To Love The Lawyer {Be My Princess Fanfiction}

Chapter 6

"Please, is anyone there!? Help! Help me!"

Wherever she was, it was dark. A cell, maybe? She was confined to a small, desolate space made up of three concrete walls and the last of iron bars. There were no windows, and the only way out was through the metal gate locked from the outside of the bars. There was no way out for her, and her only hope of escape was if someone came for her.

But no one knew she was here, because she left of her own free will... Why did he do this to her? Sure, she trespassed, but wasn't this a little extreme!? She was an eighteen-year-old girl for crying out loud, not a threat! She only did it because she was thinking of her mother...!

"Please...anyone?" Halle banged her head on the metal bars, grasping them tightly within her clenched fists. She somberly stared out at the dimly lit hallway, completely oblivious to the fact that such a place even existed in Villa Altaria.

But no one heard her cries for help, and she was left there all alone for what felt like an eternity to her.

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Halle woke up with a start, snapping out of that painful nightmare fairly quickly as she rose her head from the desk she had been lying on. Her chest heaved as she desperately tried to catch her breath.

The dream? That was...

Halle shuddered at the painful memory, and she quickly took in her surroundings. She had fallen asleep at her desk apparently, and she instantly regretted it when she felt the crick in her neck start to bother her. Her whole room was dark, and her hard work was barely illuminated by the soft warmth of the flickering candle she had lit only hours before. She quickly realized she must have fallen asleep in the middle of filling out her paperwork.

There were a lot of pages to fill out, but it also had to be written in the Dresvanese language, which Halle didn't know at all. An English/Dresvanese dictionary could only get you so far. She had been provided with both that and a laptop for looking up the words, but it was still taking her a long time.

Sure, she filled out legal documents like this all the time for work, but just like Prince Roberto had told her, Dres Van and Altaria were nothing alike. In comparison, Dres Van law was much more strict and severe, and Halle found some of their laws quite ridiculous, such as the one keeping her here in the first place...

Halle sighed heavily as she noticed the weight of something draped across her back. Upon checking it out, she found the object to be a blanket.

"I wonder if Jan covered me with this...?" Halle mused out loud to herself as she gripped the blanket's soft fabric within her fingers. Her heart lightened at the thought of the kind gesture, and she turned her attention to the paperwork once more.

Time to get back to work!

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Hours later...

Halle trudged from her room as the sun began to come up, hoping her makeup covered the dark circles under her eyes as she grunted quietly to herself, "it's already morning and I'm still nowhere near finishing..."

At this rate, it would take her over a week just to get the paperwork done... She knew it was going to suck as soon as she saw how much of it there was, but she never imagined it would take her this long! At least she had the advantage of being someone trained in practicing the law... The paperwork was similar to that of Altaria's legal documents in terms of protocol and technical terms, so at least it wasn't completely strange to her.