A Royal Pain by Godiva Glenn

Author:Godiva Glenn [Glenn, Godiva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MTW Press
Published: 2018-11-15T16:00:00+00:00

The stars above twinkled faintly in the sky. This may have been the hardest part to get used to for Blair. In the light of day, it was easy to forget the sun because his focus was on everything the sun lit up. He noticed the simple colors of trees and plants and didn’t think twice about the star warming it all. At night, there wasn’t much to look at except the sky. Nothing else to ponder but the moon and stars.

And this was fine, really. Anything to take his mind off of something he couldn’t change.

Alethea had spoken to her father at length, and though she tried to keep spirits high afterward, clearly the mood had changed. They hadn’t spoken about it, however, because she’d immediately reminded him that such things weren’t vacation topics. That didn’t mean it was going away, only that it was being tucked aside for now. It gnawed at him if he allowed it to.

Thankfully, Nikki had made no such agreement with Alethea, and after a dinner filled with awkward silence and Alethea staring off into space, they’d gone for a walk. Alethea made Blair promise to wait for her in the hot tub, so here he was. Dutifully sitting in warm bubbles under a surprisingly cool breeze. She was right, it was refreshing and unexpected given how hot the sun burned during the day.

The glass door slid open and Alethea walked out, once again donning the pink and yellow swimsuit. Her long curls were piled sky-high in a messy tumble that accentuated her lovely round cheeks. She stepped into the tub and he raised his arm, so she could snuggle close to him.

“This is exactly what I needed,” she breathed.

“Do you feel any better? Get anything resolved?”

She pulled his arm tight around her waist and played with his hand. “Nothing can be resolved until I’m back home. For now, I just want to continue with my goal.”

“And what is that goal, exactly?”

She made a frustrated sound. “That borders close to the line of things I don’t want to talk about.” She took a deep breath. “First, I suppose this is me soul searching. Trying to figure out what to do with my future. What being a princess means. How far I’ll go for my dad’s approval. How to get that approval without getting a lobotomy.”

With his free hand, he rubbed her thigh reassuringly. As he’d promised, he didn’t delve. He simply made a sound of understanding.

“Then second, I wanted this time away from the outside world to see how we work together. How we fit outside the few hours of a date. Normally that’s the sort of thing that would occur over time, over months, really. Except I don’t want to go public unless what we have contains depth.”

“And—” he stopped himself. He wanted to talk about it, but he’d promised. The more he thought of it, the more he hated the concept of promises. Trees didn’t make promises. In his thousands of years, he’d never made a promise.

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