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I frown. I want to dance with him. In these boots. In any other shoes. In my bare feet again. I’ve been turning down other guys for dancing because of a guy who is a fucking prince, who I can never be with.
I'm irrationally annoyed at him. None of that is actually his fault. Though I can definitely blame him for my attraction to him and how flirtatious and funny and charming he is.
I text back, feeling sassy.
What if I am?
I never feel sassy.
Then I would have to remind you that you’re mine.
Though I would very much enjoy that.
I actually laugh at that. He doesn’t know that I know about Linnea. Fine. He wants to just keeping digging this hole he’s in deeper and deeper?
Sure. From thousands of miles away?
You don’t think I can make it very clear to you and any other man who even looks at you that you are spoken for?
My heart pounds. See? This is what I’m talking about. This kind of stuff, this possessive, flirty, I-want-to-be-your-boyfriend bullshit and how it makes me feel is totally his fault.
He’s engaged. He’s engaged-ish at least. And he’s not here.
I think you’re texting the wrong number. This is Abigail. Not Linnea.
There is more of a pause before he responds. Oh, did I surprise the cocky prince? Good.
Linnea and I are not engaged, Abigail.
I simply send him the link to the podcast that Charlie sent me.
Linnea and I are friends. We are not getting married. Also, she’s in love with someone else.
I study the words. I want to believe them. So much.
Why does this podcast and ‘the palace’ think you’re engaged?
Because my grandfather is a terrible listener and he loves Linnea. He’s also king and that seems to make him think he can make whatever he wants to happen, happen.
That is pretty much what that means right?
Unfortunately.
So you have to marry her?
Unless I marry someone else who is just as good, or better, for the country. Who my grandfather will also love and trust.
Why I’m continuing this conversation I have no idea. This is all crazy. Still, I read the ‘unless I marry someone else’ over and over.
He is engaged to Linnea. Kind of.
But he says he doesn’t want to be.
And there is a way to get him out of it.
Still, I have to ask a question.
Once you’re king, you could just get divorced, right?
