Prologue

Kaito Ishikawa's POV

"I have the information you need, Your Excellency."

Finally, I thought with satisfaction as I survey the land that spread to my view from my study room.

"What did you find out?" I asked as I retain my gaze outside. I owned as far as my eyes could see from where I stood.

I heard my personal bodyguard moved further inside the room as he silently closed the heavy wooden door behind him. "According to the news that I gathered, sir. Ms. Aki Satou is in Hokkaido now."

"Hokkaido?" I turned around to face my trusted bodyguard for years now. My eyebrows snapped together.

My bodyguard, Reo, nodded looking straight to my eyes. "Yes, Your Excellency. She's in Sapporo, Hokkaido to be precise."

Sapporo? So my Aki is in Sapporo right now, after she runaway from me two months ago without even a note that she's ending our affair I'm surprise to hear that she's in Hokkaido. I thought somewhere outside the country. She told me before that she hates the chilly weather.

So why Hokkaido? I asked myself silently. Does she think that if she went there she can escape me? I have some good news from my runaway lover.

I heard Reo cleared his throat loudly that dragged my attention back to him. "There's more, sir."

"What?"

He avoided my gazed as his eyes rested on the carpeted floor on my study room. "She's already married to a another prince named Haru Yanazaki."

My eyes widened at my trusted bodyguard. Did I hear it right? She's already married to someone else? "When?"

I swallowed, trying to clear my voice.

"When what, sir?" Reo asked warily as he glanced in my direction. I tried to calm my anger but it's so damn hard right this moment. I want to wringed that pretty neck of her once I see her. Dios mio, how can she marry someone else when she just slipped off my bed?

"When did she marry this man?"

My trusted bodyguard sighed deeply. "About two months ago."

Rage swirled in my chest. After she left me without a single note she went to Hokkaido to marry this rich man, has she? She wanted a rich husband to shower her with luxury in life. She's like my previous mistresses who will hop to the next rich man when get tired of them-not that I get tired already to that beauty.

"What do you want to do now, Your Excellency?" Reo asked carefully as he eyed me silently. Right now, my anger boiled inside me.

I smiled thinly to the man stood in front of me. I wonder what Aki will do if she learns that her previous lover is also a prince that I'm far richer to the man she married. I want to see her face when that happened.

"Have my plane to be readied, Reo." I announced with a cruel smile in my face. "We will go in Sapporo to visit my lover."

I could hardly wait for my reunion with my heartless mistress...

On my plane ride bound for Hokkaido I thought on how to tell that scheming woman what opportunity she threw when she married that man instead staying with me. I don't intend to take her back in my life even if she begged or promise that she will divorce her husband. I will just inform her on what she threw away. But I didn't expected what I felt when she opened the door of the house she shared with her new husband. The radiant smile on her beautiful face that greeted me.

And in that moment I knew my plan has suddenly changed.

Akira Satou's POV

I looked outside the window of my bedroom here in the cold palace my father fondly called as his home.

Nothing has changed in this place since the last time I left. This soulless house turned so cheerless since my twin sister, Aki lived in Matsuyama with her husband.

I smiled at the thought. Who would have thought that my dutiful twin sister will fall in love with a man like Haru Yanazaki?

I instinctively put my hand in my still fat belly.

Tomorrow I'm getting married to Asahi Yamamoto, it's just purely business. He proposed a marriage proposal at the wedding reception of Aki and Haru's wedding and I accepted it against my better judgment.

I'm sorry baby, told the growing life inside me silently.

I'm going to marry a different man who is not your father.

He will be a good father to you I can see it.

A knocked from my door dragged me out of my reverie.

"Come in," I said brightly.

"You have a phone call from your brother-in-law." The maid said as she presented the wireless telephone.

"Thank you, Mari." I smiled to the housekeeper as took the telephone in her hand. waited for her to left my room before answering Haru. "Hello?"

"Where is he?" My brother-in-law said without preamble on the other line.

I frowned as I gaze back outside my window enjoying the calm scenery outside. "Who are you talking about Haru? How's Aki?"

"Your groom," He said snappishly. I could sense that he's in the foul mood. "I want to talk to him. No, I want to kill him!"

My eyes widened at his outburst. I know that he doesn't like Asahi Yamamoto because he's jealous over the poor man because he's my twin sister's first love. Seriously, men will never change. I rolled my eyes. "Why do you want to kill him, brother?"

"He abducted my wife!"

"What!" I stood dead in my place. Did I heard him right?

"What are you talking about?"

"Aki is missing." He said furiously on the other line. I could hear that he's pacing the room nonstop all the way from Sapporo. "Someone abducted my wife."

"Oh my God," I placed my hand in my mouth about the news that someone kidnapped my twin sister. "H-how did you know that it was Asahi that kidnapped her? He's just here awhile ago reminding me about the wedding rehearsal tonight-wait, have you seen the CCTV?"

"Yes," Haru breathed angrily. "I saw a tall man wearing an expensive suit holding my wife in his arms. I'm sure that he's one of your husband's cohorts. If I find out that your groom-to-be is behind this I will kill him mercilessly."

"Asahi will never do such thing, Haru." I defended him.

I know he's in love with Aki but he will never do such thing. Aki's happiness is everything to him.

"You're not sure about that, Akira."

Then out of blue an image of a man crossed my mind. I started to shake badly but reassured myself that I'm just thinking too much. He will never bother to find me. "Can.." I swallowed hard as I tried to take several steady breaths. "...can you please tell me the description of the man who took Aki?"

Thread my brother-in-law sighed furiously. "A dark haired man, at least six-foot-four in height, ruggedly look with five o'clock shadow beard and aristocratic face. He told the concierge that he was my friend and my wife passed out he will take her to the hospital."

"Maybe he really just took her to the hospital." I told him hopefully.

"That's a lie!" He snapped at me. "No one called me or even my secretary. "He abducted my wife. I already called my friends to help me search for Aki."

"I'll see what I can do." I disconnected the phone call and reluctantly dialed his number. I knew that he's the only one who can do this. I gave him my twin sister's name during our affair so it a common sense that he will come after my twin. After a few rings I prayed that he's in that house and answer the phone call. After a few more moment he finally answered. "It's me." I said shakily. "You got the wrong woman. That's my twin sister. You are looking for me, right? Please don't hurt my twin I will come in Osaka right this moment. Wait for me, Kaito."

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