Ree's POV
I was surrounded by warmth as I lay on the hard bed in the cell. I did get a blanket, but this warmth was different. It's almost like the warmth I feel when I woke up in the morning with Kith. Wait, does that mean someone is hugging me?
Opening my eyes slightly, I saw a broad chest in front of me, than looking up, I saw Prince Jun's sleeping face. And that's when I started panicking. I gasp out as I kept looking down at how close our bodies were.
"Just relax." I heard him say sleepily and tightened his grip around my body.
"How am I supposed to relax?!" I tried to squirm out of his grip but he just kept tightening around me.
"Stop." I looked up at his face and felt my breath catch as I saw him looking down at me.
"Can you please get off me?" I asked him finally. My heartbeat was racing a million miles an hour as I felt every inch of his body on mine.
"Fine." He answered flatly but only loosened his grip on me, and not letting go.
"Th-that isn't what I meant!" I started stuttering. And I don't stutter.
"What did you mean?" He looked at my face devilishly and tilted my head with his finger, making me blush.
"I-I'm saying that you let go of me and sit a little ways away from me." I'm even stuttering in my head! What's going on with me?!
"Do you want me to?"
"He's reading my mind!" Yeah. I did enjoy that he was next to me but I really didn't want him next to me because he was the one I had to assassinate. That's just...not right.
"It's a skill that I have." His expression turned serious as he spoke to me.
"Stop it."
"No." I widened my eyes as he answered my thought.
~~~~~ The Fourth Prince ~~~~~
Jun's POV
"She's easy to read." I thought to myself as I looked down at her.
We were talking to each other for a while since this morning. I don't even know what time it is now but we somewhere and somehow both got tired and I fell asleep with Ree. I'm guessing that I had a good dream and I just ended up hugging her.
"Can you at least let go of me?" She asked me again. So rolling my eyes, I did as she asked and let go of her. But as I felt her body pressure come off me, she hissed in pain and gripped my arm.
"Are you okay?"
"Ah, I'm fine..." She bit her lower lip and had pressure on her chest.
"No, your not." I sat up and hovered over Ree as she laid on her back, still putting pressure on herself.
"No, Prince! I'm fine!" I glared at her as she kept lying to me.
"I hate liars." I said sternly at her. "Now shut up and let me see!" I moved her hands away from her chest and opened the robe that she was wearing. I lost my breath when I saw the deep slash on her chest.
The wound was close to 10 inches long and half an inch deep. Both ends of the slash were starting to get infected. There was dried blood around it and it wasn't healing properly. I couldn't stop staring down at the deep cut on Ree's chest as she kept telling me she was fine.
"You're not fine." I finally said as I looked her in the eye. "Why didn't you say anything?"
"I'm getting executed soon, there is no point of saying anything!" She snapped at me like I was an idiot. Like I was the one neglecting her.
"You're not getting executed."
"Huh?" I got off of her and picked her up bridal style. "Hey! What are you doing?!" Ree frantically tried to get out of my grip but I held onto her firmly and didn't say anything. "Where are we going?" She asked as we walked out of the cell block.
"What are you doing Prince?" One of the guards asks me in surprise as I walked past them with the assassin in my hands.
"Don't tell the king anything." I tll them harshly and they both nodded.
~~~~~ The Fourth Prince ~~~~~
Ree's POV
I was sighing the whole time we walked through the palace to wherever Prince Jun was taking me. This place is HUGE! I can't believe he lives here! I was becoming envious of him until we walked in front of two huge double doors. Opening the doors, Jun walked into what seemed to be his room. I wasn't able to get all the details of his room the night of the assassination because it was dark but it looked like the room was bigger when it was light out.
"He must act like a spoiled brat if he live in a place like this."
"What are we doing here?" I asked him after he shut the door behind him.
"We're gonna get that wound cleaned up." He said to me as he walked to one side of the room to the bathroom before setting me on the counter.
