Bumping 2...!

Mariam gasped.

"Oh...I'm sorry...!" Mariam apologized as she almost bumped into someone.

But luckily for her, she knew how to control her reins, so as to prevent anything bad that would have occured.

But the other person wasn't that lucky...

The person was a male, a soldier in fact.

When he and Mariam almost collided, and Mariam stopped moving, before even taking a turn, the other person dele to the floor.

"What in the world...?!" The person shouted.

"Can't you watch where you're going young lady...?" He yelled again as he got up.

"You young ladies around here are always trying to get the attention of the men around here, but let me break the news to you...'WE'RE NOT INTERESTED IN YOU...!' " He said as he tried to adjust his uniform.

"Why can't you follow the other corridor...?" He asked.

"Do you have to follow this one...?" As he said that, he lifted his head up and looked at the lady that had the guts to fall him down and still look at ha without helping him up.

When he raised his head up and saw Mariam, his mouth that was open and was ready to rain more insults on the impudent girl, suddenly close up as he smiled.

"Lady Mariam...!" He said as he bowed deeply.

Eyeing him, but bowing slightly, she greeted;

"Sir Lucas...!"

"You look lovely this evening...!" He complimented.

Wearing a blank expression, that had on neither a happy expression that she had been regarded as a 'Lady' by the the Kingdom's top soldier.

Nor of anger that she was being regarded as one of those ladies that had been trying to catch his attention.

She was just blank.

Lucas knew he had screwed it.

Knowing this, he gulped.

Wearing and awkward smile, he said;

"So...!" But he was cut short.

"What was your statement about when you said that you are not interested in the ladies around here that are interested in you...?" She asked.

Lucas gulped.

"Excuse me...?" He asked as he played dumb.

Mariam gave him a stern look that had him shiver.

Lucas opened and closed his mouth because words could not form.

But eventually, he opened his mouth and said;

"I...I didn't get what you were saying, just...so...that was why I asked you to repeat it again...nothing else?" He said as he stammered.

Mariam glared at him. But she didn't hesitate in repeating the question again.

"I said, what do you mean by you're not interested in any of the us around here...?" She asked.

"You know, you could be the Commander-in-chief of the royal guards Sir Lucas, but that doesn't mean you can use that authority anyhow, especially on the ladies that could be fit for you around here...!" Mariam added.

Lucas smiled as she said that.

When she was through saying that, he shook his head and said;

"Mi'lady, I didn't mean that...!"

"Oh really..?" Mariam asked as she put her hand on her waist with an eyebrow raised.

Gulping, he said;

"Yes, especially not to you...I mean, that could be said, I could say that to any other girl, or woman rather...!"

He quickly changed his tongue when he saw Mariam raise her eyebrow further.

Seeing this, he cleared his throat and said;

"What I meant to say was...what I said, could be told to any other woman but not you...!"

He paused and watched Mariam's facial expression.

She was still blank.

"It could be told to any other woman but not you...!" He repeated but was cut off.

"Why...?" Mariam asked.

"Pardon...?" He asked again.

Mariam gave him a stern look.

'You had better maintain yourself and give me the answer to the question that I asked and stop being a playboy right now, or else it won't be funny...!' Mariam thought.

Seeing that Mariam was thinking, he quickly apologized.

"I am so sorry, I really did not know what you said....!"

Seeing that Mariam still did not repeat the question she had asked.

He asked a soldier that was on his right.

"What did she say...?" He asked in whisper.

"She asked 'Why..? " The soldier replied.

Turning to look at the soldier properly, he asked;

"Why..?"

The soldier nodded.

"Why what...?" He asked again.

"Her questions l was directed to what you said earlier, about..." The soldier was cut off.

"What did I say earlier...?" Lucas asked.

"You said that you were not interested in any of the ladies around here and she was sort of correcting you, but you said that what you said could be said to any woman, but not to her...!" At the hearing of that, Lucas uttered a long;

"Ooooooohhhh....!"

Then he laughed.

"That was why she asked 'why' ?" The soldier informed.

Lucas laughed all the more.

'Women, you really do know how to pick out something minor in order to cause a fight...!' He thought of and smiled.

Seeing that Lucas he found the answer to his 'Pardon' question, Mariam picked up the front of her dress and said;

"Well I suppose you have found the answer to the question you ask if My Lord...;

"So if you don't mind, I will take my leave....!" He said and bowed a little and took a step to the right in order to move away from them. But as she took that step, Lucas moved right also, therefore blocking her.

Mariam saw the pair of feet in her way, sighed and then shook her head.

'TROUBLE!!' She thought.

Slowly, she raised her head up to look at the person in her way.

Once her eyes met his, she saw a sinister smile in his face.

"Where do you think you're going...?" He asked.

"I wasn't done with you...!" He said as he tilted his head to the side.

"Well it looked like you weren't even starting yet...!" She muttered as she looked away from him.

"What?" Lucas asked.

Mariam turned to look at Lucas, it was then she noticed something she hadn't seen before...

His eyes...