Dashing: A Royal Cinderella Billionaire Story by Brooks Sophie

Author:Brooks, Sophie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-23T16:00:00+00:00

21

Cara

The next day was a strange one. Part of it was the kind of mental fatigue anyone would feel after a very emotional night. My body was probably dehydrated from the tears I’d shed.

But it was more than that. I wish I could say I’d turned a corner, and that I’d gotten a handle on the guilt I felt. I wish I could say I’d made peace with the way I’d let Teresa and the others down.

And maybe I had—a little. Talking with the prince had definitely helped. Saying it all out loud had helped. But I still had a long way to go before I could forgive myself.

The other reason I felt disoriented today was because of Nico. All day long, the memory of his arms around me kept returning. He’d made me feel so safe and secure. And last night, I’d been too upset to think about the ramifications of the way he’d held me, but today it kept entering my thoughts. If he truly didn’t want to be with me and didn’t think there could ever be anything between us, why had he taken me in his arms like that?

It went beyond the fact that I’d been upset. After all, I couldn’t imagine him holding Gretchen that way if she’d been sharing a painful story from her past. The more I thought about it today, the more it seemed like it had to mean something.

Or maybe I just wanted to read more into it than I should have. Maybe Nico had just been comforting a friend. Perhaps it hadn’t felt as intimate to him.

It sure as hell had felt intimate to me, though.

Where did that fact leave me? Confused, tired, and adrift in a castle in Falkenberg.

Lunch with the children was rather subdued. Elyse already had her Princess Merida dress and wig on. Usually, I assisted her with it after lunch. I wondered if perhaps Gretchen had helped her put it on this morning. If so, I hoped that didn’t become a habit. I’d grown to enjoy talking with the little girl while I pinned her long hair up. It was the time of the day she was most likely to respond to me.

After lunch, I relied on a favorite trick of nannies, babysitters, parents, and teachers everywhere—I let the kids watch a movie. This time it was The Little Mermaid. The twins loved it, and the music was great, but it did seem rather disturbing that the central message seemed to be that it was okay to trade away your most prized possession—in Ariel’s case, her voice—for a handsome prince with good abs.

Hmm… maybe I was projecting a bit too much of my life into the movie.

By dinner, I was dragging, ready for this day to be over, but also a little curious about seeing Nico again. Would he treat me like an injured bird that needed sheltering? Or would he act like nothing had happened last night? I didn’t know which option I preferred.

When the twins and I entered the dining room, Nico was already there.

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