Chapter Sixteen: Lets Have Some Fun

"Why are you here?" Maria demanded as her red eyes flashed. "You don't belong in this part of the castle!"

Trying to control my raging heartbeat, I took a breath. "Wilson was giving me a lesson in his study." I tried to explain. "I was just heading back to the servants quarters."

"Lesson?" Maria repeated as if it were a dirty word. "You seduced my brother, and now you're doing things behind his back with that old man?"

Maria's words were like a slap in the face to me. Did she really just insinuate that I was going around seducing all the men in this castle? She had to be fucking kidding me.

"Watch your mouth." I growled as my anger began to ebb. "I haven't done anything of the sort, and I won't allow you to speak of me that way."

As I spoke, a growl erupted from the man that I had initially run into as his hand shot out and wrapped around my throat. Gasping, I grabbed his wrist, trying to get him to let go.

"No one talks to the princess like that." He spat, now leaning down close to my