As soon as the words left my mouth even though they did not seem to be coming from soone confident in what was about to be given to them to do his lips stretched into a cruel smirk and I knew that I might be and for it." I don’t know," he moved around and poured himself sothing. "My brother is already married to a princess. The next is ."
I gulped and looked away at the words said. This was not going to go well.
"So?" I muttered. "You must begin to find a princess for your arrogant self."
He chuckled at that, unable to control it any further he started laughing loudly. Muttering sothing under his breath he turned around and handed one of the glasses. "Here, lemon water. Feel a bit refreshed."
I took it from him and took a small sip.
"I have just your maid to have your bath ready." He sipped his refreshnt as he looked into my eyes.
I glared at him. "How about you tell what is going on with you instead." I hissed, "I have asked you what is it that I can do to have Tristan out of the dungeon."
"Ah, yes," he nodded in understanding, "you would surely do that for a friend, I understand that completely."
Sothing told that he did not.
"But I wonder why would soone do that for their friends? After all prioritising oneself is of the utmost importance. If you get to live, you get to have friends."
I continue to listen without interrupting him from his line of questioning. He was trying to put on the spot, a spot where I was going to allow myself to walk into the trap he has set.
All I had to do was sit back and watch him play it all about. He would soon reveal his plot himself because this ti I was not going to fall in.
"Don’t you think so," he mused with a curious expression, "That you should perhaps think about what is going to happen if you try to help out in every way possible. He is a rchant who A Queen souls never see again and if you choose to help him today you might be choosing a different future you have had chosen for yourself and have the opportunity to choose the future entirely different."
I smiled slightly with a little huff. "I want my people safe but what makes you think that I will choose the option that you provide . I said that what is that I can do, can tell you that I do have my limitations."
He grinned slightly as if landed where I was supposed to. "Limitations, do you want to have limitations for the man you supposedly might have feelings for?"
And finally, the dam of my patience was broken, yet I held myself back with great strength. I was better than this.
He stepped closer to . Dared to, after saying the serious words to my face.
"What do you break your betrothal the prince of Astria and marry in steps to save your friend?"
That was what it was going to take for him to release the rchant? For to sell myself like a cow placed as collateral?
He fell to such lengths!
The fire of anger and Fury gripped hard, as I stepped closer to man. "Are you sure that you are I’m your right mind?!" I hissed.
He tilted his head slightly with narrow dye is not liking with this conversation was going and how disrespectful I was being but now my anger has taken too far to go back.
"I have been nothing but respectful to you even though you had abducted by 5 n alone in a carriage fearing for my life and. . . dignity," I tried to calm myself at the horrible thoughts, "what makes you think that I will ever marry you?"
He smirked, enjoy my angry Insie all riled up brought him to enjoy and entertainnt. "Perhaps the fact that I am not a man who hides behind my mother’s skirts and I have a greater army and better resources."
"Yet not enough knowledge." I stepped back and turned around. "Please your highness to not make this an official proposal as I would not want to risk getting a war for refusing you." I t his eyes with tears. "I cannot do this for my . . . . co-country." I sniffed and bowed my head as a cover my nose and ran to the room that I had been given in his chambers.
"Your highness!" Imdiately stood up as she saw and ca closer, surprised to see crying.
"Quick! Close the door imdiately!" I told her hurriedly in a hushed voice and she did as told imdiately. I did not want the prince to follow.
Bolting door from inside, she turned to as she breathed heavily. "What is the matter, your highness? Why are you crying?"
I sniffed and sipped off my tears as I cooled my expressions. "Was, not anymore." I sighed and turned around to go to the baths. She imdiately followed and help us take off my clothes.
"Do you know where the rchant is?" I asked as my eyes were closed and I was in the bath which was filled with hot water.
"No, your highness," rilyn said as she washed my hair. "Did you want to find him?"
I shook my head and opened my eyes and the traitorous tears imdiately slipped. "He is in prison. The P-prince has thrown in th-there." I cried giving in to my emotions and no longer holding them inside. "H-he. ."
rilyn imdiately pulled close, not all mind getting wet herself and cooed at as she rubbed her hands up and down in comfort.
"How could soone be this cruel?" I whispered, "On what basis did he throw him there?"
The dungeons in the royal palace were sothing no one wanted to ever step into. But my sweet rchant was thrown inside and I could not help but think of doing the unthinkable. Sothing no Royal mber, especially in another country, would do.
I slipped away from rilyn and her concerned eyes t mine. "rilyn, we must help the man escape." I declared with all my strength and courage. "We will help him escape."
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