Filed To Story: Secret with Betas Daughter: Skylar Story Series
“Seriously! You’re going to language’ me when I am going to die tonight?”
“What’s wrong? Why are you being so dramatic,”
I ask, walking over to him.
“I told you that you would have your hands full, did I exaggerate?”
She says, a little flippantly.
“I just thought you meant tonight with all the people here, not that the potential for me to be murdered in my sleep was at 99%. I’m going to die, they will kill me if I’m too close, but they will also kill me if anyone else gets too close. I’m so screwed,”
Xander repeats.
“What are you rambling about? Get a grip!”
I look at him like he’s lost his mind.
“You are supposed to look pretty, like the beautiful fifteen-year-old that you are. You are not supposed to look like a supermodel ready for your centerfold.”
He scrubs his hands over his face.
“Huh?! I don’t understand.”
I’m starting to panic a little. Is something wrong with the way that I look?
“Xander, stop now! Look what you are doing to her.”
I have never heard Luna Anne’s voice that stern before. She looks at me. “You look gorgeous, sweet girl. So beautiful, in fact, that my son has temporarily lost the use of his full brain capacity.
She grabs my shoulders gently. “He’s afraid of your brother’s and the rest of your friends’ reaction to seeing you in pictures looking this amazing.
They have been very vocal in how they feel about you being so far away from them. And they will see you in this dress.”
She gives me that mom look that tells me I need to be ready for whatever stupid they throw at me the next time they see me.
“Skylar, you know them. Don’t pretend like they don’t have a very large and unnecessary protective streak when it comes to you. They will come in the middle of the night, Sam will hold me down while your brother and Oliver break my hands and arms for touching you and Dakota will break my jaw and knock my teeth out for talking to you and Cameron will probably dig my eyes out with a rusty spoon for even looking at you. ~
“Oh, stop! First that was graphic, you have spent far too much time thinking about how they could torture you and second, you said it was an unnecessary protective streak. If they really have something to say about it they can come to me first. Although everyone here has the right to make fun of you for the rest of your life for hiding behind me and being a pansy. Now, put on your big boy panties and let’s get this over with.”
I roll my eyes and grab his elbow while the rest of the adults are laughing behind us”
So, dramatic.”
I whisper to him.
“You do not understand, I’m not kidding when I say they are even more crazy about you now that you’re gone. Something changed.”
He looks at me wide eyed.
“Well, I guess that puts a damper on my plans for us to get caught making out then, that would really get you in trouble wouldn’t it?’ I laugh.
“Not, funny Midge, not funny at all.”
Like earlier we make our way into the elevator before the King and Queen and head down with a set of warriors. This time though, there is no one waiting for us at the bottom.
“Where is everyone?”
I ask looking around hoping no one jumps out at us.
“They are all waiting in the ballroom, Miss Skylar.”
Barty answers for me”
The Royal Family make their entrance together for the ball.
“Ah, I see.”
New Book: Returned To Make Them Pay
On her wedding anniversary, Alicia is drugged and stumbles into the wrong room—straight into the arms of the powerful Caden Ward, a man rumored never to touch women. Their night of passion shocks even him, especially when he discovers she’s still a virgin after two years of marriage to Joshua Yates.