The royal moon witch

Chapter 10 - Water on the stairs

* Valentino Pov *

I was stunned, just stunned about what just happened. I had been sitting on my couch and was playing a game on my phone when the witch stormed into my room and accused me from stealing. Of course I had taken her wand but I was not going to tell her that. When she had slapped me in my face, I had gone blind by anger. I knew I had picked her up and threw her away, maybe not a good idea too but she had deserved it! No one slaps a prince and definitely not a witch. I was walking around the room slowly while I waited for a maid that would bring me a cool pack. That little witch was feisty when I had picked her up for the second time she had actually kicked me in my nuts. They were hurting quite a bit and I looked up when I heard footsteps coming down the hallway.

A little later I saw Sam walk into my room and I sighed. I had hoped it was the maid but seeing him was good too. I kept walking and just turned my back to him when I started talking.

‘’I changed my mind on what I will do with that witch’’ I said, straight to the point but Sam didn’t respond. I turned back around and looked at him, he was looking at me but he was frowning.

‘’Hello?’’ I asked and he sighed.

‘’This is getting out of hand Vale.. You threw her into a table’’ Sam said and I was even more surprised than I was with the strength that witch held in that small body.

‘’Are you kidding me?’’ I asked and frowned. I kept walking and when the maid came at the door, I walked to her.

‘’Thanks, now leave’’ I said and closed the door. I put the ice pack on a wooden chair and sat down on it so I could cool myself. Sam turned around to look at me.

‘’No I am not kidding.. That you are not feeling like marrying her or something I get.. I mean who does arranged marriages these days.. And that you don’t like her because of what she is, fine.. Not that she can help it she was born that way, but you are now going to far. Like I said, you threw her into a table’’ Sam said and not a moment in this short speech he raised his voice or anything. I sighed and shook my head.

‘’She came in without knocking or anything, and accused me of stealing’’ I said and Sam raised a eyebrow.

‘’Alright I took her stupid wand but I only did it to keep our people safe’’ I said and Sam sighed.

‘’Well, I am not working along with this anymore, I always stand next to you because you are my friend but as a friend I am telling you this is going to far’’ Sam said and walked away.

‘’Then I fire you..’’ I said and he looked back, a big grin on his face appeared.

‘’I have a contract with your parents, not with you’’ He said and then walked out. Oh that bastard! I threw away the first thing I could reach for without looking. When I heard glass break I looked up and saw it was actually the picture of Eveline and me I had on my desk.

‘’Oh no..’’ I said and got up. I picked it up from the floor and looked at it, the glass was broken and pieces had fallen out of the frame.

‘’Oh Eve... I wished you were still here’’ I whispered and looked at the girl I had loved. While looking at her, I started to remember the look in Vira’s eyes when she was angry with me, she was feisty and had stood up against me several times. Even the first day she stood in front of me and told me I wasn’t the only one that didn’t like the idea. She also had a soft side, like when she asked me to zip her up and her skin, her skin had been very soft. Something inside me had told me I should explore more of that skin the moment I was zipping her up and that I was going the wrong way. That was my reason to pull that bun out of her hair, so she would stay close a little longer.

I shook my head and put the picture down on the desk, followed with a smack of my fist against the hard wood. How could I think of that stupid girl like that? She was a witch and she was even less than the most non-useful creature on this earth. All of her kind was and I could not believe that they actually existed. The world was better without them I thought and I shook my head. I picked up my phone and sat back down on the cooling pack, most of the pain was gone but it still felt good to cool my junk a little. I dialed a number and put the phone on speaker.

‘’Madam Oberman, what can I do for you prince Valentino?’’ the voice of the new head of the maids asked me.

‘’I want you to give your new witch a hell of a time.. Give her impossible jobs and always tell me what job you gave her so I can see if she does them correctly’’ I said.

‘’I’ll do as you ask’’ she said and I disconnected the phone. Oberman was a idea from me, I had heard of her and she hated witches just as much as I did. Her skills to find out easily who was a witch or connected to a witch was without a doubt one of the best in the country, so I gave her the job to manage the maids but also to search for witches in the same time. That way I had been able to fire the maids that were witches or that practised magic in any kind of way. I always had to find a different reason of course because my parents didn’t mind having a witch in the palace, just like they didn’t care about the dangers this witch could bring. But I knew the dangers, I had seen the dangers and I would not rest until she was gone.

I looked at the clock and sighed, it took another few hours before dinner would be served and I was bored. Maybe walking around would be a nice time killer. I would probably be just as bored as I was right now, but at least I could watch people do their thing and who knows, maybe I found a good way to fill the time with. I got up from the chair and placed the cool pack in the mini fridge I had and then walked towards the door. Closing it behind me, I walked down the hallway and checked my phone for a moment. I had a social media account under a different name, a alias you could say. I didn’t have the freedom to have a social media account under my own name because people would freak out or try to find dirt on my profile to shame the royal family with.

