Adonis took a breath and turned around.
The First Prince who was wearing white suit had a smile on his face.
He may have been happy but to Adonis, he looked scary.
"What is the meaning of this, First Prince?"
"Everyone, leave the room except for Isolde and Liam."
Maximus walked towards him slowly. His eyes on Adonis.
He raised his hands and about to touch Adonis's face but Adonis caught his hand.
Maximus was surprised.
"WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING?"
Adonis shouted and whacked his hands.
Maximus's expression changed. From shocked to pitiful.
"Adonis, I love you."
"Shut up with your bullshit. If you truly loved me, you wouldn't be doing this to me."
"I, I like you so much. You don't even know. I love you so much I can't even control myself. I'll give you everything, come to me. Just forget that Warhorse."
Adonis couldn't help a dry laugh. But his look changed drastically in a second.
"And why do I have to suffer for that?"
"I-"
"Shut up. Just shut up, Prince Maximus."
Adonis looked at first Prince with dead eyes and said,"What do I have to suffer just because you weren't able to control yourself? It's not my problem. It has nothing to do with me. Then why am I here, in this situation again? Why do I have to be responsible for your emotions?"
Everyone stood still at Adonis's shouting.
"I love you, truly."
"But I don't. I love the Duke. And if you do love me, please let me go."
"I can't. If I give up, it means I've lost. I don't want to lose."
"Love isn't a game."
"I want you to become mine, I don't care about anything else. I don't care about the way."
"That's not love."
Maximus closed his opened mouth when he heard the last statement.
Adonis continued.
"That's not love. It's you loving yourself and you're thinking of me as a mere tool to show love to yourself. But that's not right. I too have feelings. Regardless of if you love someone or not, hurting them is wrong. And I will never be yours. My heart already belongs to someone else."
The painful expression on Maximus's face turned crazy.
He started laughing like crazy and roughly grabbed Adonis's chin.
"Have you done it with him?"
Adonis hit his hands and rubbed his chin.
"Let me go already or it won't be good when he comes here."
Maximus became more crazy.
"Ha, he'll come here? That warhorse? He doesn't know who kidnapped you. We've already misled him. He won't ever come here. You're going to marry me. Right here. Right now."
Adonis staggered backwards and threw a vase at Maximus.
"He'll come."
It brushed past his shoulder.
"Sure, if he does come, lead him to my bedroom. I'll let that warhorse see what his almost-wife looks like underneath me."
He grabbed the terrified Adonis's hand and whispered in his ear.
"I'll do you infront of him, the second time. First time, I'll do you infront of all these servants as soon as our wedding is finished. So that everyone know you belong to me. So everyone knows I've won."
Adonis kicked him in the stomach but Maximum didn't even flinch.
He just gave him a smile and said,"It's okay darling. You can become angry now. I'll make it up to you once you become mine. I'll give you everything in the world. I'll make you the first Male Queen."
"I don't want to."
Ignoring him, Maximus let go of his hands and said,"Fix him up. And bring him well when I ask."
Isolde nodded and went to inform the servants.
They left and the servants came in again to fix up his dress.
Adonis was agonized. He was terrified about what he should do. He wanted to run away.
When they'll take him downstairs. He'll try to run away after saying that he wants to go to the toilet.
Even if he was scared, he was determined.
[He'll come soon. I just need to buy some time. Just a bit and I'll be back. To my home, to my love, to my family.]
Adonis braced himself for the thousandth time.
As Maximus had said, he sent some to inform that it's time to bring Adonis down.
The maids accompanied him.
When they were in the middle of a hallway, Adonis spoke.
"I need to go to the bathroom."
A maid nodded and led him. After reaching halfway, Adonis stopped her.
"I'll go by myself from here."
"We can't let you go alone, Your Highness."
"I'll be uncomfortable if someone is keeping an eye on me in the bathroom. I don't think even the Prince will like someone looking at me in the bathroom."
After hearing the Prince, she grew confused and hesitantly let Adonis go.
Adonis went in. And looked at the big window. He opened it and sighed in relief. Adonis purposely came to this bathroom because he knew it had its flaws.
He had tried escaping from this bathroom in his last life too but he'd been caught because he was too slow due to the aphrodisiac smoke.
This time, he won't.
He opened the tap and jumped out of the window.
He was in the corridor of another building. He checked the room he saw and went in.
It looked like a store room. He'll hide and see if he can change outfits.
He saw a set of clothes haphazardly thrown on the ground.
God must be lenient on him.
"Mmgg. Stop."
Adonis froze.
He was found out as soon as he escaped. No this can't happen. He can't be found out soon. He looked at the metal container near him and thought that he'd hit the woman with the container.
He was about to pick it up when he heard.
"Ahhhhhhh. Hah. More. Gimme more. Don't....stop....Ahhhhhh."
Adonis was puzzled and looked back. There wasn't anyone.
He heard again. This time, a man's voice.
"Please…..harderrr....Ahhhhhhhh. Ruin....me..today.....Hah…...yess…."
Where the fuck was he?
Adonis slowly walked and peeked towards the place where the sound came from.
With a shelf in between two couples were into each other, doing their deeds.
On the right was a man and a woman, on the left was a man and a man.
They seemed to be workers.
Adonis sighed in relief. He quickly put the clothes on, muttered sorry and left the secret storeroom.
He walked with a tray on his hands, heads hung low.
A group of servants ran past him.
"We can't find him. Be quick. Find him quickly or else the First Prince is gonna kill everyone here."
Adonis walked past them with a wildly beating heart.
He successfully passed them but stopped when he saw a familiar someone looking at him.
Liam, the Knight who kidnapped him.
They looked at each other.
"What is the matter, Sir Knight? Did he do anything wrong?"
A voice came from behind.
Adonis thought, now it's all over.
He closed his eyes.
"No, everything's alright. I'll take him with me."
"As you wish Sir Knight. He's merely a servant. Do you want anyone to train him quickly?"
"No, I'll manage on my own."
Adonis was perplexed at that behaviour.
Liam grabbed his wrist and walked forward.
Was he a friend or a foe?