Chapter 18

Maeve woke up and there was Apollo, Maeve jumped and Apollo put his hands up "I was about to wake you for breakfast"

"O-oh ok" Maeve coughed and put her fake smile on. "Well I'm up so you can go, thanks"

He frowned for a second but did as she asked and left, she got up and stretched and remembered last night.

She blushed a bit as she felt her cheek and neck, but then saw the hand mark from Isaac as well so she inhaled and sighed a sad sigh. She then realized, -what if Apollo or someone sees the mark?! they will ask questions- She looked around and saw her makeup kit that WAS for her mark but she didn't use it as much for that anymore. So she grabbed the makeup kit and dabbed some powder that matched her skin and blended it into the spot as much as she could, soon it just looked like a mark made by a tight bracelet, She then put the black stuff on her faded paw mark, which still hurt a bit of course, so that if Alice noticed the makeup on her wrists. She looked at herself in the mirror and sighed then got dressed, it was her day to watch Apollo and she knew he would ask questions so she was trying to think of a way to get out of it as she walked to the dining room/ living room. She sat next to Alice this time and ate silently, Alice noticed this and whispered in Maeve's ear "You better tell me what's wrong later lady" Maeve looked at her then smiled and nodded. Alice was the only person there that she trusted the most, the 2nd person she trusts the most is Beau of course though because he keeps all his own secrets from everybody but Alice. She pulled Alice aside and told Alice in the hallway what happened last night, and she told her EVERYTHING. Alice dragged Maeve into her room and closed the door, "So let me get this straight" she said as she and Maeve sat on her bed.

"Apollo came in and started to talk to you and then he asked to kiss you, you said yes and then stuff happened, and Isaac saw you too, kicked Apollo out, then made the mark on your wrist" Maeve blinked then nodded. Alice inhaled "And you didn't tell me that night?" Maeve's ears drooped "I was tired and crying, I didn't want anyone to ask until I had slept"

Maeve put her hands together, and begged Alice "Just please can you or Beau take my spot for today, I need to take a walk to clear my head" Alice sighed and hugged Maeve, "Fine but please be careful, remember your a fox and wolf hybrid princess, others will definitely want you for trade or money." Maeve nodded and stood "Don't worry I'll be careful and thanks for this" Alice smiled and hugged her

"You're not going to let me punch Isaac are you?"

Maeve shook her head laughing and Alice sighed "Fiiiiiiine" Maeve smiled and gave her one last hug "Your the best friend a secret princess could have, thank you"

Maeve then went to her room and grabbed an empty bag and put a book in it then snuck into the kitchen and took a few little snacks, then left.

Maeve walked for a while then finally stopped at a little lake and sat in front of a tree to read her book and eat, she grabbed her book out of her bag and then opened it to the page she was last on then sat back and read while eating an apple.

Sometime later she then heard some voices and slowly closed her book, but the book in her bag then threw the bag in the tree and leaped into the tree with it. She had trained for stuff like this just in case, so she hung her backpack on a branch and grabbed her pocket knife out of the side pocket, and held it at a -Ready- potion. She listened and waited, hearing the voices get closer and closer, as they got close enough she heard what they were saying. "Yea that Apollo guy ran from home is what they all say but I swear he was talking to a red FOX one night, so maybe he ran away with her~"

The other voice laughed "He's not the prince anymore anyway so who cares, his brother is going to be crowned soon, and then once he's king he promised that he would find that hybrid princess and either kill her or force her to marry him"

The first voice laughed "Yea! just matters on her looks that is" They laughed as they passed the tree that Maeve was in and she could see they were clearly both male and had grayish-blackish fur, luckily they were walking straight and away from the cave but what intrigued Maeve was they said that Apollo USE to be the prince, so he gave it up for her? she shook her head and waited to tell the wolves were fully gone then climbed down.

-"Maybe that's what he was hiding from me"-