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Right up until they had married Piper, and she’d taken over the duty Tal, Rafe, and Kade were now happytoo near Landon wasn’t helping She crossed back to the stone railing and tried to find soue connection to her life before her abduction When it was very quiet, she could al the trees, her head thrown back in laughter
Why had she ever left this place? Why did she feel like she didn’t belong here any but Landon right now? "Is there any way you could wait inside, even for five minutes?"
No , possibly even thinking how boring it was to watch the little downtrodden royal brat
"No"
She turned, frowning his way "I’ to clied "You ht"
"Landon, don’t be ridiculous It’s impossible in this dress You can stand in front of the door," she tried to bargain with him
He didn’t move, simply stood rooted in place, a mass of muscle in a thousand dollar tux "No"
"What do you honestly think is going to happen? It’s not as if there are assassins hanging out in the pal for that one moment you turn your back"
"You never know Assassins could lay in wait anywhere I haven’t checked the palm trees, but that wouldn’t shockto follow me everywhere?"
"Yes"
"What happens if you have to go to the bathroom?"
He didn’t even crack a set real well acquainted with theinto the ood I didn’t drink a bunch earlier"
"This is ridiculous" She rolled her eyes "I’le, firm nod "I’ll take you to him"
Because Landon knew daree with hihness’s coronation ball to try to kill me If they’ve come to hurt someone, it’s most likely the others in the royal family Really, Landon, study a little htening His eyes turned cold again A sickening feeling slid through her, and she knew that she’d just hurt hiood at history, Princess You’ll have to forgivethe orders of my CO If you have a problem with it, you should take it up with Dane"
Alea winced and looked away What had she done? An apology sat right on the tip of her tongue Why? This wasn’t her fault…but it wasn’t his either He was just doing his job But da folloenty-four seven The only place she was allowed to be alone was her bedroom, and even then, the minute she opened the door, one of them waited outside She felt like a prisoner in soher out
As he stared a hole right through her, Alea felt her resolve weakening She yearned for those blue eyes to gloith the waro
The door to the balcony opened, and a lean figure slid through This man didn’t have a problem with his tuxedo She was fairly certain that Oliver Thurston-Hughes had been born in a tux The very noble Brit wouldn’t have done anything so co, are you out here?" He nearly bumped into Landon "Bloody hell, who are you?"
"I’m over here, Oliver," she said before Landon could reply
A broad smile cauard, utterly ignoring hi all over for you That receiving line was complete hell I’ve never seen so many people"
Oliver had been at the last British royal wedding, so Alea doubted that, but he was always polite Oliver would never say a social function wasn’t the greatest event he’d ever attended "I was happy when it was over My face hurts froant shoulder "Last I saw, she was dancing with the Prih Alea, it’s so good to see you" He ser ever since…"
His words trailed off, and she could see the way he paled when he realized what he’d nearly said
"Since she was taken hostage and forced to endure so most people wouldn’t survive?" A sarcastic voice with a low Texas accent cut through the aard silence Now Landon decided to get chatty? "I’m sure she’s sorry she didn’t just pause her recovery to call you up the second she got home"
"No one asked you," Oliver shot back "Why is he here? You’re not seeing him, I hope?"
She saw far too uard I’m sorry I haven’t called"
"You don’t owe hiround out
"Stay out of this" She couldn’t handle hi involved in her personal life She could barely handle hi her constant watchman She turned back to Oliver "I aet back into the real world"
Oliver was everything that Landon wasn’t He was perfectly char little frown "Of course it is, darling I apologize It’s terribly selfish of me It’s simply that Yasmin and I have missed you"
"I’ve h to put off their wedding while she’d been kidnapped She guessed she couldn’t really blaone for months They’d assumed she’d been killed, her body buried sorave Yasmin hadn’t had any idea that she’d been found until months after the fact Yas still didn’t know about all the rehab she’d had to go through The last thing Alea wanted the world to know about was her drug addiction