At first he looked surprised, but then his face brightened, as he leaned forward to kiss me. You lips met and we made out. Suddenly he put his tongue in my mouth and he moaned. We broke apart and he looked at me amorously. I smiled slightly.

"We will celebrate this today in the evening." he said "but before that I have to sign some petitions and tell my mother about this. She'll never believe me." he said, mumbling the last part mostly to himself. He exited the room and I sat down on our bed. I took my head between my hands and sighed loudly. Why was I so stupid to tell him that? Was this really the only way to keep him away from Beckett and me? Was it? Or should I just have told him the truth. But this won't be good for both of us. He will leave me, not having any heir to the throne and I will be a renegade, Beckett maybe killed. Why did I have to do this? Now all I get is to sleep with him once again, the worst torture. I will just close my eyes and pretend that he is Beckett. Yes, I'll pretend. I pretend to be in love with Sinjin, although I am not, although my heart belongs to someone else I am not allowed to be with. I lay down for a while, staring at the ceiling. A single tear exited my eye, but I whipped it away as soon as it ran down my temples. I sat up straight and jumped as I saw Caterina standing in the doorframe.

"Caterina, you terrified me!" I half shouted angrily. She smirked and walked towards me.

"Down the hall, there is a young lady. I think it is the sister of Victoria. She wants to talk to you." I winced as I heard Victoria's name.

"Why?" I asked, ignoring the fact, that it was her sister. Caterina shrugged.

"I can't tell you, but she seems upset." I raised an eyebrow and followed Caterina to the girl. There she was standing, talking furiously to her sister, Victoria, who tried her best to reassure her. As she saw me, she made her way up to me, followed by a worried Victoria.

"There you are, princess Jadelyn. Would your busy self mind talking to me? " she hissed, emphasizing the word 'princess'. I shrugged and gestured her to enter a room.

"Miss Jadelyn, please don't listen to her, she has one of her mood swings." Victoria tried to explain, but I cut her off.

"Who allowed you to talk to me?" I snapped. She wasn't expecting me to snap at her. She was pretty shocked.

"I…I am…I apologize, Miss Jadelyn." she stuttered, her head down in guilt. She seemed nice, but the fact that she was hitting on Beckett was pushing me over the edge. I looked at her condescendingly, then turned around and entered the room. The girl who wanted to speak with me followed me. I turned around to face her.

"My name is Katrina" she said looking at me. "and I am the daughter of the count. Nice, right?" I shrugged. She was annoying me by now and she hasn't said two full sentences yet.

"I am aware of that." I said "So why do you want to talk to me?" she sighed.

"I just wanted to say, no, I just wanted to ask you something." she began, I raised an eyebrow.

"Take it away."

"Why…why is life so unequable?" she asked, coming closer. I raised an eyebrow. She noticed that I want her to continue. "See, I am wonderful. The portrayal of everything beautiful in this world." she started pointing at herself, to reinforce the effect. "And you…" she pointed her finger at me furiously "…are just a girl, who got the luck to be a princess, you out of everyone here. You don't appreciate it, right? You take it for granted. Living, eating. You get served and you just have to look good, what you can't do, because every time I am in a room with you, I outshine your royal self." she laughed hysterically "The only bad thing in your spoilt live is the ugly prince, who no one dares to look at, because their eyes will burn." I felt offended. Not just that she insulted me, but also because she insulted my husband. I know it sounds strange, but I felt the need to defend him. Now I know what Victoria meant with 'mood swings'. That would describe it perfectly. I walked towards Katrina and slapped her.

"How dare you to say something like that about me and my husband, the prince?" I asked furiously. She looked at me shocked. I opened the door and got out of the room.

"Caterina!" I shouted angrily.

"Yes, Miss Jadelyn?" she asked, standing beneath the door with Victoria. "Bring her down to the dungeons." I said, pointing in the room, in which Katrina was in. Caterina and Victoria gasped. Victoria came to me and laid her hand at my arm.

"Please, your highness, let her go. She isn't conscious." she begged, I just pushed her hand away.

"Don't ever dare to touch me!" I said. "Caterina, what are you waiting for?" I glared at her and she moved quickly to get Katrina out of the room. Victoria was about to cry.

"I request you, Miss Jadelyn." Victoria begged. I looked at her, then at Caterina.

"Tell the guard he can let her go by tomorrow morning." I said to Caterina. Victoria sighed in relief.

"Thank you, Miss Jadelyn. You do not know how much-" I interrupted her.

"Don't talk to me." I snapped and walked away.

In the evening Sinjin and I were about to 'celebrate our love' as he said. He was lying above me and moved. I closed my eyes as always and pretended him to be Beckett. I moaned and whispered quietly:

"Beckett."

AN: Whoops! Did he hear that? Next chapter and you'll know.

It's fun to write this story and I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoy writing it. But it will end soon :( Maybe Beck and Jade will be together ;) *crossing fingers*

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~teddybaer~