Serina's Loneliness Part 2

---Prince Nicholas---

I glance around me, my cabin has full of wild animals that sometimes hard to tame. I remember. The day when Wendy came to visit me. It was clear on my mind. The anger of Adhiti makes all of those herd angry at my guests. I still can see on Wendy's eyes on how surprised and shaking she is. I have to speak for the herds of wolves to calm them, but even my horses are acting bizarre. Wendy's warriors stepped and pull out their swords. I raise my hand to them to stop them from attacking my animals.

"W-what is this Prince Nicholas? Did you summon them to scare me?" Wendy shakily asked, hiding from behind of her gigantic warrior.

"It confuses me too. There might be dark shadows around you, that's why they are acting bizarre. It is not that I am saying you are the dark shadows, but my guardians around my cabin never acted this way."

"How impudent you are Prince Nicholas." She gritted her teeth.

"No, Princess Wendy. You simply mistakenly took my words. You have to leave if you wanted to live…" I murmur. I look around me. No dark shadows that get into people's minds. But simply a summon from the Goddess.

"There's no dark shadows around. But only your animals are acting bizarre."

"My sincerely apologizes Princess Wendy…" I turn back from them and tried to hush the alpha of the wolves. "Alpha, all is well. No one will harm your pack." The wolf's fangs elongate and it is staring at them. "Alpha, I command you to retrieve," I said in a very powerful voice. They are calms and even the horses stopped whining. I face them and they all put down their swords. "Would you still like to get in?" I asked them while caressing the thick fur of the Alpha that is now sitting.

"No, thank you. I had enough this day." I smell the soup that I prepare and I guess they smelled it too. "I am looking forward to your visit to my castle." I bow my head to her and they all hurried on leaving. I grinned and kissed the alpha's head.

"Good job." I walk inside and it baffles me about the twines crawling my cabins. "Adhiti." I found her sitting attractively on the velvet chair like a queen wearing an emerald dress that shows her perfect curve and has a long slit in the middle that shows her perfect long legs. "Did you just…"

"Oh, I do. I hate her so much." She said hatefully while she's twirling her fingers on the goblet that she's is drinking. Her emerald eyes look directly into my eyes. She's acting weird. "Where're my kisses?" no, that's not weird.

I walk towards her leaning my hands on the arm of the chair as I bend down, licking her lips, biting down her lower lips so lightly and kissing her passionately. Her hands crawl on my nape pulling me to her to deepen the kiss. She smelled like jasmine and lemongrass. I pull her up and she jumped on me grinding her hips as she wrapped her long legs around me. She gasped when I leave her lips, we are both panting from that hot session and I started kissing her neck, nibbling it gently. Her breathing hitches as her fingers pull my hair. Good. That turns me on.

"Ohh, Nick…" I shove my face between her chests that are slowly exposing her breast. I left her chest and crawls my kiss up to her throat to her lips. "Really, I am hungry." Her emerald eyes that surround a hazel-nut color meets mine.

"Ready to taste my specialty?" I smack hard her lips.

"Oh, I do…" she breathed. "Let's do that again later." She's talking about our session. I would very much like to give her pleasure. She giggles and unfurls her legs around me.

I will miss her so much. But I have to hurry to ride on my mustang Pillet to catch a boat to the Kingdom of Psyche. My stomach hurts a little because of the nervousness that I am feeling. What if Adhiti holds the souls of the Goddess? Or what if she is the keeper of the souls? I am afraid that I will lose my love. I am afraid to lose her again.

I didn't sleep but I only stop for a while to feed my horse and to give him energy. I only have two hours to catch the boat to Psyche on the harbor. 24 hours to ride on the boat to Psyche and two hours to travel to the house of the Highest Highness Princess Amanda.

I travel, I can't stop thinking about her. What if she's not safe in my cabin? Lately, I had seen shadows around. Dark shadows. Princess Amanda warns me about them. They can enter anywhere and if they can feel your anger, madness fears…they can easily possess you. They are known as the son of Abyss who lives on the Abyss of Torment, known as his castle or hell.

I pray for Almighty God to keep my love safe away from those shadows of Torment. After hours of waiting, the gigantic castle of the Psyche is coming to my view and as we come closer and closer. I slept for hours and hours with Pillet. I don't even know why I called her Pillet. It just suits her because she's an adorable mare.

