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I returned and slumped down onto the comfort of the bed. The silk blankets felt like a caress against my bare skin. They beckoned me to sleep, but it didn’t come. I laid there wide awake, with my hands clasping the necklace like a lifeline. My eyes stayed glued to the ceiling as I listened to the sound of his breathing.
When sleep finally found me, I didn’t have a single nightmare.
The next day,I awoke to find my three servants hurrying about, cleaning up our room. I glanced around and saw no sign of Sie. I knew without looking that Abherham was just outside the door.
Roslyn glared at me. “Looks like you two had a good night.”
I glanced around the room and took in what my maids saw. It looked like Sie and I had destroyed it. I cringed thinking about the rumors that were probably spreading around the castle of us consummating our marriage.
I turned bright red as Ashley added, “Don’t be embarrassed, Scottie. It’s normal for a husband and wife to have sex. We just didn’t know Sie was so wild.” Then she winked at me before going back to her tidying.Wife.I would have to get used to that.
I threw myself back onto the bed and covered myself with the comforter. “No time for that now,” Annabel mused as she threw the blankets off me. “You have to get ready for the grand breakfast celebrating your marriage. It starts in an hour. Quickly, get dressed.”
At breakfast, everyone’s eyes were on me as I filled the empty seat next to Sie. To my horror, Alec and Reagan sat across from us, Peter to my left.
“You look tired, Scottie. Did Sie keep you up all night?” Alec grinned as he shoved a forkful of eggs into his mouth.
Reagan finally met my eyes and looked ready to murder me as Peter said, “Enough, Alec.”
But Alec didn’t listen. “Relax, Peter. I’m just making sure our Princess held up her end of the bargain and pleased Sie.”
I knew he was referring to the night they made me participate in their sick game. I was also aware that I wasn’t supposed to remember it. “I don’t recall ever making bargains with you regarding my personal life, and I don’t plan on discussing anything now,” I said as my eyes narrowed over him.
He met my gaze as he lazily leaned back into his seat. “No matter. I’ll just ask Sie for the dirty details later.”
Sie’s hand gripped the edge of his seat as he sneered, “I think there are more important things to discuss.”
“On the contrary, Sie, everyone has been talking about your wild night. It’s the highlight of the maids’ gossip this morning. They kept going on and on about how your room was destroyed and how loudly you had Scottie moaning. They say the shy and timid ones are the freaks in the bedroom, right? Besides, you might have me to thank for your wife being so willing to accommodate your pleasure.” Alec winked at me then turned to Sie. My stomach turned, and I lost my appetite.
Sie’s hands turned white as he gripped the armrest even harder. “That’s enough, Alec.”
Alec, at least, had the decency to finally stop his taunting, but it was too late. The entire table had stopped talking and was listening. Synder was the first to break the silence. “Well, I’m glad we found you a wife that is satisfactory, Prince Noren.”
I wanted to die. I wanted to curl up and die from embarrassment and then die all over again.
The death stare Sie gave Synder made everyone go silent. A bird chirped in the distance as the light started to shine in through the vast windows of the dining hall. Everyone wordlessly resumed eating their breakfast. The only sounds were of silverware clinking against the plates for the rest of the morning.
Synder smiled.
THIRTY-TWO
SIE
I tookan ice bath after breakfast in an attempt to relax myself. No one would know it was the day after my wedding based on how I’d been avoiding my new wife since last night.
It took every single ounce of self control I had to not crawl into that damn bed with her. The way she’d been moaning against the door made me want to make her moan for real. I thought about every single fucking way I would, knowing exactly how I would start.
I tried to shake her out of my mind as I looked down at the paperwork sitting before me. King Lunder had been letting me run the Kingdom over the past month. To be honest, I hadn’t seen much of him since the first month of my orientation. He’d only been around at council and war meetings about the growing rebellion. He was way too happy to push off this kind of work onto me, and I could see why.
It was much more tedious than I thought. I devoted the next three hours to the large stack of papers, sorting through and responding to the massive amount of letters the Kingdom received. It was only a step above organizing the royal budget.
I felt it before any of the guards came to warn me—the warning sign I had programmed into Scottie’s necklace went off. It alarmed, but the tracking system was dismantled. There was only one way to dismantle the tracking. Either Scottie realized what it was, or someone did it for her and that would mean—
I half sprinted, half teleported to our bedroom as fast as I could, praying she would still be there, pushing away anyone in my path. I scared more than one servant and many guards with the stream of curse words leaving my mouth, but I didn’t care. All that mattered was her.
When I arrived, our bedroom had been sacked. The guards who were stationed with her were all on the floor. The only guard still breathing was Abherham, and he was lying in a thick pool of blood. I didn’t bother checking to see how extensive his injuries were as I turned toward him and growled, “What happened?”
Red was everywhere, it stained the floor, and I had no way of knowing if Scottie’s blood was mixed in with it. A window was bashed in, broken glass scattered across the floor in shards of varying sizes. The furniture had been overturned, broken bits of wood sticking out every which way. And Scottie was nowhere to be found.
