AN HOUR LATER, WILSON'S MANSON*

"Yas!" Rebekah kissed Pearl's cheek, and they chuckled before entering the main hall.

*

OUTSIDE*

Roonie got on his bike after minutes of staying around the hall.

He put on his leather gloves, and the moment he made to wear his helmet, Rook walked up to him.

He stood in front of the bike with a smile Roonie detests so much.

"What's funny?" Rook smirked deeply.

"My father says thank you, and... I'll be grateful for the rest of my life too. Thanks for sparing my life. I came to the Loft yesterday but Hyce denied my entry" Rook replied.

Without uttering a word Roonie wore his helmet, kicking his bike to life.

"I'll do anything to prove myself worthy of your time! Anything at all!" Rook shouted as he drove off.

*

AN HOUR LATER, WILSON'S MANSON*

The girls returned from the party twenty minutes ago, and while Sybil is sitting in front of the mirror, wiping her makeup... Pearl is in bed, her face in her phone.

She's busy posting the pictures she snapped with Rebekah on her I*, and immediately she saw Morgan's comment, she laughed out.

Morgan: Sending hate from my house!!!

Rebekah: Damn, we're so pretty *several kiss emojis*

Nina: *Smirking emojis*

Pearl laughed out again, but before she could witness their impending argument, she received a text.

Immediately she clicked, she sat up in bed.

It's the dîck picture again, and this one came with a message.

~ Leave Banks alone!!! Fûck these dîcks on your screen instead.

"What the fûck!" She voiced out.

"What?" Sybil faced her.

"Oh .... Nothing" Pearl replied, slowly deleting the picture.

"And about the Banks guy... Are you really not interested? Should i seduce him? I seriously want to date him" Sybil said.

Pearl remained silent, remembering the look in his eyes earlier and how he turned back and left without a word.

Her damn mind went to when he worshipped her skin with his tongue in the dark garage, and she gulped.

"Pearl?" Sybil's voice brought her back, and she blinked twice.

"Huh?"

"You've been quiet for two minutes. Say something" Sybil said.

"Go on... I'm.. I'm fine" Pearl replied, piling the duvet over herself.

"Yes!" Sybil jumped, leaving the room.

*

NEXT MORNING, TERRAVERDE PALACE*

Rebekah ignored the maids greetings as usual as she descended the stairs, her hair rolled into a twist.

Her pyjamas knicker is so short that her mid thighs are left out, and the shirt is transparent as usual.

That was the first thing Axel noticed when she got to the dinning door

He's already waiting, and he drooled with no self-control till she stopped in front of him.

"If you continue staring at me like that, i might think you're starting to fall for me" she said, bringing him back.

"Let's go" he quickly composed himself.

At once, they entered the dinning hall where Elsa and the king are already at.

Elsa is behaving like a potentially good wife again, serving the king his water despite the present maids.

Immediately the king saw Rebekah's pyjamas, he dropped his fork.

"Go back upstairs right now, and change into a longer dress. Your stepbrother is here what are you thinking!" He chastised.

"I don't think stepbrother is the right word to use in this context, considering the fact that we're in love" Rebekah replied.

"What!" The jug of water fell from Elsa to the ground and broke up.

"What bull are you spewing!" The king's eyes changed to hostile.

"We've been dating, way before you started planning your wedding. Axel is my boyfriend" Rebekah replied.

"Fûck yeah, we love each other and you better cancel the damn wedding before the whole of this island hears about our relationship too" Conrad shrugged.

"What has come over you Axel! Is this a stunt to ruin this marriage? Huh?" Elsa came closer.

"Stunt? Watch me" Axel pulled Rebekah closer suddenly by the waist, leaning in...

He was about to kiss her when she took in her lips, making his lids flicker.

"I knew it!" Elsa laughed.

"Are you both that desperate to see this wedding fall apart? So desperate to the point of staging a drama?" The king said calmly.

Axel let go of Rebekah slowly, and she cursed herself inwardly.

"You both can't leave the palace grounds today, you're grounded" the king ordered.

"What!" Rebekah gasped.

"Well you're not my father! Tell that to your daughter!" Axel spat.

"Axel!" Elsa gasped.

"To hell with you!" Axel fired and walked out of the hall furiously.

Rebekah rushed after him and met up by the vast living room.

"Axel I...

"Do you hate me that much? Enough to fold your lips for a harmless kiss? Fûck I hate you too but you don't see me pasting it around! We could have smashed the wedding if that kiss happened, but you had to fûck up!" He shouted angrily.

Rebekah became speechless.