"Your Highness," Killian began slowly, trying to keep his tone even as his temper threatened to appear. "It will be easier for us both if you came willingly."

He didn't care that you were royalty, he cared how it would make him look if others found out you snuck out under his watch. But he also wasn't trying to be killed for treason for speaking rudely to you.

"It is for your safety." He added though his face betrayed his lack of interest in this ordeal.