A Royal Entanglement: The Young Royals Book 2 by Emma Lea

Author:Emma Lea [Lea, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Emma Lea
Published: 2016-09-19T05:00:00+00:00

Later that night, I sat in the sitting room of my suite surrounded by the women who had come to mean a great deal to me. We had been thrown together six months ago and none of us knew each other, but over the time we had forged a friendship that I was grateful for. Alyssa’s Ladies in Waiting comprised Savannah, Margaret, Priscilla and Jeanette and along with them were Meredith and the Queen herself. We sat around the modest room drinking wine and eating cheese, Will’s cheese of course, and talking about the embarrassing things that our families had done to humiliate us. It lightened my mood and helped me to feel like I wasn’t alone.

“So your mother really doesn’t know who Freddie is and what he’s worth?” Meredith asked.

I shook my head, “I can assure you, if she knew, she would have gift wrapped me and presented me to your brother on a platter.”

The girls giggled as I took a sip of my wine, it was sad but true.

“Just how much of a pay cut did you take to come and work for me?” Alyssa asked and under the light hearted tone I sensed a niggling worry.

I smiled to reassure her, “Not really that much in the grand scheme of things,” I said, “You pay for my housing, my food, my electricity and my transport plus pay me a very generous stipend. When you add all that up, you actually pay me more.”

“But your mother—”

I waved away her concern. “My mother is just upset that she can’t afford to buy the second pair of Jimmy Choo's she wanted. They are not destitute by any stretch.”

“How much money to you send them?” Meredith asked curiously.

“I put ten percent in a bank account for savings, keep another ten percent for personal living expenses and send them the rest.”

The room gasped.

“You send eighty percent of your wage to your parents?” Savannah asked.

I nodded, not quite sure why I was spilling my guts, it was probably the wine. “What do I need it for? Everything I could ever want is provided for me here and I keep more than enough spending money for myself.”

“But why? Don’t they have their own money?” This from Priscilla.

I shook my head, “My grandad lost what little money he had in gambling debts. He was an impoverished Viscount with nothing to pass on to his only daughter other than a worthless title and a large house in Boston. My mother didn’t know they were broke until he died and the small inheritance of my father’s had gone to paying off all the debts that my grandfather had wracked up. By that time I was working for Daniel and I was earning a good wage. I started helping them out.” I shrugged like it was no big deal.

“So they have no other income other than yours?” Jeanette asked.

“Nope,” I said, “Occasionally my mother will attend some charity event or other and get an appearance fee. Americans are enamoured by her title even if it is basically useless.

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