59 Deepest Apologies

Angelica his her body under the water as she glared at him. She was furious and this time she won't let him go for looking at her like this.

"Ivan Constantine! You better have a good reason before I place a curse on you!!" She hissed.

Ivan had long closed his eyes and turned his back to Angelica. It wasn't his fault. Well it kinda was.

He tried calling her through the magic earring but it didn't work. It was like something interfered with the signal and he couldn't reach her. He tried to find her location only for that to be anonymous too! He found it all to strange and then used his magic to find her tracks and he made his way to a cave that was surrounded by a barrier.

But who was he? He simply destroyed the barrier without trying and entered the cave, he call out to the Princess a few times and stopped at a certain scene.

He instantly turned around and closed his eyes. And then-

A scream broke out form none other than the Princess.

"I shall wait outside." And with that he ran out as fast as he came in.

Angelica: "....." he rudely looked at her body and even left.

A vain popped out and she got out of the pool and head for the stuff by the side. She slipped onto her dress and walked barefoot towards the man who was 'staying my outside.

It looks like anger for the best of her. Angelica forgot about the properties of the water and came out to vent her anger.

"What do you want? You better have a good reason?" No even if you have a good excuse I will still punch you!!

Like a dragon she was ready to breath fire at that man!!

Ivan didn't turn around making her even more mad. She punch the man back a few times to vent her anger and spat out darkly.

"First of all Mr.Prince... you have guts walking in like that." She punched him again, "Second your lucky my power won't work right now either. That water in their nullifies magic when you touch it. Third-" she punched him once more.

"Can I kill you without having a noble trial?"

Ivan didn't feel pain from her punches it was more like a someone bumping into your shoulder on accident many times.

"My... Deepest apologies, Princess." Ivan said in defeat and flustered tone.

Angelica stopped her movements of punching him and study his back.

Oh god! What a man! Now that she could see it, his back muscles where amazing!

Angelica slapped herself back to reality and punched him weakly.

"Your the rudest man I ever met and also the first man to waltz in when a lady is bathing. I really would have killed you.. but I feel like I'm losing the will too."

How could she accept his apology?

Ivan glanced at her from the corner of his eyes and he felt his breath become hot. He turned around right away from the steaming sight that was placed before him.

"Princess- your clothes.." Ivan hesitantly said.

Angelica looked down and flushed red! Holy Lord! She was almost naked right now due to the water that was sticking to her frame. And she couldn't even use magic to dry it.

"D-did you see?!!?!" She asked hastily and cover her chest.

'Yes and I'm sorry.' Ivan mentality chanted but denied it since it was embarrassing for a lady.

"No... nothing.. nothing at all..!" He said and closed his eyes as if he didn't see anything.

Angelica had already ran back into the cave. Ivan sighed in relief and thought about the weird sensation in his heart.

It's faster than usual...

He patiently waited for the prince to come out and it really did take awhile for her to come back.

- 20 minutes -

Angelica sat down on the tree branch, while Ivan joined right beside her. She had scowl on her face as she remembered the embarrassment that happened earlier.

"It an emergency from the other group." Ivan said seriously.

Angelica's eyes sharpened hearing his words. She listened quietly.

"Lance and the others, we won't be meeting them for awhile." Ivan said to her.

"Mmn, what happened exactly?" She frowned.

"Though it's not confirmed yet. The old noble faction might have found out where here in the capital." He said and continued, "If I'm not wrong, they have a person who can predict the future but not as accurate as they want it to be. So now the old noble faction had there guard up and are looking for our group in many areas. This means that this mansion isn't safe any more."

Angelica nodded listening to his remarks, she began to think deeply. And started voicing it out to him.

"How bad would it be if they found out your here?"

Ivan paused and then said to her, "Not bad but it would cause a split. As you know my name here is Duke Constantine, the war lord that guards the North-East. And my status would be that I'm out taking care of the rebels in certain places and the the other job was to look for the Witch Queen for a favour. So me, appearing in the capital is not supposed to happen so soon. At most if we're found out, my other plan will fall through. But what I worried about is Cathal."

"The old faction isn't sure about our whereabouts since they have onto been getting small info around. Your identity might get you in trouble with the noble faction since they hate witches. And if they found out your where here to heal the King more so."

"Cathal room is heavily guarded by his people but that doesn't mean it's completely safe. As much as I want to be optimistic, I can't since theirs a factor that some might be leaking out our plans. Especially with that one that can see the future, most of ours plans have started to changed as you can see."

"So your saying the problem is my real identity is a witch and we have to hide that at all cost? And also that we need to come up with a different way to heal them without the interference of the old faction?"

Ivan thought about it for awhile and nodded. "Yes. It's must be hard for you to accept, so I came to find you to make a plan and changed a few things."

Angelica nodded once again and thought about what they could do. This was an easy problem but also an annoying one.

One is that the other group already has suspicions about her. Two healing them while the culprit was out was hard. She knew that this magic was something the exile witch Carmelina Vanberg used. She wasn't sure but if it was her then some serious trouble is about to appear.

"The other person you spoke of.. Travis right? Where is he?" Angelica asked him.

"Travis? He should be at my Mansion. What's wrong?" Ivan was taken aback. What did she want with Travis.

Angelica thought about for a bit and then proposed to him. "Try contacting him and tell him will see him in two days. I have an idea want to listen?" She gave him a mysterious smile.