Eline_huntsmith

River and Lily have been, or rather had been, friends for almost all their lives until a one nightstand ruined any semblance of a friendship between them.

Lily would strongly like to blame the fact that she was foolish on that night and River, well, he doesn't look like he has a lot to say or think about the night in question.

Now, four years down the line, after one isolating the other and another still being bitter hurt over the events that succeeded that particular night, Lily is called in for a royal favor.

With River's coronation as king drawing near, she has to keep his rather, messy, to be lightly put, record on a clean squeaky plate. How to do that you ask? Well, obviously by avoiding him and being professional to a fault.

But the ignorant blind fool doesn't get the memo. In fact, to her, it looks like River is doing anything other than being professional and distant.

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"I was going to ruin you!" he shouts in exasperation and I eye him for a moment, watching his chest rise and fall rapidly until he calms down.

"I was already ruined. I fail to see any sort of damage that could have outdone what I've gone through." I shrug and pick up my folder from the bed.

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Lily has no much to think about during the summer but if there's something she's certain of, it's that she is not ready to be the reason River's crown topples off his head no matter how much he wants to be the problem in her course.

Another Royal Frog

I watch as Lily sleeps peacefully beside me. There is so much going on in my head that all I can do is smile at the calming effect watching her sleep brings me.

My phone lays behind her on the bedside table. What she doesn't know is that I have it switched off since the last moment we spoke.

That, and the fact that I'm actually not on a business trip as I earlier mentioned.

In fact, I am at risk of missing three crucial parliamentary sessions just to be here.

My medical exam came out yesterday and my therapist advised me to go back to my pills as soon as possible.

I might be stupid for asking her to go on a date with me tomorrow when I already know what comes next after but I never claimed to be the sharpest tool in the shed.

Well, at least not when it comes to her.

chapter twenty seven