Chapter 411 Escort (7)
We just spent another hour sitting there by the fire.
During this, the princess slowly moved closer and closer to me until she was sitting right beside me.
I had tried moving away at first, but then the butler appeared beside me.
He was taking care of the fire, but it wasn't as if he couldn't do that from the other side of the fire. He chose to sit down right beside me so that I couldn't move as he took care of the fire.
So I had no choice but to let the princess come closer until she was sitting right beside me.
It felt very awkward since she didn't say a single thing…
Not to mention, I couldn't even see her expression because of the cloak, so I had no idea what she was even thinking…
Only when she was satisfied did the princess stand up and head to the carriage.
With that, the butler started cleaning everything up and we were heading back to the city.
For me, it was a very exhausting experience since my mind had been turning the entire time, trying to figure out what was happening. I had expected to be killed during this, but…that didn't seem to be the case.
On the way back, the princess also sat beside me instead of sitting opposite of me.
At this point, I just gave up and let her do what she wanted.
After all, I had already guessed what this trip was about.
It was to let the princess have fun and I was just the escort for that. The herb collecting mission was nothing more than a ruse…
But why would they choose me out of all people?
Was it because I was around the same age as the princess?
But if that was the case, there were plenty of other people that could have fulfilled this role.
Was it because I was married?
So were they not worried that I would do anything to the princess?
Unless someone had a death wish, there wasn't a single person that would dare do a thing to the princess.
So there shouldn't have been anything to worry about.
I just couldn't help being confused about all of this.
After entering the city, the first place that we went was the fourth prince's manor.
The princess got off here before the carriage sent me back to the residence prepared for the dwarves.
As I was leaving, I became more and more confused.
Just what had today been for?
…
"Did you have fun?" The fourth prince said the moment that the princess came into the room.
The princess took off her cloak and revealed a face that had a wide smile on it.
That was more than enough to answer the fourth prince's question.
The fourth prince gave a sigh before saying, "Don't let yourself go too far or else you'll chase him away."
The princess' smile twitched when she heard this before it slowly disappeared.
She took a deep breath and said, "I know, you don't need to worry."
Then she looked at him with a smile and said, "Thank you for setting all of this up. I'm sure that it wasn't easy to escape royal father's eyes."
The fourth prince revealed a faint smile when he heard this.
He knew that she was teasing her.
He knew that she was jabbing at him since without the approval of their royal father, it was impossible for her, the princess, to stay out this late.
The fourth prince just said with the same smile on his face, "As long as you're happy, we're happy."
The princess revealed a wide smile after hearing this.
The fourth prince then asked, "How did it go?"
As soon as he asked this, he felt regret.
It was like opening up Pandora's box by asking this question.
The princess didn't hesitate at all to tell him about everything that had happened.
For the fourth prince who was still alone, to listen to the love story of another person like this really was hard for him. It was like being force fed dog food as a single dog…
But since he was a good brother, he just sat there and listened to the whole thing.
He didn't just listen, but also gave comments from time to time to show that he was actually listening.
The princess went on for an hour before she was finally done.
But it wasn't because she had run out of things to tell him, rather it was because her throat was getting dry and she was getting hungry. She wanted to have some dinner first before she continued to tell him more about this.
The fourth prince told the servants to prepare dinner while the princess went to go change and wash up.
The bitter smile on his face made it clear that he knew what he would be in for during dinner.
Still, what could he do?
After the princess left, there was a cloaked figure that suddenly appeared in the room.
The fourth prince wasn't scared or surprised at all by the appearance of this cloaked figure. He just looked at the cloaked figure and then reached his hand out as if he was expecting something.
The cloaked figure took out a document from his cloak and presented it to the fourth prince.
The fourth prince opened it and looked it over for a bit before narrowing his eyes.
He looked at the cloaked figure and asked, "Is this true?"
The cloaked figure just gave a simple nod in response.
The fourth prince knitted his brows and was silent for a bit before finally saying, "Go and make preparations. We can't just let them do whatever they want."
The cloaked figure gave another nod before disappearing just as suddenly as they had appeared.
When the fourth prince was alone in the room, he rubbed his knitted brows in silence before saying in a soft voice, "Brothers, if this is how you want to play, then don't blame me."
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