Inescapable Deadline

“Don't act so sad, it's not like we'll never see her again. Let's go visit her sometime after she's settled down and maybe I can invite her here to visit us in the palace as well,” I said as I tried to maintain a positive attitude.

“I guess you're right. Maybe I can even go and sleep over with her when I can take my leave,” Jessie said with a wistful look in her eyes. I stared down the road where Selena had departed, while silently praying for better things to come her way.

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“Let’s have dinner together when I get back or do you want to go out for dinner somewhere else?” Prince Leonard asked before he left for work.

Apparently the prince had official matters to attend to since early in the morning and would only be back in the palace at the end of the day.

“Maybe we should just have a simple dinner here, you might be tired by the time that you get back,” I replied while thinking of the prince’s wellbeing.

If he went to work outside for the entire day, I was certain that he would