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get Robert
back? And get rid of Lydia without explaining this to Robert why I
continued spending time with Sebastian. I hadn't thought this one
out. Not in the least.
     
    By the time we were done with our coffee he
had some place to be and I had to get home and wash off all the
shame. I had to figure out how to get rid of Lydia. I wasn’t going
to be able to get Robert back if he had a shiny toy to play with.
Besides, I wouldn't mind seeing her with her toy taken away from
her as well.
     
    Figuring out how exactly to get rid of Lydia
would be the hard part. I looked over at Sebastian as he threw away
our cups and offered an arm for me to hold as we walked back to my
apartment building. I just might have the hardest time convincing
Sebastian that there were better fish in the sea for him. Though he
was handsome, if I ever wanted to get Robert back I couldn't see
Sebastian anymore. But for now we had a deal, even if it was
blackmail.
     
    Sebastian promised to call and I promised I
would, even though I wasn’t sure I wanted to, answer. He placed a
gentle kiss on my hand, then he left and I scrubbed my hand for
fifteen minutes in the shower. Because for a moment, I had enjoyed
his lips on my hand.
     

CHAPTER NINE -
Sebastian
     
     
    This day wasn’t going the way I wanted. I
had postponed as long as I possibly could. I sent a team to track
down Lydia after she had escaped from my car trunk and literally
walked right up to me to rub it in my face. The team had to wait
until that idiot Robert had been distracted to return her to my
trunk. If she was smart Lydia would have run for her life. I had no
idea what the Queen would do.
     
    I pulled the car into the drive and decided
I might as well use the front door. I’m getting ready to present
Lydia on a silver platter to the Queen. I wanted to let her go. I
still had the urge. I could hear her pounding on the inside of the
trunk lid. I couldn't trust her to sit in the car with me. I loved
her but I wasn't an idiot. I saw the look in her eyes before I
knocked her out. She would have torn me to shreds to get to
Prussia. It made no sense to me why she hated Prussia so much. One
second she's playing nice and toying with Prussia's loser boyfriend
and the next she's gone bat shit crazy trying to end her.
     
    The door to the front of the castle opened.
It was cast in shadows and I couldn't really see in. Apparently, I
was expected. That or Charlie wanted me to get out of the car so it
wasn't in the way. The sun was past noon. My coffee date with
Prussia had taken longer than I expected. I couldn't miss my date
with Prussia. I had to choose. So I had left Lydia locked in the
trunk and that’s when she had escaped. She wasn't happy. I could
hear her seething anger in each swear word she shouted from the
trunk. I put my sunglasses on and got out of the car, taking a few
quick steps to the trunk. Lydia banged on the lid from inside the
trunk.
     
    "Let me out of here you fucking bastard,"
Lydia screamed.
     
    As far as screams go, I had never heard her
angrier. Great. I would get clawed again. Just what I needed. I
banged on the lid.
     
    "Shut your mouth or I'll let you rot in
there," I told her.
     
    She went quiet. I was stalling, trying to
think of a way to get Lydia to behave half decent so that the Queen
would spare her, show her some mercy. Maybe she would just send her
to ground for a decade or two. That was a harsh punishment. No one
would think it too lenient. Even for disobeying the Queen. And they
say after the first couple of years it's not so bad. It's just the
first few years that drive you absolutely mad.
     
    "Let me out of here right now and I won't
tell the Queen that you got in the way of me killing Prussia!" she
yelled at me in a calmer voice but still angry.
     
    I couldn't help myself. I let out a laugh.
Here she’s trying to pull a con on me, a lie that could end me. I
thought back to her look, those dead-set determined eyes that were
prepared to go through