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“Wow” She let out a sh and tucked her hair behind her ear “I don’t really knohat to say to that”

“I’ one another that night” He cast a quick look at the crowd, leaving off any detail of hohere

Her jaw dropped “Now that you ot a flyer slipped under my door, with a ticket for free entry and soht it was just a co”

He let out a s one step closer There were only ten rows between them now Every time he passed one, the people in it stared at him with awe—even the Americans She didn’t blame them He was a prince

A king, actually…

Even if they didn’t know that yet

“Well, then, that confirms my suspicions” He smiled sadly The emotions inside of him had to be even more messed up than hers were His father had lied to hiht…but had died before doing so If that wasn’t enough to make a person want to screaether, the best way he could, because he regretted his actions It doesn’t excuse him, or make it okay, but I wanted you to know”

She sed, blinking rapidly, because all this inforood-bye A real good-bye “Thank you for letting h few years, and I’, either But…it’s hard for irl who introduces herself to the cute boy at the skating rink anymore”

He smiled and came another row closer “And I’ around the plane, almost as if he’d just remembered where they were, and why “We met before, you see In Ah School Sweethearts…is that the right term, Alicia?”

Alicia laughed, i her throat ache “Kind of, yes”

“I loved her, you see,” he said slowly to the crowd, pressing a hand over his chest “I loved her with all my heart The type of love that you only read about in books That was ten years ago, and I thought of her every day” He turned back to Alicia and tapped his chest, shutting out the crowd again as he focused on her “I thought of you every day, Alicia, and I just thought I’d let you know, before you go, that I loved you so very much”

The wohed, tears running down her cheeks It took Alicia less than a second to realize that tears ran down her cheeks, too It took all of her control not to throw herself at hi him to take her back to the castle with hio home She wanted him

He could still marry his princess, like he had to, and she could—

And that’s where the fantasy ended

Sitting idly by, watching him marry another woman? Have children with her? Yeah, no No way She wasn’t that woman She couldn’t be that woman