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All Chapters of Perfectly Matched: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

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Thirty First Meeting

Edward stared at Camilla in bewilderment. She had to have gone completely off the rails. A royal advisor should not be threatening him using his parents.“I don’t see how you are going to do that,” he said and shook her hand away. “You’re batshit insane.”Camilla opened the folder and slid the contents across the table towards him. Most of the pages were photos of his parents taken secretly in different locations. The other pages were details of payments for the photos and a list of hitmen.“If you don’t comply, I will hire one of these people and book your parents in for their deaths,” she told him.Edward felt a pang of utter terror. The look in her eyes indicated she was completely serious and had every intent of going through with her threats.He needed to play it carefully. He couldn’t push Camilla too hard, but he needed to stand his ground.“I think you wouldn’t g
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Thirty Second Meeting

Sebastian walked into the room in the palace that was being used to televise his marriage announcement and immediately noticed that something wasn’t right. Bernadette’s face was ashen pale and she was talking frantically on the phone. The other royal advisors averted their eyes at the sight of him like they wanted to avoid him. He ignored them and approached Bernadette. She was the one leading the operation, she would have the answers. The lead royal advisor ended her call as soon as he approached. When he saw her up close, he became even more sure that something bad had happened. Bernadette was a hard woman to shock and she looked like she was panicking. “Bernadette, has something happened?” he asked. She bit her lip and he could tell that she didn’t want to tell him what was going on. “I didn’t want to tell you about it so quickly, I would normally seek to rectify a problem first. Unfortunately, I cannot see a way to rectify the prob
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Thirty Third Meeting

The two of them played board games until dinner. Sebastian was still surprised that his mother actually had something fun in her sitting room. She was also surprisingly bad at all of the board games. Sebastian put it down to lack of practise, but she was still terrible by the fifth round of the same game. “Your father was always the much better player,” she admitted eventually. “I still can’t get my head around game rules.” No one had come to the sitting room to interrupt them so he could only assume that there were no leads for any of the lines of investigation. When he was helping her tidy the games back into the cupboard he noticed a game that she hadn’t shown him yet. “If you’re looking at ‘Guess Who’, that’s hidden at the back because that’s the game I played with your father on the night he died. I beat him that night for the first time and I think he let me,” she told him. Sebastian hadn’t seen his father that close to his death
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Thirty Fourth Meeting

Edward yawned and stretched his arms. It had been a long three days of hiding and travelling. They were now out of France and were in Switzerland.He was no longer Edward Grey, they had changed identities in Paris.He was now Gabriel Dubois.It was fortunate that he spoke fluent French and near fluent German. Going to the top school in Albion had been useful.There had been a lot of changes since they had left Albion. They had all changed names and appearances. His mother had dyed his hair brown in the hotel bathroom in Paris and he had helped her bleach her hair blonde. Lord Grey had shaved his moustache. They were also only speaking French between them to help give the impression they really were French.He got out of bed and walked into the sitting room of their hotel room. Lady Grey was sitting at the table with a cup of tea.“Where’s Dad?” he asked.“Your father is out arranging a house for us to live in. He has requested that you look at nearby universities to enrol in.”Hearing
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Thirty Fifth Meeting

Sebastian wasn’t sure that the decision he had made was the right one. For the sake of tradition and his arranged marriage, he should give the order to bring Edward back, but he didn’t feel it was right to.Edward was clearly happy in Switzerland. He was studying what he wanted and would live a free life without restrictions. He was also afraid that Edward would hate him if he forced him to come back to Albion.“Is that your final decision?” Ryan questioned.“It is,” he confirmed. “Has Queen Annelise left it up to me then?”It was normally a decision his mother would make, but the fact that Ryan had asked him suggested that his mother had delegated the responsibility to him. She had started to involve him more in decision making recently.“She did. I will pass your reply back to her. Remember to go and say goodbye to her when you’re ready to leave.”Ryan left the room. Sebasti
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Thirty Sixth Meeting

