"Let her go." Achilles ordered and the guards let go of her hand. "What is she doing here? Did you bring her here?" Zale asked him. Achilles brushed his face. "Yes I did." he answered. "She is not supposed to be here Your highness and you know that..." "Oh spare me the lecture this time ok." Achilles yelled. He looked at Kristen and said. "Let's go." He grabbed her arm and they both left the Palace.
Zale looked at Myles and shook his head. He turned to the guards and asked them to leave.
As they walked out of the Palace, Kristen spoke. "Achilles, you're hurting my hand." He didn't realize that his grip was tight. He then let go. "I thought I told you to stay out of sight." he said. "You did but it's not my fault that they caught me. It's like they could hear me walk or something." Achilles sighed. "Ok. It's fine. You need to go back now." "Yeah about that, I'm kinda lost." she said. "What? How do you plan on getting back?" "I could use GPS." "Right. How far is it?" "Um... 10 minutes but with a lot of curves and turns."
"You're gonna walk 10 minutes back?" She smiled shyly. "It's not that far. 10 minutes is not long."
"I didn't say it was far." he said, looking past her face. "Can I ask you something?" She asked. He nodded. "Are there any beaches near by?"
"Beaches? Why do you ask?" "Cos I wanna go swimming." "There are no beaches near here. You can go swimming in the lakes." "What lakes?"
"Ok you what? I'll meet you at the hotel and take you there." "No, no, no. You don't have to. I'll find it myself." she refused.
"It's fine. You're my only friend outside the Palace. I'll bring my brothers with me." "You're a prince Achilles, you can't be seen with me." she insisted. "Fine. I'll take you there and then leave. I hate crowds anyway." he said.
She sighed. "I don't need you to be there for me. Like you said, I don't even know you. I came here to relax and not to get involved with a prince I know nothing of. I can already tell I got you in trouble cos you're not allowed to take..." "Kris just be quiet. I'll meet you there tomorrow." He cut her off. "Now I have to get going. You go back to the hotel and I'll see you tomorrow." he said and immediately, he left. Kristen stood still, looking at his slowly disappearing silhouette. Did he just call her Kris and did he just shush her? This man was incredibly full of surprises.
...
"There he comes." Zale said when he saw Achilles walking back in. Myles turned and looked at him as he approached. With a straight face, he asked. "What are you both looking at?" "Who was that Achilles?" Myles asked instead of answering. "No one." "I'm pretty sure she's not no one because considering how she addressed you, you have to be really close for her to do that." Myles counted. "Why do you both question me all the time? Can I not have a part of my life you two won't pry into?" Achilles was annoyed at this point.
"I'm not prying, I just wanna know who she is for you to actually break a rule." Myles said. "You don't need to know everything Myles. I'm the future king and can at least bend the rules a little." "Bend the rules? For a no one?" "You shut your mouth." Achilles angrily said, looking at his brother with a glower. "You better not dare me Myles, you better not."
Achilles walked angrily past them and went to his room.
"Now I have to find out who she is." Myles said. "Don't interfere Myles." Zale warned. "Nah because he was too defensive of her. I have to." "You're right. He kinda was too defensive." "Yeah so I have to find out." Myles also left, leaving Zale standing alone.
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Standing in front of the mirror, Kristen stared at her reflection. She remembered how he touched her hand and got super close to her. It made her stomach tingle when she thought about it. She subconsciously smiled at the memory.
"Why am I smiling so much?" she asked herself out loud. She shook her head, smiling even more before she went and took a cool shower. When she was done, she came and sat on her bed. She was about to turn off the lights to go to bed when her phone notification went off. She checked who had sent her a message and she was shocked and annoyed at the same time. It was from Lucas. How dare he text her after treating her like how he did.
'Hope you're enjoying you're vacation.' it read. 'Did you meet the prince?' Kristen creased her eyebrows. How did he know that? She was so shocked and scared. Was he watching her or something. She quickly brushed the thought away. Of course it's possible he was but she didn't want to think that.
She ignored the message and went to sleep. She had far better things to do than to dwell on her past especially how that bastard treated her like sh!t. She hated him so much. Her hatred for him grew every second of the day but she still loved him. Even though she began to hate him, she was well aware of the love she had for him. After all, they say it takes three months to get over someone so she was waiting to get the love she had for him out.
Achilles was another thing. He has a knack for making her heart beat fast and make her nervous. He always somehow made her tingle in the pit of her stomach and tomorrow, she was going to see him again. He better not make her nervous again or else she will probably lose her mind.