17. Poor Boy!

"Or who else is here with you?"

The Elder spouted from his lazy seat, he seems despised by how Naya reacted.

Naya glanced over herself again, she'd resemble a boy but how about a beggar? Could she truly resemble one? Her jaws harden with heinous eyes piercing him.

She could not disrespect him, but this man deserves to be dealt with, "Elder... So...rry!" She made a quick head bow to him even though her breath cursed

"But can I see your goods? I want ab accessory," She asked in her best responsible manner.

The man mocks with a snazzy laugh after taking another glance at her, "Boy, I sales females' accessories not males"

Naya nods, she recognized that the Elder misunderstood her appearance, which is why she is letting his nonchalant attitude slide, or else... Well, Nick is not here with her, he could have dealt with him in a better way.

She puffed, could she be missing him? No! Not at all. To hell with him and His Lordship that trapped him, she sneered.

"em... I want to get it for my sister." He replied him, if not he might chase her away.

"There is no place to push a boy like you, seems you care so much about your sister, I pity young Ladies nowadays."

The Elder rants as he summons her to come inside, whereas, Naya ponders on how the man spoke with sympathy, what does he mean by females of nowadays?

She glances through the shop, yet, thinking about how to satisfy her curiosity.

Turning to him, his eyes were hard on her. Could he think she wanted to steal?

'Old folk!' She cursed beneath.

"Elder, do you have an original sliver hairpin? My sister will love to have something like that."

As Naya sees the man hesitating, she smashes a bunch of coins on the table before him, "I need an original silvered hairpin!"

The man nods, his walks were nonchalant as he went straight to the inner shop, he come back a while later with three slivered hairpins of various designs,

"You want to get a gift for your sister? But don't you think it's too dangerous to be outside alone?"

This Elder starts it himself? Good! She exclaimed beneath, "Elder, I used to come out alone but today there seems to be a curfew..."

"Curfew?" The Elder was confused, he did not understand what that could mean.

Naya scold, sometimes she noticed speaking her future languages involuntarily, but what could he have done to deprive it when she'd come to her past life with her future memories?

"I mean, I nearly see anyone around the market, likewise your shop is half-closed"

"Why?"

The man feels some sympathy towards her again, "Are you not living in this town? Don't you hear the trumpet yesterday?"

Naya becomes more confused. The Elder buttress upon seeing her confusion, "That His Lordship has arrived."

The Elder was speaking with a lot of distress and sympathy, whereas this got Naya on her nerves, "I knew His Lordship arrived but why the emptiness, how do the two relate?"

"Agios!" The man rolled his eyes up, he seems tired and weak, then, narrow it on her. Naya could see nothing in him but pity.

"Whenever His Lordship is around, some females are randomly picked at the market square, they were all taken along with him to the Apalla Kingdom, but for those females, no one hears of them, be it dead or alive."

"That's what he does on each visit, our females are reducing because of him. Hence, everyone tends to stay indoors for their safety."

Naya felt as if nailed in her heart, the Lordship she saw last night is..., She paused, she just saw him once how can she describe him?

Glancing out at the empty market, those awful rumors about His Lordship must be true, if he can remove his mother's intestine how much more those helpless females?

Yet, he sounded amicably during the dinner, could this be the reason Nurret said he is nice to the royal family? How about his packs, his clans, and those kingdoms?

Is he trading the females as slaves?

"Oops!"

"Thank you Elder. I will pick this one."

She picked it and hurried out, "Ouch!" She tried to balance as she almost bumped into someone. However, her legs slip backward on the entrance,

"Boom!" They both landed on the plank.

The man she bumped into went on his back while Naya lay completely on him, her eyes were closed out of fright, the man watch her baffling as she stiffened on him.

Disgustingly, the man push from her forehead with his tip finger, Naya open her eyes, it got stuck into glinting ocean blue eyes on a single blink at her, this caught her attention involuntarily that her paled lips parted irresistibly.

"Poor Boy!" She was startled upon hearing the Elder's voice.

Rubbing her forehead with a stain of shame, she stares intensely at the man who still refuses to get up, he seems to be within his mid-20s. Naya feels dizzy in the eyes to have not seen such able-bodied man far more than her Nick, yet young and handy, from his perfectly broad face with long raven hair.

"Gosh!" The man wailed as he try to stand.

Naya swallowed her thought to feel concerned for the man, his chest was broad and hard as if she collide on metal, she feels pain likewise,

"Are you hurt?" She asked,

"Uhn!" The man simply replied.

Naya stretched out her hand to help him stand, the man wave rejectable, more arrogant as he gazes weirdly at her.

Naya took steps sideways simultaneously, the sounds of galloping horses catch their attention.

"What! His Lordship..."

Immediately she flipped out, she heard the Elder struggling to close the door but that man...

She can't even take a glare at him.

Could those rumors be true, she'd wish to be a witness to the rumor but what if she got thrown along with those ladies?

Who will believe she is a Princess?

Her legs paced in random directions.