Her eyes sparkled as I gazed down at her, silently imploring her to agree.

Now that I knew what life could be like with her, I was never going to let her go.

Her eyes looked more beautiful than ever, but I realized that their sparkle came from tears, as yet unfallen, gathering in her eyes. For one, heart-stopping second, I thought she was about to try and leave me. I thought she was going to refuse to be my Queen.

But then she nodded, her face splitting into a smile that beamed happiness and I realized that they were tears of joy. I clasped her to me, her tits pressing into me and I wanted her again.

I’d only just got dressed, but I needed her constantly. Holding her now made my balls ache, getting heavy with how much I NEEDED to be inside her now. My hands lowered down her back, peeling back the bed sheet from her and revealing my Ruby in all her naked glory.

Something moved, just in the periphery of my vision, something outside the window.. I stopped, it had probably just been an animal. Ruby was hot against me and my cock was thickening insistently. My military training kicked in, I needed to be vigilant no matter how much I wanted to ignore it and just take her again.

I should always be on guard against Luka’s men, but it was hard, with Ruby naked in my arms. She was ready for me, panting her desire in hot little breaths.

There was another movement outside. Whatever was out there was close, and it didn’t move like any of the animals I had seen on this mountain. It was better to be cautious though - I stared out with a frown on my face, scanning the trees. There! A face moved, close to the ground, and then ducked back into the undergrowth. There was somebody out there.

I turned around, putting my back to the window so that Ruby was protected by the bulk of my body. If whoever was out there had been sent by Luka, then they could be a sniper, ready with a rifle and aiming to kill me and anyone I’d been associating with.

“Get down,” I hissed, keeping my voice quiet. I didn’t want to alert Luka’s man that I had spotted him. I lowered us both to the ground, ducking for cover. “Stay away from the windows, that door by the stairs leads to the basement. Go down there. Don’t come out till I come and find you!

There was a hard tone to my voice, but I need her to obey me right now. I didn’t have time to explain to her what I’d seen. This was important.

I made sure that Ruby, wrapped back up in her bed sheet, was getting into the basement. Then I headed to the back of the cabin and out the back door.

I knew these woods well. Over the last two years, I’d learned every tree, every branch, every rock. This is my territory and I knew it like the back of my hand. Luka’s men might have found me, but that didn’t mean that they had the upper hand.

I circled back, coming from behind as I approached the spot where I‘d seen a face. They’d thought to surprise me in my cabin, but I was the one would catch them.

I saw them.

I had hoped that it was just paranoia, just an animal or an odd gust of wind. But no, my suspicions are correct. There were four men, lying on the ground, watching my cabin. Three of them were up front, grouped together, with the fourth covering them from the rear, lying by himself about thirty feet behind the main group.

The wind carried the conversation of the front group down to me. They were speaking Askovian. These were Luka’s men. They had found me at last and they would have no mercy, they were here to kill me and anyone who got in the way.

In the past I would have just left. That was the easy option - to just walk away, warn my brothers that Luka had discovered Arrowhead Mountain and leave to find another hiding place. That wasn’t an option any more. Now there was Ruby and she was still inside my cabin. If I left, then they’d find her and just the thought of what they would do to my sweet angel made my heart rate rise and my vision run red.

My senses were heightened now. Years of training with the Askovian High Guard had prepared me for these types of situations. As a member of the royal family, I was never expected to defend my country in battle, but my father had instilled in me from an early age that I must never ask a man to do something that I wouldn’t do myself.

I’d spent countless hours in the Askovian wilderness, on mountains not unlike this one, training. Learning how to protect my loved ones, should the need ever arise.

Just then another voice spoke, and this time it was in English, not Askovian:

“I told you, I recognised him! He’s one dirty fucker. He sucker punched me!”

There was an American with them! I recognised the voice. Though he had only spoken momentarily, it was a voice seared into my memory. It was that toothless man that I’d punch in the alley. That drunkard who’d dared lay a hand on Ruby!

“Shhh!” one of Luka’s men hissed, “Be quiet or you won’t see a penny of the reward money!”

“Don’t you threaten me, boy. You’re in America now! You can’t talk to me like that! I was the one that recognised him. I’m the one that heard the rumors about strangers living on Arrowhead Mountain! I called you because I knew you boys would be mighty grateful if I could tell you where your Prince was and this is how you repay me?”

I edged closer towards them and heard one of Luka’s men mutter in Askovian, so that the American wouldn’t understand him:

“We should just kill this whining American and take King Luka’s reward for ourselves, we could split it three ways.”

I sneered. Just like Luka, his men were cowards and traitors, ready to turn on their allies over a few dollars.

I flexed, preparing myself. I wanted to deal with this quickly. My first target was the soldier guarding the rear. I got the drop on him, knocking him out and feeling him go lax underneath me before he could let out a yell of warning to the other intruders.

“Did you hear something?” the American asked.

“No,” one of the soldiers grunted in heavily-accented English, “What did I tell you about shutting the hell up?”

“I thought I heard something,” said the other soldier, speaking in Askovian.

“An animal.” Came the reply, also in Askovian, “Let’s get this done. You and Karl go through the front, I’ll go around the back. Kill anyone you find in there. Make sure the American stays out here, I don’t want him interfering.”

The soldier who had given the commands, the leader, half stood up and started heading towards the back of the cabin - he was coming in my direction, straight for me.

I crouched down, staying hidden until he was just about to walk past me and then I grabbed him, knocking him out just as he realized what was happening and reached for his gun.

