Chapter 21

The next morning Alice went to go wake up Maeve only to find a note on her bed instead of her. After she read the note Alice screamed and Isaac, Apollo, and Beau all came in at the same time, right as Beau saw her tears he ran to her side and hugged her "Shhhh it's ok, breath and tell me what happened"

Apollo kneeled beside Alice "Where's Maeve"

Alice gave Apollo the note then cried into Beau's chest.

Apollo read the letter aloud, "I'm sorry my friends but I have to go alone and find my mom then help her take back the throne. Apollo, I know your secret but it's ok, Alice is small and could get caught easily, and Isaac...you and Apollo need to get along.

I love you all and I promise to try and survive" Isaac dropped to the floor

and Apollo gripped the letter, he then dropped the letter and lifted Isaac off the floor by the collar of his shirt "It's your fault she left!! If you didn't push her away-"

Isaac then punched him in the stomach and yelled in his face as Apollo dropped him, "If you didn't meet her at all we would have still had our perfect marriage!"

Alice stood and yelled "BOTH OF YOU ARE TO FUCKING BLAME"

Apollo and Isaac both shut up and blinked at her, while Beau smirked for, he was impressed. Alice hadn't cussed like that in a while, let alone said the word fuck. She breathed and spoke with anger still in her voice "You both are to blame for fighting all the fuckin time, you stressed her out with the marriage and with the lies of being the prince, so you both are to blame"

She sat down and rubbed her head "You both better learn to get along before we go to save her"

Apollo and Isaac sighed then shook hands "Truce for now," Apollo said and Isaac nodded. "We should make a game plan first," Apollo said, and the others agreed so they all calmed themselves then sat down and talked about their plan all day long: getting ideas, changing them, and finding out what to do or say if trouble comes their way.

They all packed their stuff that night and got ready for what's to come, Alice of course slept with Beau in his room because she was still a bit sad about the whole thing.

Little did they know that someone in the night was sneaking the food and supplies off somewhere else to make sure that no one followed Maeve in time.