Royal Princess: Doted On By The Mafia King

Rose rolled when she felt a presence in her room and she opened her eyes slowly to the darkness of her room. She thought of the worse as she lay on the bed. It could be a friend or a foe and she could not guess who it was as she laid on the bed with silence in the room weighing on her.

It took a few seconds for her to see clearly in the room but as soon as she could make out the figures of the objects in the room, she noticed a black mass move close to her and she felt a strong urge to scream but she closed her lips before the sound could escape knowing that the walls of the room was soundproof.

She reached towards the red alarm button in her room to press it but the figure moved so fast and held her hand. At this point, she did not have time for any rational thought as she screamed fruitlessly and reached for the pepper spray she asked Carl to order for her online but the person was quick to stop her.

"Shhhh . . . relax," a deep musical voice said so soothingly her body immediately obeyed without objection.

She closed her eyes and exhaled before wriggling her wrists out of his grips. She sat up and moved away from him while staring into the dark room unable to see clearly but she could make out his muscular well-toned frame in the dark. The scent of his cologne filled her nose and like always felt very soothing that she found herself subconsciously taking deep breaths.

She felt embarrassed and happy that the room was dark because that did a good job of hiding her blush from his eyes. She waited for him to speak unwilling to switch on the lights to keep her secret.

"I heard you are returning to B city," he said sitting down on her bed. She expected him to sit on the chair close to her bed but he seems to have something else on his mind.

"Yes, I am," she replied with her voice slightly hoarse. She cleared her throat as her already tinted face further got tinted with a pink healthy color due to embarrassment.

"I thought I should visit you this night before you leave. You will be gone for a while and I will have to remain here in A city because I have to take care of all I neglected while I was here in the hospital," he explained the purpose of his visit for perhaps the very first time unlike the other visits that he is either gone before she wakes up or he doesn't say a word before leaving her.

Supplied with his explanation, she found herself very confused and she could not come up with the right answer to offer him. "Ohh . . .," she finally came up with something to say after having to endure the weight of the heavy blanket of awkward silence that covered the room for about a minute.

"Am I allowed to stay?" he asked his voice sounding so deep and calm that she bagan wondering what has such beautiful unique sound apart from his voice.

The beauty of his voice prevented her from understanding the gravity of the question he asked and she nodded her head automatically.

"Lie down then since I will be spending the night here. We can't remain seated throughout the night, right?" he asked standing up.

"Uh?" she asked. Her usually fast brain took a few seconds to process the gravity of the question asked and she gasped. Without hesitation, she snapped the lights on and moved away from him and got down from the bed through the other side of the bed away from him. She watched him with owl-like eyes a dark cute shade of pink graced her cheeks as she watched him.

"No offense," he said with a deep musical chuckle with his hands raised in surrender. She looked very beautiful as he watched her. She looked like a very cute bunny trying to hide away from the fox. That idea made him chuckle once again. He liked the thought of being a predator, her predator.

She gave him a look asking him what he meant by no offense.

"I don't mean any of what you are thinking. I just want to lie with you till tomorrow. I will leave before anyone comes in," he promised smiling at her cute stance.

She remembered what Leah advised her to do. If he wanted to spend the night on her bed with her, shouldn't she let him? After taking a deep breath, she nodded and moved to the bed while watching him like a very watchful cat.

Liam had already accepted his fate when she woke up after he entered the room but he wanted to tease her a little before fully accepting his fate. Her response shocked him. He did not expect her to agree so suddenly. He watched her hesitate but still lie on the bed and covered herself in the blanket. She looked away at the wall without saying a word.

Liam swallowed the lump that began forming in his throat due to the scene he just witnessed. Why did the room suddenly get so hot? He took a deep breath before joining her on the bed which was made for one patient in the hospital and not a couple. He lay on his side just like her and hugged her in his arms.

He felt her tense but after a while, she relaxed and to his surprise, she fell asleep in less than five minutes. He smiled happily. He could not remember when he was this happy in his entire life. This felt so peaceful, more peaceful than ever.

With her back pressed against his chest engulfed in his bigger frame, he was also engulfed in sleep and soon slept off peacefully.

***

When Rose opened her eyes, she felt good in a way that she hasn't felt before. It was very refreshing. She looked at the window. From the bright light streaming in despite the while curtain covering the window, she knew she slept in. She sat up on the bed cross-legged and stretched her arms.

She glance at the wall clock in the room and when she saw it was almost ten in the morning, dropped her hands which she stretched up along with her jaw. She had a pill to take by nine in the morning after breakfast and an injection afterwards and she was late.

She groaned going down from her bed. She blamed Liam as she went to the bathroom to carry out her morning routine. Liam must be the reason the nurse did not wake her up. She did not want to fall ill at least not today. She was supposed to leave for B city today and it will be bad if the she was told that she will have to wait for another week because of the drugs she missed.

She wondered if it was his plan but after careful thought she could not come up with a reason why he will do that to make her stay in Star city when he could easily go to visit her when he wants.

She called a nurse in as soon as she was done and asked her all the questions bothering her. The nurse assured her that it was alright and that she will have to undergo full check-up before leaving and if there was any problem, it will be found out during the check-up.

That was not a bad news but it was not total good news to her since she had no idea what the result will be.

Without delay, she took the pill and the injection after eating breakfast. Anna and Valerie arrived hours later when she began all the required check-ups. She was too busy trying to proof that she was ready to go home that she forgot about all that happened last night.

When the results they got from the tests proved that she won't have to come back the way she did about a month ago, she was forced to remember when Carl came to tease with the little assumptions and speculations he had from his eagle-like observation.

He made sure to keep his voice very low as he whispered in the manner that he intended to prevent her family members from getting suspicious. "So, you are not going to tell me?" he asked in low gentle whisper.

"I don't have any idea what you are talking about," she replied which was an obvious lie due to the light shade pink that darkened her cheeks.

"Of course you do. This floor had a very tight security when I came here last night. I could be as sneaky as a ninja but I found myself immobile when I saw how secured it was. It was at that point I began suspecting Mr. Hale was on that floor because I could not come up with anyone with such professional guards.