Within the Realm (The Gifted Realm Book 1) by Jillian Neal

Author:Jillian Neal [Neal, Jillian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Realm Press
Published: 2013-11-25T16:00:00+00:00

Consequences

They arrived at the Shermans’ an hour later. Friday evening traffic had been rough, and they were late. Rainer’s mouth dropped as he took in several news trucks and reporters. They were hovering around like jackals stalking their prey.

“What the hell?” Logan gasped. Rainer shook his head in disbelief. Fergus appeared as soon as he saw Rainer’s car pull up.

“Well, there’s the man now,” he drawled stupidly as Rainer flung his door open.

“Fergus, why the hell is all the press here?”

“Well, we aren’t all lucky enough to be the son of the greatest Crown Governor of all time. Some of us have to pay for our fame,” Fergus drawled, waggled his eyebrows showily, and then winked at one of the reporters.

Per Rainer’s orders, Emily had stayed in the car. Logan emerged behind Rainer.

“What does that mean?” Rainer demanded. “You invited the press here?”

Rainer stood well over a head taller than Fergus whose poor posture only made him appear even smaller. He had dirty blonde hair that he was already beginning to lose, and half of his face was his nose. He was currently wearing a Hawaiian-print, button-down shirt that would have been more appropriate on a man four times Fergus’s age, vacationing in Miami, than on a twenty-one- year-old college grad at Virginia Beach.

“Don’t worry, man,” Fergus nodded confidently. “They’re gonna stay out here, so as not to cramp your style. You and Emily can strengthen your relationship....” He pointed back into his parents’ house, which was dark and thrumming with loud music, “if you know what I mean...” He waggled his eyebrows. Then he turned his hands to the sides, formed them into cups, held about a foot apart. He brought them down in waves to indicate Emily’s curves. “Once you get inside.”

Rainer’s eyes goggled as he clenched his fists tightly.

Logan, however, cracked up. “Fergus, you are such an idiot!”

“By the way, man,” Fergus sauntered closer to Rainer; this was not a particularly wise move, considering everything he’d just said. Rainer glared at Fergus as he briefly contemplated the ramifications of choking Fergus Sherman.

Fergus waggled his eyebrows again, and Rainer ground his teeth.

“Saw the, uh, naughty nightwear Emily got for you; very, very nice!”

Rainer reached his hand out, grasped Fergus by the collar, and jerked him forward until he was inches from Rainer’s face. “What did you just say?”

Fergus seemed shocked. “Here, I saved the pictures.”

Rainer snatched the magazine article Fergus had pulled from his pocket, and unfolded it. All of the blood in his body drained quickly to his feet. There it was. He and Emily exiting the lingerie shop in LynnHaven mall, only it was much, much worse than Rainer had ever imagined.

The storeowner was Gifted and had recognized Emily. It seemed she’d decided that the soon-to-be Mrs. Rainer Lawson’s lingerie purchases would be great fodder for advertisement.

There was a two-page article discussing how long Rainer and Emily had been in the store, and there were pictures of the underwear and nighties that Emily had purchased. The

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