Thy Gay Prince

Chapter 10

Valencia's POV

All of my hopes of getting out of this room vanished. The king had me trapped with nowhere to go. He smiles a dark and evil smile, like the one I saw the day I came and Noah was getting beaten.

"What a-are you going to-to do with m-me?" I ask almost falling apart.

"Whatever I want." He looks at me with lust in his eyes.

"You won't get away with t-this." I tremble.

"Who are you going to tell? My son? Ha, he already hates me." He laughs and steps towards me.

I start to shake. My only hope is to get the key from him. But how was I supposed to do that? It's still in his hands, if I let him grab me will I be able to pry it away from him? Maybe it's worth a try. If I am not able to though I don't know what the king will do to me.

"Please don't hurt me." I try to look as helpless as possible.

"Your emerald eyes are amazing to stare at, I could all day but I can't guarantee that I won't hurt you at least a little." He starts to walk over to me.

He lunged towards me and I try to move out of instinct but am paralyzed. I try to push him off but he keeps grabbing me. I see the key in his pocket and go to grab it but he blocks my arm and pins it.

"Well Valencia, I thought you would have put up so much more of a fight." He is on his hands and knees over me.

I lay there pinned to the ground by one arm and the other is on his chest pushing him away. His grip is iron on my right arm, unless there is some sort of diversion I am not getting loose of that arm. My left arm lunges toward his left pocket but then he pins that one too.

I take my legs and bring them up through his and put them on his chest. I try to push him off and succeeding. He rolls over to my right so I am on top of him. With my arms free I reach into his pocket and grab the key.

"Thank you sir!" I jump off him and sprint towards the door.

"Not so fast!" He grabs my arm again.

"You know I am really sick of this!" I jumps and flip.

While flipping I kick him square in the chest sending him backwards. He lands in the floor and I am free. I unlock the door and close it. The I sprint towards the infirmary.

Getting there I slam the door and turn and slide down. Noah is startled awake and looks so confused. I had to take a breather for a second. Questions zoomed through my mind. Why would the king try to do that?

"May I ask why you are here Valencia?" Noah looks a little shaken up.

"The king." That was all I could muster.

"What happened?" Noah sits up.

"He-he tried to uhh hurt me." I feel tears run down my face.

Noah tries to get up but I go to stop him. There was no reason for him to hurt himself trying to help me. Instead he wipes the tears away from my face. He was such a good friend and ally.

"What really happened?" Noah asks more intently now.

"Cade's father, I went to his room asking him if Lily could stay. He said yes but was acting all weird about it. Then I went to leave and he pinned me against the wall. He was trying to-to.." I didn't get to finish before another burst of tears runs through my face.

Noah looked at me with pity. And I hated it. I didn't want to be pitied. So I wiped the tears away before he could and walked over to the ice box. I grabbed a leather pouch and filled to and gave it to him. Then turned away.

"Thanks." He lays back down and puts it on his back. "You know Valencia, you're very brave."

"What?" I turned towards him again.

"You're very brave, I wouldn't have been able to do that. Heck I couldn't stop the king from whipping me half to death."

"That's different Noah, I am not very brave. I was bawling half the time."

"I doubt it." He smiles at me.

I took that for gratitude. Noah was just trying to help. Then Cade walks in. He looked at me then Noah, then back at me.

"Hello Cade."

"Hello Noah, what are you and Valencia up to?" He asks while getting more ice.

"Nothing, the good question is what your father is up to." Noah sighs.

"Why what happened?" Cade looks at me for the answer.

I am not sure what Cade saw to be for sure but I am sure I am a mess. My coal black hair is in tons of knots, my eyes red from all the crying. Cheeks are probably puffy and and dress looks in seams form the king trying to rip it. In fact I'm sure the seams are ripping out.

"T-the king.." I start.

"The king was trying to get into her dress." Noah looks at me with a small smile.

Secretly I thanked Noah, I was never going to be able to say it all without tears again. Cade uses a hand to go through his hair. He looks very stressed.

"Why would my father do that?!" He slams his hand on the ice box's lid.

I flinched at the movement. Cade was already not happy with the king. Now with this putting it on the pile as well? I am surprised he hasn't exploded. He puts his hands on his temples holding up his head.

"Cade it's okay." I try to tell him.

"No it's not okay Valencia! He's trying to hurt everyone I care about!" Cade yells, frustrated.

"Cade, you told me that if I ever had a plan to tell you right? Well I have one if you're willing to go as far as it takes." Cade turns around as I say these words.

We might actually be able to do something after all.