Turning around, my eyes widened when I saw how bad I looked. My hair had blood stains in the strands, my lips and nose were covered in dried blood and cuts, I had bruises on my neck, and I looked also like plain shit.
"Strip." I turn back and looked at Prince Jun with a surprised expression.
"What?" He sighed and rolled his eyes.
"How am I gonna clean that would if your still fully clothed?"
"I can do it myself."
"No. It's would be easier for me to do it."
"I said I can," I began to protest again until he cut me off.
"Don't argue with me!" He shouted at me and I flinched. His voice echoed in the bathroom and I got a little frightened from his glare.
I know right. An assassin who is afraid of a Prince. But he wasn't like a normal prince. Something is off about him. He does have the looks and the money, but he was starting to remind me of someone. Someone I knew when I was a kid, I just can't quite put my finger on who.
We stared at each other for a moment but it seemed like forever until I finally nodded and undid my robe. I still sat on the counter as I let it run down my arms and lay on the surface. I also took off my strapless bra because of better access to the wound. But by the looks of it, he doesn't even know that he's the one that gave me this slash.
He went down in front of my breasts and traced the slash with his thumb, making me shudder to his touch. Prince Jun then got out some rubbing alcohol and cotton balls from the cupboard and applied it to the wound. Making me grimace as it absorbed into my skin.
"How did you get it?" He asked me after a while.
"I would think that you knew." I muttered to him.
"What do you mean?" He stopped and glanced up at me.
"Meth; causes drowsiness, paranoia, headaches, violent behavior." I looked down at him and he looked to know what I was talking about.
"That drug you put in me." He said quietly and looked at the wound again. "I did this?" I only nodded in his response. He slowly shut his eyes and sighed. Taking another cotton ball and applying rubbing alcohol to it, he dabbed it on the edge of the wound where it was infected. "I will let you take a shower when I'm done here." He finally said after a while.
"Alright." I quietly replied to him.
I was staring up at the ceiling as he disinfected the wound. But I was mostly just trying to hide my red face. As I quietly sat there, I felt a slight flick on my exposed breast.
"Huh?"
Looking down, Prince Jun held his tongue just inches away from my nipple and smirked up at me. Licking the tip of my nipple again, I shuddered all over my body and felt goosebumps perk up on my arms. Swirling his tongue around my nipple, I bit my lower lip and tried not to let out any moans. But it felt so amazing that as he covered my breast with his mouth, I arched my back and moaned out lightly. I felt his lips smirk as he gently sucked and bit my breast and played with my other one.
"What's gotten into him?"
I held a firm grip on the counter's edge as the pleasure was going all throughout my body. He tugged at the tip, making it stuck out and be hard. Then did the same thing with the other breasts. His hands ran down the sides of my body, down to my my hips. Also running his lips down my body, he got down to my belly button until I flinched away.
"You don't want to?" Prince Jun asked me with what seemed to be in disappointment.
"I just want to take my shower." I scooted away from him and got off the counter. But as I dropped to the floor, I suddenly felt lightheaded and my knees felt so weak that I had to grab a hold of the counter's edge again for balance.
"You alright?" Prince Jun asked me.
"Fine." I simply said. "I can take a shower myself. You can go now." And without another word, Prince Jun left the bathroom, shutting the door behind him. I let out a small sigh as I heard the bedroom door open and close. Looking into the large mirror again, I saw multiple hickies and red bite marks around and on my breasts, making me blush. "Oh God."
I turned away from the mirror and went to the shower. Turning it on and letting the water warm up, I took off my robe all the way and let it fall to the ground before I stepped into the now steaming shower. I felt myself relax for the first time in the last two days as I was soaking in the water. Seeing the shampoo on the wall, I squeezed it into my hand and massaged it into my hair. Making sure I got all the blood out of my hair. Then getting a small squirt of conditioner in my hand, I combed it into my strands and let it soak up the water. Then using the AXE body wash, I washed my body so my pale skin looked pale again. But I had a hard time with getting my back because I was still sore to the bone and I didn't want to stretch my wound. But I was able to get myself clean.
