A Love that Endures by Bella Forrest

Author:Bella Forrest [Forrest, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nightlight Press
Published: 2019-04-28T18:30:00+00:00

26

David

David stared at Katy silently, waiting for her to crack a smile. When she didn’t, he paused to admire her deadpan delivery. It certainly was a random joke. But, alas, it had pulled him in briefly.

David chuckled. “All right,” he said, turning back to his latkes. He had eaten a considerable amount already, but it looked like he’d barely put a dent in the pile. It was a ridiculous amount of food.

“All right, what?” Katy echoed.

“You got me,” David replied. “I was sucked in for a second there, I’ll admit.”

He looked back up at Katy and grinned, embarrassed, but she wasn’t laughing or smiling back.

“I’m serious,” Katy said.

David felt his grin fade, and he put his hands on the table, feeling uncomfortable. If this was some kind of performance piece or practical joke, it was getting a little long-winded for his taste.

“David, really,” the girl across from him went on, “I’m telling the truth. Trust me, it took a lot for me to work up the courage to tell you. And I need you to keep this strictly confidential.”

David shook his head. What she was saying made no sense. “Katy, I’m sorry. If this is some sort of prank, then I have to admit that I’m not really getting it.”

Katy had stopped looking nervous and started looking exasperated. But then her eyes glanced beyond David and homed in on something. She abruptly stood, slid from the booth, and walked away.

“Katy?” David asked. But she kept on walking, right to the front of the deli. Was she leaving? Had he offended her? Now David was supremely confused.

She stopped before she got to the door and began to rifle through a pile of magazines sitting on a small table between two chairs that must’ve served as a waiting area. David watched dumbly as Katy slid magazines around the table, then seemed to find what she was looking for. She walked back to David and threw a magazine on the table between them.

“Look,” she said. Still standing, she pointed at a small picture in the corner of the front cover. It showed a blonde woman with dark sunglasses on, shielding her face from the sun. It was a blurry shot that looked like it had been zoomed in on from a distance. David didn’t recognize the woman; she seemed too blurry to be proof of anything. Beneath the picture, a cover line read: Missing Princess Spotted in Morocco?

“Who is this?” David asked.

Katy sat. “I have no idea. But I’m that missing princess. The princess of Lorria. They’re looking for me. Luckily for me, they’re not doing very well.”

David looked up at Katy again, trying to force his brain to function. What did he know about Lorria? It was a tiny country with a massive gross domestic product, famed for its wealth. It had great chocolate and a famously sketchy bank that quite a few international billionaires took advantage of. He knew it had a monarchy and recalled vaguely some talk in London about

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