Undercover

Chapter 14

"Rose," Henry said. "This isn't as bad as you think it is."

" How do you know my real name?" I ask him.

"I have always known your real identities. Your brother told me. "  Henry paused for a moment then continued. "I also know that you and Cole aren't married yet which means I still have a chance."

"A chance for what?" I asked, regretting it the moment it came out.

He smiled. "A chance for you to love me. A chance for you to become my wife instead of his." He got up and kicked Cole. I screamed for him to stop which he did. Cole bit down the pain.

"That will never happen." I promised. "Not even in your dreams."

"Rob," Henry said. "Was she always like this?"

"Dramatic?" Rob nodded. "Yes."

Henry turned back to me. "If you want me to be the bad guy, I will. See, your decision affects his life." He pointed at Cole and then turned back to me. "If you cooperate,  he gets treatment and food. If not he will be beaten and killed slowly. I'll give you two time."

He kissed my cheek and got up. After letting my hands go just enough for me to move closer to Cole, he turned to his friends. "Let's go."  

The left and slam the doors and I ran to Cole.

"Cole! Are you okay? What did they do to you?" I was full on balling at this point. 

He wrapped his free arms around me and just stayed there for a while. 

"Ill be okay, Rose. You need to get out of here, don't worry about me." He whispered.

"No." I stated. "I won't leave you. I need you to get better. I can't have you die because of me. I need to work with Henry just long enough for you to get better."

He shook his head. "That can be months, Rose. Don't worry about me. Go. Tell the school whats happening. Ill be alright ."

I shook my head and held his face in my hands that could barely reach him. "I can't do that."I said just before I kissed him. It was soft and warm and kind of comforting. He deepend out kiss right before I was torn apart from him.

"What's your choice? Will you stay with me volunterally and save him? Or will you kill him and be forced to stay here." Henry smiled like he knew my answer.

"Wipe that grin off your face and untie me." I told him. He nudged toward me and my brother started to untie me. Once untied, I repeatedly hit  him with every strand of strength I had."How could you do this to me!"

"Watch it sis!" He yelled, blocking his face with his arms. 

"No! You dont get to call me that because family doesn't kidnap family!"

He laughed which feuled my hate even more. I kept hitting except this time harder, somehow. "If you had just met me behind the castle like I said then I wouldn't have had to!"

I froze. " That's why you wanted me to meet you? So you could take me away?"

"No," he said. "I asked you to meet me because we planned on killing everyone at the Ball and I didn't want you to get killed. Apperintally, Henry aggreed with me about your safety. He wanted you safe and when he realized you were going into the Ballroom he almost canceled our whole plan" He paused for a moment.  "He loves you, sis."

"I do. " Henry said. He walked closer to me and wrapped his arms around me. I didn't move, I didn't want to upset him and cause him to hurt Cole. 

"Yeah, well you have a funny way of showing it." I looked down  just as Henry was going to kiss me. He frowned and moved his hands to my lower back and pushed me towards the door. "Wait, what about Cole?" I watched as he got smaller and smaller  and I got further and further away.

"Don't worry about him. He ill be taken care of in out basement in chains."

"What?" I gasped and tried to pull away from the once great Prince. "You said he was going to be taken care of. Not trapped and in chains!"

"I am a man of his word. He will be taken care of just in a place where you won't be able to see him and he wont be able to escape." Henry pushed me harder out of the room, he was mad and angry that I was worried about Cole. 

"This is our room, you must stay here until you are told to do otherwise. We'll be eating at seven."

"No." I said. 

"No," Henry looked at me like I was crazy. "You need to eat."

"No," I repeated. "I won't eat until I can see him."

He clenched his fists again and his jaw tightened. "Then it looks like you'll be starving." He pushed me inside what he called our room.  "If you change your mind, there are dresses in the closet that I picked out just for you."

I started crying again but tried to bite it back. How long would I be here for? What would come of me?

"Hey don't cry." I fell to the ground, he ran up to me and picked me up bridal style. He brought me to the bed and gently laid me .down. He laid next t me and started to play with my hair. 

"What do you want from me?" I finally asked after five minutes of silence.

He was silent a little bit longer, then took a deep breath. "I want you to love me the way you do him. I want you to car but mostly, I want you to understand." His voice was gentle and kind. I almost forgot why I was mad at him. Almost.

"understand what?"

"I need you to understand that what I am doing is for the greater good for not just you but the whole kingdom. You don't understand how terrible my parents treat those in the kingdom. They kill anyone they can get their hands on. Steal their money. Leave them to die." He got up and looked out the window.

"Is that why you created the ARL?" I asked. It would make perfect sense.  He didn't want his parents finding out and he could do good for his people. The ARL usually steals money from the royalty and usually ends up with the poor. 

"I didn't." He looked back at me. "My brother did. He created it but father had found out and killed him."

"I thought your brother died of cancer?" I asked. 

"That was a cover up, my father murdered him. I was asked to fill in for him in th group. I gladly did." He sat next to me on the bed again. 

"So when you guys said that you were going to kill everyone..." My voice drifted off and he nodded.

"I set off a leak.  Everyone who was in that room is now dead. Including my parents." I gasped again.

"How could you kill them! They were your own flesh and blood!" I yelled getting off the bed and walking in circles.

He stood up as well and screamed, "you think I like killing them? Yes, they are my own flesh and blood but so was my brother! Look what happened to him! Look what happened to the entire kingdom! They are ruining everything and hurting everyone. They deserved it."

"They deserved it," He repeated.