Be My Princess: Keith with a twist

Chapter 5

Minerva POV
I was stunned. The King stood up when he saw me. "Ah, Ms. Vineyard. I was waiting for you. Come, sit." He motioned for me to sit on the chair, in front of him. I slowly walked over and sat down.

The King chuckled when he saw me all frozen up and shocked. "Now, now. You are not in trouble so please relax." I nodded. "So Your Highness, is there a reason for you to call me here? I mean, there has to be something that must be important, if you tricked me to come here." I said.

The King smiled. "I knew you were the right choice. So let's get to business. You know the state Liberty is in right now, correct?" I nodded. "Liberty, I mean, I need you. We all need you. Please be the lawyer representing Liberty and please help us get out of this problem." The King said while bowing his head. I thought about it for a minute. "If you do this for us, I will give you a reward, that everyone will want." I don't care about the reward, but this might help me for my job and position. I smiled. "All right, Your Majesty. I accept your offer. But it is not because of the reward so you do not have to give me one." The King smiled. "Thank you, Ms .Vineyard. Liberty and I owe you one." Then he took out some files. "These are the files and reports about the bankruptcy in Liberty. It looks like somebody started it on purpose, though. So please investigate on that, Ms.Vineyard." I nodded as I took the files.

"Oh, and since you are going to come to the Manse a lot, I thought you might want to know more about the Royal Family. The files on the bottom is about the Royal Family. Now I must be going. Thank you again, Ms. Vineyard." I stood up and bowed as he left the room. I let out a sigh. I better get back to work. I was about to leave when a guard came up to me. "Ms. Vineyard? The King said that he wished for you to stay at the ball for a little bit longer. Is that alright for you?" I looked at the time. I nodded. "Alright."

---15 minutes later---

I drove up to the driveway of Nobel Michel, where the ball was held. I slowly went inside. As I went inside, I saw a huge group of women. I headed towards there and saw Laura, and the other princes. I walked up to them. "Hi, Laura. Hello, Your Highnesses." I said politely, the total opposite of how I was before. They all looked surprised, then Laura sneered at me. "So how was that criminal? Don't you get tired of just seeing criminals? While I meet all kinds of celebrities and idols." I rolled my eyes. "Laura, sweetie, I don't just meet criminals. I go to balls and parties, a lot more than you, and I met almost all of the celebrities and idols, again, unlike you, Laura, sweetie. So stop trying to start an argument with me because you can never win, and just drink your alcohol." I smirked. I won again.

Then Prince Keith went up to me. "Do not talk to Laura like that." I was surprised because I thought Prince Keith didn't like Laura. "Oh, I'm sorry, Your Highness. But I don't think that you want to talk to me like that. You have no idea what I'm doing for you." Prince Keith walked right up in front of me. "What do you mean?" He growled. "You do not need to know." I said.

I was about to leave the circle when I saw a knife that was ready to be thrown. "EVERBODY, DUCK!!!" I screamed, while I was standing up. Everybody ducked but Prince Keith didn't. "Why should we listen to you, commoner?" I didn't care about him. I then saw the knife being thrown at Prince Keith. I ran over to him and pushed him to the floor. I felt a blinding pain in my side. Moments later, I heard everybody screaming and Prince Keith by my side. "Hey, hey! Stay with me!!! Luke!!! Hurry up and call the ambulance, NOW!!!!!!!!!! I felt my consciousness slowly fading away. "Prince Keith." I whispered as I fell into darkness. "STAY WITH ME!!!! That was the last thing I heard as I lost my consciousness.