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Chapter 25

"You are free to go now." He said and I quickly run out of the office. I came into the hall and I saw Henry, Tom and James walking towards me. My eyes met with James's and I immediately run into his opened arms.

I hugged him so tight I didn't even knew I had so much strength. And finally I felt save. I put my lips on his and savored the moment. After thinking I will never see him again the kiss was everything I wanted to say.

"Oh my god I am so happy you are fine." James said to me and again hugged me tightly.

"Ehm." We got destructed by Tom clearing his voice discreetly. I slowly looked to my left and I saw surprised and angry Henry watching us.

"I guess this is not the way you imagined to tell your brother about us." James said and I saw the murderous look on Henry's face.

"Well you will have a lot of time for making out and explaining." Tom said looking at Henry. "But right now you need to go with the medics to the hospital. Doctors will have to make some tests to make sure you are hundred percent okay and prescribe the right antibiotics for you." He added looking at me.

"Okay." I replied but I was watching my brother as he was processing the news.

"You are the mysterious girl?" He suddenly asked me and I smiled at him uncertain about his next reaction. He was speechless for a while his eyes observing James and me and then he just nodded and opened his arms to me. I hugged him relieved he is fine with our relationship. I thought he will give a hard time to James.

"I am very happy you are okay. Don't scare me like this ever again." He said relieved.

"It wasn't my intention." I replied. Then he released me and looked at James.

"So you are dating my sister." He said his face unreadable and James just nodded.

"I am." He replied uncertain.

"Since we are on the way to the hospital..." Henry said and suddenly he throw his hand and punched James right into his face making him almost fall down.

"Oh my God Henry! Are you out of your mind?" I yelled at him as he was shaking his hand suppressing the pain from the punch. I quickly jumped to James protecting him with my body from my brother.

But he wasn't about to punch him again. He just looked at us and walked outside without a word.

"Bloody hell that hurt." James said. I looked at his cheekbone, he is definitely going to have a bruise there.

"I am so sorry." I said to him caressing his arm and kissing his cheek.

"Don't worry about that. I actually expected it." He said and kissed me back.

"Ha ha. It was better than I expected." Tom laughed and I gave him a death glare.

"Ehm. Sorry." He added now seriously.

"Come on. We need to get you checked." James said leading me outside.

In the hospital they took my blood and made a lot of tests. They had to admit me for observation just in case. I was in the private room and James was the whole time with me.

"So far everything looks okay Your Highness. We will have to wait for the blood test results. After that we will give you the right antibiotics and then you can go home." The doctor said as I was sitting on the bed.

"Can I go home now?" I asked him. "This is really not necessary." I said looking around the room.

"I am sorry. This is the protocol." The doctor replied and left leaving me and James in the room finally alone. I smiled at him as he came closer taking my hand. He had a plastic bag with ice on his cheek as a small bruise was already appearing from the spot Henry hit.

"I am sorry for that bruise." I said and he put the bag down.

"That's nothing. He will come around." He said and then he was observing my face speechless.

"I was so scared you would die." He suddenly whispered kissing my hand and I caressed his cheek.

"Me too." I replied and he leaned closer and softly brushed his lips on mine.

"Did you really mean it?" I asked him and he looked at me confused. "The last time we were together you said you love me." I said and he smiled at me.

"I meant it. I love you." He said shyly and my lips crooked into a huge smile. "And even though you don't trust me I am now willing to wait for as long as it takes until you will." He added.

"You don't have to wait." I said to him and he looked at me confused. "I love you too." I replied surprising him.

"You do?" he asked me with disbelief and I nodded.

"I love you so much." I repeated and he put his lips on mine giving me a slow and passionate kiss.

"And I trust you." I added looking into his eyes seriously. "Whatever happened between you and Meghan in the past is in the past and I trust you that you will not do it again." I said and he grimaced.

"Well I am happy you trust me but nothing happened between me and Meghan." He said and I looked at him confused. He is going to lie to me in this situation? Or is it really true what Eva and Emily said about Meghan making up the staff. Which got me thinking...

"I never told you the real reason why I ended it with you at my eighteenth birthday." I told him carefully. I guess this is the best moment to tell him.

"You did. You said I am a playboy and I will never change. I remember that like it was yesterday." He said confused.

"I did say that. But it was after I saw you kissing Meghan. You just took my virginity and not even an hour later I saw you kissing another woman." I replied and he was thinking for a while and then he closed his eyes as if he remembered something and I was afraid what I was about to hear.

