"Haven't you seen her? What are you still doing here?." A voice said from behind and he froze for a moment.

"No, I haven't seen her." He covered his face properly with the scarf.

"The cave is by the left edge, be quick and get out of here." The guard said.

Lorcan was so mad that he felt like cutting of this man's head right now for keeping Reina in this dirty place that was meant for criminals. Didn't Theodore had a good place than to keep her here?.

He nodded and walked to the edge of the prison, just then he saw her, he saw his Wife, his previous wife. She laid unconsciously on the dusty ground, her clothes were so dirty and her hair was rough.

His eyes went to the tray there with the food untouched. The food given to her was more bad than those the maids and horses ate. He felt that was the way Theodore could punish him. He used Reina to punish him, he did that just to make him accept him as the King.

Reina hadn't eaten anything and she was so weak and tired.

He went into the cave and walked slowly to her.

His heart was in so much pain seeing his Princess in that state.

"Reina." He said with a hushed voice.

"Reina?." He called out to her again and tapped her face.

She opened her eyes slowly to see Lorcan in front of her.

"Lo.." her eyes widened as he covered her mouth with his hand.

"Shhh.. don't say a word." He arranged her hair but still it was still rough and tangled.

"Lorcan.." she said softly and hugged him as she cried, right now she didn't want to leave him, she didn't want him to ever leave her sight.

"I'm here now, stop crying." He cupped her face just then his eyes went to the wound on her head.

"How did this happen?." He tried to touch it but she pulled away.

"What happened to you?." He was so angry that he let all these happened to his wife. Never in his life would he ever think she'd go through this, everything looked like as shock to him, her disappearance, the lava, and now this.

"Prince Theodore, he..he smashed my head against the wall, he.." she sobbed as she struggled to speak.

Lorcan wrapped his arms around her as if shielding her and protecting her.

"He..he wanted to forcefully have me, Lorcan!." She cried on his chest.

"Theodore did this??? As if what he did wasn't enough, still he wanted to lay with My Wife???." He said to himself and glared angrily at something and then he began hitting his palm against the walls of the cave.

"Stop that." She held his hand that was now bleeding.

"No, all this happened because I couldn't protect you Wife." He cursed inwardly.

He regretted honoring Lyra's request, if he hadn't gone to play the game of chess with her maybe all these wouldn't have happened in the first place.

"You shouldn't hurt yourself this way." Tears rolled down her cheeks as she looked at his

Hand.

"Why wouldn't I? I want to punish myself! Give me my punishment Wide cause I failed to protect you."

She looked into his eyes to see that he was in a lot of pain, not because of his injured hand but it was cause of the wound in her head, not just that, it was because of everything that had happened.

"I can't punish you, you're my Husband Your Highness." She sobbed and held his hands.

she turned to her cloth and ripped out a piece to tie around his palm.

"You'll be fine, you won't bleed anymore." She focus on tying his palm though tears still dropped from her face to his arm.

"My heart is bleeding Reina." He held her face up with his other hand and then he wiped off the tear on her face.

She blew air into his hand as he just stared at her face. So innocent and ever beautiful, she was in pain still, she took proper care of him, what a caring wife he had.

"I'll kill him, I'll kill Theodore Reina, he shouldn't have done this to you, he put your life in danger and above all he tried to have what's mine. He wanted to have you forcefully as if that was not enough he did this to you." He looked at the wound on her head, it was still fresh and he hated to see it.

He closed his eyes tightly and clenched his fist and kept hitting it against the wall.

"Stop please." She held both his hand and brought it to her face.

"Don't ever hurt this hands, they are meant to touch me and not to hurt me Lorcan."

"I need to get you out of here Reina, let's go." He stood up holding her arm.

"I'm scared, I don't want us to get caught." She whispered with her lashes now wet from her tears as she felt like caring again.

"I don't care, all I want is to get you out of here, I wouldn't mind killing anyone that tries to take you from me Wife."

"Trust me." He cupped her face looking into her eyes. She nodded and they left the cave

"What took you so long?." The Guard asked trying to look through his scarf he was putting on.

"And what's up with the scarf? You look strange to me who are you?." He asked walking closer to them. Reina was shaking and Lorcan held her arm tightly.

"You're also wearing a royal bead, are you a thief??." The guard asked looking suspiciously at him.

"No." Lorcan replied and continued to walk.

"Stop there!." Another Guard with a higher rank said from behind.

"Take off the scarf." He ordered walking close to Lorcan.

Reina started crying , she wouldn't take it if they got caught, most of all, there would be no escaping Theodore. She knew If they got caught, she'd be taken to Theodore and she'd have his disgusting hands touch her and she didn't want that, she only prayed Lorcan did somethingsomething.

"I said take the scarf off and turn around!." He yelled, and Reina could feel her heart beat in her ears.