Arabella's P.O.V

All week I've been avoiding the prince and to some extent it's actually worked. I made sure to be very careful and never leave my room without either Flo or Rory present. I always make sure to linger back slightly, so that if Hardin turned around the corner, I could quickly run off.

That's only happened once or twice and thankfully each time I was walking with Flo, so she didn't ask any questions but it did earn me some weird looks.

I mean, I'm in this competition to win the Prince's heart and here I am running away from him every chance I get.

Sometimes he comes...