Royal Package by Lili Valente

Author:Lili Valente [Valente, Lili]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Sabrina

It’s a beautiful day for revenge.

The sun is shining, and a cool, rose-and-herb-scented breeze wafts across the lawn as I make my way to the gazebo, carrying my high-heeled reception shoes in a velvet bag Greta thoughtfully supplied to keep them from getting scuffed before the wedding.

But of course, there probably won’t be a wedding.

Even if I manage to hold up my end of things until Lizzy gets here on the morning of the nuptials, there’s a very real chance Andrew will call it off before then.

So many things could go wrong.

Most obviously, there’s the chance he’ll figure out I’m not Elizabeth, lose his shit, and send me packing. But thanks to that stupid kiss, there’s also a chance he’ll want to kiss me again, get his feelings hurt when I refuse to repeat our lip-lock, and jump ship on the engagement before he ends up married to a woman who doesn’t like making out with him.

He seems to want Lizzy to be the one to call things off, but if the situation becomes sufficiently dire, I can’t imagine he’ll go through with the wedding.

Marrying a woman who stutters and refuses to speak on national television is one thing; marrying a woman who has no interest in banging you is quite another.

And I get that. I do.

I wouldn’t want to marry a man who wasn’t interested in an intimate relationship, and I’m far less sex-motivated than most men, especially a playboy prince who has a reputation for doing very well with the ladies. But I refuse to kiss my sister’s future husband again. I don’t care that she doesn’t mind. I mind. And if Andrew ever found out the truth, I’m sure he would mind, too.

Maybe I can fake a head cold.

Or pretend I want to wait until our wedding day so our second kiss will be really special.

Or maybe Andrew will decide waltzing with a woman who is as much of a disaster at dancing as he’s pretending to be at eating is all the excuse he needs to bail.

If I were putting caution first, I would set aside the urge to seek vengeance, behave myself, and let Andrew and Lizzy sort this all out once they’re married.

Lizzy isn’t a big social eater, anyway. So even if Andrew isn’t faking his atrocious manners, it might not be a big deal to her.

Or maybe she can get Eduardo to give those etiquette lessons I tried to schedule with Greta. I’m ninety percent certain Andrew is the one who arranged for Eduardo to suddenly be called out of the country on a diplomatic mission, heading my manners sneak-attack off at the pass, but he can’t keep Eduardo in Portugal forever. Sooner or later, the etiquette expert will come home, and Lizzy will be able to trap Andrew into a lesson or two—if she wants to bother.

At the end of the day, none of this is my business, and the more detached I can remain, the better.

I’ve nearly convinced myself to

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