Wife of The Demon Prince
Chapter 87: Saving the thief

Chapter 87: Saving the thief

The man outside yelled again, "Who the heck is in there?!"

"Y-you can’t go in there, the crown Prince’s guest is in the bathroom_" the maid tried to explain, but was cut off by the man leading the other soldiers.

"Break open the damn door!" He commanded and stepped aside for his men to break the door.

THUD! THUD!

Anne’s heart started to to beat faster as she heard a sound of something striking the door handle. She tried to stay as calm as possible. Her heart thrummed against her ribcage, but being nervous wouldn’t help at the moment.

"Hey, thief. How am I going to get you out of this problem you put yourself in? I...I don’t know what to do...or maybe I should just hand you over to the soldiers to save myself, Humph!" She rambled, then heard him murmur something,

"...No...They will kill me..."

"You don’t want to die, right?...then You have to try to stand."

There was no time to hesitate. Anne quickly stood up and closed the window which Merek had came in from. She then untied the strings on her chemise.

Merek’s black orbs trembled at the lady’s unexpected behavior. After Anne pushed her chemise off her shoulders, she then crouched down to help the fallen Merek into the bathtub full of petals.

"Argh!" Merek cried in pain as the water touched his wound, but he couldn’t afford to care about such things now. He needed to survive for His highness!

At his pained cry, Anne then said, "It’s all your fault for coming to steal in the palace! What were you even thinking?" She scolded, "Now be patient in there unless you want to get caught or even killed." She advised.

Merek’s expression seemed to change at her scolding. Out of everyone, he wondered why she was helping him when she had threatened to expose him at the grand ball. As Merek’s weight rested in the bathtub, the water sloshed over the tub and washed the blood off the floor.

However, that wasn’t enough, Anne quickly took a handful of rose petals from the basket and scattered them on the ground to cover the blood.

THUD!

The sound of the soldiers hitting the door rang louder than before. She closed her eyes tightly biting down hard on her lips and she resolutely took off her chemise, which was already off her shoulders. Suddenly the door flung open and the angry soldiers burst inside.

Anne quickly covered her chest with her hands and looked at them with her eyes wide open in shock. Her rear was completely exposed to all the men, some were forced to turn their heads to look away, while some looked at the beauty in front of them.

"Ahhhh! Perverts! Get out of here you shameless fools!" Anne exclaimed loudly hunching to protect her body. It was a disgraceful act for a lady’s body to be exposed to utter strangers, and a hoarde of brutes in the form of soldiers to be exact. Furthermore, they were all men.

The men exchanged looks before exiting the bathroom and slammed the door shut. But the soldier who pushed the maid earlier spoke behind the closed door, "My lady, can you please put on your clothes, we are here on a mission to search for a fugitive. I will give you two minutes_"

However before he could finished talking, Hamon’s soldiers showed up at the scene. And Oliver was the one leading them, "What the hell are you doing here? How dare you come in here without the crown Prince’s permission?! " Oliver yelled in rage.

"It was an order from her majesty to search the crown Prince’s entire residence!" The soldier retorted angrily.

Oliver smirked, "I can see you have grown back your wings to dare bring your soldiers in here without a permission, Cale!"

Anne who was inside heard the commotion, she crept silently towards the door and listened closely. She heard someone pulling out their swords. Though she could not see it with her own eyes.

"For a long time now, I have wanted to taste my sword on you, Cale!" She heard Oliver said to the other arrogant soldier who broke in. It seemed that they were about to fight. She could not hide the man here if they came into the bathroom again. The previous solution was only temporary.

_What should I do now?_ she swallowed nervously. Then heard the man called Cale yelled, "Enough Oliver! I will take my men and leave, but your Prince will have to explain this himself to her majesty."

Oliver chuckled, "And you will have to explain to him why you trespassed, idiot!" He remarked mockingly.

"Let’s go soldiers!" Cale commanded.

