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Chapter 37: This is All Your Fault!
I stared at Theo, and he stared at me, and then, suddenly, I saw a look of understanding on his face, and
the next moment, his face started to turn a slight hint of pink and the tips of his ears were red.
He sat up abruptly and grabbed a piece of clothing from the floor to cover himself below his waist and
turned his face away from me.
“Oh, no… ” I murmured, and then asked the man next to me tentatively, “Your Highness…?”
“Yes?” He nodded, acknowledging how I addressed him. Obviously, just like me, he was his true self
now.
Oh. My. Heavens.
What had we done?!
He avoided eye contact with me, cleared his throat, and asked in a husky voice, “What’s going on?”
My mouth opened and closed a few times, but I couldn’t make a sound.
What was going on? I wanted to know too! But, most importantly, how could he act so calmly as if
nothing had happened?!
My hands covered my face and I was so… mortified, shocked, angry, confused, heartbroken and…
embarrassed.
“How could you do this to me?!” I condemned loudly.
“Me?” he asked. “You were the one who wanted me!”
“You planned this whole thing from the beginning!” I retorted, tugging on the blanket to make sure it was
completely covering my naked form.
“I know nothing about any of this,” he exclaimed, and I could tell by his face that he meant it. “And I
warned you not to touch it.”
“Ahhhh!” I couldn’t help but pull my hair.
That was… that was my first time! How was I supposed to take this news? How was I supposed to
accept everything that had just happened?!
“Ciana,” he called.
“Give me a minute!” I just wanted to cry.
“Ciana!” He raised his voice, and this time drew my attention to him. “Listen, this is a problem.”
“No! Maybe not!” I reasoned, though I wasn’t sure how it couldn’t be. “We are the only ones that know.
We will just forget all about it!”
“As loudly as you moan? I doubt it,” he said in his usual, calm tone, which made me want to smack him.
But then I remembered that he was a prince, at least in some world, so I kept my hands fisted around the
blanket.
“Don’t tell me you didn’t enjoy it,” he added.
I paused and then my face was on fire. All right, I admitted it. The sex had been very good-not that I had
anything at all to compare it to. But… how had I lost my virginity in such a crazy scenario where I didn’t
even think I was myself?
Goddess, heavens, just kill me.
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I buried my head under the blanket and demanded, “Do not mention it!”
He seemed to be entertained by my reaction. Through the blanket over my head, I heard his light
chuckle, and then he said, “But that wasn’t what I was about to say.”
“What is it that you want to say then?”
“Listen, Ciana, this world wasn’t real.”
He got my attention. He was right. It really did all seem like a dream.
“What do you mean?” I uncovered my head from the blanket to look at him.
“Well, I’m not sure, but since you were the first one who touched the crystal, let me ask you this…. Why
did you do that?”
“Why did I do what?”
I noticed that although his expression didn’t change, there was a hint of pink on his handsome face
again. He cleared his throat. “Why did you… seduce me?”
“I d-” The words caught in my throat. I wanted to deny it, but I couldn’t. It actually was the case. I had
been the one to make him have sex with me. In my mind, I had thought he was a servant who was going
to help me get back at my lover, the king.
Where did all of this come from? It was as if… as if I was playing the role of someone else. The emotions
I felt were so real and strong-love, betrayal, hatred, revenge, and pain.
The king chose someone else. How I wished that wasn’t true… how I wished that… the king would marry
me and make me the Luna Queen.
It was as if the one and only purpose I was brought to this world was to fulfill that wish…
My eyes widened. That was it! That was how we were supposed to “cleanse” or “re-energize” the crystal!
“I think I figured out what we need to do,” I told him. “Well, we’d better get dressed before-”
But just then, my bedroom door opened, and a woman dressed in a servant’s outfit walked in.
Seeing her red hair, my face immediately lit up. I was temporarily distracted and happy that Brook was
with me. But then she realized what was happening. “My lady! Your guard! He has taken advantage of
you.”
“Excuse me?” Theo frowned, but by then, Brook was screaming for the guards to come in and take him
away.
“Brook… Do you not remember who he is?” I asked my friend.
Brook glared at him angrily and answered, “Of course I do! And I thought he is the most loyal one among
all guards!
Who knew he would commit such an outrageous crime to you, my lady….”
I realized that, unlike me and Theo, Brook might have truly forgotten who she really was except for her
name.
Theo’s expression was darker. Without saying anything, he leaped over me and pulled his pants on while
Brook rushed over and helped to put on my dress.
“My lady! Are you all right?” Brook asked. “Did he hurt you?”
“No, no,” My face must be bright red again. I could feel the heat. “I’m all right.”
Soon, a bunch of guards came in and took hold of Theo.
“See that he’s locked up!” Brook told them.
Theo glanced at me and lowered his voice. “Tell them to stop.”
