2019, March 3thIt was anyone’s guess how tonight would go. Zoey had spent all of yesterday doing a bunch of girls’ stuff with CC. In other words, she’d spent the day avoiding Aaron and would likely pass today the same way. Aaron had made up his mind. If he could only get a moment to speak to Zoey, he would tell her everything. About Emily, about how long he had been struggling to get her out of his system, about how finally, finally he had done it. And now there was only Zoey. Aaron kept replaying the last time he saw her in his head. He should have stopped her, told her everything. Saying nothing would only mean losing her, anyway. When the moment of truth came, however, Zoey was nowhere to be found. “Whose brilliant idea was it for this to be a masquerade ball?!” Aaron thundered, annoyed. As he waded through the crowd, heading to the throne to ask his parents if they knew where Zoey was, he saw James enter. He watched as James made his way to Emily. Just as he was about to reach

2019, March 24th "You were going to let her shoot me?!" James asked, shocked. "It would have been a tranq dart," Bart shrugged. "And that makes it okay?!" "Better than shooting the soon to be crown prince, who had more resources at his disposal," Bart reasoned. "Unbelievable," James replied, turning to CC. "And you were just going to let him have me shot?!" "Limited options," CC grimaced. "Em is an excellent shot. If she had shot you, you would've been fine," said Johnny. "Or maybe not, I don't know. Could've been the perfect murder. You know, didn't mean to shoot you ten times kinda thing." "Who needs an army to kill me when the people I'm sharing my house with are ready to do the job?" James mumbled. Emily had been buried in spreadsheets and paperwork all morning and had not been paying attention to them. "James, did you do business with my father?" Emily asked. "Some, here and there. Why?" he asked. "Just looking into some things. Make me a list of businesses, people tha

2019, March 25thAaron and Cassandra had spent all day running around with his team, following the lead they had acquired yesterday. He had decided not to take Zoey with today, telling her she would probably just get in the way. This, of course, got Zoey super pissed off, something that seemed to have become his favourite pastime of late. She spent all day worrying about the Condor brothers and what was happening between them. What little time she didn't spend angry or worried, she spent feeling guilty.So when one of Aaron's men came to her that evening and asked her if she needed anything, she'd jokingly said "a gun". Zoey never in her wildest dreams expected the man to say, "Right away, my lady" and actually bring her one."Who the hell gave you a gun?!" Aaron exploded, lowering himself down into a chair."I did, Your Majesty!" came a voice from the other side of the door."What would possess you to do that?!""Your Majesty said to give her anything she wanted, not to treat her lik

Aaron had become used to not taking his brother's calls. They had, after years of ignoring the issue, finally gotten into it last year when Aaron saw James and Emily kissing at the cabin, only to have him turn her away, saying that he didn't want to hurt Aaron. Despite James' good intentions, this angered Aaron and the brothers had not spoken since. After the incident, James went abroad to study, Cassie tagging along to be with her son, but now they were back and James wanted to talk.It wasn't that he didn't want to see the brother who had all his life been his best friend. Aaron just didn't yet have the courage. Not talking was better than losing him altogether. On top of that, their father had just become the king. Aaron knew that his mother had somehow found out about James and Cassie years ago. She had let it slip to him during one of her speeches about Aaron needing to do better, being that he was a future king. If Aaron had known the depth of his mother's hatred for James and C

2019, March 26thZoey stormed out of the restaurant and onto the street. She didn't know how she kept getting into situations with Aaron that allowed him to make her angry. Feeling the skin tight, strapless little black dress, pulling up against her thighs, Zoey kept pulling the dress down, only to have to pull it back up. To add insult to injury, the dress had a zipper in the front that went all the way down."Where is she?" Aaron asked, answering his phone as he left the restaurant five minutes later."About to have a surprise visitor," said Cassandra, as she watched Zoey storm down the streets of Paris in 9-inch heel boots."That didn't take him long, did it?""You really went all out. No wonder she stormed out.""Isn't that the point of a honey trap?""She looks like a hooker.""Yeah, a really, really hot one.""Did you at least get something?""Yeah, talk back at the hotel."Zoey had been walking for about five minutes when she was pulled into an alleyway."Reckless woman, what a