14. Love and Lies

He leaned her head to hers as they ate the pastries peacefully. She always loved the drink and the taste of a milky green tea matcha and sweet strawberry. Then the taste of dark chocolate matches it perfectly.

“Bella, I love you.” He said out of nowhere. Then, she turned her head at him and stared into his eyes. She laughed as she shook her head.

“Liar.” She chuckled as she knew well how a lie sounded.

He smirked as he tilted his head.

“You know how to detect lies.”

“Say it to me when I’m dead.”

“Sure.” He shrugged. “If I learned to love you. But I am not that type of person.” He scooped her left cheek. “Don’t do anything stupid now, Bella. You’ll keep the cuffs and chains, I won’t remove it even though you struggled a lot.”

She pushed his hand away as she faced the beautiful view. His words were very much sharp and she knew well that the King was true to his words. He could lie. He’s probably doing it to find out about her.

But what was she feeling? Why does she feel all sorts