"Why?" he blurted out the question before he could stop himself. Of course, he knew why?

"you are the famous Crown prince of Avalo, is there a person in the Twelve kingdoms who is not scared of you?" she asked.

"You mean the famous cursed prince of Avalo," he corrected her. Princess Ellen bite her lips not knowing how she should respond to his statement.

"You should not be scared. I have no plans of hurting you," prince Sébastien said.

"I know," princess Ellen nodded her head cursing him to raise his brows.

"How?" he asked because he was taken aback by her response.

Princess Ellen bite her lips. "if you were going to hurt me. You should have done that already I mean, I have done a lot of things that should have made you hurt me," princess Ellen answered looking at her feet.

"Then why are you still scared?" He asked.

" I.. I.. Don't know! It just... You look scary? Her response came out like a question.

" Really? " the prince asked in a serious tone. He was already thinking of what he could do to appear less scary to her.

"yes,... I mean some times," princess Ellen answered.

"When don't you find me scary?" prince Sébastien asked. He was so eager to know so he can always be that way with her.

Princess Ellen felt her cheek going red as she thought about that moment when she saw his face for the first time and when they shared a kiss. She did not find him scary in those moments.

"Answer?" He demanded when she did not attempt to answer but look down at her feet.

"Like right now," she replied too embarrassed to tell him the times she was thinking about. The prince frowns his brows.

"Yet you are looking at your feet. Tell me how would you react when you are scared?" the prince replied.

Uhm, " the princess's jaw dropped.

" I am just saying you should look at me since you don't feel scared of me now? " the prince said. He honestly wanted to have a proper look at her face. Princess Ellen held her dress since she became nervous when she heard his request.

Taking a deep breath princess Ellen looked up but felt a bit disappointed when all that was waiting for her was his black mask.

"I mean without your mask? " princess Ellen blurted out her thoughts." stupid, " she cursed herself realizing what she just said that out. 'Why can't I control my mouth. It will surely have me killed soon, ' she thought.

" you are scared of my mask? " the prince asked surprised by her statement.

"No, I mean you look less scary without the mask. Not that I find you scary with it, " Princess Ellen was not even sure about the words that were coming out of her mouth.

She bites her inner cheeks to stop herself from speaking further or blushing red. The prince watched her reaction. He had the urge to cup her face so he did. He half expected her to move away when he reached out for her face but Ellen stayed put and looked into his eyes.

She found his eyes beautiful, it was far the most beautiful eyes she had looked at. They remained her of the sky and just looking at them she felt as though she was flying in the sky.

She could not really explain her reaction but she lifted her leg and took a step closer and the next step. Something seemed to be drawing her closer to him.

Prince Sébastien swallowed seeing her walk closer to him. The way she was looking him straight in the eyes made him want to cover the space between them. He searched for fear or hesitation in her gaze but found non.

His Tom smoothes her cheeks and his eyes fell on her lips. He wanted to kiss her again. This time he did not want it to be a simple peck on the lips.

He wanted to taste every inch of her lips. Hell, he wanted to explore her mouth, so he took the last step and close the space that was left between them. His right hand went around her waist and pulled her close to himself and bend his head to claim her lips.

Princess Ellen blushed red and felt her heartbeat increase but she did not step back. Goodness! She also wanted to feel his lips against hers.

His pink lips looked too attractive. She did not see any reason to resist him when she wanted the same thing.

"your highness," they heard Jeffrey's voice. Out of reflect prince Ellen tried to move away from the prince but he anticipated that she would do that so his grip around her waist tightened. Princess Ellen sigh in defeat seeing that he would not let her go. But she really felt shy so she buried her head on his chest.

Meanwhile, prince Sébastien turned to glare dagger at Jeffery. He honestly felt like killing him already.

Jeffrey bowed his head. He had not meant to disturb the couple. He has gone far distant before he realized that the prince was no longer behind him so he stops and waited for him for a short moment but the prince was nowhere in sight. He immediately became alert and rode back calling out for the prince.

"Is he going to kill me for this?" Jeffery asked himself refusing to look up at the prince. *Should I just turn around and head back pretending I saw nothing? " he wondered as he inches his hair even if he did not feel anything...

" I will just wait ahead," he smiled awkwardly before riding away. Thinking his goodness that the prince did not cut off his head.

" stupid, " prince Sébastien cursed Jeffery in his head. He has once again ruined the moment between him and his sunshine.

Prince Sébastien reluctantly lets go of the princess after Jeffery left.

" Do you feel better now?" He asked. Trying his best not to look at her.

"yes, my prince. Thank you," princess Ellen said. She was also not looking at him.

"Let go, I will not ride so fast, " he promised as he help her on the horse and joined her. This time he sat behind her and wrapped his hand around her waist before he started the horse.

They arrived at the royal city this way and like instructed the street of the royal city down to the Palace was cleared. The twenty did not even have to put a lot of effort.

They just started a rumor that the crown prince was returning to the Palace but was in a bad mood and killed anyone he set his eyes on.

No one bothered to verify the rumor or asked questions. Mothers immediately called their children into the house and shut their doors and windows.

In less than thirty, only the prince's men were seen around the street.

"What did you do to clear the streets so fast?" Jeffery asked one since he was the first to get into the royal city.

"Nothing, I might just have said something about the prince been in a bad mood," Eight grins.