Chapter sixteen
Chad started laughing and Amelia opened her eyes slowly, she looked at him confused then she look out of the window and she saw that the jet was now flying steadily it was not shaking anymore. She looked at the hostesses and they were normal and even cheerful? One of them came with a champagne bottle and a champagne glass in her hands, she gave him the wine glass and poured some of it into the glass.
Chad took a sip smiling, "This is a special champagne from Paris, it costs more than three hundred thousand dollars."
Amelia was still in a state of shock, she could not believe that Chad was just messing with her.
"What's the problem?" Chad asked her when he noticed that she had not been saying anything.
"Why did you do that?" Amelia asked him.
"What did I do?" Chad was obviously unconcerned about what happened.
"You nearly gave me a freaking heart attack!" Amelia raised her voice. "And now you are pretending as if you did not know what you did, you are so unbelievable!"
Chad chuckled, "On the bright side you confessed that you have feelings for me while we were having fun."
"You called that fun?! That was insane..."
"Insanely fun." He took another sip from the glass.
"I thought it was real, I thought I was going to die, I was thinking about my parents and my friends and my business and everything, I was afraid..."
"That's what makes it fun." Chad grinned.
"You are just so annoying and menacing, gosh I am never going to enter this stupid jet again."
Chad dropped the champagne glass. "Get out of my jet." He said with a cold voice.
"What?" Amelia was confused and scared.
"Didn't you hear me, I said you should get out of my jet." He repeated and his voice was colder than before. Shivers ran down her spine when she looked out of the window and saw that they were still flying over the ocean.
"But...your Highness," she only calls him this when she was scared.
Chad started laughing and Amelia frowned, she hated it when he does this.
"Relax, I am not that evil to kick you out of my jet when it's still flying." Amelia heaved a sigh, then she remembered telling him how she felt for him. She started feeling giddy.
'Gosh, why did I ever do that!" She said to herself and face palmed herself. She tried to avoid Chad's gaze.
"So..."
"I didn't mean it!" She exclaimed, cutting him off and Chad stared at her confused.
"Mean what?" He grinned and then he remembered what she said earlier and he started laughing. "Oh, that?" He came closer to her. "So you like me? What about hating me?"
"I didn't mean what I said, I just said it out of fear, I thought I was going to die," Amelia defended herself.
"Yes you did, you meant it," he kept coming closer to her and she tried to get away from him. "Are you sure?"
She nodded her head and Chad chuckled. She started hyperventilating, he was just inches away from her.
"Are you scared of me?" This was not the first time he was asking her this question.
"I am not scared of you and I will never be." She told him and she was now staring at him intently, trying to show that she was not afraid of him. "Me saying that I like you--which I didn't mean--doesn't mean I do, you do not know what African girls can do." She said smiling and Chad was surprised at how she changed immediately.
There was a brief moment of silence and then there was a smirk on Chad's face.
"You are not scared of me right?" He asked her and stood up and came close to her, he was so close that the tips of their noses nearly touched each other. "What about now?"
His minty breath fanned across her face, but Amelia maintained her calm.
"So this is what you are best at doing? Being clingy?" She hissed and Chad became speechless he had seen no one like her, she did not even care if he was a Prince, a celebrity or whatsoever he was.
He went back to his seat, defeated, she dared to stand up to him if only she knew what he really was.
Meanwhile in the castle, in a hidden corner, Jennifer, Anita and Megan were planning how to escape from the castle.
"It is almost impossible, for us to escape from here," Jennifer said almost giving up. "Every inch of this castle is monitored and secured, how is escaping even possible?"
"We have to try, we have to think of something," Anita told Jennifer.
"First, we have to let Chad know about Kate, he is our only hope now," Megan said. "And we have to find concrete proof that Kate and some other servants were murdered."
"How are we going get proof?" Jennifer asked. "Who is going to believe that the royal family intentionally kills some of their servants? We could end up in jail if we can't come out with reasonable proof."
"I know all of this, that is why I have a special plan," Megan said smiling.
"What is the plan?" Jennifer and Anita asked in unison.
"We have to have a lot of supporters we have to let the world know, we have to get people on our side." Megan told them. "If we can do this, then there won't be a problem."
"That's a great idea." Anita was now in a thinking posture. "But it's going to be dangerous for us."
"We can do it anonymously?" Jennifer suggested and Anita and Megan nodded.
"We will make sure our identity is hidden while we spread the conspiracies about the royal family we could also exaggerate the whole thing to stir up people's hearts." Megan said smiling mischievously.
"But Chad, he is part of the royal family, that would also tarnish his image," Jennifer stated.
"You are right," Anita agreed, "but we do not know whether Chad is on our side yet and we should be careful too who knows whether he is eviler than his brother?"
"Anita has a very good point," Megan said. "We shouldn't be too naive, not all people who appear good are good, some are rotten inside, so we should be very careful about him."
"So how are we going to tell him about Kate without him knowing our true intentions?" Jennifer asked and Megan grinned.
"Easy. I will do it." Megan offered.
"So where are we going to start in getting our proof?" Anita asked.
"We are starting from the castle where it all happened, we have to search this castle and find any clue, I am sure there is one," Megan told them. "We have to search for anything suspicious."
"We maids are not allowed to enter everywhere in the castle so how will searching the whole castle be possible?" Jennifer asked.
"Jennifer is right, it is only specific maids and guards that are allowed to enter the King's Chamber and area five which is quite close to the library, no one even goes there not even guards." Anita stated.
"That's where we start from, we start from Area 5 which is close to the library." Megan said grinning.
"But no one is allowed to go there, not even guards how are we going to get there?" Jennifer was curious about how they would get to Area 5.
"That's the most suspicious place in the castle, so we start from there and don't worry about how we are going to get there without getting caught, I am thinking of something." Megan said.
"The king's chamber is another problem." Anita sighed. "The king is always there and there are guards in every corner of the room."
"We have to search while the king is not there." Megan told them. "If the king is not there the security there will be reduced."
"I heard his royal Majesty and her royal highness are travelling to the United States for an international meeting ending of this month, so we can carry out our search that day." Jennifer suggested.
"That's a good idea, Jennifer." Megan complimented her. "This would be our usual meeting spot since here is not monitored every time and we won't be working together we would be working separately."
"Why is that?" Anita asked confused why Megan does not want them to walk together.
"Just imagine we are working together and then they caught us, we will all be doomed and we can even die and the truth will die with us, but when we work separately it would be hard for them to find out that we are up to something. It is better for one of us to go down than all of us to go down at the same time." Megan paused. "Jennifer, Anita, you know that what we are about to do is very dangerous, and we may lose our lives, are you sure both of you want to do this?"
"When Kate was alive I was very terrible to her, I caused her death, I can't forgive myself for what I have done and this is the only way I can atone for my sins, I don't care if I lose my life!" Anita said firmly and Megan was surprised that this was the Anita she knew some months back, who was very rude and proud.
"I wasn't so cool with Kate," Jennifer declared, "but I want to avenge her death."
"Good. No matter what happens to us, we should never tell them what we know, even though we are threatened with death do not tell anyone about this, do not spill a damn word, do not call names if you are caught, do not reveal our identities, we would tell the rest of the servants if we find solid proof, for now, this will just be between us. This is not going to be easy but we can do it."
"I swear, I will never spill a word about this no matter what happens," Jennifer swore.
"I swear to avenge Kate and never to let any of you down!" Anita swore.
"I am tired of seeing bastards like this kill innocent people and go scot-free they have to pay for it." Megan smiled wickedly. "And we are going to make them pay for it, I don't care whether they are damn royals!"