his love {laurance zvhal x reader}

2 - The Rescue

laurance pov

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After Princess Branwen had left the group for the night, Aphmau wasted no time in gathering her friends in one of the rooms upstairs. Including Chad, albeit Isabell had returned to the ship already by the time the conversation was over.

"Aphmau, what happened? You look pissed." Lucinda stated worriedly, hands wrapping around her staff tightly. She had rarely seen Aphmau look this angry and it was putting her on edge.

The raven-haired woman took a deep breath and let it out slowly before her face turned stern. "Lady Branwen needs our help. Years ago she was forced into an arranged marriage with Lord Tushar." Aphmau explained, earning looks of surprise from her companions. "For 6 years she has been trapped in this village with him, and the Lord has no love for her and has solely been paying attention to his consorts. Princess Branwen begged for my help."

Everyone was silent as the information was taken in. Laurance immediately pieced together all the strange bits of information he knew of the princess and it all started to make more sense. Her and her husband slept on opposite sides of the castle because they held no love for each other, she was quiet and reserved in his presence yet outgoing with the villagers, she hadn't wanted to be married so she didn't take his last name. At that moment Laurance knew he needed to help her leave her husband, he remembered the rage he felt when Aphmau was being forced to marry Fenrir and it immediately sparked a fire in him. "I'm in. I know how shitty arranged marriages can be and I want to help."

Aphmau seemed surprised by him volunteering but smiled proudly, looking to her other friends wondering their thoughts. "I don't know. I love helping people as much as the next person but don't you think it would put a huge target on our backs if we kidnapped a princess?" Katelyn inquired, obviously thinking logically of the events that were to occur should they go through the idea of helping Princess Branwen.

"No offense to the Princess but it seems like her husband won't miss her, most likely not even enough to send out a search for her and by then we'll be halfway out to sea." Laurance reasoned, knowing they were going to need the full group's support for the mission they wanted to accomplish. He didn't know much about the princess but he was determined to help her.

At Laurance's comment, Katelyn nodded and shrugged her shoulders. "I guess I'm in then. Nothing like a good old prison break to rise our spirit of adventure." She stated with a chuckle.

"Well I'm a firm believer in girls supporting girls so of course I'm in." Lucinda said with smug smile coming to her face. "I already have some spells in mind for that Lord."

Aphmau looked over at Aaron and Chad, who both immediately nodded in agreement to the idea. Although, Chad had his head buried beneath various stacks of books and Aaron seemed to be focusing his attention on the cave wall. "That's great! Since we're all in agreement I already have a plan for what we should do."

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Laurance carefully spied around the corner he was behind. He spotted one lone guard turn the corner at the end of the hall and then proceeded to quietly walk forward. He made it to an alcove where a door was, a sign letting him know that it was the Princess's room. At this, he perked his hand passed the wall and motioned for Lucinda and Katelyn to follow him.

After making sure the hallway was empty once again, Laurance lightly rapped on the door, it quickly opening to a shocked Princess Branwen. Before she could speak, Laurance pressed a gloved finger to her lips and pushed her further into the room to allow the other 3 to enter. Once they were safely inside and the door was locked, Laurance pulled his finger away from the woman's mouth.