"Oh my god. She was so drunk. I just came out of the toilets and she jumped on me from nowhere. I immediately stopped her and yelled at her to not do that again." He said leaving me confused and scared at the same time. Was I really wrong the whole time? Was it really just a very cruel way of Meghan messing with me?

"So you did not have sex with her in the bathroom after we had...?" I asked him cautiously.

"What? No. Of course I didn't. I immediately went to look for you and... then you dumped me." He said realizing.

"You thought all this time I had sex with her after we made love?" he asked me with disbelief.

"She told me you had a quickie right after I saw her to kiss you." I said to him.

"No! That's a lie. That's a f*cking huge lie! I never slept with her." He said pissed off. "That b*tch!" he said punching the bed standing up and started pacing around.

"That b*tch!" I repeated with disbelief myself. He didn't slept with her. This whole reason I ended it with him was a lie.

"So she made up a story to broke us up?" he said and I stood up and walked to him tears in my eyes for my stupidity and relief that he wasn't the man I thought he was. He didn't cheat on me. He didn't just used me.

"Does this mean we could have been together if she didn't do that?" he asked me heartbroken and I caressed his cheek.

"I am so sorry. I should have asked you about that before. I was so stupid. I thought that you..." I said crying for our lost time.

"No, no, no. Don't cry. I can't stand seing you cry. It's not your fault." He said taking my face into his hands and packing a light kiss on my lips.

"Now we are together." He said kissing me and wiping the tears from my cheeks.

"I love you and you love me. That's all that matters in this moment." He said packing a light kiss on my forehead.

There was a knock on the door interrupting us as Tom walked into the room followed by my father, Henry and Philip. I quickly wiped my tears with my palm not wanting them to know about me crying and I kept clenching on James's arm. I noticed Philip looking at us and giving James another murderous look. Henry must have told him already. Great now my brothers are going to play a security to me or what?

"Sorry for interrupting." Tom said as my father came to us not even surprised at our holding hands. Did he already knew about us? He opened his arms to me for a hug. I released James's hand and he wrapped his arms around me.

"I am so relieved you are okay." He said into my hair as he was hugging me.

"Me too dad." I replied.

"So you two are together ha?" he asked me suddenly giving a look to James.

"Yes dad we are." I replied walking to James taking his hand and wrapping another one around his arm making Philip roll his eyes.

"We will talk about it later. Now we have more serious issue to solve." He said and I looked at James. I hope he is not going to give us a hard time as my brothers.

"Do you know who did this?" James asked my father pissed off.

"Not yet." He said and pointed at Tom. He took out a plastic bag containing the opened letter.

"I am afraid we still don't have the answer to that question. We thought it was some kind of terrorist attack since this is a signature move from radical groups to use this bioweapon. After 9/11 they send several letters to media offices and senators to scare them and to cause chaos. Around 20 people were infected and 5 people died. And it is the easiest way to contaminate someone. But this..." He said and showed us the letter in the bag.

"Last warning! Keep your hands off!" James read out loud and looked at Tom confused.

"It's personal. It was to scare you." Tom said. "And to show that person means it. He could have easily put there the full batch and you could die in few days. But he chose to only scare you." Tom said thinking out loud.

"This is a clearly the same person which send the first letter." My father said.

"First letter?" James asked him confused.

"He or she must have very good connections. It's not easy to find this substance. Not even on the black market. And I wonder how did it got into your hands when all your letters are being checked before they are handed to you." Tom said.

"There was another letter?" Henry asked me.

"Yes. But not with a powder." I replied.

"She received a life threatening letter before." My father said leaving my brothers and James look at me surprised.

"Why didn't you tell us?" Henry said giving me an angry stare.

"I didn't wanted you to worry." I said and I looked at James worried how he will react.

"What other secrets are you keeping from us?" Philip asked me.

"Oh don't tell me, let me guess. You are pregnant." Henry said and I looked at him shocked.

"Oh come on guys this is absurd. I am sorry I was keeping our relationship a secret. But do you even see why I did this? Exactly because of this. Because of your stupid reaction." I said and they just folded their arms on their chests.

"We are not talking about her romance now." Our father rebuked them. "This is a serious issue. It's her life on a stake so stop acting like children." He said.

"Do you have any idea who could send it?" my father asked me.

"No. I really don't." I replied. "I don't have enemies." I said taking the bag from Tom's hand reading those letters again. "Last warning! Keep your hands off!" Keep your hands off.

"Hands off of what?" I said thinking out loud.

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