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I wake up to light streaming through the windows. The bed next to me is now empty and all of his stuff is already gone. How did he manage to leave while I slept? I never sleep that soundly. I have had to fight for my life for most of it and being a heavy sleeper would have ended up with my death years ago.Wiping my eyes, I get up and make my way to the door. He did say that they were leaving early. Maybe they have all already left? I will have to go and talk to Hunt before I start my day though. I do not want him thinking that I did anything stupid last night. I mean, I did but not as stupid as what he is thinking.When I get down the stairs I find that Mary is in the kitchen helping to get things set up for the day. She glances up at me in surprise as I walk straight past her and into the stables. If she really does believe our story then that is the first place that I should be going anyways so thankfully, she does not try to stop me.I make my way up the stairs to find that Hunt i
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Hunt hurries through his breakfast and heads straight to the stables before I even get a chance to make it through mine. He does not so much as glance at me when he passes by me. Letting out a sigh, I look at my only half eaten bowl of oats and get up. I cannot seem to get myself to finish my food when Hunt is angry with me.He has never been this upset with me in the past. Even when I went into the castle and stole the crown he was on my side. He did not question me he just showed up to help me get away safely. When I decided to take a job here he happily took one with me to make sure that I was okay. Now, he is upset because I spent the night with a Prince?That is not going to work for me. if he does not want to be here then he does not have to stay. I am perfectly capable of taking care of myself. I have done it plenty in my life. Sure, he has always been there with me but that does not mean that I need him. It might be a lie that I have to keep telling myself but if that is what
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I find the Prince straying into my thoughts for the rest of the day. Hunt never once comes to talk to me so I have the entire day to stew over what happened as well as how to fix it. There is no way that I am going to be able to keep working with Hunt and seeing him every day if he does not allow for me to explain things and for him to hear them out. It is not fair to me or to our friendship for him to do this. It is not like I really betrayed him or anything.For lunch I decide to take it outside and eat it behind the stables. I am not ready to see Hunt look at me accusingly and still continue about his day. Instead, when I grab my food and mumble that I will be back to Cook she gives me a sad smile as she watches me walk out of the door. Hunt passes by me on my way but I keep my eyes down so that he cannot see the hurt in them.I swear that I could almost feel him reach out to stop me but I just keep walking. If he wants to talk to me then he is going to have to do it the right way.
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Do I sleep in the Prince's room for the night or do I make myself go and face Hunt once again? That is a question that I find yslf hung up on for the rest of my shift doing dishes. The bed in the Prince's room really is quite comfortable. I am sure that the stables are not anywhere near as nice to sleep in. How would Hunt feel if I were to go and sleep in there? He got so upset about last night that he might think I am selling out for something better.It might be best for me to just go into the stables at first and see what happens. The room can always be my fall back plan if Hunt is being overly rude when I get in there. My comfort comes second to getting him back talking to me again. Since he ate lunch with me I am hopeful that he has moved on enough from last night for me to be able to talk to him again. It might have only been one day but I miss my best friend. "Where are you going to be staying tonight?" Mary asks walking up to me.I feel like she is testing me and my response
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"What are you doing here?" Hunt says as he kicks my boot to wake me up. I look up at him groggily. I must have fallen asleep waiting for him to come back. Sure enough, he is plenty drunk and it looks like he is looking for a fight. Whatever though. It would not be the first time that we fought. We both tend to fight rather dirty. Unluckily for him, he woke me up from a rather deep sleep so I am not going to hold back. "What do you mean what am I doing? What were you doing all night?" I yell back at him. "Does it really matter? It is not like you checked in with me last night. You just did whatever you want, which just happens to be the Prince. You know, the one that we are supposed to be avoiding?" He yells at me. Hopefully there is nobody awake that heard that part of our argument. My eyes grow wide as I drop my face into my hands. Hunt must think that I am defeated as he lets out a sigh and walks towards me. I am nowhere near done with this argument but it is not worth everybody
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The next morning, I wake up earlier than Hunt. If we want our plan to work we need to be seen together as little as possible. A little grumbling when we are in the same room might not go amiss either. Luckily, my bed leaves a lot to be desired in terms of comfort so it is not difficult for me to push myself up and get ready for the day. By the time that Hunt gets up and moves around, I am already in the kitchen washing dishes. I rushed through eating my breakfast so that I would not have to eat at the same table. Mary sees me actively trying to avoid him and comes over with what I am sure she believes to be wonderfully sage advice."You know, I once had a fight with my husband. It lasted a month before we realized how silly it was. We still could not stand the idea of not being together but at the same time we could not stand to be around each other either. In the end, we decided that instead of being miserable apart we could be miserable together. Once we came to that decision and s
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For a couple of weeks Hunt and I keep watch on all of the comings and goings at the Inn.Nothing as eventful as when the Prince stopped in happens even though we try our best to keep track of it all. Every lunch I head out back and watch to see if there is another drop but I do not catch one. It could just have been a fluke meeting spot but normally the meeting spot does not change too often as it gets more difficult to keep track of. Hunt and I have done a decent job of making sure that everybody believes we are still not talking. Mary has been much kinder to me as she thinks that I am upset over it. She is always giving me a kind word or an extra meal like it would make up for things if we were really arguing. At night, that is a different story.Every night I go up to the loft early while Hunt goes out. He goes out until most of the others are asleep and then he comes back to the loft. He pretends to stumble in all inebriated but in reality he has really just been scouting around.
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"What is it with you wanting me to stay with you? We have always known that there would come a time when we are not able to stay with each other. Our lives are not the easy kind. What happened all of a sudden to change how you want our future to go?" I ask him."I thought that I was going to lose you. That is what happened. I thought that you were going to get caught stealing from the king and that would be the end of it. It terrified me. You jumped into danger just to prove yourself with no second thought to me. What do you think would happen to me if you had been caught?" He asks me quietly.I am glad that he lowered his voice for this conversation so that nobody is able to hear everything that he just said. It was enough to make sure that I went to prison for my actions if not outright killed for them. With him speaking more quietly though, I find that some of his intentions are coming through a little differently than I would normally take them. Does he really like me as more than
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