Aki Dilherra, 5th prince of Delhevia is to be joined in marriage with the crown prince of Aved, Yeran Avos. When plots older than they themselves start unraveling, will the newly married couple be brought closer or driven apart?
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Free of additional weight he leaned down to help Ruth up, pulling his arm over his shoulder to brace most of his weight.
He gripped it and put his free hand around Ruth's waist, to which he flinched and almost broke away, before Zeke shifted his grip to the hip and tightened his hand.
"Not there," he gasped.
Zeke could feel the warm wetness soaking into his own clothes, the slippery blood against his fingers and the scent of copper far too thick to be of comfort.
"I'm sorry, we should have had another plan!" Zeke cursed.
"It worked though, didn't it?" Ruth smiled, lightly, even if it came more out as a grimace.
"Just because it worked didn't mean we couldn't have done better, we knew there was a possibilty of this happening," he frowned.
They tried to make their steps as quiet as possible, even if Ruth had to almost bite through his lip to keep the sounds from escaping.
"I volunteered, remember, " he asked, through laborious breathing.
"Yh, well, look where it got you, dipshit!" Zeke muttered, tightening his grasp on Ruth.
"Should I be worried about you bleeding out?" He only remembered to ask halfway up a staircase, worried as he was to take Ruth out of this place of horror.
"I don't, think so? Probably not,"
"I don't think that's a question you should be asking from me, idiot." He scowled.
"Here, sit down, we should probably check,"
"No no, I'm fine, I won't die just yet, let's keep going" Ruth protested.
"I'm running on adrenalin now, Zeke, if we stopped, you will have to carry me," he warningly added with another small smile.
"I did not thought idioism transmits through genes, you are just like your brother, reckless fuckers!,"
Ruth wheezed out, laughing.
"Why are you cursing so much, I'm the one who got tortured,"
"Well excuse me, my brain to mouth filter doesn't work well around idiots!"
"I think that's the third time you called me an idiot in this few minutes,"
"You can't stand up straight and you are asking about my articulation? Shut up!"
'Is humor a defense mechanism for this idiot?'
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"I do not know if Yor is as stupid as they come or just a smug bastard, to keep all this intact. If it was me, I would have destroyed them a long time ago," Yeran wondered, leafing through a tax documentation.
"Let's go with stupid, it makes me feel better," Aki muttered, startling a laugh out of Yeran.
He turned to glare at Yeran, who tried his level best to muffle it down.
"I'm sorry, I think my hormones are up, I've never done something this dangerous before," he apologized.
"Your hormones could get us killed! Be quiet!" Aki hissed.
"Sorry, sorry,"
"Did you got everything you need?" Yeran asked.
"I don't know!, you are the strategist!" Aki rolled his eyes.
"Right! I remembered that," Yeran scratched his chin.
"Okay, we have records on tax fraud, proof that there is no legal proceeding of entrusting the throne, oh, right, the seal, without it he cannot enforce any orders further," Yeran reminded.
"I know where it us," Aki said, rounding up the table to where the chair is at.
He bent down, trailing fingers over the golden filigree and groves. A fingertip caught on a raised bump, he pressed and with a slight click, a compartment popped out.
It was small, only wide enough to hold the gold and jade seal. Aki carefully lifted it out under Yeran's curious eyes and wrapped it up in the pile of his robes.
"How did you know that it was there?" Yeran asked.
"Mother told me, before she.." Aki broke off, busying himself with making certain his package is properly secured and pushed in the secret compartment.
"Right," Yeran prevented from further comments.
"Let's go, we shouldn't dwindle, that guards sleeping drug might wear off."
"How much did you give him?"
"I didn't look, probably a little too much than healthy, I was pissed you know, he was a jerk!" Yeran made a face.
Aki smiled, lightly, amused.
"Let's go,"
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Hey.....
What's this? Another chap? So soon? Author is on a roll my dudes,
We're you surprised? Did your mouths popped open?
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Arkhane.
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Yeran.
P. S. : remember my fellows, yeran is a pretty boy, I never told u otherwise. Don't be disappointed after drawing other conclusions 🤫🤫
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Aki
Now this dude, here, is the handsome, tall, knight in shining armour.
