..The Scolding..

Rose opened her eyes slowly, her head was still heavy, then she looked around her

" where am I? this is not my room"

Her shoulder hurt her so much. She put her hand on it and she felt a bandage wrapped around it.

- THE PRINCE!

Screamed Rose after remembering what happened to her.

Yvine heard her scream and went immediately into the room.

- Miss Rose, are you okay? You finally wake up.

- Yvine, is the prince okay? Did he go back to the castle?

- The prince is completely fine, it is you who are not okay. You passed out for two days. Do you know how shocked I was when I saw you in that state?

- Where am I?

- His Highness gave an order to put you here, so can the doctor check up on you anytime.

Rose remembered blacky and what happened in that place, but nothing after that.

- How did you find me?

- What do you mean, you were lying unconscious in front of the main gate. Finding you wasn't that hard, instead, how did you manage to arrive at the castle in that state? Did someone help you?

" Blacky saved me from those men and brought me all the way here? How strange? That wolf is not a normal animal, it is way smart, but what was it doing there, the forest is far away from that place. Was it a coincidence? I don't think so, Something is fishy."

- Miss Rose, what happened to you exactly to be wounded like that?

-.....

The door knocked,

- Miss Rose, His highness is coming, prepare yourself.

" Good, I want to see him too"

Yvine left the room when the prince came in.

He kept standing while gazing at her without saying any word.

" Is he angry?"

- Y... Your highness are you okay?

- Shouldn't I be the one asking you that?

Replied The prince with a cold tone.

- I mean....Your condition looked serious back there

- My condition is none of your concern, instead what concerns the most is what were you doing in that place.

- I was there by coincidence, you know, we headed to the festival for fun. A man asked me to participate in a game and I followed him and found myself there.

- I am so disappointed. One of the knights that I chose carefully was too greedy for money to put himself in such trouble.

- WAIT! WHAT ARE YOU SAYING? I knew that there was something off and I wanted to investigate more, isn't that our duty.

- So, you are saying that wearing a dress like that, and putting yourself for sale was to investigate the situation?

- I was taking control over the situation until you interfered.

- ARE YOU AN IDIOT. WHAT IF IT WASN'T ME? WHAT IF IT WAS ANOTHER MAN? You would be already gone with him, or even worse, killed.

Rose knew that she was wrong for trying to solve the problem on her own, but she was pissed by Hans's word. She sacrificed herself to save him. Can't he, at least, let it slide this time?

She looked straight at his angry eyes.

- Why would you care? If I would be taken away or killed, I'm just a knight, you can replace me any time. I'm not sorry for what I did yesterday, a lot of women were saved and we stopped a serious criminal.

Hans became even angrier

- You should, then, go and work on your own as a mercenary. Knights work as a team and make their moves according to a plan, and If someone died it will be a great loss for everyone. Miss Rose, if you can't understand these important things about your job, then you must leave.

- NO, THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT.

Rose jumped from the bed, but she tripped. Hans caught her before falling. And at that moment blood started flowing from his arm.

- What's wrong? Did you get an injury that night? How?

He put her back in the bed like it was nothing

- I'm fine. Think carefully about the way you want to behave and give me an answer because I won't tolerate anything like that anymore.