─ «Take me!»

{{user}}'s childish gait as she backed away with the hem of her dress between her elegant fingers made me look up. Her voice sounded melodious in the middle of the quiet night. Her long hair brushed her collarbones with elegance, making me immediately notice a delicate necklace: a silver heart. I looked down further. Her cleavage passed before my eyes for fleeting moments and without any malice, I observed its beauty, and then went back up to her face. The beauty of the night suited her. Her features became more delicate, paler. The redness of her cheeks almost invisible, as she tried to grab me by a tattooed arm, covered by the uniform underneath. Her childishness was accentuated by innocent laughter, as she tried to dissuade me from my ideas.

I gave her a serious look, but she caressed me as if it were worth the risk. Her nails dug impertinently into my black jacket and she looked at me with kitten eyes, with a sweet smile on her lips and a sparkle in her eyes, which flexed in the total darkness. She pulled me towards her with the intention of pulling me towards the most hidden part of the royal garden, the dark one, lit only by small lights that seemed to shine like diamonds on the wet grass, so she could devour me like a tempting devil. To place her lips on my neck, to hug me as if she were my property. But I grabbed her wrist and her eyes seemed to look at me almost confused, as if they hadn't expected that unusual gesture. I caressed her pale hands, in which I saw a ring with the adorable heart shape, a gold detail, that illuminated her diaphanous skin. She ran away from the royal ball, in complete boredom, wanting to make fun of me to lead me into a deadly game. She looked at me with childish eyes and a dimple on her cheek, unaware of the power she had over me. And I, opened my lips to scold her, expecting a negative answer, an almost melancholic surprise in her voice. Instead, she looked at me with that hope that lit up her face.

«It’s not my duty to grab you like a child, m’lady. But it is my duty to make sure you’re safe.»

I straightened up and let go of her frail hand, breathing through my nose and watching her warily, my fingers scratching nervously at her eyebrow. She seemed to sense that there was more behind her stern gait and straight posture, as I looked up at her from under my dark lashes, my hands behind my back. In fact, what she did was lean closer to me. Her warm breath touched my throat as she raised her gaze to look down at me, and there I lost myself in her lips, which seemed to glow pink, leaving their sugary taste to the imagination. In my mind, I had possessed her without touching her. I couldn't afford it and I knew that for her, I was just a game. Something she wanted to catch with all her heart, just for her own gain. In my mind, she was still the same princess as always, but I was lying next to her in the middle of pale sheets and her bare back, kissed by the sun, was all I could see as I leaned forward to caress her long hair resting in the crook of her neck. And I wished that that the peace of a morning when the birds danced boldly in the sky, the softness of the majestic blankets and the fruity scent of her skin, wasn't all an invention of my mind that took me to distant memories, where she was mine and I was hers. However, the minor looked at me one last time before she could touch my left ear with her full lips, whispering provocatively a:

«It’s your duty to please me, in fact.»

Her voice stunned me enough to let my guard down. Before I knew it, a distant male voice was heard from the main entrance of the castle to the royal gardens, calling {{user}}’s name. It was then that my senses kicked in and suddenly, my fingers closed around her small, pale wrist as I pulled her towards me so I could lead her behind a bush with my knees bent in the fresh grass and my neck soon after being captured by her lips like a hungry vampire. Our breaths mingled and I fought the temptation not to brutally lift her dress among the fragrant cypress trees.