Chapter 19 (Now or Never)

He enters the room and looks very displeased. I on the other hand look very pleased. He is so not going to like what I’m about to tell him.

"Miss, could you excuse us for a bit?" He says while looking at Noe.

"Yes. Yes of course Sir." She then bows and leaves the room while closing the curtains behind her.

He sees me and if looks could kill id be dead right now. He seemed so angry and upset after what I say to him. I being alive will be the least of his worries.

"Well. well well. Looks like you got lucky princess." He says a bit silently so that no one else could hear us.

"I wouldn’t call it luck. You were just dump enough to give away all of your plans." I smirk at him and he sure seemed displeased which was exactly what I was going for.

"You will go back to prison and will get killed eventually! So do us all a favor and just die like you were supposed to on that Clift." He was pissed off.

"You would like it if it was that easy. But you made a mistake general." I stand my ground and look as intimidating as I can.

"First you told me your plan and second you sent someone else to kill me instead of doing it by yourself." I look at him and he seemed confused. This is going to be my favorite part.

"You know what I found? I found this." I say and I take the knife from under my dress. He seemed confused yet again.

"And what can you do with just this knife? Tell its mine?" He chuckles.

"Well I can just show this mark" I point towards the carvings of the knife.

Now he seemed surprised and was getting a bit scared which is exactly what I want.

"I wonder how long it will take for them to trace this knife to you. Not long I guess from the look on your face."

"So this is what’s going to happen. You are going to leave me and Prince Reece alone or I will destroy you." I say and he frowns.

"Fine. But this won’t last long Princess. I will find one way or another to destroy you." He looks at me with rage in his eyes and heads towards the exit but I stop him before he could leave as I needed him to do one last thing

"Oh and don’t forget to tell the guards that I am no longer a prisoner."  After that he storms off.

You may ask why I’m not going to rat him out and get all this over with. The thing is, I want him to pay dearly for all that he has done. For that to happen, I need proof that he is behind the massacre then and to make sure his gang knows who he actually is.

The bigger picture might be saved hence I need to think and act every step of the way.

I sit down on my bed and wait for the physicians cue on whether I can go to my room or not.

Not too long after, the physician enters with a paper in her hand.

"Okay, so here are your results... Let’s see... You have to apply green herbs on your arms every day for the next two weeks and that’s it." She says while looking at the piece of paper in her hands.

"Here are the green herbs." She hands me a bottle with a green like paste stored inside of it.

"You can go now. Make sure to be careful alright?" I nod and smile to her response.

I head towards my room and just feel exhausted for the night I’ve had. It must be the middle of the night. I was just ready to hop in my bed and sleep.

I enter my room and get a crashing hug from Prince Reece.

"Oh my god. Are you okay? Is... Is everything alright?" He then pulls me away for him and examines me but soon enough he saw the big plaster in my arm.

"Oh god what happened?! I swear to god that whoever did this to you will die!" I couldn’t help but smile at him. I really missed him even though I haven’t seen him for just half of the night.

I pull him for a hug and just smell his scent which I missed so much. He smelled like pages of a new book. I loved that smell.

"I’m alright. Everything is fine don’t worry." I reassure him while hugging him.

"I’m glad." He just says that and we hug for what seems like forever.

After a while we end up sitting in the bed and just end up cuddling one another.

"I’m so sorry that I let you even step in prison." He says with guilt noticeable in the tone of his voice.

"It’s not your fault Reece! You couldn’t stop it even if you wanted to!" I try to bring some sense into him.

"It is my fault! If only I did more! I could have prevented anything from happening and you wouldn’t even have ended up there. I’m just so sorry-"

I cut him off with a kiss as it’s the only effective way I know that shuts him up. He deepens the kiss and so do I.

It was passionate and slow at the same time. I could never get enough of this.

He put his hands on my hair in order to pull me closer. It was just what I needed after a day like this or should I say night? 

After a few minutes we pull of each other only to breathe some air. If oxygen wasn’t needed for us. God knows what could stop us.

After everything that has happened I finally realize that I love him too much to lie to him anymore. I now know that lies only bring disasters. Mine has already brought one. So I have to come clean and I have to tell him the truth.

"Why are you staring at me like that?" He asks and I just smile.

"Nothing. It’s just that I love you."

"Reece I need to tell you something."

"You seem nervous. Nothing can push me away from you so its ok just tell me." He smiles. Isn’t he perfect?

Well it’s Now or Never.