In the castle of Spades a few days later

Whittney was heading towards the infirmary, she told herself it was to see her uncle and mother and not to see the rogue. The brunette had for the past few days had been talking not just with Bella about her attraction to the man but also her brother William.

On thinking about the two, she couldn't help smile, William had in no such terms fallen in love with Lance. Bella stated it was because her family's ability to find a mate when they first see them. So when Whittney asked about how the blond felt about her uncle, she clammed up and crossed her arms.

This would give both Whittney and William a laugh as the blond reply 'I don't care about that red head, he could be lost in battle I wouldn't cry for him.' Yet the two knew how Bella reacted when Alistair came back from saving the Hearts.

Whittney opened the door and walked right into the person she didn't really want to see.

"Hello there princess," greeted the rogue.

The princess answered with a glare at the man and walked over to where Lance and Alistair were talking. She heard the footsteps behind her, sighing, she quickly turned around.

"What do you want?" She snapped at the man.

"I wanted to tell you that if you're looking for your uncle or Lance they're gone," he answered in mock surrender.

"Then, where are they..."

"I heard something about a lass, and having a walk with a prince."

Whittney sighed, so she was stuck with this man, and it seemed he was okay about it. She decided to try to find Bella; since she believed that the blonde would help her. To her surprise and anger the spiky haired man followed her.

"Why are you following me?" Whittney asked looking at the man.

"Because princess, I don't think you should be walking by yourself."

"I live here if you haven't noticed..." Whittney started.

"All the more reason for me to come with you, there might be assassins," the man replied.

"And you're going to protect me, I'm not helpless you know."

"I'm not saying you're not helpless, but even the best fighter can be taken advantage of, if their enemy knows their weakness." He replied as he inched closer to Whittney.

The girl was about to retort when she felt his lips on hers. This was the second time this man had kissed her, and she didn't even know his name. To make matters worse, she was getting addicted to his kisses; she even moved closer to him and felt his arms go around her waist as hers went around his neck.

Their moment was stopped again when they both heard a shout. They both jumped away and looked out the window. On seeing the scene, it caused the girl to laugh, and when she heard the laughter of man behind her she couldn't help but look at him. When their eyes met then a few minutes then they went back to the scene below them.

(Training ground in front of the infirmary)

Bella was asking herself how the day ended up like this; she just wanted to have some time to train. Yet it seemed that the whole world didn't respect her wishes, she only had started training when Alistair came up behind her.

Bella was surprised and almost attacked the man with the staff she was working with. The man seemed to smile at this and grabbed the time pulling it and making the girl off balance. As she moved to get her balance back, the Ace kissed her fully on the lips. As he did this Bella's shift of weight caused the two to fall to the ground. Bella landing on Alistair; her legs on either side of his body.

"Wow lass I didn't think ye wanted to take this this fast," the red head said with a smirk.

"Shut up," was the reply as the girl tried to stand up but was held fast by the man's hands.

"Don't be like that Lass."

Before Bella could retort a loud voice filled with anger sounded through the training yard.

"GET AWAY FROM MY SISTER YOU VILLIAN."

"Lance..." Bella started as she was gently pushed away from Alistair.

"Ye now, I'm tired of yer melding with my love life."

"And I'm tried of you hitting on my sister."

"Lance, why don't you calm down, Bella's alright even though I do agree my uncle was a little rude," William calmly said to the boy.

"Alistair stop, you don't need to prove to me that you're a big bad Alpha," Bella replied trying to calm the red head down.

"He started it," the red heads chorused together.

This caused the two blonds to look at each other with apologetic look, then at the red headed males that were with in front of them. They then nodded in agreement and a few seconds later the two red heads were bombarded with a kiss on lips by their respective blond.

"Will," Lance gently said.

"Are you going to be nice now?" William asked.

The red head nodded, and the two looked over at the other couple who was having a similar conservation.

"Bella," Alistair sighed in relief.

"No fighting with my brother okay," Bella gently order the Ace.

"I can try lass, I can try."

(Back with princess and rogue)

On seeing what happened Whittney and the rogue started laughing until they heard footsteps in the court yard. They both looked to see a messenger was running to the ace, yet Whittney was confused the messenger wasn't wearing the colors of spades. The colors weren't the purples or dark blues of her kingdom, these were gold and red.

"He's a messenger from Hearts," she looked to see that the rogue's eyes were hardened looking at the messenger.

Then her eyes went back to the people in the training yard, she was surprised to see that her uncle was holding Bella close to himself while he growled not at the man, but the news that he brought. William was doing the same thing to Lance who was shaking in both anger and sadness.

"What's wrong?" Whittney started, but was stopped when the rogue stated.

"The Kingdom of Hearts was attacked."

End of chapter.

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