Chapter 53: Hiding a Secret?
There were a lot of pressing things that run around the bastard prince’s head.
One, the slave that he was forced to wed, the woman who hated him to the core, had just saved the very same life she had attempted to end – his life. Second, the said woman’s hair was strewn all around his face.
Her flaming hair had come undone as she rushed over to him. Locks of silky soft strands found their way inside his mouth and nose, tickling him to the point he was about to sneeze.
He noticed that the scent of her shampoo seemed to have switched to something sweeter – vanilla? If she really did, the prince could only drool.
Aleksander could feel her chest on him, the beat of her heart much louder now that practically there were no space between them. The only thing that separated them being their clothes. Thankfully, there were layers to the fabrics of their garments in the least.
The two royalties lifted their heads right at the very same moment, and their eyes met – deep scarlet to pools of molten silver.
In the heat of the moment, the knights went off to finish the rest of the bandits. Teo was able to get hold of the leader, but he looked as if he wasn’t going to survive as he kept vomiting blood even when he was in the bedroom.
And not long, the leader of the Black Bandits finally breathed his last.
Elys and Aleksander could hear the commotion with the other bandits running away, but they couldn’t care less to what was happening around them. The awkward atmosphere between them was more concerning.
And it worsened by every second that ticked.
The princess scrambled out of their clumsy position. She hadn’t thought things over when she dove to save the prince from the arrows back then.