{"id":3357,"date":"2023-09-01T08:21:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T07:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abby-green.com\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=3357"},"modified":"2024-01-08T10:47:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T10:47:37","slug":"mistaken-as-his-royal-bride","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/abby-green.com\/portfolio-item\/mistaken-as-his-royal-bride\/","title":{"rendered":"Mistaken As His Royal Bride"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-opsdw6-0277e45d2e31378b3596d79105548fd2 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-shadow  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_section  avia-builder-el-first  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-3357'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-mjn8qu-1c2645dfc8d24888d49efcfe4f4340d0\">\n.flex_column.av-mjn8qu-1c2645dfc8d24888d49efcfe4f4340d0{\n-webkit-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-moz-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_column av-mjn8qu-1c2645dfc8d24888d49efcfe4f4340d0 av_one_half  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-23jjjq-344f5e44ee50b07b720b07a65e254bcd\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-23jjjq-344f5e44ee50b07b720b07a65e254bcd{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-23jjjq-344f5e44ee50b07b720b07a65e254bcd .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-23jjjq-344f5e44ee50b07b720b07a65e254bcd .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-23jjjq-344f5e44ee50b07b720b07a65e254bcd av-special-heading-h3 blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-2  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  av-linked-heading'><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Mistaken As His Royal Bride<\/h3><div class='av-subheading av-subheading_below'><p>Accidentally claimed by His Majesty!<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-jxrivs0d-9b4d9f4a26435218d8582cda9f2fef2d'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Maddi hasn\u2019t fully considered the implications of posing as her betrothed half-sister, Princess of Isla\u2019Rosa. Or that King Aristedes will demand she continue the pretence to avoid major scandal. Immersing herself in the royal life she was denied growing up is as compelling as it is daunting. 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class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-jxrixqv6-648333a3a013df2a88a72299dd9ca7c6'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>King Aristedes was standing in his formal office in the palace. He\u2019d showered and changed and allowed himself to feel a sense of satisfaction to have finally tracked his errant fianc\u00e9e down.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230;something about that niggled at him. It had been a little bit too&#8230;easy. His mouth thinned. If you discounted the fact that he\u2019d had to fly to a remote desert to find her.<\/p>\n<p>He went over to his french doors and opened them, the view of Santanger laid out below him never failing to make his blood surge with pride. He put his hands on the stone wall of the terrace and breathed in the familiar scents of his home &#8211; wild herbs, native flowers and the very distinctive salty tang of the sea.<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t take a moment of his inheritance for granted. Unlike his father who had seen it as some sort of god \u2013 given right.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe if his father hadn\u2019t displayed such feet of clay, Ari might have been the same. But, from an early age he\u2019d known that his father was much closer to the earth, than to God.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019d witnessed the tawdry reality of his father\u2019s very earthly desires \u2013 namely that of other women. So he\u2019d always had a sense that he didn\u2019t want to insult the people of Santanger by being a hypocrite &#8211; presenting a facade of a happy royal family when in reality it had been anything but.<\/p>\n<p>Ari wasn\u2019t perfect by any means but when it came to him marrying for the sake of his country, he would do so with the utmost integrity. He would not be unfaithful. He would not do that to his queen, he\u2019d witnessed his own mother crumble and become a shell of a person. Belittled and made insecure.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019d married for love and she\u2019d never got over the betrayal of that dream. Ari could only be grateful that he\u2019d learnt his lesson early in life that such a fantasy didn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe for normal people. But not for people like him. Or Princess Laia. Something caught the corner of his eye and he looked down to his left. As if conjured up by thinking about her, Princess Laia was walking around a courtyard, stopping to sniff flowers.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019d changed into a shirt and loose trousers and she was&#8230;Ari squinted, <em>barefoot? <\/em>A flash of heat went through him before he could stop it. She\u2019d pulled her hair up into a loose knot and tendrils fell down around her face.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019d always seemed neater to him. Somehow fastidious. Here, with her shirt tied around her slim waist, she looked like a student who\u2019d wandered in from outside the palace. As he watched, one of the palace dogs came into the courtyard, big and shaggy, of indeterminate breed.<\/p>\n<p>He tensed. He knew Princess Laia had an aversion to dogs because her father had been attacked by one as a small child. Ari had never noticed dogs in or around the castle on Isla\u2019Rosa \u2013 understandably, if a little regrettable because he himself loved dogs.<\/p>\n<p>The dog ambled along behind an unsuspecting Princess Laia. Ari\u2019s hands gripped the wall. He didn\u2019t fear for her safety only that she might get a fright. But as if sensing the dog, she turned around and immediately dropped to her knees to greet him with smiles and soft words. Like any other dog lover. Except Princess Laia was not a dog lover, unless she\u2019d had some kind of immersion therapy since he\u2019d last seen her.<\/p>\n<p>Ari frowned. He could distinctly remember her visiting Santanger when she\u2019d been younger, with her father, and how they\u2019d both tensed when the palace dogs had appeared. He\u2019d had to have them put in the palace kennels until the visit was over. But Laia was crooning over this dog now and scratching behind his ears.<\/p>\n<p>A cold finger traced down Ari\u2019s spine as a suspicion started to form in his head. A suspicion that he couldn\u2019t even fully name yet. Just a feeling. He turned away from the view and went back to his desk which was covered with newspapers and grainy paparazzi photos. He\u2019d been about to throw it all in the bin \u2013 part of his efforts to track down Princess Laia that he no longer required, except&#8230;maybe he did.<\/p>\n<p>He pushed the papers and photos aside, growing more frustrated as he couldn\u2019t find what he was looking for \u2013 he wasn\u2019t even sure what he was looking for \u2013 but suddenly there it was.<\/p>\n<p>A picture of Princess Laia in Central Park in Manhattan with another girl. Named under the photo as merely, \u2018friend\u2019. They were arm in arm, heads close together. Clearly close. And also&#8230;far more intrguingly very physically similar. In fact&#8230;they could almost be twins.<\/p>\n<p>Similar height, build. Except the \u2018friend\u2019 was a little curvier. Both had long wavy dark hair. They were wearing sunglasses, but Ari sat down now and searched online for a better image of Princess Laia. A formal photo popped up, showing very clearly that her eyes were a striking shade of green. To his shame, he couldn\u2019t have said for certain what colour her eyes were. But now he could.<\/p>\n<p>The woman he\u2019d just brought to Santanger did not have green eyes. They weren\u2019t far off \u2013 a kind of hazel \u2013 but they weren\u2019t this very distinctive green.<\/p>\n<p>The cold finger tracing down his spine became a burning sensation. Anger. When she\u2019d been in Manhattan that time, he\u2019d flown in at short notice to try and meet her, interrupting a trip to South America. But when he\u2019d arrived she\u2019d already departed, leaving a paltry message of apology that something had come up. Once again slipping through his fingers like mercury.<\/p>\n<p>Another picture caught his eye. It was the grainy paparazzi photo of Princess Laia in the desert that had pinpointed her location for the first time in months. When Ari had read the caption under the photo his patience had snapped: <em>Is Party Princess Laia ever going to settle down?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What he hadn\u2019t noticed until now was the same \u2018friend\u2019 with her in the picture. Arm in arm again.<\/p>\n<p>Ari knew it now with cold certainty. The woman currently in his palace, wearing clothes from the trousseau he\u2019d bought for his fianc\u00e9e, was <em>not<\/em> Princess Laia. So, if she wasn\u2019t the princess, then who the hell was she? 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