Edward sat down at the kitchen table to eat his breakfast. He had a lecture in an hour and the university was half an hour away by bus so he was keen to eat his breakfast very quickly.“There’s some major news from Albion,” his mother said suddenly. “The palace has announced that Queen Annelise died in the early hours of this morning.”Edward dropped his toast in shock. Hewould have never imagined that Queen Annelise would die so soon. She had been very full of life when he had met her.His parents exchanged looks. Edward picked up his slice of toast and carried on eating whilst he thought about Albion. The three of them never really talked about their past in Albion. They had assimilated to their new life in Switzerland quickly.Despite that, Albion and Sebastian were always somewhere in his mind.Sebastian couldn’t be doing too well at the moment. Queen Annelise’s death meant that he would become king at
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Thirty Seventh Meeting

Edward knew his freedom in Switzerland had come to a drastic end. Sebastian wasn’t coming to visit him for a casual coffee meeting, he was coming to drag him back to Albion.There was no denying he was Edward Grey. Sebastian knew exactly who he was. He wouldn’t be able to claim he was someone else.“Sebastian, what are you doing here?” he asked.The prince glanced at Mark who took the hint and quickly left the coffee shop at high speed. Edward had to admire the efficient operation. Someone had mapped out his schedule and established that he frequented the coffee shop after lectures, someone had arranged for customers to be kept away and Sebastian had come to lie in wait for him.“You can’t have missed what has been happening in Albion,” his husband said.Edward took a seat next to him. There was no getting away from Sebastian so he might as well take a seat. He also wanted to talk to him.“I am sorry about your mother’s death. I always thought she would live for a long time. She had a
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Thirty Eighth Meeting

Sebastian didn’t sleep much on his return flight to Albion, he had too much to think about. Edward’s willingness to cooperate had taken him by surprise. He had been expecting a lot of resistance. Maybe he could hope that Edward still loved him. It was strange to see Edward with different hair and less muscular. He looked happy and healthy in all the surveillance photos which made him feel a little bitter. The other students on Edward’s photography course had been asked about Edward or rather, Gabriel Dubois. He was popular and considered good looking, but had remained single the entire time. Sebastian had been relieved to hear that until he had met the barista of the coffee shop. He didn’t like the thought of anyone else having the chance to date Edward. A royal advisor appeared at his side. “Angela has sent through the schedule for Queen Annelise’s funeral. Would you like to look at it now?” Sebastian switched to work mode. He had a l
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Thirty Ninth Meeting

Edward was woken up in the morning by a knock at the door. He took a moment to realise that he was no longer in his bedroom in Switzerland, he was in the royal palace in Albion. “Who is it?” he asked sleepily. “It’s Bernadette, you have a meeting before breakfast at 8. I suggest you get up very soon.” Edward groaned. No one had mentioned that the meeting would be this early. It was 7:00am now. “I’ll get up,” he said sleepily. He heard Bernadette’s footsteps fade away and he pushed away the bedcovers. If the meeting was about his marriage it meant Sebastian would be there. He persuaded himself to get out of bed. The plane journey combined with the awkward dinnertime the previous evening had exhausted him. He had a quick shower and got dressed. His black roots were starting to show in his hairline again. He would have to ask if the royal advisors wanted him to have brown hair or his natural black hair. He wouldn’t mind going back to his
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Fortieth Meeting

Edward checked that his camera had plenty of battery and loaded an empty memory card into the camera for his photoshoot. Sebastian had been visibly disappointed by the photoshoot request, but he had agreed to it eventually. “Remind me why I have to be your model again,” Sebastian requested when Edward walked into his office. “As I said before, the assignment is a male model photoshoot. You’re the only male I can use,” Edward explained. “I’m not allowed to socialise so I don’t know anyone else at university. If I use someone here like Ryan, everyone is going to wonder if I’m cheating on you. That means it has to be you.” Sebastian didn’t look entirely convinced, but he got up from his desk. “What do you want me to do?” “How much time do you have to spare?” Edward questioned. “Ideally I want to get all the photos at once.” “You can have an hour of Prince Sebastian, the male model,” his husband replied.  Edward decided the be
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