May ran down the hall as she looked back to see Mark coming at her. Her heart raced as she held her dress up high and it flapped in the wind of her running. Her feet tumbling over one another as she fell to the ground. She rolled over to her back and she watched Mark come closer and closer to her. He stopped standing in front of her. She held up her hand to block him.

"NO!" she screamed allowed and woke up in bed the sweat running down her face. She tried to breath, but her breath was staggered and then a knock on the door. "Come in"

"Oh Lady May" Jessica walked in "your already up for this beautiful day." She opened up the drapes.

"Oh Jessica, you couldn't of came in a better time. I just had the worst nightmare." She said and got out of bed and behind the changing room wall. "Please bring the red dress and I'll tell you all about it." She said and Jessica came around the wall. May began to tell her the dream about Mark and him chancing her.

"Why was Lord Mark chasing you?"

"I have not idea I just remembering running from him."

"Lord Mark would never hurt anyone." Jessica said

"I know, Jessica." She said with a sigh. She thought about Mark for a moment and how he could be the right man for her, but then quickly pushed the idea out of her head.

"Lady…. Lady May"

"OH, I'm sorry Jessica. What were you saying?"

"Do you think Lord Mark is right for you?" She said and Jessica continued to tie up her corset.

"Lord Mark is handsome, and polite, and a gentlemen, but I don't know. He seams to good to be true. It is like a funny joke but he plays with my heart if I left him." She paused "My father told me that this place was run by wicked and ugly tempered man who wish nothing well of his people and I can not marry a man like that. I need a man who will be kind and understand and one day make me his wife and a mother."

"Lady May, I fear you have no worries about that." Jessica said as she tapped her back to let her know she was done.

"Oh thank you Jessica." She gave her a hug "I can always use a friend like you in time of need."

Mark stood at May's chair and waited for her to arrive. She smiled as she entered the room and Mark pulled out the chair and May sat down in the chair and Mark took a seat next to her.

"How did you sleep?" he asked as they ate a early lunch

"Wonderful… you have a beautiful castle." She said to him

"Thanks my father gave it to me when I turned the age of marriage."

"Oh so you got it this year?"

"No, I am now the age of manhood. And you are at the age of marriage…"

"Yes, I am and hopefully my wishes will come true." She paused "who are you promised to?"

"A Spanish princess, I never meet her." he sighed

"Did you ever talk to you father on marry for love?" she asked

"Yeah I talk to him about that." He paused once more " that is why I am holding a ball in 3 days… I hope that you will come to the ball."

"I am surprise that you want me to come t such a event." She said and smiled at him.

"I am not inviting you to come to the ball to be a guest I am inviting you as a princess of your land." He said and she stopped eating in shock.

"You want to come as a princess?" she looked at him in shock " I have nothing to offer you… I am I would be honored to go." Her mind began to rush.

"You have the royal account to charge your dress and anything else you need to get done before that day." He said, "You are a princess and I am never taking your birth given right away from you." He said and she smiled at him. "Come…" he rose and stood up next to her "I have something I want to show you." He took her hand. Her eyes showed a bright blue and dusty as they walked out of the castle and out the back door of the castle.

There is a small wooden shack in the back that looked a little bigger then a modern day shed. Mark opened the door and May held up her dress as she took a step in to the area.

"What is this?" She asked Mark as he closed the door behind them

"It is a hot spa." He paused "the ground heats the water to make a lovely hot spa… would you like to take sit in it?"

She looked at him while he started to undress himself. "Um, I think I better sit this one out this time… maybe another time."

"Okay but you don't know what you are missing." He said and stood in front of May in just his underwear. She smiled at him as she began to watch his bold body closely as she watch each ripped in his arm move and each muscle flex and bend as he got in to the hot water. May's eyes drifted in down his body and rested on his manhood. Her face became flush and she quickly looked away. Mark began to talk to May as he relaxed in the water.

Later tat night may sit in the library next to the fire as she began to read the last of the romantic novels that Mark held in his library. She sighed and looked away from the book in her lap. Her mind began to wonder about Mark and if what Jessica said in the morning was right. Maybe she should warm-up to Mark. Maybe just maybe Jessica was right and Mark was the man for in the whole end of this world. She sighed and began to think again about what her father said about the ugly people who ran this land. She frown and scold her self for such impure thoughts of Mark. She looked back at her book and sighed to her self once again as she finished another book. She closed the book and placed allow side of her.

"Are you ever going to go to bed?" Mark asked May as he walked in to the room.

"I was just, Um… Just finishing a book." She said looking at him and then away again as a picture of him naked came in to her mind. She could not stop her self from blushing once more. Mark sat across from her.

"Look I am sorry for what I said about you putting your head in the book the other day… sometimes romance is like a book that you came believe… sometimes it's not." He said and she twisted her dress in her fingers. Mark rested his hand on hers. "Come to bed" He said and pulled her up so she could walk.