Royal Attraction by Truitt Tiffany

Author:Truitt, Tiffany
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: new adult; romance, Tiffany Truitt, Entangled, Embrace, NA, contemporary, contemporary romance, royal, royalty, prince, love triangle, princess, Beautiful Disaster, The Rule Book, Cindi Madsen
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2017-09-18T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

22 Years, 1 Month, and 1 Day

“You’ve made me into the biggest fool. When they find out, they’ll think…”

“If you’ll just let me explain,” Professor Barnes insists, reaching for me. I back away from him, holding my hands up. I can’t promise that I won’t punch him if he tries to touch me again. Which, considering we’re both standing in the dimly lit pit of a pretty dodgy bus station, probably wouldn’t be a good idea. A rat might take offense.

“Alexandra, I swear I didn’t mean to lie to you,” he argues. Somehow, standing here, begging me to consider resuming our relationship, sweat covering his brow, he looks less like the overly confident, sweater-wearing, preppy man who seduced me with all his talk of traveling abroad and academia and more like a sad, pathetic sweater-wearing little man who is too chickenshit to take responsibility for his actions.

“I may have failed out of college, Professor Barnes, but I’ve seen enough Lifetime movies to know that’s what cheaters always say. As if you didn’t control the words that came out of your mouth. Like you didn’t make every decision that led both of us here.”

I heave my duffel bag over my shoulder.

“Where will you go, Alexandra?” he asks. He actually manages to sound like he cares. He’s good at this. I can’t help but wonder how many times he’s played this game.

“I have a friend who lives outside D.C. I’ll go stay with her for a bit until I can figure out what’s next,” I reply quietly. Lie. I’ll scrounge up some money and rent a shitty apartment until I can figure out how to fix my messed-up life. Far, far from this campus.

It takes every ounce of willpower I have to stop from crying, or screaming, or pounding on the professor’s chest. Not because I lost some great love. It isn’t anything like that. But because I trusted him. And it is hard for me to trust anyone. I am still linked to the Dudley family even if I no longer live with them. That means my actions still have consequences that literally reach across an ocean.

Our relationship had mostly been about the sex. An attempt to fill the void that Ollie left. There wasn’t anything wrong with that. We never made any proclamations of love. It was purely out of need. But his lies had made it about deceit and shame. I had become an unwilling participant in his transgressions, and that made me feel used.

“I really wish you would reconsider,” he replies, taking a step toward me.

“I really wish you would reconsider coming any closer to me,” I warn.

The professor holds up his hands. “What I mean is that I think you have a chance of getting back into school, Alexandra. I believe you might suffer from dyslexia. There are some tests that we could get done.”

“Dyslexia?” Could he be right? I don’t know much about it, but I remember something about it having to do with getting letters all messed up.

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