His Hidden Mate

Eight

Chapter Eight

“You get to have a house by the sea and I get to live so far from it?. That is so unfair. I'm the Princess here”. Ona says, crossing her arms over her chest and directing that statement to Prince Ethan. He does not bother responding before he motions for us to get into the house. We do so walking in through the front door. And I'm just looking around and the part of me just feels like I have to be worried. I have to be looking at my shoulder because what if somebody followed us here? I had lost track of the driver. I just know he was following us for quite some time.

But at some point, I got tired of trying to watch him because every single time that I did, I was moving. And every single time that I moved, I nudged Prince Ethan somehow. And he always made sure to show me that he noticed that I was touching him and that always made me nervous. So eventually I gave up on seeing where he was going if he was going to be coming here with us. But still, I felt like I had to be on edge.

“Find a room. The both of you can have a room of your own, do not share a room, and you can have absolutely any bedroom in this house apart from mine”. He says to us and Ona just smiles at him squealing before running hard.

“Great, you are the best you know” I needed this vacation” . She grabs me running into deeper into the house before yelling to me.

“You should definitely go take a shower, I'm going to do that so we can go to the beach, let's quickly find room”. She says and she searches only two rooms before locating the one that she wants.

This is it, this is my perfect room, she says to me and I just look at her concerned.

“ What if it is his room?” I ask.

“Oh my God, there's no way. She immediately responds. Look at it, it's just oozing femininity. There is no way this is his room!” she says now I cannot really been an outfit

“I'll just wear what I'm in right now now and then we'll go shopping before we go to the beach we'll go shop for a beautiful dress a matching dress for us both to wear I've always wanted to wear my outfits with you!” she says to me laughing.

And I really could not help but feel envious, because she was pretty cool about being here even though her parents have no idea where she is.

I hated that I was stuck feeling so worried, I could not stop thinking that I did not have a right to be enjoying this little vacation, like she was calling it. And I just felt like I had to be very careful about what I was doing right now and I really could not just focus on that. I still tried to manage a smile though.

“Come on, go find the bedroom, shower and come back here. I will be done. Definitely! I'll try my hardest. I do not know how to take quick showers, but I'll tell my hardest to take a quick one right now”. She says to me before holding both my arms and gazing me out of the door.

“Find a room and be quick”. She says to me winking and then she shuts the door. I really could not believe it. I just felt like I had no say in anything at all from the moment I woke up this morning and knew what I had to do. But I had not been doing what I had anticipated this day would be about. Instead, I was here now. It definitely did not make sense to me. It definitely was hard to believe that I was here right now. I had not stepped out of that palace for several months, only when I had to go pick fruit. When it was my turn to go pick fruit, that was my only opportunity to leave the palace, but other than that, it had only been a dream to leave those walls.

I searched the rooms again, being very strategic about it. She had said that the bedroom was too feminine to be his, and so I was going to opt for something more understandable. I was opting for one that looked the most simple, the one that had the least amount of effort made for it. And once I located it, I concluded that there was no way it could be his bedroom. That's the most simple looking one and there was no way that he could be here. I bring my suitcase into the room, looking for something else that I could wear.

I Couldn't be walking out in this maid outfit. I find a summer dress that Ona had gifted me on her birthday last year, which definitely did not make sense to me. She always tended to do that. I had not even gotten to give her a proper birthday gift yet and it was still her birthday. Perhaps this was the best one for her. I placed the dress on the bed before sipping up the suitcase and pinning it to the corner of one of the walls and I go straight to the bathroom.

It was a very nice looking bathroom and I just really wanted to know what was going on. That is all that I could think about. Well, that was a lie. My mind kept drifting off to one thing, the scent that was feeling that car. Prince Ethan's scent. That was the most beautiful thing I've ever smelt. I definitely had no doubt in the look on his face every single time that he looked at me, the sound of his voice, it was all driving me crazy. I find myself biting my lips and I immediately widened my eyes, slapping myself.

I have to snap out of it!

What on earth was I doing? He could possibly be marrying Ona very, very soon and I could not be thinking about him like that. I definitely couldn't. I go into the shower hoping that having water running on my back will force me to stop thinking about him, but it is very hard to. I grab the shower gel that I find and it's a very masculine smelling one, kind of reminds me of the smell of his hair. How could I even know that it was his hair?

I'm definitely out of it. I slapped myself yet again, this time around even harder.

“Ouch!” I exclaim. I'm definitely not doing that again. I was not even sure if I'd had left the mud, but it must have seen if I had gone extreme with it. I continue my shower and I make sure that I'm out of there quickly as I head back to the bedroom and I choose the dress that I had left on the bed to wear.

I soon head out of the room to go and find the Ona. She had definitely told me to be quick, that I really thought that she was done. I had to go and find out. I had kind of lost my way. The house was kind of big, but I had to remember where it was that she was. I open one room and I was too convinced that it was the one until I realized that the setup is entirely different.

“ Hold on a second”. A voice suddenly alarms me from behind me before I feel a hand on my shoulder turn around. That deep voice, that deep, smooth, ever so commanding voice fills my ears and my heart just starts trying to beat shut out of my chest again. Where on earth did he have that kind of effect on? Where on earth could I not just be OK with him talking to me without feeling like I was going to pass out? I turned around very slowly, even before I bite my lip, anxious.

“Why do you smell like my body wash?” He asked me and immediately my eyes could not keep up with his gaze. I looked at anything but him.

“wha- what?” I ask, very nervous, feeling like I could not even get that word out of my mouth.

“I told you to choose any room apart from mine, but you were really that greedy. Really?” . He asks, shaking his head like he's in utter disbelief. And I'm just really surprised to hear that was it true, but that I'm really in his room. Of all rooms that I had to see was all those fancy rooms that I had passed convinced that I was definitely going to be his if I had chosen them.

I had to make a mistake by choosing the most simple looking one? There was no way this was actually happening.

“I- uh- that- that was not your room. I was so sure of it”. I say to him and he just smirks at me.

“Then why do you smell like my body wash? Because every single room apart from that one has a different body wash and do not question my sense of smell. I know what my body wash smells like”. He says to me. And I just start looking around very very terrified right now and feeling like I have no idea what to say. I was like, she's nervous. Why on earth did he make me feel like this? Why on earth Was it impossible to not feel like I was going more stupid by the second? Like I was growing dumb every single time that he stared at me?

“ So, tell me, why did you do it? Why do you want to smell like me?” . He asked me again and I just swallowed hard. What kind of answer could I possibly give him right now ?