Chapter 4. Drive away, Princess

*Princess Jasmin*

"Quickly Kiera! I need all the things necessary."

Slamming the door of my bedroom I quickly pick up the things I really needed most. Before I left for the party, I had instructed my most loyal servant, Kiera to pack up a small luggage for me.

"Yes Princess, everything is ready since you left the room this afternoon. By the way, are you taking me with you?".

Her smile and hopeful eyes were looking at me. But I couldn't take her with me this time. Not if I don't know when to come back. “No, I'm sorry Kiera. You have to stay".

I grabbed the small luggage and walk out of the door. I heard her footsteps following behind me. My other luggage which is just slightly bigger is in her hand.

"Forgive me Princess but I have to ask...Are you going on the trip like that?".

Her question made me slow down a bit. She must be wondering because I'm still dressed up with the sexy gown from the celebration. Glancing at my wrist watch, I immediately know that I have no time to change my clothes anymore.

"Yes it doesn't really matter."

I opened the trunk of my red sports car and shove in the small luggage. My movements was quick, there's no time to waste. I know Alpha Zero will come to take me after two hours, I mentally counted how far I could drive with that time in my car.

I get inside the driver's seat which was promptly opened by Kiera for me. "Take care Princess, I promise not to tell".

"Thank you Kiera, I don't really know if I would come back this time. Please be a good girl and stay in the Palace grounds, you're family is safer here."

Although I'm worried about what my brother would do to her but I know he wouldn't do anything bad to hurt her and her family. They have worked for us for quite a long time now.

Kiera's mother was the one who practically raised me together with the former Queen, my mother. But after I grew up, I suggested that she retire and have Kiera, her daughter to just be my only servant in the Palace.

I've learned to take care of my own and be independent. But my brother wanted to be in control, he wants to know where ever I go and what I do. Travelling outside the Palace, I also have to be accompanied by the warriors in the pack.

It was different when our parents was still alive, at least they let me do things my way, with the presence of a warrior guard, I could travel wherever I want. But lately, my brother wanted me to learn how to fight on my own. That even I have a warrior guard I should defend myself too. I sighed and looked at the windshield of the car.

"It's alright Princess, I will accept whatever the consequences are. But you're happiness is the most important thing for me. Take care of yourself..please, and don't hesitate to come back if..

"I'm not sure when Kiera, I have not decided if I should come back or not...bye for now. I really have to go."

I blinked the mist that started to form in my eyes and swallowed the lump in my throat. Without looking at Kiera, I heard her heavy sighed. I started the car and grip on the steering  wheel, maneuvering straight to the Palace gates.

There were only two warrior guards who came to stop me at the gates. I know there are more of them but the others must have already recognized the vehicle, so they stayed back inside the guard house. As I am not something to raised an alert.

"Good evening Princess Jasmin, are you going out for the night?".

The smiling warrior guard immediately greeted me after I rolled down the window of my car. He looks young and cheerful that made me smile back at him. Judging from his looks, he must be just around my age.

"Oh yeah I kinda remember, I am meeting a friend outside the Palace. It would only last at least for a couple of minutes and then we would come back together for the celebration."

His smile suddenly faded and his brows furrowed, his eyes in a daze. Shit!..

Someone is mindlinking him and I could already guess, it's about me. After a few seconds, the warrior looked at me with an apologetic face.

"I apologized Princess Jasmin, the head of the warrior guards Delta Gemer just instructed that you should not be allowed to go out."

"What!?

I looked around, wanting to see where Gemer is. But I could not sense him. Delta Gemer...Damn him! I have once voted him to be the Beta of my brother but he didn't passed. So he ends up being the Delta now and he wants to stop me from leaving.

"I'm so sorry Princess Jasmin, he didn't say the reason why I shouldn't let you go. But I have to follow him since it's a direct command from the King, there will be consequences if we don't follow."

I closed my eyes tightly and hold the potion portal inside my dress. I cannot used this trick right now, it's too early for this. When I opened my sight I looked directly at the warrior wolf beside the window of my car. His eyes are dark and is focused on me, like how I wanted him to be. I stared at him, straight into his eyes. Making sure all his attention is solely focused on me.

"Well, I admire your dedication to your work as a good warrior of the pack. You deserved to be praised for the things that you do, now look at me carefully and don't blink...I am Princess Jasmin of the Royal Pack, I will make a request that you should obey. As the most loyal warrior to his Princess. Open the gate then let me out, and you will be repaid highly."

I saw how his dark orbs moved and his lips follow. "Yes Princess Jasmin, I will follow your request. The gate will be open right now. I apologize to have keep you waiting”.

“That’s alright, please make it quick. I am in a hurry.”

He walked quickly to the side and pressed the button of the thick high gates. My heart beated faster inside my chest and I grip on the steering wheel, while my foot is ready to step on the accelerator. As long as the opening was wide enough for my car to pass, I speed up my car and leave.

I heard the loud growling of the other warrior guards inside, I know the others were questioning him why I was let out.

I breath in slowly, I didn't mean to put him in trouble. But I really have to leave tonight, I couldn't bear to be with Alpha Zero and follow what my brother asks. 

There is something I am wanting to avoid and he have no idea what. I cannot tell the reason to my brother, otherwise he would only suggest on making the impossible things to happen. Which will involved the Alpha of the North to me, and I would hate to make him.

I believe mate bond is a two way feeling, one cannot bond to the other who opposed. And to reject will be a sin that I will never commit. But what if he rejects me...would he go to such extreme only to avoid the mating bond?

The pain of thinking his rejection towards me almost choke my heart to death. My fingers slightly trembles in the stirring wheel.

So it is best for me to leave and maybe stay far away, far enough to forget that mate bonds exist. 

I never would have thought I could pull off the trick again, the trick I used with the warrior guard earlier. When I was younger it was something I've been fascinated to learn from Maleficus.

He told me not everybody is gifted enough to master the art of persuation, but I did it! I used to even practiced it when I was this little girl who’s curious to have everything that I want and I would asked for something from my mother, the former Queen, using that simple trick. She would just laugh at me, because it doesn't work with her. But she would still end up giving me the things that I love. Not because of how I beg or used the art of persuation on her but it is because she loves me dearly.

I step on my car's accelerator and speed my way across the road. Leaving the familiar forest behind. Soon I would approached the nearest town from the Langstone lands, but I have no plan of stopping. It is still not safe, I have to wait for another town. And then I would reached the City. The big city where I have a few friends who could help, from there I could get a plane ticket and then I could travel to Europe or Japan. Somewhere far from this place.