All The Kings Men

Chapter 55 Rosemary's Thoughts

I couldn't help but bring my fingers to my lips. They were still tingling from Daniel's kiss. My stomach was full of butterflies and I could think of nothing but him. I didn't want to leave him but I knew that Edmund would ask for my hand at any moments and I needed Silas to know that my heart wasn't with our neighboring Prince. It was a long shot for him to approve me being with a stable boy. I was bread to be married off...but Silas seemed so different then father and mother. I had high hopes that he would speak in my favor.

"Oh there you are !" Mother approached me making my smile fade. I wanted to hold on to my moment with Daniel just a few seconds longer but her presence sucked any joy from me.

"Mother..." I sighed. How I managed to live with this woman for so many months while we traveled...I understood why Fiona went crazy.

"It's all just so exciting and I am so proud of you!" She embraced me in an uncomfortably tight hug.

"Proud of me?" I asked puzzled.

"Yes my good girl" mother kissed my forehead. "Now the best wedding has the best wedding dress. And we don't have the time to import from my first choice but I have already sent for other fabrics."

"Wedding dress?" I gulped.

"Yes. Silas signed your wedding certificate to Prince Edmund already so we could start planning right away." Mother's words made my stomach turn.

"He....signed a wedding certificate?" I couldn't get the words out. I felt as if I may faint at any moment. The room spinned and nausea grew inside of me.

"Yes! It's all going to be so wonderful. You are a lucky lucky princess." Mother continued to rattle off a list of to do lists that I couldn't hear. My mind couldn't wrap itself around what Silas had done.

Royal siblings generally aren't granted the privilege of knowing each other well. We are always carted off to classes, courses and even other countries. I had spent most of Silas's ruling and my younger childhood away from him while mother traveled to grieve Felix. So I hadn't known him well...but I thought we had grown closer these last few months..I thought he of all people would take care of me...I was heartbroken to know that he did this without at-least telling me.

I wanted to run to Daniel, to have him tell me he would fight for me. To have his muscular arms around me and take in his scent and just have the promise that some how we would figure this out. I wanted nothing more then to very much not be married to someone I barely knew. But now that mother had swayed the situation...there didn't seem to be any way of escaping it...It snapped me back into the reality that I am a Princess.  Daniel was a table boy and we were never to be together.

"I need some air." I breathed.

"No Rose we have so much to discuss. Prince Edmund as already left back for his country." Mother said. "So I want to have the majority done before he comes back."

"I said I need air." For the first time I snapped at my mother. I was just as shocked as her expression but I couldn't help it. I was in no mood to start planning a wedding. I felt overwhelmed. I felt trapped. I felt heartbroken. Most of all I felt betrayed by my brother.