"Thank you. Well, now that I've managed to ruin breakfast," Lyra began, attempting a sheepish smile. "Apologies for that, by the way…"
She tilted her head slightly, trying to come across as both remorseful and adorable.
Elias didn't miss a beat. "Oh, you apologise in your world? I thought it was a foreign concept to you."
Lyra raised an eyebrow. "Uh… am I missing something? Am I supposed to owe you any other apology aside from this?" She gestured dramatically at the battlefield formerly known as the breakfast table.
"I guess we can consider bumping into a man while stark naked the norm in your world, then?"
Lyra's jaw dropped in outrage, and she immediately slapped her palm to the table. "Bumping? You bumped into me! You were in the room without knocking!!! You wanted to see me naked!!!"
"Oh, speak a little bit louder," he said in a low, venomously sarcastic tone. "I don't think the entire castle heard you. Please, by all means—broadcast to the staff, the kitchen, the stables—that you, an unmarried lady… yes?... were alone in a room with a bachelor. Oh wait, naked!" He leaned in with a smirk. "That's not the scandal of the century. So go on… speak even louder. Maybe the bards will write a song about it."
Lyra narrowed her eyes at him. "You're an asshole," she said.
"You're a constipated… sad… pompous… asshole!!! You know that?" she shot back, rising to her feet.
Thaddeus, who had quietly been trying to clean up the spill without being noticed, froze in place. How is it that anyone could speak to the prince this way? And get away with it. Even Lady Lirae, whom he was head over heels in love with wouldn't dare.
"I wouldn't know…" Elias said, his lips twitching into a devilish smirk. "I have never peeked into an ass's hole before. Apparently, you have, seeing how you're being quite graphic. Tell me, Miss Lyra… what else did you find in there?"
*****
Trapped in another world, where carriages are ridden instead of Ubers, Lily is apparently the doppelgänger of a missing/dead noblewoman. She meets the brooding, annoyingly handsome prince- Elias who is constantly amazed at how improper she is.
But when Lyra finds out that Elias was on trial for the disappearance of her doppelganger. She is frightened into desperately finding a way out of the Cursed Terra Lucida.
Elias offers her a deal, if she can pretend to be Lirae until he can find out what happened to her, then he would help her find her way back to her world.
And so it begins, a fake engagement, a rushed wedding and the unravelling of a plot so evil, it would shake the entire Terra Lucida.
WARNING; includes very sexy and steamy detailing.
I am going to be making some changes to this story on my editor's request. So please, be patient for the next twelve hours while I work on it. You may have to re-read from the first chapter but I will drop an update
I don't usually write reviews, but I'm loving this story. It's very difficult to write funny stories, but this author manages to do it. It's only six chapters in, but I'm waiting for my phone to tell me it's updated so I can read more.