Princess Sophia''s POV


    "Not again," I muttered under my breath as I caught a glimpse of Ivan walking into my cell with something in his hands.


    As usual, I suspected it to be food as he was always fond of bringing that to my cell. It was a gesture that I very much appreciated. What I didn''t appreciate were his constant visits as I was beginning to get tired of all of that.


    As much as I loved the food as it saved me from a whole lot of problems mostly caused by me, I knew it was his tactic to buy himself a moment or two to talk to me and I despised that fact.


    As he slowly walked in with a smile on his face, I felt so tempted to just walk up to him and knock that smile off his face as quickly as possible. But I couldn''t. I was restrained by the stupid chains and even if I wasn''t, he was too useful to me for something like that to be done. Yet, I craved it so much.


    I wondered why he didn''t just send a maid or another guard; just anyone else, to get it. It''ll have been much easier that way as I wouldn''t have to bother about a lot of things.


    "You know you could have just sent someone else and saved yourself all the stress," I remarked in a coy manner, as soon as he dropped the food in front of me."You don''t always have to do these things yourself, you know."


    "I know that, Princess. I''d have done that but I couldn''t. I''d even told a maid to get it before calling her back. I just wanted to see you, Princess. I''ve missed you so much and I just felt the need to be around you."


    He paused and looked at my face. He probably wanted to know how I felt and as much as I wanted to hide the disgust that I felt, it was just so hard to do that.


    "I heard that the Alpha King and the Luna Queen came to see you here in your cell the other day," he added, after observing my visage. "I also wanted to know what they discussed with you. I was very curious."


    I was irked by that statement. "Did he just have to be a busybody?" I asked myself, struggling to find out why he was just so nosy. I just wanted to send him out that very instant as I felt so much anger inside of me.


    But on second thought, I knew I had to calm down and take things easy. Treating him badly might have felt so good at that time but the consequences were surely going to be dire. He had been so helpful to me for the past few days; more than anyone else that I could remember and he did things for me with so much dness in his heart. Although, I didn''t know if it got me even more pissed.


    I was already on his good side and it was important for me to stay there. Looking at all that he had been doing and the way he always rted with me, the only way that I could reciprocate that energy was to just talk to him. That was all he wanted; to see that I enjoyed hispany. Even if I didn''t, I had to try somehow to pretend that I did. Yet, it got increasingly harder each day.


    "Well, they came here to pay me a courtesy visit, in their words. They wanted to know how I was faring in the dungeon that they kept me in," I narrated. "They told me that they were going to banish Mrs Scott from the Pack. I wonder if they''ve done that already. Then they asked me what punishment I wanted..."


    "That''s ridiculous!" He interjected.


    "You can say that again, Ivan. They simply wanted to mock me and they seeded. When they saw that I wasn''t going to yield to their cheap tactics of making me feel like they had any kind of love for me, they had no choice but to leave the cell. I did throw it in somehow that I regretted being their child though. I just had to."


    "I don''t know why but I keep having this feeling that they''re going toe around," Ivan said. "I think they''ll likely let you go soon without any form of punishment."


    I didn''t care. I had already made up my mind to despise them and never imagine anything gooding to me from them.


    "I''m not going to wait around for their mercy. I''m not that pathetic. As soon as the door opens up, I''ll be out of this stupid Pack for good, never to return, unless there''s a revenge mission to carry out.''


    "Now that you mentioned, my Princess, Dn will soon be here with his people to rescue you and since you''re going to run away with him, what n do you have for us?" He asked.


    I paused, trying to get his question very well, which I did after a few seconds. "What ns are you even talking about?" I asked him, feigning ignorance.


    "I''d love to leave with you to Dn''s Pack, my Princess," he confessed. "I can''t afford to be here without you. Ever since we reunited here, I said in my heart that I wouldn''t let you go anymore. I''ll go with you wherever you choose to go."


    I was livid. How dare he mention that to my face. I knew we had a lot to do with each other and indeed, it was capable of blinding people from proper reasoning but he seemed to be forgetting that I was the princess and he was just a guard. We were just having a fling, nothing else. Someone like him should have known that and had it not been for my chains, he''d have had no guts to say something like that or even mean it.


    "You can''t follow me to his Pack," I said, rolling my eyes. "If you do so, the guards in the Pack will quickly notice my absence and it''ll be easier to track us and get me back here in the cell. Is that what you want?"


    "But I can find a way for us to do it without getting noticed," he tried to convince me. "I can..."


    "All the ns you have in your head are probably just uncalcted risks which may lead us into further trouble. I might even get killed too. If you truly want me to be free, then you''d allow me to leave the cell with Dn''s men without you."


    He shook his head for a while and then nodded in agreement. "It''s fine. As long as you''re safe."


    He looked disappointed but I was ted. It was my n to finally be rid of him because as much as he loved me so much, I didn''t feel the same way. I just wanted to use him and after my escape, he''d be a liability to me and I didn''t want that.


    He drew close to me and touched my cheeks, trying to lean in for a kiss but I pushed him away. "I can''t. Not right now. I''m so tired and I just want to rest."


    He stood, clearly unhappy and turned to leave and I knew I had to do something to appease him. "Hey, Ivan," I called out to him as he turned around. "I won''t be tired forever, you know. You shoulde backter so we can spend some time together. I''d love that."


    He finally smiled and nodded his head before turning to leave while I just snickered.