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A scheme. Everything that took place after their imprisonment in the dungeons was simply a scheme. Calculated steps no one had thought about before they came to bite them in the neck like hungry wolves. Very fitting actually. The beasts had come for him and he hadn't even noticed it. 

Kai sighed, messing up his perfectly styled hair as his thoughts became bigger and bigger. Someone wanted him dead, many people did actually but someone here wanted him dead while also messing up with the treaties. The truth was that if they actually managed to prove he was guilty Kai would have to get executed, because of who died. It was a werewolf guest, during the event. His mother would have to do it, not only because of the pressure she would receive from his pack but also because of the fact that if she didn't they wouldn't sign the treaty. 

It was quite well thought. Even if he didn't he would be doomed anyways. BloodBound without the treaties was in danger and they have been in peace for so long to actually think that they would be prepared for war. 

"What do you mean they will search our rooms?" Lun asked his lover, who stood there, beyond the rusty bars looking at the brown haired vampire with a pale face, as if he had seen a ghost, or more like, as if he was the ghost. 

"Alloy requested that they search your rooms. The weapon of the murder was a twisted knife. Grandfather's knife and it's missing from the armoire so they are looking for it. If they find it in any of your rooms they will request for you to be executed." Xan explained and Lun sighed loudly, hitting the back of his head slightly on the wall.

"This bitch, I told you it was her. She wants to mess up the treaty." Lun mumbled and Kai nodded. He had been quite optimistic before but now, as everything slowly started to click in his brain he wasn't so sure. It had happened so suddenly, one second he was with Philip and the other he was locked down here like a nobody for something he didn't even do. 

"Should you be here?" Kai asked him. 

"I sneaked out. Mother is talking with the guests, they are planning their research. They requested being present in everything so she doesn't try to prove you innocent in case you actually did it. Philip tried to come and see you but he is now allowed to." The crown prince let them know of the news on the top side and Kai laughed. He had been there for a few hours but his patience was already running out. 

"I swear, once I am out of here I will fucking…" 

"No." Xan interrupted his younger brother. "You won't do anything. Even if you breathe in front of them it will make things worse. Swearing and threatening brought you here in the first place. You've been out of the palace for too long and you keep messing things up. This is not how we do things here, you won't achieve anything like that and you will get Lun killed with you too." 

Kai didn't object, he knew his brother was right. If anyone wanted to survive in a place like BloodBound they had to be cunning, diplomatic and always aware of their surroundings. It was true that he had gotten rusty. He needed to clear his head and think, find a way to actually save himself and Lun out of this. 

"I know." the young prince admitted his mistake. "But what do you suggest we should do?" 

"If someone really tries to set you up I am sure the knife is already in one of your rooms. They will find it. You need to think about what will happen after that. You have to talk yourself out of it or at least gain some time so the one who did it is exposed." 

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"If you know the knife is in our rooms, why don't you go and find it? Hide it somewhere else, that would stall the case." Lun asked him, looking at him in the eyes and Xan flinched. The brunet scoffed, sitting back. "You won't do it." 

"I… you know that is too risky, if I am caught things will get even worse. Mother will be furious and then…"

"Save it." Lun said. "Oh, and just in case you're having doubts, I didn't do it. Neither did Kai."

"Of course I know that!" Xan exclaimed, stepping closer to the bars.

"Yet you're not willing to step in and save us. What are you so afraid of Xan?" Lun asked him, looking at him with a judgemental expression. "That if you get caught people will find out about us? That your mother will get angry at you?"

"Lun…"

"Or maybe no, don't tell me. I am not surprised actually. You are the only person who is not being monitored right now and you are not stepping in to save your brother, to save me because something is scaring you. I didn't expect more from you. You came here to tell us what? To prepare to die? Does it not affect you at all that I will be dying?" he asked him, his tone getting slowly more intense.

"I….Lun it's not like that, of course I am worried about you. I just can't act so recklessly. 

"Why? Because you are the crown prince?" Lun told him, the words coming out almost like an insult. He shook his head, disappointed as he stood up. With slow steps he approached him, getting close while the bars were the only thing that actually separated them. "If you keep that mentality your title will be the only thing you will have left in the end, because I and probably everyone else you ever loved will be dead." his lover told him, making his cold blue eyes widen as he took a step back. 

"I have to leave." Xan said, rushing outside. 

Lun kept looking at him as he disappeared fast into the darkness of the dungeon. 

"I am going to die.." Lun mumbled, realizing that with Kai in the same situation as him, no one out there would come to save him, he was all alone.

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