Chapter thirty one

James was breathing heavily and blood was dripping from his knuckles, and the unconscious bodies of the bodyguards lay on the ground. It was a tough fight but he was able to knock all of them out. He was one of the best fighters and bodyguards in the kingdom, so this was not too hard for him.

He chuckled. "This was fun." Jennifer ran out of the car and she ran towards James.

"James?" She shouted his name. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah, I am alright, Jenny I just bruised my fist." Jennifer took his hands into hers.

"Oh my gosh, this is bad, we need to treat your injuries immediately."

"I'm fine, Jenny, it's not a big deal." James loved calling Jennifer, Jenny, it was the pet name he gave to her.

"It is a big deal, James," her eyes narrowed and he chuckled. "Why are you laughing? What is funny?"

"You remind me of my mom," James told her smiling and she rolled her eyes. He came closer to her and held her waist. "You know you care for me a lot just like she does." He tucked her long brownish hair behind her ear and she blushed.

"Stop using your bloody hands to touch me." She whined.

"This is not the time for any romantic moments, let's keep going." Anita shouted from the car, rolling her eyes.

"We are coming." Jennifer and James said in unison, which made them laugh. They entered the car and James drove off.

"You know we will be in big trouble after this?" James said chuckling like it did not matter.

"Well..." Anita trailed off.

"We will try to survive," Jennifer said with confidence. "By the way, Megan gave us the address of the place we will stay and where she will meet us."

"Are you sure she'll make it out, alive?" Anita said with a low voice and Jennifer placed her hand on her shoulders.

"Sure she will, she promised us that she will meet us outside." Jennifer tucked her hands into her apron's pockets--they escaped with their maid uniform still on--and brought out a rumpled paper. "Here is the house address."  She gave it to Anita.

"Number one, Kiston Street, house twenty-three," Anita paused, "that's like thirty minutes drive from here."

"Are you sure?" Jennifer asked Anita.

"Not so sure."

"I know the place." James told them and turned the car right. "It's not far from her, just a few streets away."

They drove for about twenty-two minutes before they arrived at the location. James stopped the car in front of a small house with a wooden fence.

"I think it's here." James muttered. "Let's check the house number." He said and they came down from the car, they checked the house number and they heaved a sigh when they saw that they were at the right place.

Everywhere was so quiet, the day was still dark and it looked like it was about to rain. A stray cat ran out from the porch and hit a trash can. Jennifer jumped and James held her.

"Jenny, are you okay?" He asked and she nodded and straightened herself.

When they arrived at the house entrance, James pushed the door and it creaked open, an eerie wind whirled as soon as the house door opened, and Jennifer and Anita became quite frightened, and they hid behind James. Inside the house was pitch black they could not see what was inside, James boldly stepped into the house, but Anita and Jennifer remained outside, they were frightened to go in.

A minute passed and James had not yet come out. Two minutes passed and James had not yet come out. Five minutes passed and James had not yet come out.

Anita and Jennifer became worried and afraid, especially Jennifer, she thought that something bad had happened to James.

"Boo!!" James came out shouting and they screamed running away from the entrance. James started laughing at them, their hearts were pounding against their chest and they were breathing heavily.

"Why did you do that?" Anita said with her voice raspy.

"You nearly scared us to death," Jennifer complained too but James just chuckled.

"You can come in it's fine." James told them, gesturing his hands for them to come in.

They came in and James turned on the lights. They found themselves in a small living room with a couch and a television. "I was fixing the house light switch, it was broken, that's why I delayed."

"We thought something bad had happened to you," Jennifer told him giggling. "I was very scared."

Janes chuckled.

Jennifer walked around the house, she figured out that the house had three rooms which was perfect for them. They were not staying here for a long time, if Megan does not come here in two days, they had no choice but to leave.

Jennifer came back to the living room where James and Anita were.

"So this is where we are going to stay for the main time?" James said chuckling. "Interesting."

"Here is not that bad." Anita shrugged.

"At least we are safe here." Jennifer sighed.

"We aren't safe here, when the castle's officials find out that we escaped, we will become fugitives and trust me they will do all they can to find us."

"Then we just have to make them never find us," Jennifer said smirking. "Let's draft out a plan."

.....

THE ROYAL CASTLE

Amelia was enjoying her stay in the castle, anything she wanted the servants in the castle gave it to her, even the things she did not ask for, they gave it to her. It was all Chad's doing, he ordered a particular number of servants to take care of her and give her whatever she wanted, while he prepare the place they were going to make the clothes they would wear to the party.

