Royal Mistake #5 by Renna Peak & Ember Casey

Author:Renna Peak & Ember Casey [Peak, Renna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Casey Peak Publishing, LLC
Published: 2017-03-13T00:00:00+00:00

Victoria

I’ve been in my room all day today. I don’t want to risk bumping into any members of the royal family—especially Andrew.

It’s been hard to focus today, but I had a job to do. And now that it’s done, I don’t need to stay in Montovia any longer.

Wishing this situation could be different is a waste of my time. I’ve replayed it too many times in my head, and I’m at least as much to blame as Andrew. I didn’t stop him from putting on this stupid pageant. I didn’t object loudly enough. And though I hate to admit it to myself, I had hoped that whatever happened here would further my career somehow. That was all that was supposed to happen—I was supposed to write the best stories I’d ever written and enchant the world with my words.

I wasn’t supposed to fall in love with Prince Andrew.

Not that I will ever admit that out loud to him, no matter what he says to me. It doesn’t matter if he thinks he loves me, too. I can’t give him what he needs. The only thing I can give him is the story I’ve written for him today and the outline of his apology speech.

There’s a stabbing pain in my gut when I think about him moving on with Princess Justine. A tightness in my chest that is barely holding up my heavy heart.

I’ll have to leave the world of celebrity news now. There’s no way I can ever be around it again knowing the threat of seeing Andrew with Justine will always be a possibility. That any time I turn on my computer or look at a television, their smiling faces might be staring back at me.

A small part of me wants to suggest that Andrew and I leave Montovia together—find some deserted island somewhere and live happily ever after. But this isn’t a fairy tale. Prince Andrew was born to be a king. And a king needs an heir—a biological child. And that is the one thing I cannot give him, and it means I’ll never be enough for him or for his country. Even if he did decide to do something stupid like throw away his chance to be with Justine, there would always be a part of him that resented me for taking from him his chance to be a father. I know him well enough to know that. I’ve seen his resentment of Leo—how he thought his brother was trying to usurp him or something when the world thought we had died in the plane crash. I can’t even imagine what sort of thoughts Andrew would have about me if we did try to make some sort of life together. How every time we had an argument might mean he would hold that missing piece of me over my head as some kind of threat.

And there’s the whole greater good that is so important to Andrew. It’s easy for me to sit back and wonder what our life together might look like if he didn’t have the responsibilities he has.

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