Turning off the water, I got out and dried myself with a thick robe that I saw hanging near the towel rack. I walked into the carpeted room and observed its design. It was a large room, colored in cream, red, and gold on the walls and furniture. I walked over to the desk next to the balcony door and saw some files left out. Scanning through it, I notice that it was about the assassinations that have been going on.
"I would like to know how people knew these were assassinations." I thought to myself as I kept staring at the papers.
I go down and open the first drawer on the cabinet and found a silver, gemmed, designed dagger. Looked to be one of a kind. It didn't look like what a prince would carry around with him. I picked up the dagger and walked to the middle of the room. As I sat on the ground crisscross, staring down at the dagger. Unsheathing it, I lightly glided my fingers on the sharp edge of the sword and felt the sting go up my arm. But as that sting hit me, my vision became blurry and I wasn't looking into the present anymore.
"Julian!"
I saw myself when I was a little girl. But I can't remember saying that name.
"Regan!"
And I don't remember ever having someone call me by my full name since I was seven.
"We're bound by blood."
I took the boy's hand, that was covered in his blood and recited those words.
"We're bound by blood!"
That image kept replaying in my eyes that I didn't feel the stinging pain shooting through my arm and my blood dripping down my arm, onto the ground.
~~~~~ The Fourth Prince ~~~~~
Jun's POV
I was walking down the hall with the doctor by my side, going towards my room.
"So what do you need me for?" He asked me.
I came into his office and asked him if he could help me with something. He hesitated before he agreed. Grabbing his bag, he followed me down the hall to my room.
"I feel like you already know." I replied coolly.
"I do." He hesitated before answering me.
As we got to my room, before opening the door, I stopped and felt some strange sense of danger. I shook that feeling away and opened the door. And as my feelings were right, Ree sat on the ground with my dagger in her hands, holding a tight grip on the blade. Blood was running down her hand and arm and onto the ground as she stared at it blankly.
"Ree!" I ran up to her and took the dagger away from her. Her body was stiff but also very limp. "Ree!" I snapped my fingers in her face to get her attention. "Ree. Look at me!" I shouted at her but she was still listening to blank air. Not paying attention to me.
"She's in shock." The doctor walked up to her and looked her in the eyes.
"What do you mean?" I asked in a panic.
"She's having a flashback; like how you did when you were a child." He goes into his bag and takes out a syringe.
"What's that?"
"Meth." He simply said before injecting the small dose in her.
"Wait, are you crazy?! Are you trying to kill her?!" I shouted at the doctor before I heard a slight gasp. Looking towards Ree again, her eyes darted around the room before looking down at her arm. Then forcefully grabbing the syringe out of her arm, she ran into the bathroom and threw up in the toilet.
"She isn't immune to it." The doctor says as though he was taking notes.
"Is that a surprise?"
"Yes. Because we found a high dosage of cocaine in her system so she has to be immune to meth." He said as he kept looking towards the bathroom.
"I never took drugs." Ree says as she came out of the bathroom.
"Then why did we find a high dosage of coke in you?" I asked her sternly.
"I said 'I'." She replied, making me raise an eyebrow.
"You worked as an assassin. Don't they torture you if you fail a mission?" The doctor asks her. And the question surprised me!
"I was always afraid to sleep at the place they provided for me because I didn't want to get assassinated myself." She paused before continuing. "I was drowned, I was hung by my wrists, I was tazed, I was bitten, I was drugged," She slowly named the tortures one by one, making me get the chills as I heard each and every one of them done to her.
"It's late." The doctor says finally. "I will check you out tomorrow morning." Then he walked out of the room, leaving Ree and I in the room.
