I did not give him time to react because I asked another important question, "How did you even manage to enter the North? No one has ever survived to come inside or go back."
He didn't recover but still answered me, "there was a merchant who helped us."
"Us?" I repeated, "There is someone else with you?"
He nodded, glanced at my hand in which I held the candle. He sighed and just as I was ready to ask him to leave he said, "why would you not come with me? You have rejected me countless times. Do you not want the life of a princess?"
I already had the life of a princess and it was truly not worth it. If I was aiming for something that was queenship now. A princess could be discarded easily. The Queen did not go down without a fight.
"I think you—"
I felt his lips smash against mine. It follows me but when I felt his lips move against mine, I immediately tried to push him away. His hands snake around my waist and held me in place.
