"Adrien, you should get some sleep. You haven't slept in two days," Adrienne begged her brother, but he didn't even turn to spare her a glance.

"I'm not tired," Was his reply and it angered Adrienne.

"All you do is train and stay in this God damn room! You're starving yourself and depriving yourself of sleep! You can't do this to yourself, Adrien!" She screamed at him.

She felt tears well up in her eyes well up tears.

'Pregnancy hormones,' She thought.

"Adrienne, stop worrying about me. I'm fine. The stress isn't good for you," Adrien rose from his bed and walked over to his sister.

She pulled him into a hug and cried into his naked chest.

Adrien was only in a sweatpants, he just came out of his shower.

"At least eat and get some sleep, Adrien. Please," She begged, tightening her arms around him.

Adrien let out a sigh then said,"Fine. Just stop crying. Please. I'll eat something and take a nap."

"Promise?"

"Promise," He replied before taking her face in his hands and using his thumb to dry her tears.

"Now go back to your room. Your husband's probably wondering what's taking you so long to get back," He ordered and she nodded.

"I'll get a maid to bring up some food for you,"

Adrien nodded and headed back to his bed.

He heard the door close, indicating that Adrienne had left.

He stated up at the boring, white ceiling with a blue eyed girl on his mind.

'Marinette,' He thought sadly.

Someone knocked on the door and he let out a "come in".

In came a redheaded maid with a tray.

"Your sister asked me to take this up to you, your highness," She said shamelessly eyeing his body.

It was no secret that the Prince was an attractive man, but you'd think some people would know how to keep the staring to a minimum.

"Thank you. You may leave now," He took the tray from her hands.

The maid remained in the room.

"I'm sorry about the Princess, your high-"

"I said, you may leave now," Adrien said calmly.

"But-"

"Get out," He said, his tone dark, it scared her.

"Y-Yes, I-I'm sorry, sir," She stutterd before quickly rushing out of the room.

Adrien took deep breaths, trying to calm himself down.

Everyone was being really annoying for the past few days and it was angering him.

Adrien began to eat as he promised his sister.

When he finished, he moved the tray to the side before lying down.

He felt that familiar sadness and pain beginning to surface.

Right before he fell asleep, one thing ran through his mind.

'I will find you, Marinette and I won't stop searching until you're here in my arms,'

****

"Stop being so stubborn and eat, my love," The man held the fork to Marinette's lips. She shook her head and turned the other way.

The man was getting angrier by the second, but Marinette didn't care.

"You keep refusing to eat, Princess. You're starving yourself," The man said worriedly. If she didn't eat, she'd get sick and he doesn't want that. It'd tear him apart.

Marinette still refused though she was hungry as hell.

"Is it because I hit you a few days ago? If it is, I'm terribly sorry and I'll make it up to," The man was desperate to get her to eat, but he wasn't sorry for hitting her. She was being a brat and she deserved it.

"Take these chains off me and I'll eat," Marinette finally said, several thoughts popping into her head.

"Okay," The man placed the plate on the bed and took some keys out of his pocket.

He unlocked the chains around her ankles first then the ones around her wrist.

Marinette let out a sigh of content and rubbed her wrists when they were finally free.

"Thank you," She said, taking the cup of hot tea into her hands.

The man smiled behind his mask and nodded.

He loved this girl with all his heart and one day she'll love him back. She just has to.

He picked up the plate and held the fork to her lips once more.

Marinette accepted the food and begun to eat.

The man was happy that she was finally being reasonable.

"You're moving too slow. Give me the fork," Marinette whined, stretching her hand out to him.

He was reluctant, but gave her the fork.

Marinette ate and secretly a smirk rose to her lips.

She quickly slapped the mask off his face and threw the hot tea in his face.

The man screamed as the burning liquid came in contact with his skin. He covered his face then screamed again when Marinette stabbed him with the fork.

She made a run for it. She ran to the door and tried to get it open. It was really heavy, but in the end she succeeded.

No guards were around when Marinette ran out of the room and into the halls.

'What a stupid man,' She thought.

She ran down the empty halls trying to find the front or back door.

"YOU STUPID MEN! FIND HER!" She heard the man yell and her eyes widened. His voice was no longer muffled.

He recovered and now he was pissed. He was lucky that the tea wasn't scorching, so it won't really do any damage to his face.

It would be hard to explain to the press why his face was now burnt.

He barked orders at the guards who ran around the building frantically trying to find the Princess.

Marinette quickly opened a door and stepped in, slowly closing the door behind her.

It was a bedroom. She looked for a balcony. She saw none. She looked for windows. They were all barred.

She heard heavy footsteps nearing the room and she panicked.

She quickly crawled underneath the bed.

'Oh God,'

She tried to control her breathing so that no one would know she's in here.

She door busted open and Marinette covered her mouth.

"Where is she?" The familiar voice of the man was heard.

"We haven't found her yet, your highness," A deep, gruff voice said.

'YOUR HIGHNESS? He's royalty??' To say Marinette was shocked is an understatement.

"You better find her! Or I'll have you all killed!!!" The man shouted.

"Yes sir!" The other person replied. The door slammed shut and Marinette sighed in relief.

They were gone.

A hand gripped her leg and pulled her from underneath the bed.

She let out a toe curling scream.

She opened her eyes only to be met with a familiar face.

"N-Nathaniel?"

*****

That was not shocking. Everyone knew it was Nathaniel.

But anyways, how was the chapter?

I'm thinking of adding Luka into the book. Not as a love interest though (I hate love triangles). Just for extra characters.

Also, I'm sorry this chapter took so long. I kinda forgot to update yesterday and this morning. The stress of school is finally coming and it hits hard. I'll try to update as frequent as possible.

Anyways, DON'T BE A SILENT READER. VOTE AND COMMENT!

later 👋.