Excuse me, your highness

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Knock. Knock.

Both of them looked at the door.

Crap.

"Camellia? Dear?"

Camellia stood from the bed, panicking.

"My mom!" She whispered to him. Alberu looked everywhere for an escape.

"Is she asleep already? Lia?"

He was about to go to the balcony sliding door to hide, but Camellia was faster to push him onto the bed and cover him with a blanket.

"Don't move!"

"Hey-"

"Maybe she is really asleep, honey."

"Let's look inside. Who knows where she went since she's no longer grounded."

Crap.

That's her dad's voice!

Creak.

Camellia quickly jumped on the bed, too.

Alberu's eyes widened.

"Prin-"

"Shhh, shut up!"

She covered both of them under the blanket. Only her head is visible.

Creak.

The door opened. Danzel and Erica entered their daughter's room to see that she was already asleep.

"Looks like she is sleeping early, unlike before." Erica smiled softly, walking closer to see her child.

"She must be tired of socialising. This brat." With a fond huff, Danzel patted his daughter's head.

"She is already so big, but still acting like a child, hm?" Erica grabbed the blanket to pull it higher.

"A child. She is. Making it hard for us to let any vermins from pursuing her." Danzel crossed his arms, recalling the numerous marriage proposal sent toward him before. Now, after her appearance in social banquet today, there would be much more.

Unlike Cecilica, who was more fierce and could chase away any man who tried to woo her before, Camellia is too awkward around new people. She would have a hard time rejecting anyone.

"It is fine. She can stay with us for as long as she wants." Erica kisses her daughter's forehead.

Meanwhile, Alberu was suffocating under the blanket. With the heat and the position he was in. He tried very hard to stay still, but it was not easy with the condition he was in.

The blond prince attempted to move away a bit from Camellia. It's just a bit because... You know what? Let's be honest, and there is no need to be subtle. Alberu's face was smooched against her belly, just below her chest.

Yes. That's why he felt so sinful, scandalous, and whatever he could describe at this moment.

Because of his slightttt movement, Camellia grabbed his head to stop him because she was worried- no, terrified if her parents caught him under her blanket!

This makes Alberu's face turn even hotter and sweating bullets.

'Damn it, Camellia!'

'Don't move, Alberu!'

"Did you see who she was dancing with just now?" Danzel asked, grabbing his wife's hand while walking out of their daughter's room.

"Marquess William and Crown Prince Alberu. Only those two."

"Alberu Crossman from Roan. Isn't he friends with Zavier?"

"They are. Why?"

"I think Zavier said..."