The Knight And His Princess

CHAPTER 18

Rainah’s POV

“Damn!!” I huffed in annoyance as I kept on shuffling under the sheets. I was right, sleep hasn’t visited my eyes yet and it’s almost 3 am in the morning right now.

Every time I close my eyes the scene of Arthur and me kissing came into my mind. I can’t believe he actually asked me for marriage. Till now I am confused about his proposal, if he just asked me out of pity or mockery or if he genuinely wanted us to get married. I already hate him for evading my dreamland and now this thing happened.

“Argghh” I sat up and let out a loud groan. I switched on the side lamp that was placed on the bedside table and took my phone.

‘Let’s do something productive’ I thought to myself and clicked on the YouTube icon, I searched for some videos on how to use waste materials in a more useful and decorative way; various videos with eye catching thumbnails popped up on the screen, everything was beautiful but suddenly I loosed my interest in those videos. I again clicked on the searched bar and it felt like my fingers were moving on its own on the keyboard of my Smartphone.

‘Arthur Charles Delacruz’ and I clicked on the enter button. I waited for almost 30 seconds…

Oh why it is taking too much time? Now I am annoyed even more. But soon thumbnails of him came into view, I sighed in relieve and clicked on the thumbnail with the title;

‘List of girlfriends Young Mr. Delacruz had’

“Hmm let’s see what we have here” I muttered to myself.

The video only have one or two pictures of him but mostly contain pictures of models with figures to die for. A ping of jealousy hit my heart but I choose to ignore it. Mostly the models were claiming him to be there boyfriend at some point of time in there lives but there were no solid proof they ever had.

I clicked on another video where a guy was saying how a few renowned actresses and models falsely claimed that they are dating Arthur exclusively, and how later on they have faced sudden fall in their carrier due to that false news.

I have searched for a few other videos related to him like his biography, his hobbies, interviews but it’s like he is so reserved that there is not much news about him on YouTube. Dejectedly I tossed my phone aside and again lay down. Tiredly my gaze fell on the window from which I could see the beautiful moon, and slowly I fell into a deep slumber loosing myself in my dreamland.

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Next morning a yawn escaped my lips as we were having our breakfast; dad gave me a concerned look and checked my temperature.

“Dad I am fine” saying which another yawn left my mouth.

“Didn’t you have a good sleep last night? You look tired” he said and patted my head. I shrug and delve into the delicious pancakes which off course mom made. Mmm these are really good; I can’t get enough of them. As I was busy munching the pancakes I heard dad releasing a sigh, I look up towards him and kept my fork down.

“Dad I am fine, its just I went to work after a long break and then clubbing, so I’m just feeling a bit tired. Don’t worry I will be fine. Okay??” I asked him with a smile and he shook his head.

“Correction; first it was not a long break as you said but only a few days which I could easily count on my fingers and second, I am still telling you that you could have just ask your friend to come home to meet you for which you had a perfect reason” mom said coming out of the kitchen and pointed towards my leg. “In that way you and your friend could have enjoyed the Parathas I made for dinner last night” she said flipping her hair on which I heard dad’s light chuckle.

Yeah I could have just stayed at home, enjoying my time with my lovely parents and of course the Parathas too. In that way I would have been saved by the humiliation Luca has created and of course the sleepless night for which solely Arthur is to blame. What happen last night still felt like a dream, I sighed.

“You are right mom, from next time onwards I will call my friends here so that they also get the privilege to have a taste of the heaven” with that I finished the remaining pieces of my pancake with a victory smile.

As we were busy having breakfast we heard the doorbell ringing, I was the one who stood up to open the door. On the other side of the door, a very happy Mark holding a bunch of roses was standing there giving me a cute boyish grin.

“Mark how’s you?” I smiled and greeted him; I wonder why he is here in this early morning.

“Rainah I mean Ma’am no I mean Ms. Garcia, these are for you” he said handing me the bouquet leaving me completely confuse. I took that but was still confused. As if noticing my confusion he gestured me to look at the flowers carefully, which I did and found a beautiful black note with white ink cursive handwriting;

‘Good Morning

.

Hope you had a good sleep last night.

I wish you a great day ahead.

I am waiting to hear from you…

.

.

Arthur’

A sudden blush made its way to my traitor cheeks as I read the note. Its him… whatever happened last night was not a dream but was real; him showing up in the club was real, him consoling me in the parking lot was real, him asking me for marriage was also real, and the kiss… that was also real.

“Ahhmm” I heard Mark clearing his throat and I look up to him shyly. He was still giving me his boyish grin.

"What?" I asked putting a strain of my hair behind my ear.

"Boss asked me to be your personal driver c*m bodyguard from today onwards" he said and bowed formally which made me frown.

"Personal driver c*m bodyguard? But why? I don't need that" I smiled politely in an attempt to decline his BOSS's order, but it went in vain when he said, "I am sorry Ms. Garcia but this is boss 's order which I can't breach" he apologized without even looking a bit guilty.

Huh both he and his boss are really annoying.

"Mark I know you are a busy man, please don't waste your time with me. I can manage please tell that to your boss" I spoke calmly making him understand that it is useless to waste a whole day for me, I bet he has better and more important works to do as he is Arthur's secretary.

"I am afraid, I can't do that at all. He would simply fire me if I didn't follow his orders. Why don't you call him and tell him what you want to" he got a point there, firing an employee is not a big deal for him but I wonder if he would really fire Mark for such a meaningless reason.

I took my phone and decided to give him a call. I went through my contact list and there it was; on the top of the list, Arthur.

I clicked on it putting it near my ear. As I heard the ringing sound my heartbeat fastem as if I was running some marathon. I inaudibly gasped when I heard his deep and raspy voice.

"Rainah"

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