Royal Prince to Bodyguard

She had completed forty-four hardest magic cubes, and yet they haven’t reached their destination. It's getting dark and she's getting bored and numb on her seat. She sighed for the tenth time.

"Getting bored?" He asked.

"Already, bored. Can you drive

faster? Make it 90km per hour."

"No, that is too fast."

He glanced at her in the rear mirror.

"Just do what I say." She

insisted. He shook his head mockingly.

"I won't let us get

killed." He said again and focused on driving.

"You gotta be kidding me." She murmured. He smiled playfully glancing at her. "Stop the car."

He stopped the car in the middle of the empty highway. She clasped her seat-belt and opened the car. "What are you doing?" He asked puzzled. She walked around to the driver’s door and

opened it. She removed his seat belt and grabbed him out. "Gia..."

She ignored him. She pushed him, pulling him again and, opened the backseat, then pushed him inside the back seat.

"Keep quiet!" She demanded and slammed the door. He was quizzical and he doesn't know what's going on. When she entered the driver's seat, he automatically moved closer to her.

"You are just 17. You don't have a license yet!" He said panicking. She stepped on the gas and it made Edmond move back on the seat.

"Of course, I have." She said grinning. "I have a student's license, and let me remind you, I graduated from Oxford and I know such things about laws and everything you might don't

know, so buckle up!" She winked from the rear mirror playfully. "Right, Prince?" She glanced at Prince whose tongue was hanging. Prince barked as a response. "See? He knows everything about me."

"So what else does he know that I don't?" He asked, still staring at her in the rear mirror. She

accelerated the car and he buckled his seat belt afraid that he'd get thrown to the front. She shrugged.

"I don't know. What do you know about me?" She asked back with a smirk. He didn't speak for a while.

"Ah," he tried to look for his words. He knew a lot about her that Victoria, her sister told, also from her mother and father. "Uhm, just a few." He said.

"How few?" She stirred

the wheel and turned right, which made him move to his left. She is focusing on the dark road.

"Just drive please." He said and held on the side and breath.

"I am your principal so you don't have a right to tell me that." She spoke monotonously. He knew exactly that she’s the boss. But, he’s not her bodyguard. He’s her future fiance and he has to woo her through the things that he knows.

He didn’t spend his time watching over her from afar and doing his duty as a Prince at the same time to get rejected. But, he didn’t want to insist her to marry him. He wanted her to love him too. He knew well that it’s crazy that he loved her ever since. He might be called obsessed but, he knew well that once she rejected him, he needed to step back.

He just shrugged and cocked his head on left. He looked at the entire magic cubes beside him and picked one of them. He studied the cube. It is all made of glass and plastic. The colors are like 3D or more like 3D. It’s like every piece of color cubes is made of the screen and it shuffles whenever it’s slow.

"I designed that myself." She told him proudly. “And dad made it happen.”

"Impressive."

"I know. They shuffle all by themselves."

‘Let me try this thing, maybe it'll decrease my pressure from her stubbornness.’ He said in his mind. The magic cube shuffled very fast in his palm, then it all stopped and he started puzzling it but it didn't stop from shuffling whenever he stopped.

"Go on, try to solve it." She said playfully.

"And if I'll make it?" He grins. She shrugged.

PNP checkpoint. 1 km away. The Artificial Intelligence Voice in the car said. She stopped the car and unbuckled her seat belt. She crawled to the backseat and she pulled the magic cube from him and he looked at her puzzled.

"Change seats." She said.

He pulled her to him and she almost collided with his lips. "Be careful about

pulling me next time." She said, tapping his cheek and positioned beside

him. "Go on." She shooed him. It takes seconds before it registers in his head. He was mesmerized by her for a moment.

‘You just had to kiss me.’ He thought. ‘And I'll be your Prince.’ If he was too bold, he could say that in front of her.

He crawled to the driver seat, the seatbelt buckled itself, and he put his hands on the steering wheel and drove it. She put the magic cube on the case beside him.

"If you pass my cubes you can have your price." She said.

"Anything?" He asked playfully.

"No, everything had a limitation."

"Okay." He said.

"But I'll just make it simple for you."

"Yeah, after you do it."

She said, smirking.

He grinned and just drove the car.

He stopped the car when the PNP had signaled the car. The police on patrol

knocked on the windshield and it slid down. Edmond turned on the lights inside

the car and the police scanned them. Gia rolled down the windshield and the officer peeked inside.

"Miss James." He greeted her.

"Good evening officer, what's going on?" She asked innocently.

"Well, we are checking if there's the transportation of endangered wolves. We had detected illegal transportation to Tagaytay." The officers knew her well and her family

since her family owns the Detective Intelligence Agency. Also, their family is part of the operation of this mission.

She furrowed a little by hearing it. She nodded at the officer.

"I hope you will catch them sooner." She said.