The sound of the door closing in front of her snapped Sophie out of her confusion.

She still hadn't progressed everything that happened right now.

The Prince just declared her as his personal servant and gifted her more money as she has ever seen.

If not for the small bag of coins in her delicate hand, she would have believed she dreamt all of that.

Thinking about that, Sophie pinched herself in her cheeks to make sure she was awake.

Looking at the bag of coins, she thought

'Most commoners would kill for that amount of money, and he just gave it to me casually as if it were some spare change, but maybe in his perspective it really is a small amount.'

Still a bit in a daze, she started walking towards her room with a beautiful smile emerging on her face as she thought

'With this much money, my grandmother doesn't have to work anymore. I have to go to her tomorrow morning, before meeting his Highness, and tell her'.

A few minutes later and she was almost at her room in the castle, but just as she approached the end of the hallway, a stern-faced guard emerged from the shadows, blocking her path and ripping the bag out of her hand.

"What do you have there, maid"

Asked the guard while opening the bag just to be surprised by its contents.

"And I was wondering why a little maid like yourselves was walking through the castle in the middle of the night. Looks like I caught a little thief"

"No, I didn't steal..."but before she could finish her sentence, the guard slapped her, making her fall to the grounds.

"Shut up you thief" he shouted. However seeing her on the floor, the guards expression became lustrous and greedy while thinking about all that gold that pretty maid had carried.

So he said to her while trying to grab her hand "how about you follow me silently, and I forget that I caught you"

Sophie on the ground looked horrified as she crawled backwards avoiding the grip of the guard.

However, before she could even say something, another hand appeared and suddenly grabbed the outstretched hand of the guard.

As she looked at the owner of that hand, she discovered Amon standing there all of a sudden.

The kind smile he always had on his face was gone, instead he looked furious, and his cold black eyes looked at the guard.

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As he concentrated his mana in the hand that was grabbing the guard, Sophie could hear a sound of bones breaking, but before the guard could even scream, Amon's free hand grabbed him on his throat and said,

"So you little ant dared to touch my servant."

Amon was furious and desired to kill that man the most painful way imaginable.

He wanted to rip him apart piece by piece for daring to touch his servant.

However, after looking at the sacred Sophie covering on the ground he thought that seeing all that would scare her even more than now, so he tried calming down his anger.

His face moved towards the ear of the guard before whispering to him, "You are very, VERY lucky that we aren't alone".

Then he strengthened his grip around the neck of the guard which caused the man to struggle with all his might but with no avail as a few seconds later after the sound of bones cracking could be heard again that caused all his struggles to stop.

After Amon let go of the neck, of the now lifeless corpse, it felt down on the marble floor, his neck broken apart.

Looking at the familiar bag of gold in the guard's that the guard still carried in his left hand Amon sighed

'All of that was caused due to that little bag of gold, I really should have thought that something like this could happen. Well, at least in took some measures to ensure her safety before she left.'

After taking the bag back out of the now dead hands of the guard, Amons caught sight of the trembling Sophie on the ground and without waiting for her to say something, he just picked her up in a gentle manner, taking her back to his chamber.

The whole time since Amon appeared, Sophie never said a singke word and just allowed Amon to carry her while embracing him slightly.

She didn't know how to react or what to say after she saw him killing that guard in front of her.

At first, she was a little bit scared of him but as she looked at the gentle face he had while carrying her that feeling died down, and she hid her face which gained a red hue in his embrace and letting him carry her away.

As he walked through the hallway towards his room, he saw another guard coming around a corner.

The guard wanted to stop them for a moment but after realizing who the man was who carried the maid he stopped immediately, sinking on one knee, not daring to look at the prince directly.

As Amon walked past the new guard, he said in a cold voice devoid of all emotions, "There is a corpse of a guard who angered me at the end of the hallway, get rid of it."

And without waiting for a reply he continued his way and a few minutes later he arrived in his chamber.

Finally, arriving here, he walked towards his bed and laid Sophie who was still embracing him at this point on it while saying in a calming voice

"I'm sorry I should have expected something like this to happen if I let you walk around alone with a bag of gold in the middle of the night".

Not waiting for her to reply, he walked away towards the chair at the window. As he sat down he said

"Stay here tonight I will do something to prevent something like this to happen again tomorrow but for now it need to restart meditation session that was interrupted by that stupid guard".

Then he closed his eyes again, concentrating on gathering the mana in his soundings.

Sophie, who was left alone on the huge bed, wasn't sure what she was supposed to do now.

She was never in a situation even close to that.

The last few hours were way too much for her to handle, so as she was laying inside the bed while secretly glancing at Amon from time to time and a lot of different thoughts came into her mind.

'Does he like ? He looked furious after the guard hit me, but if he does, what am I supposed to do now? Should I wait for him to finish his meditation ? He said I should stay here tonight, so will he join me in bed after he is done ? And if yes, what does he want to do with me ? Will he try to do some indecent things with me?

However, while thinking about all kind of things, she soon couldn't help to fall asleep while looking at the meditating Prince sitting with closed eyes on the window.