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2019, March 1stAs soon as they slipped out, Aaron planted a soft, slow, sensual kiss on Zoey’s lips. Perhaps their problem was that they’d been talking too much lately. He didn’t know if he could undo the seeds of doubt he’d sown in her heart, but he’d be damned if he wasn’t going to try. She didn’t pull away. Maybe she was just caught up in the moment, but she responded to his kiss with a longing, a need, the likes of which Aaron had never experienced before. He didn’t care if it was just her being caught up in the moment or if she would, in her next breath, say that she didn’t want to marry him. Because she had opened herself up to him in a way, she’d never done before. It was like she was handing him her heart with her lips. And try as she might, there would be no getting rid of him now. “Give me the next two days,” he whispered on her lips. “Aaron-” She wanted to say she would give him forever. If he had asked her to marry him at that moment, she would have said yes without qu
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2019, March 23rd (An hour after the fight) “Ma!” James exclaimed as his mother walked into the drawing room. He went to her and hugged her. “Where have you been?! I’ve been worried!” “You worry about yourself. Look at you! What could have possessed you boys to pull a stunt like that? You need to take a shower and get these wounds treated.” “Where were you, mom?” James persisted. She was quiet for a moment, trying to tell them what she needed to say. “So I’m going to go with Aaron,” Cassandra finally announced. “The hell you are!” James exploded. She went up to Zoey and said, “Of course, what you decide to do is up to you, dear.” “What is happening right now? Mom! Cassandra Beaumont!” James called after his mom, who only proceeded upstairs anyway. Everyone’s eyes darted back and forth between James and Zoey. “No one is going anywhere with HIM! There’s no way. He’s lost it!” James declared, before stomping out the room. “Well, that went well,” said Zoey, sighing a
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2019, March 23rdJames saw Zoey’s face when she saw Aaron’s beat up body. He was surprised that she was spending this time with him and not Aaron. The thought sent him into a frenzy. He was picturing it before he could stop himself. Her hands touching Aaron's chest, his abdomen, his arms, his face, everything as she tended to his wounds. All the places she had just been touching James. It was a visual he did not love and cursed his brain for creating. He had to stop thinking before he said or did something to frighten her. “Hey when I am going to see your paintings? I showed you mine. Show me yours?”“You already saw one of mine and you were super critical. I’m afraid I can’t subject myself to such negativity again,” she said, sticking her nose up in the air. “Aah, I see. So they all suck worse than kindergarten crayon drawings,” he teased. “Hey!” she laughed, holding her hand to her chest as she pretended to be offended. “You know, it’s probably not your fault. Your teacher p
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2019, March 3thIt was anyone’s guess how tonight would go. Zoey had spent all of yesterday doing a bunch of girls’ stuff with CC. In other words, she’d spent the day avoiding Aaron and would likely pass today the same way. Aaron had made up his mind. If he could only get a moment to speak to Zoey, he would tell her everything. About Emily, about how long he had been struggling to get her out of his system, about how finally, finally he had done it. And now there was only Zoey. Aaron kept replaying the last time he saw her in his head. He should have stopped her, told her everything. Saying nothing would only mean losing her, anyway. When the moment of truth came, however, Zoey was nowhere to be found. “Whose brilliant idea was it for this to be a masquerade ball?!” Aaron thundered, annoyed. As he waded through the crowd, heading to the throne to ask his parents if they knew where Zoey was, he saw James enter. He watched as James made his way to Emily. Just as he was about to reach
Last Updated : 2023-02-09The Girl Who Loved Two Princes Missed chances - pt 2
2019, March 3thMeanwhile, as James stepped out onto the terrace, he ran into Zoey. “Shouldn’t you be in there? A pretty lady like yourself?” he asked.“Dude, don’t bother. I have a fiancé. Sort of,” she answered. It was evident that she didn’t recognize him because of the mask. He thought about taking it off, but then decided not to.“Is this sort of fiancé going to get to dance with you?”“I don’t know,” she sighed. “I see. So you have a sort of fiancé that you don’t know if you want to dance with,” he said, coming to stand next to her. “Sounds like you’re just trying to get rid of me.”“I am not! I really do have a fiancé! You may have heard of him, Prince Aaron,” she said, somewhat snobbishly. This amused him. “Oh, THE Prince Aaron, huh?”“Yeah, so you better back up, buddy!”“You know, Aaron’s not a bad guy. He’s just gotten past something and it took him a long time to do it, but he did. Because of you.”She looked at him, raising a suspicious eyebrow.“Do I know you?”He s
Last Updated : 2023-02-09The Girl Who Loved Two Princes Day one: the tour guide - pt 1
2019, March 24th "You were going to let her shoot me?!" James asked, shocked. "It would have been a tranq dart," Bart shrugged. "And that makes it okay?!" "Better than shooting the soon to be crown prince, who had more resources at his disposal," Bart reasoned. "Unbelievable," James replied, turning to CC. "And you were just going to let him have me shot?!" "Limited options," CC grimaced. "Em is an excellent shot. If she had shot you, you would've been fine," said Johnny. "Or maybe not, I don't know. Could've been the perfect murder. You know, didn't mean to shoot you ten times kinda thing." "Who needs an army to kill me when the people I'm sharing my house with are ready to do the job?" James mumbled. Emily had been buried in spreadsheets and paperwork all morning and had not been paying attention to them. "James, did you do business with my father?" Emily asked. "Some, here and there. Why?" he asked. "Just looking into some things. Make me a list of businesses, people tha
Last Updated : 2023-02-09The Girl Who Loved Two Princes Day one: the tour guide - pt 2
2019, March 24thZoey stared at Aaron as he changed her shoes for her. Who was this man? It wasn't that there was anything wrong with the old Aaron. He was always the perfect gentleman when he was with her, despite teasing her mercilessly. This Aaron was something else, though, something more. More mature somehow. It wasn't all good, but dare she think it wasn't all bad either? Is this what her leaving him had done to him?When Aaron took her up to the Summit, it was in silence. The top floor of the Eiffel Tower was by far the most imposing. Zoey didn't even want to know how high up they were, but damn if it wasn't the most beautiful view she had ever beheld. She pulled the coat around her tightly, looking around at the couples and families all huddled together and felt suddenly lonely. "So now what? More cops and robbers?" she asked, turning to realize that Aaron had left again.Dread filled her up, beginning in her head and spreading right down to her toes."Here," he said, appear
Last Updated : 2023-02-09The Girl Who Loved Two Princes Day two: the goodbye kiss - pt 1
2019, March 25thAaron and Cassandra had spent all day running around with his team, following the lead they had acquired yesterday. He had decided not to take Zoey with today, telling her she would probably just get in the way. This, of course, got Zoey super pissed off, something that seemed to have become his favourite pastime of late. She spent all day worrying about the Condor brothers and what was happening between them. What little time she didn't spend angry or worried, she spent feeling guilty.So when one of Aaron's men came to her that evening and asked her if she needed anything, she'd jokingly said "a gun". Zoey never in her wildest dreams expected the man to say, "Right away, my lady" and actually bring her one."Who the hell gave you a gun?!" Aaron exploded, lowering himself down into a chair."I did, Your Majesty!" came a voice from the other side of the door."What would possess you to do that?!""Your Majesty said to give her anything she wanted, not to treat her lik
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