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“Ha!” I barked out, parking my case right next to the bed. I leant against the doorframe and fixed Will with a pointed look, complete with raised eyebrow and a smirk curving my lips. “When this is all over and I’m back at home, I am never, ever speaking to you again.”
He collapsed back on the sofa, laughing. A stupid, deep, rumbling belly laugh that made me want to hit him with a cushion again.
William had a very nice laugh.
No, no.
A Very Nice Laugh.
Capital letters were necessary.
I stomped my way back through the main living area to get my carry-on case and wheeled it back to the bedroom while making sure he caught my glare.
It didn’t stop him laughing.
I closed the door, shaking my head, and grabbed my phone to text Amber.
ME: I’m here. At his grandparents’ place.
ME: Guess where they live
ME: THE CASTLE. THEY LIVE IN THE FUCKING CASTLE!
ME: HIS GRANDPARENTS ARE THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF GLENROCH
ME: FUCK MY FUCKING LIFE HOW DID I END UP HEREEEEEEEE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Then I put my phone down, opened my suitcases, grabbed my stuff, and went to wash away my misery in the shower.
In theory.
As it happened, I couldn’t get out of my own head.
I couldn’t believe I’d ended up here. Really, I should have put two and two together, but why would I have? William didn’t have so much as a hint of a Scottish accent, so why would I assume he was related to the Glenrochs? Much less a direct heir to the dukedom.
He’d never mentioned it, and I got that, too. I imagined people did get pretty weird when they discovered you were going to one day inherit a castle.
Not me.
I mean, I knew a few of those people.
But William didn’t know that. Hecouldn’tknow that.
I’d spent the last ten years of my life distancing myself from the upper-class world I was raised in. The one thing I was most sure of was that it wasn’t a life I wanted to marry into, either, which meant it was a dating pool I had no intention of dipping my feet into.
Was William attractive? Oh, gosh, devastatingly so. From the few conversations we’d had he was witty and funny, and if he were anyone else, he was exactly the kind of person I would be interested in seeing more of.
I just had to get through the next few days, then I could go back to Oxleigh, back to university, back to my little history bubble, and I wouldneverhave to see or speak to William again.
I finished my shower and got out with the towel wrapped around my body and another around my hair, then walked into the bedroom to retrieve my phone.
AMBER: Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
AMBER: *deep breath*
AMBER: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
AMBER: This is the best
