*THE HOLLEN SERIES 04*
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*?? RICHES AND ROYALTY ??*
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Sebastian’s POV
“SEBASTIAN! NOT ANOTHER STEP!” my father yelled from after me and I halted in my track, slowly turning to face him. He was livid and red in the face. His eyebrows crea-sed on his forehead as beads of sweat form over them.
“Dad, I can’t…” I started.
“I don’t want to hear of it, son. What has gotten into you, huh? Why walk out on your own wedding and your own people?”
“Dad, I’m not ready to..” I tried to explain but he cut me off again.
“Sebastian, so help me, if you don’t go back into that Chapel and repeat your vows….” but I cut him off this time, I had had it with him telling me what to do.
” That’s the problem with you, Dad, you don’t listen. I’m not ready for all of this! I’ve tried but I can’t do it. Now I fully un-derstand why my mother ran away and took me with her. Since I’ve came back, being king is all you ever talk to me about. You don’t care to ask what I think about it or how I feel about taking your place. You just shove everything down my throat!
Now, you’re trying to shove a woman down my throat! A woman I don’t even know or love. You never listen to me!” I shouted at him. Anger and sorrow rolled onto my che-st as I stared at him, hoping he’ll feel empathy but I was wrong.
“I’m still the King. I don’t have to listen to you. You have to listen to me!”
“Well, I’m sorry to say this but there’s nothing or no one on this earth who could make me go back into the Chapel.” I turned on my heel and undid the bu-ttons to my jacket before tossing it over my shoulder.
“Sebastian! Don’t you dare walk away from me! where do you think you’re going!” I heard my father shouting as I got into my private Range Rover and hit the accelerator and drove out of the Chapel’s yard, leaving nothing but dust behind and an irate father.
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As I got onto the main road, I phoned her. I nee-ded to see her, feel her in my arms and against my che-st and to smell her lovely scent.
Without getting an answer, I continued on my way to her hotel. I rushed throu-ghthe lobby and entered the elevator to the penthouse suite. I knocked as I arrived and waited for her to open the door.
“Emily!” I blurted out when the door opened but it wasn’t her. It was her @$$istant. “Where’s Emily?” I asked her.
“She’s not here,” she answered.
“Where is she?” I was pa-nting like if I just ran a marathon before this.
“She actually left about twenty minutes ago. She has gone back to the States, but she left you this.” Her @$$istant handed me an envelop. I to-re it open and read throu-ghthe lines:
Dear Sebastian,
I knew you’d come looking for me but I wish you hadn’t. This is bigger than you and I but I admire the courage you’ve got for the things you want. Seb, I’ve always loved you, and it’s because I love you so much, I’m willing to let you go to fulfill your commitment and royal duties. I don’t want things to get ugly for you and for me. Go ahead and try to find your happiness with someone else.
Lots of love as always,
Emily.
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The letter dropped from my fin-gers and I felt my entire bo-dy being su-cked from live itself. My breathing increa-sed to fight the tears that were coming.
“How long did you say she left?” I asked Gen.
“About twenty minutes ago. She’s already gone Sebastian, and she’s not coming back. I’m leaving in the next two days. I just nee-d to finish up a few things around the hotel and Emily wanted me to make sure you got the letter,” she explained to me.
I raked my fin-gers throu-ghmy hair but I wasn’t buying her explanation.
I pushed throu-ghthe door and began searching the room.
“Wait, what do you think you’re doing? She’s not here!” Gen called as she tried to stop me from reaching the be-droom but she failed miserably. I pushed throu-ghthe door and found Emily stepping into the closet.
“Don’t even take another step, you’ve already been sp-otted. You think you can brush me away with a note?” I asked her, folding my arms with a sm-irk on my face.
She turned towards me like a child getting caught red-handed with her hands in the cookie jar.
“Sebastian, why?” she simply asked.
“Because I’m not ready,” I simply answered and pulled her into my arms.
*THE HOLLEN SERIES 04*
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Emily’s POV
I rested against his che-st, exhaled slowly, and felt myself being like a cherry on top. I was now scared of falling in love with him because he wasn’t mine to claim anymore. I pushed away as I remembered just that.
“We can’t do this,” I told him. I wasn’t ready for the shit storm I knew would be coming our way at any time from now. The media would have a frenzy and the King would have my head for laying with his son while being engaged to the princess of Scots.
“You’re scared, aren’t you?” he asked. It was clear that he knew me better than I expected and I was strangely impressed.
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“I’m sorry to interrupt, but I believe the King is here,” Gen said as she walked into the be-droom. The beats of my heart quickened and I held onto Sebastian as if I was holding onto dare life altogether.
“Where is he?” I asked Gen.
“Right outside the door,” she answered.
“They must have followed me here when I left the church but don’t you worry, nothing is going to happen to you,” Sebastian said next, before ki-ssing my forehead like always. He walked out the be-droom and I tailed slowly behind to ease-drop on the conversation him and his father, if there’ll ever be one.
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“You must be out of your mind!” I heard his father’s voice, “You left your wedding to come to another woman’s hotel room?”
“Dad, that woman means so much to me than you’ll ever know,” Sebastian said and I smiled to myself.
“Let’s not have this discussion here but believe me when I say this, this isn’t over! Guards, take him back to the Palace!”
I heard a short scuffle and the sound of fading footsteps. The door pushed open and I moved out from my concealing place and came face to face with the King himself.
“You look familiar,” he said to me.
“Emily Hollen. You requested my prese-nce when I wanted to …”
” Ah! The hotel lady,” he recollected.
“Yes sir,” I responded.
“So you’re the one having my son behaving the way he shouldn’t be behaving?”
“Your Majes…”
“Who do you think you are? You come into my country, build on my land and corrupted my son. Let me make myself perfectly clear Miss. Emily Hollen, stay away from my son. He’s not for you!” and at that, he turned away and left.
I heaved a sigh and threw myself down on the chair and another knock came on the door. Gen opened it and there was a large group of paparazzi and people from the media, shouting questions at Gen.
“Gen, was Emily Hollen the reason Prince Sebastian walked out on his wedding?”
“Are they having an affair?”
“What did the King say to Emily?”
“Is she going to be banished from the palace and the country anytime soon?”
Gen was stuttering and trying to control the media to no avail and I got up and shut the door in their faces, locking it from the inside. Gen breathe with relief.
“I’m so sorry but this is beginning to get very ugly,” she said.
“I know.”
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Two days later, the media was still at it. I couldn’t walk the streets in peace. They camped outside of the hotel, just to get pictures of me and to shoot ridiculous questions that they weren’t interested in knowing the truth to.
“I think I should leave for real!” I shouted and stormed into my closet.
“Are you serious?” Gen asked as she looked on but my hands didn’t held the strength to pack up and I couldn’t leave without saying goodbye to Sebastian. I dug de-ep for courage and fought back against the pain in my heart.
“Gen, we’ve overstayed our welcome. Tell the pilot to get the jet ready. We’re leaving tonight.”
TO BE CONTINUED….