'No. No. No' I thought to myself as he leaned in to kiss me.

I quickly put the back of my hand up to my lips.

"What's this?", Silas asked me as he leaned away from me. "I understand. It's shocking to be kissed by a prince but, it doesn't mean you don't have to experience it!"

"Jesus, how big is your ego?" I asked him, "Have you ever heard of consent? Both you and Caspian. Assholes!" I exclaimed and pushed him away.

I started to walk to the forest to get a moment of peace. But a hand-pulled me back.

"Who is Caspian?" asked the prince.

'Oh, crap' I thought to myself. 'Think come on say he is the gardener or something'

"Just a friend", I said and pushed his hand away.

He reached for my hand again and I pulled his arm behind his back. He tried to wiggle out of my hold, but I didn't let him.

"So, throwing daggers isn't the only thing you are good at? Good to know", the prince said.

I pushed him away from me and continued to walk to the forest.

"Oh, and Silas", I said not looking back, "Don't follow me."

"Whatever you say Princess", he said. I knew he was smirking.

When I finally arrived at the forest, I decided to check on the dead Pinkerton boy. I looked for the huge tree through the forest, but it took quite a while.

"Fucking finally", I said when I saw the tree. I walked towards it and fell at the base. I took a couple of deep breaths and finally calmed down when I heard the royal horns.

The horns meant one thing; the castle was under attack. Even in our small town, we heard of the rebellions. The east wasn't fond of our king and his family. Once or twice a year there was a rebellion, but this one was the fourth this year. Things were getting bad with our relations to the other kingdoms. But I never knew to what extent these rebellions went to with violence.

"Fuck, fuck, fuck", I said to myself as I look around and tried to find a place to hide. Except being in a huge forest leaves you with only one option, to climb. But the problem was that I never learned how to climb a tree.

I pulled out my dagger from my harness and tied my dress around my legs creating makeshift trousers when I heard a voice behind me.

"Well, you must be the famous mate of our beloved", said a man behind me. I quickly turned around. It was a dark-haired boy who looked to be in his 20s. He had a scar across his eye. He had a smirk on his face that made him look 10 times hotter than he should.

"So what if I am?" I asked him.

"Mhm, I think you will make a perfect hostage against this amazing kingdom. Don't you?" He said.

I choked up a laugh, "And what makes you think that I will be coming with you?"

"I would hate to see you get hurt, but if you want, we can do this the hard way." He said with a sigh.

Suddenly he lunged towards me with a dagger. I took the arm with a dagger and twisted his arm backward in a bone-breaking way.

"Fuck!", he yelped out, "So, the bitch has moves. Well, guess what?"

He threw his foot backward tripping mine and pinning me to the ground.

"I can fight too", he said with a smile.

I threw my forehead forward towards his nose. I heard a crunch and blood sprayed across my face and Caspians' mother's dress. The man fell off me.

"Sorry Caspian", I said pulling myself up on my feet.

We started to circle each other. "You fight well", said the man.

"Are you saying that because of the broken nose or because of the hurt pride?" I said with a sad face.

"I am saying it because it's true", he said. I lunged towards him with my dagger in hand. He deflected it as I predicted and slammed my elbow into his face.

"You will pay for that", he said through gritted teeth as he lunged towards me with his dagger in hand. I swerved but my reaction was too slow and he nicked my shoulder.

A burning pain went through my shoulder. "Shit!" I yelled and he smiled.

"Karma's a bitch" he exclaimed. Anger fueled me as I was about to throw my dagger at his stomach when I heard my name being called.

I turned around to where the voice came from. I realized that the man might come at me when my back was turned and turned around cursing myself for doing something so stupid. But when I turned around, he was nowhere to be found.

"Fuck, I lost him," I said sighing. I looked down at my appearance, I was covered in blood.

"Aloia, where are you?" I heard a familiar voice call out.

"I'm here!" I yelled back, as I undid the dress and tried to make myself look formal.

"Aloi- Shit! What happened to you?!" Caspian yelled out rushed to me.

"One of the rebels found out that I was the prince's 'mate' so he decided he wanted to take me. Don't worry most of this blood is his." I said calmly starting to walk back to the castle. I needed to go to the medical wing before my wound on my shoulder starts to get infected.

"Jesus, Aloia" Caspian said catching up to me. "Are you hurt anywhere?"

"Just a scratch on my right shoulder", I said.

"Let me see", he said standing in front of me, he grabbed my left arm and pulled it towards him.

I let out a hiss of pain. "Aloia! This isn't a scratch! This is a dagger wound! We need to get you back to the castle" Caspian exclaimed.

"Where do you think I was going?" I said. "Oh, and sorry about your mother's dress, I didn't mean for it to get this... dirty"

"Don't worry." He said, "Blood washes out."

When I finally got to the castle, the prince took one look at me and his eyes grew to twice their size.

"What happened to you?" he said rushing over to me and scanning me for injuries.

"When you roped me into being your mate, you never mentioned I would have to fight your enemies", I hissed at me through gritted teeth.

"I'll get her to the hospital, she has a gash on her shoulder", said Caspian standing next to me.

"It's all right", said Silas "I will get her there".

"With all due respect, my prince" replied Caspian glaring at him "I was the one who found her, so I can take her".

"Can you both shut up!" I yelled at both of them. "I can go alone or both of you can go, I don't care but I need to get this stitched up"

"Fine", mutter Caspian.

"The more the merrier", Silas gritted. As they walked me to the medical wing. Nurses were already treating other soldiers, but I was rushed to a cot where a nurse attended to me.

"I have to pour an antiseptic on the wound to kill anything infected in it. This will sting", the nurse warned.

"Don't worry", I assured her.

"You might want to hold on to someone's hand", she offered.

"Here", Silas said offering his arm.

"I'm okay, it's nothing I can't handle", I told him and the nurse.

"Okay then", the nurse "Ready?" she asked.

I nodded my head and squeezed my eyes shut.

Suddenly a burning liquid was poured on my arm. I felt like my left arm was on fire.

"Fuck!", I yelled out grabbing Silas' hand out of instinct.

"All done!", the nurse said happily.

I opened my eyes and sighed. All eyes were on me when I realized that men weren't used to hearing women use vulgar words.

"Oops", I muttered.

I turned to look at Silas and Caspian. Silas was staring at me with shock.

"What Silas?" I asked.

"You are still holding my hand." He said.

"Oh", I said and quickly let go of his arm. I heard a growl escape Caspian's throat. I quickly turned to face him and realized he was glaring me down with possessiveness.

'Tonight is going to be a long night', I thought to myself and sighed.

"Your wound doesn't seem as deep, so you won't need stitches, but I will still wrap it in cloth to prevent infection," said the nurse, "This won't hurt"

"Okay", I replied and closed my eyes, trying to relax but I felt two pairs of eyes staring me down.

"Silas and Caspian, if you both don't stop staring at me, I will cut both of your eyes out with a dagger," I said with closed eyes.

"Sorry", both of them coughed out and twisted their heads in other directions.

As soon as the nurse was done with bandaging up my arm Caspian whispered into my ear "You want to hold his hand? Guess it's time to teach you a lesson"

'Fuck, no not again I wasn't getting a hickey I need to think fast'.

"Well, thank you for a splendid time boys. Until next time." I said smiling, then I turned around and started to run in a direction away from Caspian.