Have I actually been with him almost four years?
Time really did fly, but also we barely saw each other. He rarely made the effort and… I didn’t truly care if he did. He more gave me cover from other men pursuing me than anything else.
Yes, that was horrible of me to admit, but apparently if I’d known him better, this relationship would have ended years ago.
I wish it had.
The next round of shock in all of this was what was inside the folder.
Namely, pictures and videos. After realizing that it was a blur of clicking to open them all—watching
“I’m done,” I whispered as I sat back in the chair. “I’m so fucking done with all of this.”
With caring about Father.
With Kole.
With being patient and a proper royal.
All. Of. It.
I found a blank thumb drive and copied enough to give me what I needed before locking the computer and leaving. The guards flinched when I left the suite with steam practicallycoming out of my ears, but they were wise enough to leave it alone.
My anger only increased when Kole wasn’t in his room and no one seemed to know where he was.
“He shouldn’t evenbe herestill,” I hissed under my breath. Then I asked for Lydia, one of the few female guards and the one who had been honest with me about everything the night of my parents’ funeral.
Oddly enough, it turned out she was looking for me.
“It’s not my place but—” she started to say.
“Spill,” I bit out, trying to control myself and remember none of this was her fault.
“He was headed towards the solarium, but he… Something was off,” she told me. “Every hair on the back of my neck stood up when I saw him glance around. It reminded me of a crap movie where an idiot immediately gets caught stealing something.”
The audacity of him doing something illegal or immoral in my castle after saying I couldn’t end things with him was… Apparently right in his character from everything Father’s private investigator had found.
“Tell Benson you’re promoted to my detail. I want someone on it who I actually trust and pays attention,” I said firmly before turning and heading the way I needed to.
Which of course wasn’t the right way. She cleared her throat and I spun the other direction.
“I really need to learn my own castle,” I seethed quietly, not caring she could hear me.
Seriously, I did though.
Then again, I was pretty sure a lot of people could have made the same mistake in such a massive place when that upset. Maybe?
The solarium wouldn’t have many cameras, probably because it was so open and all glass. All the plants in there would also block too much. It was maybe technically an arboretum or—who cared. It didn’t matter right then.
It was a perfect place to do something he shouldn’t.
I just didn’t guesswhathe’d have the gall to do in my castle.
Orwho, to be more accurate.
I heard noises as I got closer, but it wasn’t until I slipped inside the far end that I understood what it was.
Moaning.
