Chapter 0447

Nicholas POV

“You should have kissed Bridget, Nicholas,” my father said to me.

We were standing in the private rooms he shared with my mother. The King was glaring at me. The Luna was sitting at the table, busying herself with needlepoint and paying us little attention. I knew my father had her full support, however. Talks like these were usually part of a two–pronged attack. 1

In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if this entire conversation hadn’t been mainly my mother’s

idea.

“I didn’t think the play needed it,” I said.

“To hell with what the play needed,” the King said. His blood pressure was rising. His face was turning red. “You should have kissed her to kiss her.”

“You aren’t giving Bridget enough of a chance,” the Luna said from the table.

I nearly sighed but held back. Like I had guessed, my mother was more involved than she pretended to be.

just friends,” I said to her, because I knew she was the one I was talking to, and that my father was just a mouthpiece to her wishes.

to the tabletop, then turned in her chair to face me. “This is a

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my bride for me, now she intended to guide me into selecting the

one I really wanted, Piper, was off–limits. They had made that

even I worried about bringing her and Elva into the dangerous and precarious situations such a role would

have the choice taken

my nerves

right now and it wouldn’t make

the one you wanted me to pair

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boy,”

my head a little. It wasn’t like me to speak out of turn to my parents, but this entire day had been one event

of my own life. My instinct was to

parents. Respected Bridget. I was so tired of

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