"I wonder why his highness is riding a public ship." I glanced at the Captain of the ship. An old friend of mine. He tips his fedora hat to mine with nod and smile showing his two golden teeth.

"I am in a hurry, Captain Seagull," I call him that name because he loves seagull and whenever I am riding here with Princess Amanda as she took me to her castle where there are few in-training maidens and where she also open a school for young ladies for proper etiquette. Maybe I should bring Adhiti with me next time. So she can meet her.

Then remembering again. Princess Amanda is Adhiti's biological mother. I don't know what happens and how those things happen. Princess Amanda told me everything, every consequence, and on why I should protect her with all of my life. Even though with a promise from someone, I would protect Adhiti why my strength and life.

"Meeting the Highest Princess?"

"Yes. And helping a little bit for the festival."

He chats a little bit about his sailing and about he missed the times when the Goddess of Water, sea, oceans, lake, and rivers sang to them to give them safe travel. I had never met the Goddess before they died. I had read about the assassination from the Elder who wrote the history. Every Kingdom has a history and how their Goddesses gave them a gift for protecting their Kingdoms from Abyss's children.

"Pass my greetings to Princess Amanda."

"Aye." I salute at him and pulls my hood. "Have a great day Captain Seagull!" I wink and departed with my Pillet. I immediately rode my horse directly to the House of Princess Amanda. It was less than two hours. I pull my mask and show my face to the guard and he gave me pass.

Few servants greet me as they took Pillet from me. They will feed her and groom her. The servant already knows that I am going to talk to Princess Amanda. The usual clothing is a white long dress and slippers for them. Georgina is Princess Amanda's loyal servant. She's the Head Mistress of the house which is more like the manager.

"Would you like something to drink?"

"Sure," I utter and look around. "Where's her highness?"

"She's in the library with the ladies. Would you like to meet her now or have a rest and to bath?"

"I would like to have a bath first. I don't want to meet her highness with dirt." She giggled and nodded at me. She leads me to my room in the house, well the house is like a small castle, a mansion and full of rooms.

After I take a bath and change my clothes in more formal but still simple. I am not used to wearing heavy clothes full of glimmering stones. That doesn't suit me. Adhiti might laugh at me. She loved me better without a shirt and on ripped jeans. Just thinking about her makes me miss her so much. If we have cellphones here and network towers and electricity, I could hear her voice every time I wanted.

I sipped on the delicious wine and feel refreshed already. I took a few sweet grapes and went directly to the library where she teaches. I just got a feeling that I wanted to see her. I miss Princess Amanda and wanted to embrace her. The door is open as usual and I peek on her and glanced at a few beautiful maidens who are laughing gracefully as Princess Amanda is telling them a secret about boys. Which is I guess, men's ego. Princess Amanda has never been in lots of relationships, the only she loves all of her life is Darius. Said to be a human.

"So if your father visited your chamber with a young man, though you don't like them, you have to make a move to kick them out. Am I right Prince Nicholas?" she asked me the question as they all looked at me. I smiled charmingly at them.

"I have to agree with you, Princess. You are always right most of the time."

I can see and feel that they are all gaping at me and murmuring about me. Yeah, I am all used at that and if Adhiti saw them, she will probably shoot a glare at them or worse if one of them flirt at me, she will surely burn their hair. No. I have to shake that possibility. That's not right.

"That's all for today, ladies. I have a date with this young handsome prince." She walks towards me.

I spread my arms and she embraced me kissing my cheeks. "I miss my little Prince." She scooped my arms and I nod at them as we exited the room.

"Well, your little prince is not little anymore," I told her. She giggled at me as we went to her secret garden.

"You must be tired. How's my Princess?"

"Well, that's why I am here. My concerns about her. I missed her though."

"I am sure that she can take care of herself. I sent my messenger to look over her."

The servant's bows at her as they pass us. When I saw that white big cotton-like wolf my eyes immediately lit up. He crawled up at me and I immediately embraced him.

"Oh, Ruin. I missed you so, so much!" I even kiss his nuzzle.

"Sometimes, I think, we need to meet." Princess Amanda uttered. "My heart feels empty. And that's what Ruin felt too. He misses her so much."

We walk towards her special garden full of gigantic roses, orchids, daisies, and wild lilies. The servants had already served us the foods and drinks. Yeah, I am already famishing. I thought about my Adhiti, is she eating well, sleeping well? I told Almira to accompany her but it is impossible since she has duties on the castle.