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Chapter 4

On the way back to the castle, George and Adrian were

too embarrassed for not having been able to protect Daniel earlier when Angela had managed to put her knife to his throat, to start a conversation. Daniel, on the other hand, was thinking of the beautiful and wild girl….

Finally, George, who was ten years older than Adrian and who was also Adrian's uncle, decided to break the silence. “Uh…, George cleared his throat, about earlier, we are sorry

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for what happened, your Highness. But it was so unpredictable, I mean I’ve been working in your service for as long as I remember but I would have never expected…”

“Enough with the excuses, relax, George. Do you see me mad?”

“No….”, George answered quickly, hoping that maybe he wouldn’t be punished for his carelessness. “Am I hurt?” Daniel went on, more to tease him and Adrian as he knew that both his men were expecting some sort of punishment.

“No….”

“Then let's not make a big deal out of it. As you could see, I can take care of myself.”

“Yes, your Highness”, George hurriedly agreed, “you are a very skilled warrior yourself but it was our duty to protect you!”

“If you insist and want me to totally forgive you two, I want you to do something for me.”

“Anything, your Highness”, this time Adrian butted in after he saw that the prince was in a good mood and that they wouldn’t be punished.

“First of all, don't you say a word to anyone about the girl, especially to the King, and second, I want you to go tomorrow morning and buy her medicine and take it to her. And two bars of chocolate, one for her, one for her roommate. Wrap everything nicely and give it to Miss Eveline, tell her to make sure the stuff gets to Angela, or she'll answer to me. Also don't tell Angela who I am and tell good Miss Eveline to keep quiet as well if she wants to keep her tongue in her mouth. That’s all.” Both men bowed and left him alone as they were already

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entering the castle halls. They were both happy that they got away that easy.

“Where were you, Ange? I've been worried about you.”, Rose said glad that Angela was finally back from who knows where. She hurried to her and hugged her. Then she saw her foot. “What happened? Are you hurt? What’s wrong with your foot?”

“I’ll be fine, Rose, don't worry. What about you? Did the medicine help? Because as far as I can tell, you are a lot better today.”, Angela said, trying to change the subject and turn Rose's attention towards herself.

“Yes, a lot better. Thank you, Ange. You are my best friend…If I think about it, you are my only friend”, Rose said with sadness in her voice.

“So what? Am I not enough?” and Angela pretended to be hurt, then they both burst into laughter. On the following morning, there was a gentle knock on their door. Angela stretched her arms and as she was about to fall back to sleep, the knock on the door was heard once again, this time a bit harder. Now she was sure she wasn't dreaming, there was somebody knocking on their door. She got up and as she didn’t hear anything from behind the door that could help her guess who it could have been, she opened it. Miss Eveline was standing in the doorway with a nicely wrapped packet of something. This only made her scratch her head in wonder. “This is for you, Angela! I don’t know what you did to deserve such attention… Anyway, it's for you!” and Miss Eveline, with her eyes like a hawk's, handed Angela the packet. “Huh!?” Angela was still sleepy and very confused. What was

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Miss Eveline talking about? A packet for her? Who could it be from? She had no relatives, no one who cared about her besides Rose, and she was sure it wasn't from Rose. Was this a mistake? She didn’t care, by the looks of it, there might be something nice inside, so why not take it? “Thank you”, but Miss Eveline was still holding it as if she didn’t really want to hand it to her. And by the way it looked, it was sealed and Miss Eveline was surely dying to find out what was inside. Angela had to snatch it from her hands which seemed to have glued themselves to it. Miss Eveline recomposed herself but was still standing in the doorway, hoping that Angela would open it right there and she could see what Daniel, the Prince of Green Valley had given her. To her disappointment, Angela got back to her room and closed the door behind her, leaving Miss Eveline to only guess what in the world that mysterious packet might have contained. Once back in the room, she put the packet on the bed and stared at it. Rose woke up, too, and seeing the beautifully wrapped packet, poked Angela in surprise. “Oh, looks like you have a secret admirer”, Rose said and started giggling.

“Oh, shut up, will you?” Angela retorted as she didn’t know what to make of it.

“Open it, open it!” Rose kept telling her, just as curious about its content as Miss Eveline.

Angela took her knife and cut its margins. Inside, there was medicine for her foot and two bars of chocolate with a note

which read “One for you and one for your roommate.”

“Chocolate!”, and Rose took one chocolate out. “Thank you,

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Ange!” and she took a bite which she kept in her mouth for as long as she could, tasting it till it all melted down her throat. That was a real treat, they only got chocolate on Christmas Eve, and it was the cheapest one. But this was delicious. And it wasn't even Christmas!

Angela took her medicine and then she too took a bite of chocolate. Indeed, it was tasty. She bet that not even good Miss Eveline had ever tasted such delicious chocolate. She knew who it was from but what she didn’t know was the fact that he was the Prince of the land, King Richard's only heir, so next in line to the throne of Green Valley.