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The woman who had been in the carriage with him was now standing outside with her handkerchief in her hand as she tried to clean the blood on her neck.

She pulled the handkerchief from her neck and glanced at the red stained handkerchief with disgust before moving an angry gaze to him.

"What a mess," she hissed. "Little kids shouldn't try to do the work of adults. Do you think you will be able to bring her from that city? With the number of immortals and the number of supernaturals there?"

"What you think will happen to you and the king when the princess finds out the truth about her identity along with what you joined hands with the king to do to her family?" he asked while glaring at the witch before him as he took his time to step down from the carriage.

"Do you think I will sit by and watch you whisper some bed night stories to the princess or she might be willing to hear the bed night stories your mother sold her soul to get?"

"You know she dislikes you way more than she dislikes me," he reminded the sorcerer as he continued advancing towards her.

"I think I know that more than you do. She hated me but trusts me. Why do think she headed to the very place she knows death awaits her?"

The Duke scoffed at the confidence the witch had in the trust the princess had in her.

"She is going there not because of you but because she wants to safe her cousin. I think I know her a lot more than you do. I will safe the prince and there won't be any need for her to go there."

The sorcerer closed her eyes and looked up at the clear blue sky and smiled when she felt the cold wind on her face.

She opened her eyes and looked at the young man and found out that she could still not know what he was thinking even after their bickerings.

She had really underestimated him. He was clearly acting like a fool for love again with every word that escaped his lips.

He was talking with carelessness but in his eyes, she could not the care he took in every word he spoke.

He hated her but he was channelling it such a childish manner probably to sway her mind for the real anger he had bottled up.

It's funny to someone watching but annoying and scary to the witch who pride herself in her ability to read people's mind.

She had read the mind of the most secretive people in the kingdom including the king and the princess but this guy was giving her a whole new challenge.

With a smile she turned away and held her hands together behind her and inhaled.

"The princess is only a day away from their capital as we speak. She is also under the protection of the strongest and strangest being in the world. If you are brave enough, go get her out of their dungeon."

The Duke clinched his fist trying his best to keep his emotions under check. He glared at the witch with a huff before walking away from the carriage to his horse.

He galloped fast as soon as he mounted his horse. Soon, all the witch could see was dust.

She walked back to the carriage and entered. As soon as she sat down, her face changed to that of the princess.

With a sigh that could not tell anyone of what she was thinking, she wore the veil the Duke removed.

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"Only a day away and I will be able to meet with my family and get to sleep on a bed made of actually cotton or fur or feathers . . . Whatever but I will get to sleep on a bed," the girl said rubbing her hands together.

"Lucky for you alone, right?" the princess asked with a hint of self mockery.

"Yeah, I know nothing of the fate that awaits you in the palace," the girl said as a matter of fact.

"What is your plan? To kill the king?" the little girl asked watching the princess closely with the fire brightening her beautiful face.

"Yes," the princess did not hesitate the least to tell her the truth.

She was sure the girl could not kill her since it was her mission to protect her and the girl believed that she could not kill the king even with her knife.

"What if I can't let you do that?" the girl asked. It was not hard to miss the hatred and anger even in her beautiful and innocent looking large eyes.

"I don't know. He most pay for the death of my family members," the princess replied once again without hesitation while she was busy cutting meat to eat that she missed the look in the girl's eyes.

"Will you believe what I say? I can kill you to prevent that from happening," the girl warned her.

"Go ahead," the princess gave her the go-ahead.

The girl chuckled finding this very interesting.

Aurora might have acted like she did not take what the girl said seriously but when it was time for her to sleep, she tried her best to stay away.

They were still away from the capital and it won't be a bad for her to kill to protect her king's assassin.

She could not last long and she finally fell asleep and she had barely closed her eyes and her grip on the hilt of her knife have loosened considerably when she felt movement from the other side of the improvised bed where the girl was sleeping.

It was only a matter of few seconds without time for her to react or save herself.

The knife was now away from her and she opened her eyes just in time for the girl to jump and knife over her.

"The king is my father. I will be a bad daughter to take you into the capital in your complete state."