101 for Raelin – Prologue

—Raelin’s POV—

I am running.

I am running from everything that could be called my life. My home. My family. My so-called friends. My throne. My responsibilities. I even left my planet. All for one person. My fiancée. It sounds so romantic, right? Except, not really. It is more for my sanity, actually. Because from the moment I walked out from my father’s study, seething with anger, the good, obedient (not counting the playboy part) Raelin was gone. Instead, the selfish Raelin took over. And he wanted one thing that a prince should not want. The thing that I, as someone with royal blood flew through his veins, would never have.

Freedom.

Many people would say that I am free enough to do things I love. To learn what I want to learn. But the truth whispered a different story. Everything in my life was already set and planned from the time I was born. Well, maybe not when I was crushing on Attis, my fiancée’s MALE knight. Don’t get me wrong. I was straight, still am, but he was dressed up like a girl, and from the point of my twelve-years-old-innocent-brain view, really cute. We made a compromise afterwards, of course. He would forget the *ehm* proposal incident, for the sake of my reputation, and he got something to blackmail me with. And that, is exactly the reason why I am on this journey to find my fiancée instead of having a vacation in somewhere exotic-like Astarte II-. Blackmailed. By my best friend whom I suspect has had a crush on my fiancée since years ago and couldn’t act on it because: one, he is her knight, and two, she has been missing for the past seven years.

My life is too complicated for my own good.

So what if I am a drama prince?!