Chapter 46

ROYAL POV

I shut the door harder than I should have, ran a hand through my hair and tried to ease a calming breath into my lungs.

I unbuttoned my suit jacket and then pranced into the coffee shop, nodding to a few acquainances that waved and greeted. Resentment was liquid in my chest, the venom bubbling in my mouth as I tried to go over my speech the umpteenth time. I was going to keep this as humanly civil as I can. No fists, or losing my cool. But that wasn’t a promise. I was this close to losing every single strand of control inside of me and doing something that would either end with me dead or behind the bars; and I had no nerve to even care!

Hell, even right now, I could see myself gravitating to the sweet murder that threatened to yank at my sanity with every passing second.

I was escorted to my seat where I dropped and ordered a glass of water. Coffee would made my heart palpitate, and anything with alcohol would send me over the edge.

I waited, scrolling through my phone a