Finally, Anne heard the sound of footsteps walking away. As she was listening, the frightened maids hurried back towards the bathroom door, "Oh Lord. A-are you alright, my lady?" The maid asked as she tried to push the door opened, but Anne quickly pressed her weight on the door, "Don’t come inside, I don’t want anybody to see me like this again..." She mumbled.

"I am sorry, my lady. We tried to stop them from entering...should I call lady Ara?" She asked.

"No don’t, my sister won’t take this lightly. I’ll tell her myself tomorrow. You may leave, and please don’t let anyone in for the night, I want to sleep."

The maids bowed their heads even though Anne couldn’t see them, "Yes, my lady." They responded and hurried out of the room without saying anything else.

Anne quickly pulled on a robe hanging in the bathroom. Then went out to the main bedroom where the maids had just left, she then locked the door so no one will be able to enter again, as the bathroom door was already broken by that bull of a soldier!

"Haaa." She took in a deep breath to calm her nerves. She looked down at her hand and saw it was trembling. She’d let those jerks see her naked because of that thief?

_I left him in the tub!_ she realized he was still in the tub and rushed back to the bathroom. And saw he was already sitting almost unconscious inside the bathtub. She then strode towards him to pull him out, worried that he would die on her, as his face was as pale as a ghost.

Anne pulled his hand around her neck and helped him out of the tub. The simple action of carrying the weight of an adult male around her neck, weakened her. At last, she managed to bring him out and leaned him against the bathroom wall.

At her actions, Merek weakly opened his heavy eyes and saw how she was helping him sit straight, "Why are...you helping me, lady?" He asked weakly.

Anne stopped what she was doing and glanced at his black orbs. Why was she helping him? "Because I don’t want you to die, if they take you with them am sure you would have been a dead man by now." She said in a matter of fact tone.

"That’s of no concern to you if I die...I have to leave_"

Anne pushed him back to the floor as he tried to stand, "Stay still!" She warned, the fact remained that he would not have been safe had she not hid him from those men.

_isn’t one supposed to give gratitude for saving one’s life? This thief is really rude!_

She shook her head, and tried to remove the vest he wore so she could take a look at his bleeding wound, but Merek smacked her hands away from him,

"You don’t have to...leave it alone."

Anne shot him a glare, "If you dare hit my hand away or even move again...I will smack you with my leg regardless of you wounds. So don’t waste your little energy on stopping me again." She warned like a mother nagging her child.

Whether it was because of her warning or because he didn’t have the energy to respond to her anymore, but Merek stayed still and quiet and watched her do her thing.

Anne managed to remov the torn vest he wore, revealing his abdominal muscles, because of his slim appearance, she was surprised to see how strongly built he was underneath, but...his body was covered with different scars. She halted as she noticed burned scars on his chest.

_What kind of work is this thief doing to receive these much scars on his body?_

She glanced up at his eyes. Without asking him anything she tore a strip of her gown which she’d taken off before the man came in from the window. She then tied it around his waist to stop the bleeding.

Anne didn’t know what to do next after that. And she didn’t want to ask for her sister’s help, because it wouldn’t be a good idea in such circumstances. Ara would never allow her to help the man or be near a stranger. Furthermore, she had no idea what the man had done to be hunted down in such a way. If he was here because he had bad intentions towards Hamon...

It wouldn’t be a good idea to involve Ara into it, because if her sister knew she had helped the man who had bad intentions towards her finance, it wouldn’t be good. Anne probably shouldn’t have saved him in the first place.

_But I can’t just let him die, I want to be the predator to hunt him down not some stupid angry bulls, he’s my prey and after he gets better, I will continue with my hunt for him!_ Anne thought to herself.

Ever since she had met him at the grand ball, she had always been looking forward on bumping into him again. So she could intimidate him again. It was fun to her being the predator, and she wouldn’t let anyone take away her game!

Anne didn’t know why, but she felt the urge to protect the thief from harm of those soldiers.

_Don’t worry, I will protect and hunt you down, mister thief._ she smiled and glanced at Merek’s face, his eyes were closed as if he was sleeping. While his half bangs was pushed upwards as his hair was wet from staying under the tub water. He looked more handsome with the bangs not covering his face.