Royal Princess: Doted On By The Mafia King

Chapter 173 - Betrayed

Rose froze against him and bit her lower lips. She wondered why he smelt so good in the morning when a displeased part of her was wondering why she was very convinced by what he said to her.

"I have you, I want to hear you say it out loud," he said when he pulled away although he was very reluctant about releasing her warm smaller and curvy body frame away from his embrace looked at her hazel eyes which were now looking up at him. He bent forward until her was at her eye level.

"I have you," Rose had to tell him when he kept staring at her that she could not remain silent.

"You have me and I have you too," he said straightening his tall frame with a triumphant smile on his face.

"I have you and you have me," she echoed innocently.

Liam chuckled he said that as a confirmation not for her to repeat. She looked so cute when she looked at him with her lips tightly pressed together when she could obviously not figure out why he was laughing. "You look so cute," he said patting her head after releasing her shoulder which he had caged in his hands..

"I am hungry," she told him looking away before hastily leaving the gym when she could not stand the intent gaze he had fixed on her.

"It is just six in the morning, how hungry are you that you want to eat now?" he asked her as he followed after no longer interested in working out.

"Very hungry," she snapped before increasing her pace as she tried to escape his presence. She went to the kitchen with the lights of the passage turning on as she passed under them. The kitchen became brightly lit when she entered that she wished it would turn off her save her the embarrassment of her blushing appearance. These lights really had no knowledge of helping people cover up their shame.

She opened the fridge and pulled out the package of sliced bread she saw and placed it on the island. She has never tried cooking since she narrowly escaped getting showered in hot fish sauce in the orphanage and there was nothing she could prepare despite the densely filled fridge before her except toasted bread with jam and a heated cup of milk.

"Why don't you cook something for both of us," he asked her as he watched her closely because he knew more than anyone that Rose was not a good cook.

"I will toast bread for both of us," she told with a serious expression not giving room for the teasing tone she heard in his voice.

"I want egg along," he told her with an equally serious expression.

"Okay," she told him with a nod. She knew how to boil egg, it was not a hard task for her after all she once worked in a restaurant as a waiter in her past life.

He sat down on one of the stools and rested his elbows on the island. He watched Rose as she began operating the toasted with a very serious and focused expression. She did it carefully like he guessed she will work her magic on a piece of fabric.

"You look like you actually doing a great job there. Do you need my assistance?" he asked her when she began arranging the toasted bread in plates. She picked the jar of jam and placed in on the island while she left one egg to boil in a pot of water.

Liam watched her with interest as she sat down and took a slice of bread to eat. When the bread was only inches away from her lips, he decided to speak, "You should check the egg."

"I don't think it is okay. I just put it," she said glaring at him and took a bit of the toasted bread. "You should actually be the one cooking for me. I was sick yesterday. Is this how Mr. Hale takes care of his guests?"

"I guess you must have forgotten that you actually as much of a host as I am now, Mrs. Hale," he reminded her teasingly. "I will cook lunch for both of us."

"I am not changing my name after our marriage. It is against my family rule for a future Queen to her husband's name," Rose said after taking a sip of the warm milk.

"I guess you have forgotten that your mother changed her name after getting married to your father," he reminded her.

"I will not change my name to your name but I will change my last name to my grandfather's name. My mother changed her name because she was marrying a prince and her marriage served as the union of two kingdoms. That is very different from our case. She did not even change it completely," she corrected him as a matter of fact. "The reason my mother was betrayed was because she changed her name. It was she broke a law that should never  be broken."

"What law did she break?" he asked seriously interested in knowing what Rose thought of what happened to her mother.

"She trusted my father who immediately abandoned her the moment her name got stained. She loved so much that she could not see fault in those around her. She was very clearly devastated after my grandfather's death but she should not have trusted them. Those she trusted were the very people who abandoned her afterwards."

"Who betrayed her? Your father did not speak about your mother's disappearance rather he asked everyone to be careful about what they said about your mother when your mother was declared dead," he asked when he noticed that she strongly believed that her father was her enemy.

"Silence is also an act of betrayal. He should have spoken in her favor before the whole kingdom remembered her as a Queen who was willing to sell her own very people for a greed they knew very well that she did not have. My mother was someone who could give almost everything she had to her people so why will she betray them? "