Chapter 17.

Trigger warning: Violence, foul language and sexual assault!

“Yeah I saw you smiling, breaking the silence

Telling me just what you want

There in the moment, I was reminded

I haven't felt this way in a while…” Hearthbreak Weather - Niall Horan

February, 2137

Eveline

I decided to take him to see the gardens first but I purposely left the conservatory outside as it was one of my many havens inside the palace and usually no one ever remembered it, so I kept walking showing the various exotic plants to him who wasn't really paying attention to me.

“My mother got those gentians and pansies from Italian Northern Casa, and when I was born they sent Ranunculi and alpine crocuses, the other Casas in Italy always send us flowers too, but the Northern Casa has good taste,” I say admiring our Mediterranean garden at the back of the property feeling the night breeze touch my bare legs "Although we have beautiful flowers and my favorite flower is the sunflower," I say happily "Which is your favorite flower, Nathan?" I ask but get no answer and when I turn to watch my fiancé he's fiddling with some sort of electronic device that I'm not allowed to use and neither of important people too and it made me curious but it’s like one of which I've seen Roman use.

I'm slightly disappointed to realize that he didn't even bother to listen to my explanation of the flowers and after painting and reading one of the things I most enjoyed doing was growing various species of plants, and it is why I was holed up in the greenhouse in the most days when I didn't have any meetings.

I leave him alone and guide him back towards the palace and notice Roman lounging against one of the walls as he chats with another guard on the night shift and a cigarette stuck to his lips while he inhales deeply the smoke.

As I get closer, I recognize that the other guard is Roberts, the redhead garage guard and when he notices our approach he smiles and Roman follows his gaze and smiles minimally as he sucks his cigarette without taking his eyes off me, I notice he looks me up and down but not in a malicious way, he was just checking that I was okay and I nod in a quietly way and I see his shoulders relax and I feel calmer and I think maybe Jordan was worried for nothing.

I wave to the two guards and they greet me. I see Nathan has put his cell phone away and is watching my guard again with a strange expression on his face and as Roman was without his cap I could see his green eyes flashing towards the blonde next to me.

“Good evening, Your Highness!" The redhead says when we're closer and I smile at him who only notices the boy beside me a long time later "Sir," he says and lifts his cap slightly before putting it down again and Nathan just snorts like he is riled up.

“Something wrong?" I hear Roman's husky voice ask and feel shivers run up my spine and as I watch him I realize from the tension in his shoulders and his lips pursed into a tight line that he's irritated.

Nathan then realizes that my guard is talking to him and he rears up beside me like a pigeon which makes me laugh because I think if he and Roman got into a fight Nathan would probably get his ego terribly beat up.

“See how you talk to me, little soldier,” he says with palpable venom in every syllable and it makes me frown at his disdainful tone.

“And who do you think you are to talk to him like that?" I say and pull my arm from his without gentleness so I can face him and see that his blue eyes with that weird glow don't even bother to look at me, his focus is on my guard.

“I’m your fiance and the president's son, so with or without your consent little soldier, excuse us now,” he says rudely and pulls me with him into the palace against my consent and I have time just to look back and see Roman standing next to the redheaded boy watching.

I just muttered a "Follow me!" before being abruptly ushered inside, and as the motherfucker dragged me down the hall without the slightest delicacy I tried to get away from him but when we heard laughter coming from the stairs leading to the second floor he straightened up and let go of me which made me even angrier.

You liar!

My parents and my brother just passed us and I saw when Jordan looked at me worried but I didn’t had the time to say anything while Nathan drag me to the third floor where we had some music rooms and a library, I try to calm down and opted to go into the library but my desire to continue next door was practically nil.

I’m so pissed with this fucker.

Inside the library I released him and watched his haughty posture and his judgmental eyes survey the palace, I then closed the door and turned to him.

"What authority do you have to speak that way to my guard and treat the palace staff as if they were nothing? And what the fuck you think you are to drag me where you please if I’m like a rag doll?" I said quite annoyedly as I approached him and watched him look at me with disdain and a smirk appeared in his beautiful face.

I hate him.

“I'm your fiance and the future King, I just gave him the treatment he deserves, and I think you should pay less attention to that guard, when we get married you won't need a babysitter behind you,” he says in a superior tone and I give an incredulous laugh at his petulance and feel anger boils inside of me.

“First you will be prince regent, your orders won't be worth anything because my word is the one that stands out, and if I notice or see you mistreating my employees I'll make sure to send you to the hole you came from, I tried be cordial but my brother was right, you are worthless!" I said venomously and watched as his mask fell off and a dead expression came over his face and he came at me and pushed me until my back hit the opposite wall and the air escaped my lungs in a painful way.

“You're just a spoiled little girl who needs someone to control her moments of fury, I don't care about my rank, you know people like you don't have a voice here!" He spat the words in my face as he brusquely pushed me against the wall once more, making me even angrier.

“Fuck you! And get your hands off me!" I say annoyed and try to push him away but he has his body attached to mine and when I feel his hand touch my face I turn him to the other side trying to avoid his contact but he holds my face tightly and turns my face back to him and I watch his pupils dilate with desire while the only thing I can feel is disgust.

He then comes over and I close my eyes irritably as I thrash against him and feel his other hand squeeze my wrist in a painful way to try and hold me in place until I feel his lips touch mine which makes me almost throw up all the dinner right there and feeling violated and at the same time I felt guilty for not listening to my brother or bringing Roman.

But just as his disgusting touch has come it's gone and his weight too, I then open my eyes and see him on the ground holding his slightly reddened cheek and see that his lip has bled, and when I look away I see Roman.

The brunette is breathing heavily and his hands clenched into fists, his chest rises and falls and I see anger in his eyes as he looks at my fiancé on the floor. Nathan gets up with difficulty and it makes me smile a little. Asshole.

“When a person says no, they really don't want to do something, and you should have respected the princess's wishes, but the next time I see you putting your hands on her without her consent, I don't care if you're the future prince regent or son of the president, I'll insist on hitting you until there's nothing left of your perfect face to tell the story, don't think that no one knows who you really are Nathan," Roman said and I saw an evil glint in his green eyes and a crooked smile appeared on his beautiful pink lips as he looked at the blonde trying to stop the blood from his lip.

“You messed with the wrong person, little soldier,” he said as he laughed in derision and when his gaze fell on me I felt my whole body tense “And you dear Eveline, you should be less attached to this guy because who knows what people might think of that?” He said in a mysterious way before turning and walking towards the library exit.

Thank god this piece of garbage get out, but not for my sanity, because I will be around him a few times in the future.

Only for my disgust.