"How dare you?." She took a step towards him and pointed her hand towards his face, her heart feeling that strong emotion she hated to experience right now.
"Why didn't you warn me before now? Do you know how scared I was?." Her tone was reducing and Lucas's face was getting confused.
"I didn't warn you because I thought you knew it was me." He replied and Lisa couldn't help but role her eyes. Was she some kind of magician that she'll know it was him?.
She doubted that was the real reason.
"All my days, ever since I stepped my foot in this underworld, I had never had a single day of peace! I had to constantly watch my back to make sure I'm not either being killed or I don't teleport to a different place. I'm fed up okay?." Her voice lowered down as she poured out what she had been holding for a while. She didn't even know why she was telling him, he would never understand what she just said.
"Calm down." She heard Lucas's voice close to her and noticed that he was now standing in front of her and was smoothening her hair.
She felt that same strange feeling in her heart and it scared her. She wasn't meant to be feeling this with past Lucas, this was Lilian and not her.
She wasn't Lisa anymore.
"It's going to be okay." She heard him whisper and she almost thought that he really knew what was happening to her but she knew he couldn't.
He shouldn't.
A cough elighted from her throat and Lucas patted her back.
That's right, she almost forgot about the cold that surrounded her body and now she was sure that she got that cold.
Just great.
"Go and change into something else." He stopped patting her back and she gave him an odd look.
"Sorry your Highness but this is the only cloth I have with me here." She told him frankly. She wasn't lying, this was the only cloth she had and she had absolutely no money to buy something more.
Her white gown which she wore here was not even an option. She had thrown it away.
"How is that possible? Didn't you bring anything from home?." He arched a brow at her and she chuckled inwardly.
Home? He must be kidding her. How could she have a home when she didn't even belong here?.
"No your Highness." She replied and he frowned before walking past her to enter his closet and came out with a large shirt and loose joggers.
"Take this, it's the best I could find for a woman of your-" He gave a quick look at her body before completing"Type."
"What?." She gave him an expression of disbelief.
Lucas really doesn't change at all.
"Stop stalling and go on." He motioned towards his bathroom door and it was her turn to arch a brow at him.
"I'm not going to change in your room your Highness." He folded her arms, not moving from her position. Only a maid that has completely lost her mind would change in the prince's room. Staying in his room for this long was already a big scandal.
"It's not a request but an order." His expression didn't faze and Lisa grumbled before walking past him.
"Do you just take any maid to your room?." She mumbled as she arranged the clothes in her hand and opened the bathroom door.
"I don't so consider yourself lucky."
"As if." She hissed and closed the door behind her with a bang.
The bathroom was very different from she remembered. Everything was painted in the appropriate quantity of black and golden without even a spot of white.
Not dwelling on that too much, she quickly took a warm bath and dressed in the baggy clothes, looking at the mirror afterwards.
The clothes surprisingly looked good on her and she stared fascinated at her new look.
It was odd how a few days ago she was at this same castle in her normal self and then today she was in another person's body.
Life was truly a rolarcoaster of adventures wasn't it?.
She came out of the bathroom and spotted Lucas already lying on the bed with a book in his hand, not even sparing a single glance at her.
"Dry your hair before you catch a cold." He ordered and she bowed her head.
"Yes your Highness."
Immediately, she picked up a towel and tried to dry her hair but she had totally forgotten about her bruises on her hand thus making it super hard for her to hold the towel well.
"Why can't you do one thing appropriately, huh?." Lisa felt Lucas's hot breath on her neck and realised that he was standing behind her and had already collected the towel from her hand and was presently drying her hair.
"W-what are you doing your Highness?." Lisa stuttered her face tinting to a dark shade of red.
Was Lucas crazy!?.
"Something." He remarked and continued drying her hair, his hand massaging her scalp in the process.
This felt so good. Lisa nearly drooled. She had to make Lucas do this for her when she got back.
"Do you just-" She started but got cut off by him completing her sentence.
"Dry any maid's hair? No."
So why was he doing it for her? She wanted to ask. Was there a reason? He did say that he wanted to know what she truly was.
"Done." He announced and stopped touching her hair, making Lisa instantly miss the touch of his hand.
"Thank you very much your Highness." She bowed her head in gratitude and he nodded before saying.
"You can go back to your room now before you start saying I kept you here for long." He reminded and Lisa flushed in embarrassment.
"Wait." He stopped her and walked to the side of his bed, carrying a small first aid box.
"Use this to dress the bruises on your hand, there is a bandage inside." He gave her and she was a little surprised at how he knew but nevertheless she accepted it with gratitude, bowing her head.
"Of course your Highness." She straightened up and practically fled from his room, quietly closing the door behind her.
For the first time since she had been in Lillian's body and came to the castle, she went to her room with a small smile on her face.
Even a small smile was something.
Her goal was to get the flower and she had to win his trust before that could happen.
Entering the double doors that led to the maids chambers, Lisa noticed that a lot of maids gathered and where whispering among themselves in an oddly suspicious manner.
"Here she comes." She heard one of them say and everyone turned to her making her feel out of place.
Had something happened when she was away?.
"Just look at her." They started whispering again.
"What a whore."
"Sleeping with the prince and also wearing his clothes now?."
"She is shameless in my opinion."
Lisa shrank as they continued whispering, her chest tightening as she gripped the first aid box. What did they mean by her sleeping with the prince?.