“Hands up! Don’t move!”

I turned, slowly raising my hands. The one remaining Askovian was pointing a gun at me, with the toothless American staring at us both in open-mouthed shock.

“Karl?” the Askovian soldier yelled, but Karl was lying behind a tree, unconscious. The soldier waved his gun at me pointedly, demanding answers “Where’s Karl? Tell me!”

“Karl isn’t going to answer you, he’s over there,” I said, jutting my chin in the direction of Karl’s unconscious body. Instinctively he turned to look, and I took full use of the opportunity. I rushed towards him, his gun dipping slightly as he turned away from me. I was on him before he even realized his mistake.

But I couldn’t get the gun out of his hands.

We struggled, wrestling for control, I was the stronger one but he kept a wiry grip on his gun.

In the background, I heard the toothless American yelling and cursing. I would deal with him later.

I felt the muzzle of the gun press against me and I pushed with all my strength, forcing it away, just as Luka’s henchman realized that he had me. He squeezed the trigger.

BANG!

The gun shot rang out, loud through the trees.

The gun had been close to me and I felt the kick of it, but that was all. He had missed me!

With a burst of adrenaline I headbutted Luka’s man, driving my forehead into the bridge of his nose with a sickening crunch. The man fell to the ground in a heap. I wouldn’t have to worry about him for a while.

I picked up his gun, and looked round to see what had happened to the American. He was lying on the ground close to where he had been standing when I last saw him, the bullet that had missed me had hit him right in the middle of his forehead. His lifeless eyes stared up at me. I had no sympathy for him.

I checked on the Askovians, making sure to take their guns and to tie them up. They weren’t going to be waking up any time soon, but I needed to make sure that I got Ruby away before they saw her.

I hurried back into the cabin and down into the basement. She was waiting for me and as soon as she saw me she ran out of her hiding place and put her arms around my neck. I lifted her up, squeezing her to me. This time with her had been a blessing. I would always love her, I knew that with every fiber of my being.

It might seem crazy to an outsider, but I knew that she was the only woman I would ever love. I held onto her, lifting her off her feet as I memorized the feel of her, the smell of her as I buried my nose in her hair.

Suddenly it dawned on me. Now that the toothless man, the only witness who had seen me with Ruby, was dead, it was safe for her to go back to her life in Beauville. I didn’t want it to be true, I wanted another excuse to keep her by my side. But my immediate future was going to be too dangerous to have her with me.

Luka knew where my hideout was now, Arrowhead Mountain was no longer safe. I had to leave, I had to warn my brothers and I had to get the hell away from this mountain.

I had planned to enact my plan to reclaim my father’s throne in a few weeks time. But this attack changed things. I couldn’t afford to wait any longer.

I would travel to Askovia now and kill Luka. As much as it hurt to be parted from Ruby, I couldn’t take her with me. It was too much of a risk, it wasn’t worth doing anything that could harm a hair on her head.

She would be safest staying in the US, keeping her distance from me.

I gently set her down, already missing the feel of her.

“Go and get dressed. We’re leaving.”

She hesitated only momentarily, frowning slightly as if she was about to ask me for an explanation. Then her face smoothed, and I knew that she saw this was an emergency and that there was no time to lose. She nodded at me, and hurried up to go and get dressed.

I gathered a few things, contacted my younger brother and told him what had happened. I knew that he would pass on the message to my other brothers that it was time to leave Arrowhead. I said goodbye to him, telling I would next see him in Askovia.

I hurried Ruby out of the cabin, making sure that she kept quiet when we were outside, just in case any of the Askovian soldiers had regained consciousness already. I didn’t want them to hear a woman’s voice and know that I wasn’t alone.

I got on the motorbike, Ruby right behind me, wearing my helmet and took off. I was leaving the cabin that had been my home for the last two years but I didn’t have any time for nostalgia. Or rather, I had more important things to think about. I was remembering how we had biked out to the cabin, how it felt to have Ruby pressing her tits against my back as she felt up my abs.

Now, as she pressed up against me again, I wanted her even more. My blood was still running hot from the fight and the beautiful woman sitting behind me.

Her hands held onto me, no longer timid about touching me.

I had been so struck by Ruby, from the second I first saw her. And now, even though we were fleeing the cabin, all I could think about was how much she had changed my life.

My moment of revenge on Luka was near and I should be excited, instead of thinking about how much I was going to miss her while we were apart. Her gorgeous body, her large trusting eyes as she gazed at me, the hot clench of her pussy around me.

The wind roared past us, making it impossible to communicate. I couldn’t tell her what I was thinking and there was so little time left for us.

Finally we got to Beauville and I pulled over at the start of Main Street, just a few blocks down from the bar where she worked.

“What’s going on? Why, why -” she started asking as soon as I cut the engine and she jumped down off the bike.

“Look,” I said, interrupting her. “My uncle’s men were outside the cabin. They’d found my hideout and it’s not safe to go back there. I can’t stay here.”

“Where are we going to go?”

I’ve never loved anyone as much as I loved her in that second. She took my word on what had happened at the cabin, no questions asked, just getting ready to follow me into whatever was waiting for me. It was a shame that it couldn’t be like that.

“You’re staying here.”

“No!”

“Yes, the guy that saw us, that drunk, he was the one that called my uncle. He got shot in the fight with Luka’s soldiers. Unfortunate for him, but it’s lucky for us. It means that no-one alive saw us together, and you can stay in Beauville, where you’ll be SAFE.”

“You’re leaving me behind?!”