Heart beat

"How long?" Jeffrey could not stop himself from asking. "I am not certain, but we have to wait for the stone to fall off his leg by itself. We are not allowed to pull it off," Ellen replied. Although she was not sure how that will happen because she only repeated the words of her teacher.

Jeffery nodded his head. " I will be standing outside. If you need some help or anything just call out," he instructed before walking outside the tent.

Princess Ellen nodded her head. Once Jeffery was outside she was left alone with her thoughts. She watches as his chest raised up and down. He did not look like someone who was unconscious. It seemed like he was sleeping peacefully.

Just looking at him made her remember her encounter with him on the night of the royal ball. the prince before Her now seemed different.

She has always thought that she would feel scared if left alone with the prince but that did not happen.

If anything, she felt comfortable taking care of him and looking at his peaceful face even if she could not see it.

The more she looked at the mask over the prince's face the more she got curious. Her hands were inching her to take off the mask but she scolded herself and stayed put.

It was about an hour when Jeffery returned to the room and offered her tea.

"Your highness must be tired and hungry, I brought you some tea," he announced as he dropped the tea on the table.

"Thank you so much," princess Ellen nodded her head. Among all the prince's men Jeffery has been the only one that treated her with much respect.

Jeffery nodded in response before glancing at the prince's legs and noticing the stone was still on it. He was curious about how all this worked but he shut his mouth. He did not want Ellen to think he was doubting her. So he stopped himself and stepped out of the tent again.

"Would you get angry if I remove your mask and see your face?" Ellen mused to herself.

'Mind your business if you still want to keep your head on your neck," Ellen scolded herself before going over to the table to serve herself some tea.

She brought the cup to her lips and sniffed it first. Her nose was welcome with the reach smell of tea. Since her nose did not pick up any wiered smell, she took a small sip from the tea and savor the taste before swallowing it.

Ever since she came to the realization that someone wanted to poison her she knew she needs to be careful.

Ellen took her seat by the table and continued to drink her tea.

It took a couple of hours before the stone eventually fell off. The first thing Ellen did when she noticed this was touched the prince's leg. Seeing it was back to its normal temperature she breathe a sigh of relief.

She looked up at the prince and noticed he was still unconscious.

'What going on?" Ellen asked herself. All the while she had hoped that the prince would at least open his eyes once the poison was removed from his system but nothing change even after that.

Ellen becomes curious so she sat beside him on the bed and placed her ear on his chest to listen to his heartbeat.

All she wanted to find out was if his breathing was regular. But something strange happened to her as soon as she started listening to his heartbeat. She noticed her own heartbeat increased. It was beating so fast that she placed her hand on her chest as though that will calm it down.

She also noticed that her heart seemed to beat in the same rhyme as the prince. So she just rested her head on his chest enjoying the rhyme. she could have falling asleep if Jeffrey did not walk in.

Jeffrey was shocked at the sight that he met. He has stepped into the room to check on the prince and princess, like he has been doing since the Princess, started taking care of the prince.

"What are you doing?" Jeffery asked unconsciously when he saw the sight before him.

Ellen immediately jumped up to her feet. "I was checking his heartbeat. I wanted to be sure it was regular," Ellen replied not looking at Jeffery. How did she not hear Jeffery walking in? "was I so carried away not to notice? ' she wondered.

"Oh," Jeffery nodded his head completely believing her excuse.

"The stone already fell off. The prince should wake up any moment," Ellen boldly declared even if she was not so certain about this.

"That great your highest," Jeffery smiled genuinely delighted that the prince would be back to health soon.

"All the herbs you requested have arrived," Jeffrey informed her.

"Great, you should assign someone to watch over the prince while I prepared the herb for him," Jeffery nodded his head in agreement before stepping out.

He could have sworn that the princess was hugging the prince, turn out she was only checking his heartbeat. Ahh! My mind must be eroded," he scolded himself as he stood outside the tent ready to send someone he could trust to the prince tent.

'Wait the princess has not eaten since morning,' Jeffrey remembered. Not only that there was no maid to attend to her,' Jeffery felt a headache coming his way.

Usually, they did not bother about food since a few men will go hunting and they did just eat the meat. Now he had a big problem to worry about.

What will princess Ellen eat?' He called out One to ride back into samor so they could get something for the princess to eat.

They had set up their camp a few mill's away from the village. "One I need you to send one of your brothers into samor to get her highness food. Also, we would need a maid to attend to her and maybe clothes too," Jeffery said.

One frowned his brows. "I knew the princess will be a lot to handle. We should not have brought her," he complained. Jeffery understands why One was complaining. He and the other men were tired. But he did not welcome his complaint.

"If she did not come with us would you have been able to treat the prince?" Jeffery questioned.

"How are you sure she knows what she is doing?" One argued. He did not like the idea of trusting the prince's life in the hand of a woman from Bozoa.

"Do you have any other choice?" Jeffery asked and One shut his mouth. Of course, they had no other choice and if he was being sincere he knew that the poison was not simply. A lot of people die from been bitten by a snake. Only a few physicians can remove the venom..

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