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

We've gone through five islands in eight days, taking the number of islands visited thus far to seven.

While some were mere stopovers with only a few hours' meetings and greetings ended by night travel, I found myself quite relaxed after my first island.

The guy that had been after me turned out to be an online blogger who had his suspicions that I was indeed dating River and had gone a little too close for comfort to get his facts right.

My mother was not happy that I had not told her such crucial details about my love life but she'd let it slide only for the time being till I flew back home.

A part of me feels bad for keeping it from her but another part feels panicked because when things end between us I'll have more people asking what exactly happened to us.

I am not blinded as not to see that River's visit here is a stamp of his authority over this part too.

chapter sixty five