"Your hair is lovely," a maid complimented Amelia's hair as she braided them. Amelia smiled. The servants were preparing her for the party tonight--this was also Chad's order.

"Thank you." Amelia said.

"Can I ask you something?" The maid said shyly and Amelia started wondering what the maid wanted to ask her.

"Sure you can."

"How do you feel when you are around or talk to, his highness, do you feel nervous? And do you like, his Highness?" The question was quite awkward and Amelia started to think about whether she liked Chad or not and yes she did.

'Do I feel shy whenever I am around, Chad?' Amelia asked herself and thought of all the times when she had been with Chad, she usually felt shy and nervous whenever Chad was around her especially when he comes too close to her, but recently she had learnt how to suppress her nervousness whenever Chad is around.

"Nope, I don't feel shy whenever I talk to Chad," she lied, "I just feel normal and I do not like Chad, we are just business partners and for some unusual reasons I am here. "

"How dare you call his Highness by his name you ape?!" A maid who was quite short and had a pale colour with a funny-looking nose fumed and stopped braiding Amelia's hair. "You disgust me."

"Chad told me not to call him his Highness, he prefers me to call him by his name, Chad, and I don't see how that's your business, you are just saying rubbish and talking without sense." Amelia retorted, calmly and the maid blew hot.

"Just shut up! You have no right to call, his highness by his name, you are nobody compared to his highness, you are just his slave and after he has finished f*ucking the hell out of you, he is going to dump you like useless trash, you are always going to be a slave, you can't change it, it's you people fate. Do you ever think Chad would truly like an African idiot like you?"

Amelia's heart sank, she did not know why that maid just became angry just because she called Chad by her name, she had always been calling him by his name, even when they got here and no one complained about it, then why now?

"Calm down, Emily doesn't say that to her, please don't insult her, his highness said that we should respect her and do whatever she tells us to do, please calm down." The other maids begged her but she was adamant.

"An animal like her can never have my respect," she hissed and stormed out of the room.

"Please don't be offended, Miss Amelia we are sorry for her misbehaviour," they apologised to her. "Please excuse the foolishness and naivety of our colleague, please do not tell his Highness about what happened just now..."

"It's alright, I am not offended and I am not going to tell Chad what happened." Amelia said and sighed.

The room door opened and Chad walked in, and all the maids became afraid at the sight of Chad, they were afraid that if he knew what Emily did, he was going to get angry at all of them.

"Please can you leave us?" Chad said and the maid bowed and left the room immediately.  "Amelia..." He came closer to her and he noticed that something was not right. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing," she said with her eyes fixed on the floor.

"Tsk. Why are you lying to me? I know that something is wrong, it's written all over your face that you are not alright." Chad gave her a questioning look and she hid her face from him.

'How does he always know that I am lying? What will I tell him now?' Amelia thought she did not want to tell him what happened, she did not know how he was going to react, she knew that the maids would be in trouble if he finds out what one of them did, and she did not want anyone to be in trouble because of her, so it was better if she did not tell him.

"Ehmm..." She stammered, thinking of the perfect lie to tell him.

"Are you nervous about tonight's party?" He came closer to her and used his hands to cup her cheeks.

"Uhm, yea, I guess." She replied quite nervous and Chad grinned.

"There is no need for you to be nervous, I'd always be by your side." He told her and she heaved a sigh, he just made things easier for her, there was no need for her to lie about what happened which was a great relief for her, then she remembered that she was going to spend the whole evening with him and she became very nervous.

He removed his hands from her cheeks and she wished they would remain there, she felt so comfortable yet nervous whenever he held or touched her.

"I have prepared the royal garment-making workshop, where we will be making what we will wear tonight." He informed her and she stared at him for the first time since he came into the room. She noticed that his eyes were not fixed on her but on somewhere else. She scanned him and when she figured out that he was staring at her breasts the whole time she jumped and use her hands to cover her chest, her breast was so big that her hands could not cover all of it.

Chad chuckled. She was in deep thought, that she forgot that she was wearing a very skimpy singlet and shorts.

"Chad, what are you doing here?" She shouted and Chad nearly rolled on the floor laughing. "You didn't even knock before you came into the room..."

"Oh, why should I knock? I am not used to knocking before entering a place, I just enter," he chuckled and she frowned.

She carried a hairbrush and threw it at him. "Go out now."

He caught the hairbrush, laughing, she was acting quite childish and it was making him glad?