I had to admit, I gave the haters and paparazzi enough to shame us. I couldn’t help it, I just wanted to enjoy a little bit of freedom so now and then. I couldn’t help it that others were looking through my undercover outfit. I changed it quite regularly but some just knew right away when I went somewhere and before I knew it, they were where I was and already had taken a picture or two. I had been walking for a bit and was almost at the main stairs when I heard Oberman talk. I could hear her instructions and walked further. She was giving the witch the instructions for cleaning the stairs. Vira was wearing a skirt with blouse and a apron, how I didn’t know but she actually looked good in it. I shook my head and walked down the stairs, Oberman bowed for me and Vira did so too.

‘’Oh Oberman’’ I said when she was about to leave. She looked up and I smiled.

‘’I’ll be out riding for a bit.. I’ll let you know when I am back’’ I said and she nodded. I then walked out of the palace and went to the stables. I had the perfect plan and when one of the stable boys saw me, he quickly grabbed my saddle and the reins of my horse AC, which was a short cut for Aberto Capo. His name meant Noble Boss and he had been a gift a few years ago from my parents. Horseback riding was a sport I really liked though I did it only for recreation only, nothing in the competitions area. While I waited I gave the other horses a carrot I found in a bucket. We had several horses, four in total were only used by us and the others were used for things like a public showing in which we would take a carriage.

Dolce, Tesoro and Corrado were from my mother. She loved horses more than anything but then again, she used to be a horse breeder or the daughter of a horse breeder. Corrado was her favorite, he was exact as his name meant: Bold and strong. When she would ride him, I always saw my father look away but still peek from the corner of his eyes because he was still so impressed by his wife. AC is mine, he is actually the son of Dolce and Corrado and quite a bit in between of the character of his parents. He could be bold but also very sweet, it depended on how he wanted to be the moment you sat down in the saddle. I walked over to my horse when I saw he was saddled up and ready to go.

‘’Let’s take a ride boy, it’s been a while’’ I said and climbed on top of him. I did feel a sting of pain coming from my crotch when I sat down but ignored it as well as I could. He snorted once and then started walking, we went for a path through the woods.

One and a half hour later I got back from the woods, AC and I had a lot of fun and we were both very muddy. I got down in front of the stables and looked at him.

‘’This time I’ll hand you to the stable boy.. Be nice for him, next time I’ll wash you’’ I said and he snorted again, right in my face and I laughed. I handed the reins to the stable boy. I went back to the palace and with my muddy feet I walked inside. I saw that the witch that was scrubbing the stairs and I couldn’t believe she actually was doing the job given to her. I looked at her for a moment, she was half way and I had to get up stairs. I would almost feel sorry for her, but almost is not fully and so I walked towards the stairs and then walked up. I slowly walked and this made the mud of my pants fall easily off onto the steps. She looked up when she heard someone on the stairs and I looked at her while I walked up. She opened her mouth for a moment but closed it again and I frowned a bit.

‘’prince Valentino watch out.. the steps are still wet’’ she said and I had not expected that. I didn’t say anything though. I had noticed that they weer still wet and when I was up, I saw the bucket with water and soap.

‘’You forgot a few spots’’ I said and knocked the bucket of water over and it flowed down the stairs and against her. I grinned and then walked away without looking back. I went to my room and there I took a long warm shower, by the time I was done with that I had three missed calls from Madam Oberman and a text from Sam.

I can’t believe that even after what I said you are still going on with this.. Vale, you are low. He had send and I clicked it away.

She deserved even more than just a bucket of water over the stairs. I got dressed in a simple outfit and texted Oberman that dinner could be served in ten minutes. She responded by saying she would handle it, and then I combed my hair. I had the not so popular half long hair cut. My hair stopped just where my neck went over into my shoulders and the higher you looked, the shorter it got but I really liked it. It had been popular for a while but it wasn’t anymore yet I didn’t mind that.

I walked towards the stairs and saw the witch was still working on it, in the time I had been relaxing, she had cleaned almost every dirt step I had placed when going upstairs. I walked down the other side and felt that still some of the stairs were wet, so I was careful. Once I stood downstairs I gave her one more dirty look and then walked towards the dining hall. I sat down on my own chair, I knew I had free choice but somehow I just couldn’t sit on the chair of my father. Even if it one day would become my chair, I just couldn’t right now. The food was served and I took my time to eat.

After dinner I used a different exit from the dining hall that leaded to a different, smaller stairs and I went upstairs. I looked over at the main stairs that I could see from here and saw how she was still working on the stairs.

‘’She isn’t giving up..’’ I whispered and with a slight smile, I shook my head.

‘’She will eventually.. I will be sure’’ I said and then went back to my room. When I entered my room I saw it was already nine o’clock, I grabbed a book from my shelves and started to read some. Before I knew it, I was caught up in the book that I was reading and I didn’t hear my phone buzz.

When I eventually put down the book because I was yawning more during the page than reading, I picked up my phone and saw a text message from Oberman.

She just finished and went on her own choice to bed without eating. I think that she was easier to break than we thought.

I looked at the time of the text, it was send at ten o’clock and right now it was twelve-thirty.

‘’Hmm.. She finished it without a break?’’ I asked myself and shook my head, I yawned again and put my phone and the book away. I walked over to my bed, undressed and climbed into it. I was tired, the horseback riding had given me some sore muscles. I laid down and closed my eyes and before I could count to fifty, I fell asleep.