My mouth opened to say something, like perhaps this was not what Brook thought it was. But we were in
this strange world, and maybe it wasn’t a bad idea to just go along with what was going on. Either way, it
wasn’t like that Theo wouldn’t be able to protect himself.
Besides, I remembered what he had just done to me and said to me, I suddenly thought perhaps it would
do him some good to experience the interior of a dungeon cell himself for a bit.
“Come with us, you vile piece of filth!” one of them said as he grabbed Theo’s arm.
He glared at me and I mouthed my soundless reply, “Go with it.”
I knew he could easily kill all of those guards and escape if he really tried, but he didn’t. Instead, he went
along with them and left the room.
When Brook and I were alone, she bustled around my room, saying, “I’ll get you some clean clothes. No,
could you like to take a bath or perhaps a shower…” I began to wonder exactly what was going on in her
head. She seemed confused.
“Brook? Do you know where the others are?” I asked her, my voice just above a whisper in case anyone
else happened to be listening and wondered what I was talking about.
She turned to face me, her eyes wide as she asked, “There are others?”
“What?” Now it was my turn to be confused.?
“Other men in your room!” She spun around a few times, looking for these alleged attackers.
“No!” I said, almost laughing. “I meant… you know. The others.”
If Brook was here, that had to mean that Prince Warren had gotten into this magical place with Theo and
me as well, didn’t it? And Jake would have to be here because he was standing right next to us when the
crystal did… whatever the crystal had done.
What about Sophia? Was that maddening woman here somewhere, too? Why had she even been with
Brook and Warren when they came looking for me to begin with? It. wasn’t as if we were friends….
“I don’t quite get what you’re asking, my lady.” Brook asked.
She didn’t know. That had to be the answer. She must not have figured out what I had yet, that we
weren’t where we had been-who we had been.
It had taken Theo a bit longer than it took me, so perhaps all of our reactions would be different.
I was certain that if I tried to explain to her what had happened, she would be sending me away to get
my head examined, so I decided against that.
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Pressing the heel of my hand against my forehead, I said, “You know, I’m not feeling that well. Perhaps a
nice bath would be in order.”
“Yes, of course, miss,” she said, and with that, she scurried into the bathroom to run the tub.
I leaned back against the headboard, trying to sort through all of it. How had the crystal sent us to this
place, and who were we each supposed to be?
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmIf what I thought was correct, that I was the king’s lover and my wish was to marry the king and become
the Luna Queen, what would we do next?
A few moments later, Brook came out of the bathroom. “I’ve run the bath with your favorite lavender
salts, miss. Would you like for me to wash your hair for you as I usually do?”
I gave her a strange look. Whoever I had become, she was different from me, that was for sure. “No,
thank you. I’ll manage it myself this time.” I hadn’t looked in a mirror yet, but I had to think I must look like
myself. After all, Brook looked like herself, and Theo definitely looked like he always did.
Not that I’d seen so much of him before today….
The thought brought a blush to my cheeks as I went into the bathroom.
The bathroom was lovely, with polished white marble on the floor and a large clawfoot tub. I sank down
into the water and let it soothe my aching muscles.
Even in the bath, I could still smell Theo’s scent on me. As I washed his essence off of my body, my face
heated from thinking about what we had done. If it were possible to forget who we were when we got
there, I wondered if there was a chance he would forget that when we got back to our reality.
I decided that probably wasn’t the case…..
The scent of the lavender was making me relaxed and I could think clearer.
Whoever had used the crystal last had left this wish of marrying the king, and this was something we had
to complete in order to fulfill the prerequisite of using the crystal to create the blood moon illusion..
At this point, waiting until the actual blood moon seemed like it would’ve been a lot less complicated.
But we were here now, so whatever it was we were supposed to do, we’d have to figure it out, get it
done, and get back to our world.
First thing first-I decided to get Theo out of that dungeon. While it had seemed a bit humorous to me
when he’d been taken away by the guards, ultimately, he was the prince, and I shouldn’t be messing with
him too much.
Secondly, we needed to come up with a plan to fulfill the wish-to get the king to marry me.
Once the decision was made, I got out from the tub and Brook was already waiting to get me dressed.
“Brook, can you dress me any faster?” I asked as she took her time putting a necklace around my neck.
It was odd. having anyone dress me anyway. I didn’t understand why royals couldn’t just do it
themselves….
“I’m sorry, miss,” she said, but she didn’t speed up any.
I looked at my reflection in the mirror, and my mind wandered. Who was it that I was supposed to be?
The mistress to the king.
When was this crystal used last? I wondered which king the lady whose wish I had inherited was in love
with.
“Are you all right, my lady? You look a little pale.” Brook stopped brushing out my hair to ask me the
question, which irritated me.
“Yes, yes. I’m fine. Just… hurry up please.”
She finished my hair, and I thanked her, ready to get out of there. I wondered how I would ever find him,
but then I remembered whoever I was supposed to be, she knew how to get to the dungeon.
I just needed to follow my instincts.
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