"Why were you cutting yourself?" I asked her firmly as I looked down at her hands. She didn't even try to hide them behind her back.
"I wasn't cutting myself," She traced the lines on her palm where the blood was still seeping out. "I remembered a promise." My eye widened at her response.
"We will forever be,"
I saw the girl again in front of me and started to shake.
"Bound by blood!"
"Are you alright Prince?" I shook my head and stood up from where I was sitting.
"I'm fine." Going to the bathroom, I started taking off my clothes to get dressed for bed.
"But you were shaking." Ree was in the bathroom also, watching me change.
"And like I said, I'm fine." I said more harshly to her and washed my face. Ree handed me a nearby towel and I dried my face. "Let's wash that." Saying more gently as grabbed her bloody hand.
Guiding it to the running water, I washed the blood off and disinfected the cut again. I found a roll of gauze in the bottom cabinets and rolled her hand with it. When finishing the cleaning, I walked up to my desk and turned on the lamp on there then turned off the lights from the ceiling. As I turned around, Ree held the most recent papers of the assassinations in her hands.
"Lots of these thing, I did." I walked up to her and stroked her hair.
"You don't regret them." I said in a hushed voice.
"Some I did regret." I looked down at her in surprise.
"What do you mean?"
"One of my missions, I had to assassinate a thief once. After assassinating him in his sleep, I was caught standing over him with blood all over me by his five year old daughter." My eyes widened. "I had to kill her because we weren't allowed to leave any witnesses. I later found out that the guy who stole from jewelry shops and banks was a widower who wasn't able to find a decent job to provide for his little girl."
"You refused?"
"I was stripped and whipped on my back forty-five times. Some even thought it was funny. Being blindfolded and chained to the ground, bare naked, whipped by leather and thorns." Her voice shook as she kept explaining the tortuous days she went through back in her old life.
"How did you survive?" I was shocked. Very shocked! She was beaten and given fear but still did her job, killing.
"I lived with the violence when I was a child. I was bullied because of my strange appearance." She finally looked up at me, letting me see her face. The light illuminated the left side of her face and let her purple eye color pop out. I couldn't stop staring at her beautiful appearance.
"What are you looking at?" She looked at me curiously. But her only answer was a firm touch of my lips on hers.
~~~~~ The Fourth Prince ~~~~~
Ree's POV
"Is the prince kissing me?!" I widened my eyes as Prince Jun kissed me on the lips. Yeah, I have kissed lots of people before but his was different. I felt something in it. It took me a moment to comprehend what was going on before kissing him back.
"Prince Jun?" Our lips only separated for a moment before he pressed them against me again.
"Just kiss me." He whispered on my lips.
"You don't have to tell me twice." I thought before kissing him again.
Our kisses became deeper and deeper as we went on. Prince Jun slid his tongue into my mouth as he picked me up and carried me to his bed. Laying me down, he got better access to pushing his tongue in me that he went so deep, he was deepthroating me. I than smirked to myself as I got ahold of his tongue and started sucking on his with a lot of force. Getting his tongue loose, he went back to kissing me but also slid his hand into my robe and covered my left breast with his hand, making me lightly gasp.
"Don't like it?" He whispered seductively into my ear.
"It not that I don't, it's just...ohh!" He pinched my nipple and I moaned out.
"Hm?"
"He's teasing me!"
"I can. Do you like it or not?" He asked me again.
"I...love it." Prince Jun smirked at my answer and pinched at my nipple again. Making me arch my back and moan out more. What's gotten into me?
"You're sleeping with me today than." Prince Jun took his hand out of my robe and kissed me again.
"Huh?"
"Let's go to bed." Without even answering me, he pulled me into his bed and under the covers.
"I'm sleeping with you?" I asked him again.
"Yeah. And I think you know why." He leaned down and kissed me again lightly on the lips and I kissed his back.
"We're bound by blood."
I recited those words to myself again before going into a dreamless sleep.
