"Ac..Ace?!" The other man holding amber-ruby stammered , he gently allowed her as he started to crawled backward in fear.
Amber-ruby was both relieved and shocked. She never saw this dark expression on Ace's face even when they talked of his uncle,Garyl.
"Ace…" she mumbled his name.
While during that time, the man that Ace punch tried to get up.
"What where you trying to do?" He gazed at them with a cold and dark expression.
"You bastard! You think since you're the prince we fear you?" Asked the man trying to get up. As he said those words, his friends that crawled on the ground looked at him with insistance trying to tell him to stop speaking.
"I will kill you just as we tried to kill your sister" he removed a dagger that was hiding on him, running toward Ace to stabbed him.
"Be careful Ace!" Amber-ruby alerted him, she was still on the ground. She couldn't move due to the pain.
Ace dodged it, turned his hand and took the dagger from his hand. The man screamed in pain.
"You wanted to do this?" Ace stabbed the dagger inside his stomach, the man spitted blood. He removed the dagger from his stomach and stabbed it back finally leaving the dagger into him.
Amber-ruby looked at the horrified scene, so as the other man. Ace turned back to them bringing his hairs back in a sexy way.
"Now it's your turn" he moved toward the man that was still on the ground. At every steps of Ace , the man crawled backward .
"Don't…. Don't..please.." he said his voice trembling with fear.
"Please? Are you kidding?" His voice was hard but calm . "She had been pleading you but were you listening?"
"I beg your pardon, your highness"
Ace arrived in front of him, his stare dark, his expression cold.
"I'm not God, I don't forgive especially my ennemis" he punched him , again and again. His face was swelled, blood coming out from his nose and mouth.
"You will give a message to your boss for me. Tell him that, his time is counted." He straightened himself. " it's the only reason why I allow you alive"
He carried amber-ruby smoothly in his arms in a princess style.
She was shocked in all way. The trauma of her being nearly rape and the other dark side of Ace that she never saw but she never in her life felt so relieved.
"Thank you.. Ace" she said softly.
He stood silent without replying.
"I..I…" she wanted to speak but the strength wasn't there.
"Don't speak much.. you will lose your forces" he said .
She looked upward at him but he wasn't looking her, he looked straight.
"Ace… I really w…" before she could finish her words she fainted .
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Amber-ruby slowly opened her eyes, she saw a ceiling that she didn't recognize. Her head was spinning , she doesn't know if it was because she just got up or due to the pain. She turned her head left and right gently, she saw nobody just an unfamiliar big elegant room.
"Where am I ?" She asked to herself.
Trying to sit on the bed but she felt pain on her arm, she saw it was having a bandage. She touched her cheek and also noticed a small bandage. She felt pain all over her body.
She looked through the window and saw that it was already night.
"Oh no! The castle! They must be worried " she panicked.
She stood up from the bed, directed herself to the door but suddenly the door opened.
"Where are you going to ?" A familiar voice said
"To Irischester" she replied
"Go to your bed and rest. I have informed them that we will stay here for 3days" Ace grabbed her hand forcing her to go to bed.
She sat on the bed , Ace looking at her , he was standing against a cupboard that was near the bed.
"And where are we?" She asked
"Still in Nightinon , In Owen domain"
"In the General's house?"
He nodded.
"Can you tell me why you came here?Alone" he fixed her.
Amber-ruby could feel the displeasure in his eyes. She gulped.
"I … i .. was looking for him, General Owen"
"Why?"
"I wanted him to help us with Garyl"
He stroked his head, his displeasure going away. He hit gently her forehead with his finger. "You are so stubborn" he said calmly.
"He knows all the situation, you didn't have to come here or you could simply asked to me"
"So, you're not angry?"
"No but I was worried. I don't know what I would have done if something happened to you"
Those words shocked amber-ruby , she opened her eyes . Realizing what he just said,Ace, corrected himself.
"I mean, I will have felt guilty and I still need you to win Garyl" he said looking away embarrassed.
She smiled when she saw the embarrassment on his face for the first time. Then her smiled vanished, she thought of the horrified scene of the alleyway.
"Ace.." she called his name. He looked at her. "Where did you learn to fight?" She asked.
"Well, Before being a prince I was a soldier"
"Really?"
"Yes, why are you wondering? In the royal family is a tradition"
"I understand why you kill that man with no hesitation" she said gently looking downward.
"Was it necessary ? I mean to kill him?" She continued
"Yes, they are the cowards that rapt almost killed you and...." He paused.
He heard sobs coming from her then of a sudden she jumped on him hugging him strongly.
"Thank you Ace. I don't know what could have happened to me if you didn't arrive at that moment" she sobbed on his dress.
Ace was surprised of this sudden reaction and action of her. He hugged her back.
"It's nothing, it's the least that I could do for you. Stop crying" he said gently.
For the first time, Ace talked to her gently and with concern. It was the first time that she could feel the warmness in him.
She allowed him and then wiped her tears.