NOLAN
Yena was sound asleep by the time Nolan got home. He slid into bed beside her and got about two solid hours of sleep before his phone woke him up.
The prince had about a dozen news alerts set to trigger a notification on his phone any time something was published online that mentioned certain keywords.
Waking to the sound he had assigned to news alerts, Nolan rolled over and reached out for his phone, expecting the notification be something trivial.
It was not trivial.
He shot straight up in bed and opened up the link.
There was a photo of two people walking in the rain, together under a single umbrella. He recognized Yena but could not tell immediately who the tall man with his arm around her was.
The headline at the top of the article read, Princess Yena Spotted in Intimate Embrace with Husband’s Half-Brother.
Nolan scrolled down. There were more photos.
And yes, the man in t
NOLAN Nolan returned to the palace and rounded up a few of his best Gamma warriors to come practice fencing with him. He was frustrated and needed to let off some steam. In the morning, he tracked down that chauffeur from the umbrella incident photos.The man told the prince that Yena had taken a ride to campus the previous morning, but not to attend classes. She said she was meeting with a professor and asked the driver to wait in the parking lot, saying she would only be a few minutes. It was about half an hour, the driver said, between their arrival at the school and the start of the sudden downpour, when he spotted Yena coming out of the building under her teacher’s umbrella. Nolan had the driver take him there. To the exact building where Yena had gone for that meeting
YENA “He’s your BROTHER?” I could hardly process what Nolan was saying to me. “Half-brother,” he corrected.He slid his phone over to me. The screen was open to a news article that had been published early this morning and was now, apparently, being reposted all over social media. The article had a horrible, salacious headline about me, and contained a bunch of pictures of me and Adan under his umbrella. I couldn’t believe it. And apparently, the professor had been keeping a secret from me — the fact that he was actually my brother-in-law. “Why didn’t you tell me about any of this before?” I asked Nolan, pushing the phone back over to
Lucy and I had classes on campus around the same time, so we met up afterward and drove together to the palace. She was coming over to try on the designs I had partially constructed, so that I could fit them to her and work out some of the final touches. I don’t think I have ever seen anyone so excited before in my life.Lucy was elated and wide-eyed, exclaiming over everything as I walked her through the palace to my and Nolan’s wing.And she might have been just as thrilled about the fitting, too. Everything I handed her was “beautiful,” “gorgeous,” or “perfect.” We worked on the green gown all afternoon. I had the base layer almost finished, so we fit that to her first. Then we played around with some diffserent fabrics layered over the skirt. Lucy was a good sport, and a good model.
NOLANIt had been a while since the princess had let him fuck her.It was all he could think about the whole time they were fencing. He blamed being distracted by her body for the point that she somehow scored against him.Still, she impressed him.She was more athletic than he had expected. She was motivated and focused too. He admired that.And he was surprised when she started flirting with him after their practice. Lately she had been acting disinterested in him. Keeping her distance.So when she started her little strip tease in the fencing room, he just about lost his mind.He threw her against the wall way too hard. But he couldn’t control himself, and he could feel that she was loving it. He stopped trying hold back.He wanted to taste her. He wrapped her legs around his waist and put a few fingers inside her. She was tight and dripping wet.He pulled his fingers out and licked one. S
“Adan?” “Yeah,” Lucy said. “Have you heard of him?” I could only smile and shake my head. “Yeah, I know him actually.” Her eyes widened. “Really? How?” “We just happened to meet on campus one day,” I started. “Isn’t he amazing?” she asked with a big smile on her face. “Well,” I said, “I haven’t known him for very long, but he’s definitely very smart.” “And isn’t he dreamy?” she continued. “I can hardly pay attention in class.” I tilted my head at her. “Well, I really only
NOLAN Nolan got up quietly, hours before sunrise. He pulled the covers up around Yena’s bare shoulders. She was sound asleep and snoring lightly.He dressed and started to exit, then found himself pacing back over to the bed and gazing at the peaceful expression on her face as he thought about what he was about to do.This morning, he had a very early meeting scheduled with the Secretary of State. Kerr had been the one to request the meeting. But then he had made it very difficult to schedule, canceling several appointments at the last minute.It was a power play. Kerr was trying to bait the prince into going into a conversation irritated and off his game. Nolan could not have refused to take the meeting. It was important to keep up appearances right now. He was still trying to figure out what exactly wa
Of course Nolan could have lost control. But he kept it together.Just barely. He forced himself to slow his pace. His arms did not want to stay at his sides, but he made them. Adan was looking very smug. His appearance had hardly changed, as far as Nolan could remember. He was older, yes, but Adan’s signature half-smile, always so charming and successful, was completely the same. Nolan looked to Yena. His body reacted before he could stop it and in an instant he was holding her in his arms. She did not try to break away from him. But she put a hand to his chest and very quietly said, “Nolan!” Her face was bright red. Adan had said, “Little brother.”
YENA It was not how I’d expected to spend the night before the show. Fucking and fighting with Nolan.I figured I’d be up obsessing over the work, finding something to mess with and maybe mess up at the last minute. All the drama at least distracted me from thinking about all that.Next thing I knew my alarm was going off in the morning. Nolan was in the shower. I went in after him and he left the room without looking at me.I was getting dressed when he came to tell me he was leaving. He walked up from behind me and put his arms around me and kissed my cheek.“You’re going to be great,” he said, making eye contact with me in the mirror.“Thank you,” I said. Neither of us tried a smile. The air in the room was thick.I turned around before he could leave and looked him in the eye directly.Nolan opened his mouth and froze. I could al