The Prince's Choice ✔

Chapter Forty Six • Where have you been

I never was the one for patience lol. I cannot sit on this chapter any longer. I am way to excited about it lol.

Warning! Very mature content ahead! (Yay lol).

Do NOT read if you are easily offended.

I spared no expenses (even though I wanted to die at one point lol) on a very special scene and I will tell you that it is about 1900 words of pure... nope I won't tell you! You'll just have to read it for yourself (LOL). Yes... well... it took a lot out of me to make it as "perfect" as I wanted it to be, so please no hateful comments about it!

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-William-

It had been months now... Or one and a half or something like that to be more precise. Nevertheless William was on the brink of insanity. He always seemed to be five steps behind them no matter how much he tried to think ahead.

A fury was simmering inside of him. A fury aimed towards Loren for being absolutely excellent at hiding Jade from him. The fury was also aimed towards himself for not being able to find them. Loren had proven himself more than capable of keeping Jade away from harm and threat - and even William himself apparently.

As he rode down a road he caught a sign with multiple names of villages and close by places. William rode up to it and studied them all... The last one he already knew... It was Jade's home village.

To venture there is with my life at stake... He thought and pressed his lips together and clenched the reins in his hands. Jade's father is going to kill me...

He didn't want to go there... but he had to... There could be a chance that they had gone that way. It made sense. Jade would be safest in her own home with her father there... and Loren.

"What do you think, Dimma?" William muttered and patted the stallion on the side of his neck. Dimma threw his head to the sides and exhaled to signal that he was tired. "I know... I know you're tired my friend." William sighed and felt bad. He had pushed Dimma too hard while looking for Jade. The poor horse would need some well-deserved rest as soon as he found her. "I guess we will go to Thornstead..." William sighed. "At least when her father has killed me, you can get some rest..." He told the horse and then spurred him into a trot.

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As William rode through the village he had a bad feeling in his stomach. If Jade wasn't here, or even worse; hadn't passed through, he almost felt like he would never find her. Then he would have to go to the North and wait for her and Loren there.

Faces belonging to skeptical and suspicious villagers studied him closely and followed him as he rode past them. Some even seemed to recognize him, which was impossible... He hadn't shown himself out in the open here, expect for when he and Thomas had entered the inn where he had first seen Jade.

William ordered Dimma to run faster. He couldn't stand the gazes but he also didn't want to arrive at the house belonging to her father. It felt like his doom was approaching by every step Dimma took.

As he saw the house he felt his heart sink. It was completely covered in snow and the place that once had made his heart pound from nervousness brought him sorrow and heart ache. He couldn't believe he had let this happen... He feared how Jade's father was going to react when he asked if she had passed through...