107 It will never be me (1/2)

Her questions and expressions made Alex smirk. ”What makes you think that I am?”

”Well… for you to be able to punish that princess, like you said you did, you would have to be someone as powerful as the royal family, if not more, right? But why did they do that? Was it because they don't want you to marry a commoner like me?” Abi explained her thoughts to him.

She had read a few fictional romance novels about the love between royals and commoners and how the royal family would always try and break them up because the commoner wasn't a suitable match.

However, her theory was laughed at by Alex. Was she wrong?

”Crown prince, huh?” he muttered once he stopped laughing. He looked at Abi with a playful smirk as he caressed her cheek with his thumb. ”Rest assured, little lamb. I'm not a crown prince or part of the royal family. And I am not planning to marry anyone, Abigail.”

”But you would eventually marry in the future, right?”

Alex's hand on her face paused and for some reason, Abi felt like all the lights in his eyes disappeared for a moment as he murmured.

”The future… I don't have a future, Abigail…” he said and Abi's eyes widened.

”W-what do you mean you don't have a future?!” Abi suddenly panicked. She felt her heartbeat turn chaotic as she moved her body to rise.

However, Alex was quick to pin her down again. ”Abigail, how many times do I have to tell you to stay put?” he scolded her but Abi was unfazed.

”It's because you're saying such things again!” She suddenly became emotional and Alex had no idea why. ”Saying you don't have a future… only people who are dying say things like that! Are you dying?!”

Alex was speechless. Why did this girl keep getting riled up by unnecessary things like this?

”Little lamb, do I look like I'm dying?” he asked as he pointed to his own face. His expression was filled with disbelief.

”No, but…” Abi replied after staring at him for a long while.

”What I'm saying is… I don't have that kind of future, Abigail. Marrying someone… that's absolutely not for me,” he told her. He sounded like he had made up his mind a long time ago and that there was no changing his mind about it.

Somehow, even though Abi's expression finally changed and she had at least calmed down, for some reason, his last sentence pierced like a needle through her heart.

”W-why? Why don't you want to marry? Is it because you don't want children? Or is it because you just can't see yourself settling down with one person? Or is it because you don't believe in marriage?” Abi stared deeply into his eyes as she spoke.