The pair gets interrupted.

“Dimitri? Where are you?” It was Mina’s voice.

Suddenly, she came back to her senses breaking the terrifying short distance between herself and the former prince. Their eyes lingering on each other before she skulled around the large tree and out of sight.

He took a step backward as if he’d only just realized the situation. He looked like he had a lot to say as he watched the princess bring her index to their lips and disappear behind the tree.

“Dimitri?” Mina called for him again.

He slowly wiped away the tear tracks from his face with his palms and corrected himself.

The princess hidden away waited patiently. Her heart pounding about to burst from her chest. She was almost afraid that they would be able to hear it. ‘Why am I hiding?’

Too late, she questioned her actions. At the moment, her head had been filled with the thought that she couldn’t be discovered. Because she had so defenselessly been herself, not the princess, in front of Dimitri.

“Mina.” Mina found him standing tall underneath the tree. Mina walked over without hesitation and pulled Dimitri into her arms.

Dimitri lovingly and carefully supported her in his embrace more than anyone else. But he also looked a little awkward because of what just happened. While he had looked uneasy and unstable before, in Mina’s arms he seemed like he was finally regaining his calm.

Oblivious to his state, Mina charged ahead with what she’d come to say. “Sorry.”

He lost himself every time he saw her young women. In his eyes she couldn’t have done anything wrong but whether it be what occurred last night or what he just witnessed from the princess he found something off about Mina. “Did something happen? Your collar is torn.”

Surprised, he noticed she quickly tugged at the collar torn to hide the love marks left behind on her neck by Vizima. “It’s nothing! Never mind that did you wait long?”

“No.” He lied.

“What I wanted to apologize for was…”

“I know.”

“You know?”

“How do you know? Don’t lie when you don’t know.” Mina lifted her head and met his eyes.

“Mina.”

“I’ll tell you when the time is right. Because you have the right. The reason I chose to stay instead of leaving.” The woman’s face held subdued glee. As if she was delighted to see the man so completely in the palm of her hand.

‘Yes, enjoy it. It’s not easy finding a man who likes you that much. It’s like he thinks he has multiple lives seeing as he’s always going on about giving it up. You’re all he cares about.’ As the couple spoke, a disgusted princess overheard their conversation and impatiently waited for them to leave.

“So…. Wait for me.”

“Alright, I will.”

Without knowing it, she let out a snort before hurriedly covering both her nose and mouth. Even if Mina hadn’t heard, Dimitri probably did. ‘Say what you want about Alexandra but at least she was forthright about sleeping with numerous people. I always disliked this side of Mina.’

“Mina.”

“Yes?”

“You’re all I need.” He said quietly, like a spell, like a resolution to himself.

Mina grabbed Dimitri’s face with both hands and began to passionately suck on his lips. ‘I see how it is. You like passion, don’t you, little Mina?’

She had been groping his body but now she was slipping a hand into his shirt. The response was immediate. He drew in a deep breath and his body stiffened.

The princess saw his shirt stretch tight and his muscles bulge. ‘Seriously did he forget I was still here?!’

Dimitri pulled her in by the waist hard. One hand reached down to grab her ass.

Mina bit Dimitri’s earlobe slid her hands over his chest and spread open his shirt.

“Wait.”

Dimitri faltered. ‘That’s right! Remember your sense of decency!’

But his weak refusal was thrown to the wind.

Mina swept the loose strands of her hair behind her ear and lowered her head to Dimitri’s chest.

“…..If someone sees.”

“It doesn’t matter.” Mina laughed, her eyes forming crescent moons. “We don’t have to hide our relationship anymore, right?”

Mina’s face disappeared back between the folds of his shirt. For a fleeting moment, it felt like Dimitri quickly glanced up in the princess’ direction.

Her response being to roll her eyes and think about any other than the two young lovers fucking in public.

After that, things progressed quickly. In the midst of all the fevered biting and sucking, the fact that she was hiding behind them had long since faded into insignificance.

They were going at it like they actually wanted people to see. And she was the one suffering because of it.

She was looking up at the spotless sky and listening to something like the sound of clothes dropping, the sound of skin bumping and the intermittent sounds of those two damned people moaning. ‘What am I doing right now?’