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“She would like you” He laughed “If she were still alive She died of Huntington's disease when I was ten The last memory I have of her hen she dropped me off at the Darcy Mansion It was about a four-hour drive from our hoht and then gavebefore she left for an experimental treatment My father never wanted ift every year on ave me a motorcycle Eventually my aunt and un

cle became my parents I love the, I remember I’m the black sheep I’ve been bored out of s interesting”

I couldn’t see how, and I didn’t ask He finished of the rest of his glass as he waited forBut I drank casually as I leaned back I was in noto force a s caviar, and listen to a rich wohtmare Then I realized that was his life He had been born and raised with nothing, then forced to adapt to that type of world On the outside he looked the part, but on the inside, he was like me

Da in

“You’re going to have to buy me a dress”

“Absolutely Just as long as I get to peel it off you”

CHAPTER EIGHT

Not a Princess

Theo

“At this rate, we’re going to be late,” she said when she ca a red cocktail dress It looked more like a sexy slip than a dress It wouldn’t work I would spend the whole night with a hard-on, thinking of different ways to get her out of it

“We will arrive fashionably late, and I’ started” I reached for another outfit froht up for us “Try this one”

She snatched it frooing naked”

“Stop looking so fucking beautiful in everything, and ouldn’t have this proble my best not to touch her If I did noould never leave

“This is the last outfit I’ myself in for you” She lifted the dress between us

“Nothing in life is final But we’ll see”