"Okay, I would leave before you murder me." He surrendered with his hands in the air.

"When you are leaving don't look back unless you will die! Don't try to turn your neck unless it will break, don't even try to do anything funny, " she threatened him. "Unless I am going to kill you, murder you, and break you."

"Okay, ma'am." He walked away from her with his back facing her as he was about to leave he half-turned, and his eyes met hers. "I'll wait for you in the hallway."

"Chad, I said you shouldn't turn around!" Amelia shouted and Chad ran out of the room.

Amelia made sure that he was out of the room before she left where she was. She crashed onto the bed.

"Why did he have to see me like this? I didn't even know I was wearing something this skimpy," she cried. "Was I too hard on him? No, I wasn't he deserves it!"

She covered her face, she was very embarrassed. "He knew all this while and he didn't even tell me, curse him." She muttered. "I guess this day will haunt me till I die."

She stood up from the bed and looked at herself in the mirror and she noticed that she had gotten a little bit fatter.

"Why did he have to see me in this type of body state? I look like an overfed elephant, did he like what he saw? Gosh, why am I even thinking about that, I'm so stupid," she mumbled, she turned around and she saw how skimpy her shorts were, her caramel thick thighs were exposed and her singlets just covered barely half of her boobs.

"Gosh, I think I am going to die, curse you, Chad, curse you." She facepalmed herself in embarrassment.

Chad waited for Amelia for about forty minutes before she came out.  She was in a long white robe and had a white head tie on.

She kept her head high with her eyes shut as she walked towards Chad who was leaning on the hallway's wall.

"Let's go," she said with a tough voice, acting as if nothing had happened some minutes ago.

"Come on you have to ease out," Chad placed his hands around her shoulders and drew her closer to him. Amelia nearly fainted by his touch, she was so embarrassed and nervous at the same time. "Chill, I didn't see you naked, and I didn't even notice you were wearing something skimpy, immediately... There is no big deal about it."

"Uhm did anything happen?" She tried to hide her nervousness and pretend as if she did not know what he was talking about.

"You're funny, Amelia," Chad chuckled and then a mischievous idea came to his mind, he knew that Amelia was embarrassed and nervous, and he was going to use this as an advantage. He came closer to her and she cringed. He whispered into her ear, "I think I am hungry, I want to eat..."

Amelia shut her eyes and the hairs on the back of her neck stood. 'What does he mean by his hungry and he wants to eat? Hope he isn't referring to...'

She peeked at him and she saw him licking his lips seductively and she shut her eyes back.

'I guess he is referring to it. What should I do now?'  She thought. 'I feel so nervous, gosh, why did he ever see me like that.'  Her heart started beating fast. 'He's so handsome and his lips are hot...why am I thinking about this now? Gosh, what is wrong with me?!'

"Uhm, haven't you eaten lunch already?" She stammered, praying that he would just say yes but one part of her knew that Chad would not make things easy for her...

"Nope, I haven't, someone made me wait for her in the hallway for more than forty minutes." Chad narrowed his eyes and Amelia breathed, the lump in her throat went away, she was scared for a moment that Chad was referring to another thing, but she was happy that it was not what she was thinking of.

"I'm sorry, I was putting on something modest." She glared at him.

"It took you half an hour to put on a robe?"

"Yes." She lied. "I had to make sure I wore something more 'modest'," she emphasised, "so that what happened the last time won't happen again." She glared at him and he laughed.

"It wasn't my fault, I didn't notice that you were dressed that way."

"Yes it is all your fault." She pouted, "You should have closed your eyes when you noticed!"

"I should have done that if I wasn't so engrossed in staring at your chest and your thick thighs." Chad licked his lips seductively and Amelia blushed.

"You perv..." She wanted to hit him with her hands but he held them.

"Are you trying to assault me in my house?" He questioned her and she laughed wickedly.

"I don't want to assault you, I want to murder you." She told him and he tightened his grip on her hands then after some time he left her hands and she cursed at him.

"Please if you want to kill me, kill me with that." He said pointing at her chest she turned around with her arm folded across her chest, trying to hold them away from him.

"Tch. What type of person are you, Chad? I didn't know that you were a big pervert."

"What type of person do you think I am?" Chad asked her.

"A terrible person, a horrible person, the worst person on planet Earth." She told him and he laughed.

"I love the person that I am." He bit his lips.

Amelia's heart skipped a beat when she felt Chad's arms wrap around her waist, and his warm minty breath on her neck.

"I'll ask again, what type of person do you think I am, Amelia?"