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

It has been a while since I sat down with the king and queen for a meal so when River texted me last night after his business meeting about having breakfast with his family, I readily agreed.

The part that eagerly jumped on the invitation was the one that wanted to stay grounded and get assurance that River still liked me enough to want to hang out with despite my scars.

I don't know why I'm not over the fact that I showed him my scars, almost the same that has him on therapy and we hardly talked about it since he had to leave almost immediately after our hug.

I quickly bow my respects to the two monarchs already sat at the table and patiently wait for the help to push my chair out for me.

I take the chair to the left of the king, leaving one right where River is supposed to sit directly across his mother and smile at the woman once I'm settled.

chapter fifty two