Chapter 235: Deserved As Much
Immediately after Ricard gave the order, there was a sudden thundering of footsteps. The deck gave a pained groan, and the ship lurched precariously to the side as the men charged towards the lifeboats with desperate abandon, pushing and shoving each other in order to squeeze on the vessel.
However, no one dared to approach the vessel that Soleia was on, despite the fact that there was plenty of room available. They would rather squeeze twenty men into a single boat than take one step closer to her and their prince.
And with good reason.
Soleia screamed as her body rolled to the edge of the boat, nearly tipping over into the ocean. Due to the sudden increase in weight on one side of the ship, the tiny lifeboat was tilting precariously to the side. With her bound arms, she couldn’t grip onto anything.
Ricard let out a laugh at her panic and simply pulled her back with his bloody rope so that she was nestled in his arms. Soleia hated how her shoulders sagged with relief in his hold.
"Careful, I wouldn’t want to take a sudden swim if I were you," Ricard said casually.
"If you hadn’t bound me, I could at least grab onto something," Soleia retorted peevishly.
Ricard cooed at her anger and cheerfully responded by cutting the ropes attaching the lifeboat to the main ship.
"Oops," Ricard laughed as Soleia screamed. He used his ability to anchor himself on the lifeboat, but he didn’t offer that help to Soleia. Poor Soleia was left to flounder in the air as her body suddenly realized it wasn’t resting on a solid surface, and the only thing it could do was fall.