys it from soone nad Marcello. He said that this man had all the things available. There is barely a thing that this man can’t arrange," Elliana blinked at him innocently, and Sebastian smiled.
"Marcello, hmm?" Sebastian looked at Lucas, who was still in shock that the princess shared the details with the prince just like that.
Why was he having such a hard ti believing it? Maybe he was suspecting her too much after the last incident, but can you bla him? She wasn’t exactly the soft candy everyone thought she would be.
"So, umm, will you give it to ?" Elliana extended her hand like a happy kid asking their guardian for her favorite toy and Sebastian smirked.
"You can leave, Lucas. I still have sothing personal to discuss with the Princess," Sebastian said, and Lucas bowed before leaving imdiately.
"Sothing personal -"
"Do you know that this perfu hides scent?" Sebastian asked, backing her into her seat, and Elliana gulped, his eyes looking like he already knew that she was well aware of it.
"If this hides my true scent, does that an you don’t know what I really sll like?" Elliana widened her eyes in fake disbelief, and Sebastian chuckled.
"I know how you sll, princess. I am the one who washed you after you -" Elliana placed her hand on his lips to stop him from talking, and Sebastian’s eyes smiled with amusent and mischief.
"Behave and be a good girl and this bottle will be yours," Sebastian kissed her hand before he stood from his place and left her.
Elliana gulped, breathing a sigh of relief that she didn’t know she was holding.
"Do you believe her?" Lucas asked as soon as Sebastian entered the office, and the latter smiled inwardly.
"Of course not. I might be attracted to her, but I am not a fool. As true as her story is, there is definitely sothing she is hiding. But she said it so cunningly that I am not able to find that loophole," Sebastian said before turning to Lucas.
"About this Marcus guy, do we have no lead on him? The annual ball is in a week. I don’t want to et him on the ball in front of everyone. Brother Stephano will get him first this way. We need to find a way to communicate with him sooner," Sebastian said, and Lucas nodded.
"I will send another search team, sir," Lucas said.
"You know what, this ti, I want you to have the team use this illegal scent and go check the moon city. For so reason, Princess’s connection with the wolves and then her knowing about Marcello too, I doubt that -"
"She might be helping him?" Lucas asked, and Sebastian took a deep breath.
"I don’t know what to believe and not believe anymore. She keeps surprising ," Sebastian walked to the window and gazed thoughtfully.
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