“Mila…” Prince Leonard called my name and his voice sounded so gentle that it made me feel guilty to the core.“Y-Yes?” I replied with a stutter. “Can you give me your hand? I just want to hold it,” he asked and then he flashed me a very charming smile when he saw me hesitate. “Ok…” I murmured.Slowly, I slipped my hand into his opened one. The warmth of his hand immediately enveloped mine as his fingers curled around my hand and held it. Although things were supposed to be different between us tonight, the touch of his hand on mine felt comforting as always. “Tell me what you think about what Madame Sand told you,” the prince urged as his blue eyes studied my face intently. I was supposed to bring this up to tell him that I wasn’t at all interested so I was very surprised that it was the prince who brought this up first. “To be honest, I think there’s been a very big misunderstanding about this. I’m just a maid and that is how it should be. I don’t want to be an honorable maiden
The moment he was done voicing his thoughts, his fingertip left my face completely. While I was still stunned and frozen in place, the prince got up from the sofa and stood up straight. He seemed very relaxed as he stretched before turning back to look down at me. “Let’s go, Mila…” he said invitingly as he stretched out a hand my way. “Go…where?” I asked with clear surprise.One surprise just led to another, and I was struggling to keep up with him. “Let’s go out…” he replied before he smiled cheerfully at me. The tension in the air evaporated in an instant and it felt like the hard conversation that we just had never happened in the first place. “Out? As in, to the gardens?” I asked to make sure that I understood him correctly. “No, out as in outside of the palace. You’ve never really seen the city, right?” he asked before he grinned at me. Was that allowed?My mind only wondered about that for the briefest of moments before my excitement took over. I had only gotten a glimpse
His words kept me hanging and I couldn’t stop thinking about what the prince was about to say just now. A short while later, we arrived at the wall that separated the palace from the outside world. My heart began beating faster and faster in my chest. The light from the guard station at the gate poured into the car. There were so many guards at the gate and all of them saluted after recognizing the prince’s car. It seemed like everything was progressing smoothly and one of the guards was about to open the gates for us when a very large man stepped out into view. “Of all the days…” the prince murmured before he scoffed.The large man approached the prince’s side of the car bent down until his face was level with the car’s window. I gulped from nervousness as Prince Leonard opened the car’s window. My body stiffened but I was too scared to even look at the large man.“Where are you going, Prince Leonard?” a deep voice asked. “Out,” the prince replied without providing any details. “
I think he’s told me something like that before and after spending some time with him, I was quite convinced that he could do that much; however, that wasn’t what I was asking. “I don’t mean it like that. I mean…when our minds are connected, can you tell what I’m thinking?” I asked in pure wonder. As for me, I couldn’t tell what he was thinking at all regardless of whether our minds were connected or not. He was just extremely hard to read and understand. My two dear friends told me that everyone thinks that he’s a “public mystery” and I could empathize with every single person who shared that view. “Should we give it a try?” the prince asked just when the car came to a stop at a red light.Give it a try?My arms immediately wrapped around myself protectively as I turned to glare at him. The last time that we gave it a try, he did…so many things to me…It took so much action just to get our mind to connect and then all we could do was communicate with each other. He called my name
I bit down on my lower lip as I hesitated. He did call me by my name, but I found it hard to call him by his name, and now he was telling me to call him by his nickname. If I recalled correctly, his brothers called him by this same nickname as well. “Excuse me…” the prince called out and waved to a waitress who was standing a distance from us. The woman signaled that she would be with us in just a moment before she quickly started serving the customers at the table that she was at. After he had attracted her attention, he returned his attention to me. The way his blue eyes sparkled mischievously told me that I was in some sort of trouble now. “I’ve decided to help you make up your mind. Call me Leo before the waitress gets over me. Otherwise, I’ll kiss you,” Prince Leonard said before he smirked at me.I hated all his little plans to get me to do what he wanted me to. My eyes glanced over at the waitress that he had just called, and I could tell that it wouldn’t be long before she
“You make it sound like you’re going to eat me,” I said with a small laugh of my own. “I will…eventually…” the prince replied as his eyes captured mine.I was only joking but his tone had turned so serious that I wasn’t sure how to react. Surely, the prince wouldn’t literally eat me, right? But then, he’s supposed to be a wolf. Do werewolves prey on humans like normal wolves in the wild when they hunt? “I don’t think you should eat me. I’m too skinny and I probably won’t taste good…” I said the first thing that came to my mind. The prince blue eyes widened in surprise before he threw his head back and laughed so loudly that he attracted the attention of everyone around us. I was so shocked at his reaction for a moment before I turned to quickly apologize to the other people around us for the disturbing loudness of the prince’s laughter. “Sometimes I don’t know whether you’re being serious or if you’re just joking,” he said when he finally managed to control himself again. “I can
“Call me Leo,” he said.“What are you doing?” I asked in slight panic.“Holding your hand. We’re on a date so we should hold hands always,” he said with his eyes already on the road. Even when we were not on a date like this, he would sometimes hold my hand when we were together. That was what I thought as I looked down at our entwined fingers. “Can you…please just drive,” I said as I started to worry about the cars behind us. Prince Leonard flashed me a smile before he laughed softly but he did turn away to focus on driving. I let out a silent sigh which I now knew that the prince could hear when the car started moving. I didn’t know where he was taking me, but I was eager to find out. The large and tall buildings turned into smaller and lower ones as we drove along. After taking a turn, the prince started driving us up a hill. The road suddenly became quite narrow and winding. Prince Leonard didn’t seem to have any trouble navigating the car along and he did not drive any slower
“Prince…umm…Leo…I…” I began protesting and shifting slightly in his arms as my nervousness started to get the better of me. Suddenly, there were sounds of what sounded like explosions in the distance and at the same time colorful lights lit up the view of the night sky right in front of us. My eyes widened as I sucked in a breath at the beauty of the amazing display for fireworks that had sprung up to decorate the dark night sky like rainbow blooming flowers. It was the first time in my life that I had seen actual fireworks. Was this what the prince really wanted to show me? “They’re really pretty aren’t they?” he asked in a soft whisper close to my ear. His arms tightened around my body, and I found myself leaning back against him as I kept my eyes on the firework display in front of me. The colorful array of light that looked like flowers blooming and bursting in the sky slowly faded just to be replaced by another set of blooming flowers. They were indeed very beautiful, and I c