Chapter 43 The Birthday: Let Her Go - 3 (Part 4)

"Ryan, can you at least tell me exactly where we are going to?" They have been riding on the horse for a long while now only stoping once every thirty minutes, but he has not shown any signs of them arriving at their destination.

"We are almost there Beth, just be a little more patient."

"And how do I know you are not taking me to a place where you can hide my body after killing me." Beth said, her words was more of a statement than a question.

Ryan felt his face harden. He didn't like that she thought of him that way. He would not care if someone else said that to him, but he cared a lot about what she thought of him.

His hands clenched tightly on the reins of the horse.

"I would never do that." He said through gritted teeth.

"That was not what you said last time." She said looking at the trees as they rode past them.

...

"Your Highness, King Albert is here. At the front gate." The guard said with his head bowed.

"Let him in."

After the guard left, he called one of the maids nearby ordering her to tell Ryan to bring the Auxatarian princess into the throne room where he was currently at.

"Give her back to me. Just let her go and I will forget that all this never happened." Said King Albert with a look of anger immediately he walked into the room.

"I have no use for your daughter. She would be here-" King Hooke was interrupted by the maid who ran up to him with a frantic look on her face.

"Your Highness, his Majesty and the p- princess, they-"

"Speak faster and stop stuttering." Ordered King Hooke.

"They... The princess is not in the room and I cannot find his Majesty either."

"What!?!" King Hooke flared up as he stood up from his throne. "Tell the guards to search the entire vicinity as well as the villages. They could not have gone far."

"I swear on my throne, if anything happens to my daughter I will wreck havoc on this Kingdom!" King Albert threatened.

"And if the reverse is the case, then I will make sure you bathe in the blood of your people! Of course you will not be spared." King Hooke retorted aggressively send a glare at King Albert.

"Nothing should happen to my daughter." King Albert said as he left the throne room and out of the palace.