Damien couldn’t bathe. When the forbidden tone of Victoria rang in his mind, with the message “He doesn’t like to be kept waiting”, he only brushed hastily and tossed his clothes on before running out of the room.He halted when he met two burly guards in front of his door. They gave him a once over before one of them said “Follow me”Damien tugged at his well-worn shirt as he followed the silent guard down the staircase. He remembered that the king had said he was on the same floor with the princess so he looked around to gauge where she could be staying but the guard was moving so fast that Damien couldn’t even get the lay of the land, so to say.When he heard snickers from passing maids and royal officials, he knew that it must have something to d with his shabby wear. Every one of them was formally dressed and their uniforms seemed to be according to their post yet he looked so frumpy beside even the maids.The guard nodded at two guards that stood in front of a tall, intricately

Damien couldn’t believe that his wish would be granted so easily. He thought the princess wouldn’t want him to be out of her sight as she had stated earlier and he was fully expecting her to deny his request. But she had not done that. She added an extra benefit to it. Damien was happy that he get to go back to school again yet he was a bit sad about the fact that his uniform was now ruined. It was far from the pristine wear that it once was. he finally resolved to wear his regular wear to school the following day. He knew he had asked too much of Sky and others already but he had no choice but to ask him the next day for ways to get a new uniform. Damien found out that he was getting tired of asking people for favours, especially when those people could get hurt from being connected to him. He had an inkling that Sybil wouldn't just let him off if he went back to school. He took her threat to make life miserable for him if he went back to school seriously and he knew that things we

“You want to do what?” King Saldus asked with a narrowed gaze on his daughter, who suddenly reminded him of her younger self as she twiddled her thumbs. She once had that habit when she wanted to ask him for something important to her. Twiddling her thumbs, even as she looked straight at him like she was not anxious for his reply. Isabella looked away momentarily from her father’s penetrating gaze as she repeated with a shrug. “Dad, you have always wanted me to go out. To mingle with people my age. To live a normal life. Isn’t that the reason why you set up that ridiculous show of having men parade themselves for me to choose from? So, I am saying it now that I will like to finally go out there and…mingle. You can quit my tutorship programs. Tell the tutors to stop coming or keep them. You don’t even have to worry about the fact that I am not making any friends too. I am sure that I will make plenty of friends in that school too. I can just complete my high school programme there and

“What? Did I hear that right? Who is…” “Let’s go now!” Damien said urgently to the driver before the latter could get to him. The driver’s eyes widened in surprise with his hands still outstretched for Damien’s bag, then he quickly nodded as Damien passed him and he entered the car since Damien had already opened his door by himself anyway.Damien did not look out of the window till the car left the school premise. He knew that the school would be abuzz with the news.He was exasperated about the fact that he would have more problems to deal with from that moment on. “Why didn’t the driver do as I said?” he thought abruptly.He looked up to see the driver giving him a curious look “I told you to go back” he said to the driver.The driver shook his head slightly as if trying to dislodge something and he said “Princess said I must wait for you. Princess said I must bring you back”Then he concentrated on his driving. Damien wondered what happened between the time the driver had left a

“Uhhh,” Cade’s friends jeered as Damien turned back to face Cade.For a moment uncertainty flickered over Cade’s face when he saw the direct, stern look that Damien directed at him. Then the look was gone as Damien bent down to pick the keys from the floor.“Yes, Dog. Fetch for your master” Cade said as he stretched his hand forward for Damien to give him his keys back. His friends were all laughing and jeering while some whipped out their phones to record.Damien could feel Sky seething in anger beside him but the latter seemed to have decided to let him handle it. He moved towards Cade slowly.“See what I said? You just have to treat this trash and nobodies just the way they should be and they will fall in…ouch, my hand”It was so fast that even Sky hadn’t seen it coming. None of them saw the actual act, not even those with the cameras.All they could see was that Damien passed beside Cade so fast and now, Cade was on the floor cradling his hand as he yelled that it was broken.“Tha