Prince Dominic
"With father coming, we need a plan." She said as she ran her fingers across his chest while resting on her elbows.
"True, but we have a more pressing matter at hand, Lady Clarence." He said as he tried to control his erratic breathing. The sex had been wild and hugely enjoyable though he would be the first to admit that he hadn't lasted that long, good thing he had first given her an orgasm, else this would have been a very sexually frustrated conversation for her.
"I don't care about her, not when your life is on the line."
"They way I see it, we have two choices. We could run away together, which would bring the rage of the nation after us, or we could kill father without us even knowing whom he has made his heir. For all we know, once father dies our uncle will take over which doesn't make my chances look good." He said as he ran his hand across her brown skin, thumbing her cheeks before settling his left hand on her neck. "Let me help keep you safe even after I am gone."
"You must still be high after our love making for you think that I would allow you to put yourself aside for my sake. If you don't know it yet, this life is not worth living without you in it." She said softly as if stating facts.
"Nica..." He trailed off as there was a knock on the door. Panicked, he tried to escape the bed, but his sister stopped him with a look.
"What's the worse that could happen now?" She whispered as she stood up to go answer the door.
With baited breath, he waited patiently as she got out of bed and wore a robe to cover herself before opening the door. "Elswyth, to what do we owe the pleasure?"
"We?" Dominic heard Elswyth ask as Nica let the girl in. "Oh." She replied in surprise as her eyes widened at the sight of his oviously naked with the blanket his only cover.
"Hi." He said as he watched her try to get her bearings.
"Um, so Lady Clarence has sent a letter to Curtis, she asks that he burns the Tower Library when everyone is using it after exams tomorrow." Elswyth said as she took in a deep breath while trying to ignore the forbidden sex that had just taken place.
He would have paid more attention to damage control seeing as they both had no idea what Elswyth would do now that she had confirmation that the Royal Twins were sexually active with one another, but her words had his mind elsewhere.
He had had a theory that Derek could be this Lady Clarence, but now that Curtis had been told to do something that would no doubt destroy his life in the Tower, his theory was being tested. Was Derek that big of an asshole to actually destroy the life of a guy that his sister obviously loved?
Lady Elswyth
The kiss in the dinner hall became the talk of the night. Everyone kept saying all sorts of things that made her skin crawl, they were mostly destroying whatever reputation the Crown Prince had left and were all rallying behind the Princess as if she had been forced by Dominic. Sure the Princess had been forced to do something that no doubt she and her brother would survive without a dent made to their already close bond, but she felt really bad for the Prince.
She had always felt bad for him really, constantly being bullied by everyone who had the bone for it or being laughed at by those without the guts when they saw those with the guts bully their Prince with no remorse. Sometimes she would do what she could to help him, like putting food in his bag after breakfast because she knew that the moment he was left alone, the bullies of the school often led by Edward, would beat the food out of him.
His only saving grace had been his sister who despite her best efforts could not be every where he was. One time they had tried the sleeping in her room thing, but the female Saint who had found out reported it and the Prince got every inch of his body whipped and dumped in the dungeon for days. The Princess had fought everyday for his release until he was later released, since then they had not spent the night together until now it seemed. Lady Clarence was indeed doing a bang of a job in making the Twins even closer than before if the naked Prince was any indication.
"I will leave you two to get ready." She said as she gave the Prince an awkward smile and the Princess an awkward boy and left the room for the elevator that led to the hallway where they would have their meeting in one of the numerous classrooms.
"I'm not doing this." Curtis said to her as she entered the room were he and her brother had obviously been talking.
"What do you mean you are not doing this, Curtis?" She asked as she closed the door to face them.
"If I do this it is game over for me! I will not destroy my life and that of my village because of some pervert that gets wet from ruining the lives of others like some sad, lonely bitch!"Curtis erupted. He was angry alright and was off the rails, but he could not be suggesting what she thought he was suggesting.
"You are not saying that we should let Lady Clarence expose the Princess as the killer."
"Why not, she said she did it, her brother believes her and so does Lady Clarence, so why don't we let her expose all of this? We could always say that the Prince forced us into this, while the Princess thought it would keep our mouths shut if she proposed to Derek here."
"Wait, what?" The Princess proposing to Derek was obviously not for love, they probably wanted to use her brother to get to the throne and at the same time keep him quiet. Regardless of the reason, there was no way they were back to where they started. "Listen to me Curtis we are not letting them take the fall for something we did."
"Why not. She wanted to do it anyway, why not let her live out her dreams, the way I see it, we are doing her a great service." Curtis said in a panicking voice as he paced from one end of the classroom to the other end. He was obviously afraid and not just for himself but for her, her brother and his people in the village; he was a worrier and one of the downsides to his personality was his willingness to hurt other people that deserved it or not.
Her brother remained silent because she suspected that he agreed with him but was not about to say it out loud, he after all had a reputation to maintain. Unable to take any more of Curtis' fearful thinking, she walked up to him, stopped him from pacing and gave his a slap that resounded in the room. "You will stop this madness at once, or I will report us to Lady Amanda." She said with a glare at both of them. "We have survived the Inquisition, now we have to survive this Blackmailer and to do that, we need to stick together and with the Royal Twins. We all have to figure out who this Lady Clarence is and end her reign of terror over us. Do we have an understanding?"
At times like this, she was glad she was there to steady the ship that was inevitably about to crash badly. Here she was a girl among boys and yet she was the only one with the balls.
Lady Amanda
They all thought that it was over, and that was an intentional act from her. If they thought the heat from her was gone, then they would lower their guard and let her catch them. In her hands was an item she had only seen on one of them, a ring, a ring she found in the ground around where Edward's body had been found; and she was going to use this ring to find out who killed Edward.
One of them did it of that she was certain, and she was going to use the arrival of the King as reason enough to stay in the Tower for a few more days until she caught them