ROYAL-TEA [ON HOLD]

7.

The Hunters had a home in almost every country within the Continent. They had immigrated from Russia, and had used their nobleblood money to buy a house in each country. So far they had a lake house in Portino, a mountain house in Gardenia, a ranch house in MossDale and a city house in the Rrandlovski capital. They were negotiating to buy a house by the Zardinian sea already.

When Jeremy told me about their homes years ago, I concluded that his parents were fleeing the KGB. I found myself building up a whole backstory in my head, of guns, spies, robbers and dangerous missions.

With time though, I realized Jeremy's parents and mine had a lot in common. They loved to invest in Real Estate.

Anya, his mum, was currently pregnant, and was due to have her kids in two months. Her husband had decided he would take her to a much warmer place with the babies (yes, they were having twins) once they were born.

"You have a beautiful home Mrs. Hunter."

She smiled at me. "I love watching the llamas."

I did not know they had llamas. Once Jeremy was on the ground floor, his mum directed him to show me around. It was already cold outside. It looked like it was going to snow, or rain later in the day. We weren't sure though.

Jeremy showed me the llamas. They were a new project, and they were doing pretty well so far. We found ourselves watching them running around and eating, and we caught up out there.

"So you mean to say, let me get this right, that you and your groom ran away with your lady-in-waiting? And your lady-in-waiting is pretending to be you while visiting King George's Court in MossDale? And THE Prince Anthony is going to a grape vine in Portino to stomp grapes? Which kind of evil genius are you?!"

"The kind that is from the UAE ruling family?" I joked.

"Are you serious?!" I nodded. "You all agreed to this?"

"We did."

Jeremy eventually understood why I ran away. Though he insisted that I loved Anthony and that the British idiot felt the same way about me.

"In one year's time, you will invite me for your wedding. And I will come and tell you, 'I told you so.' and you'll pretend I never said a thing."

"Yeah. I will do all that, and slap the back of your head like this." I then slapped the back of his head in the same manner I did to my younger siblings.

*&*&*&*&

"You are back!" Anya noted with a happy grin. "You loved the llamas, didn't you?"

I did. How could I not?

From that day onwards, I joined their easy routine. They had farm hands but the work was shared out. Anya and I worked together alot. Once she taught me everything, I begged her not to stress herself.

It was a peaceful life we lived for the next two months. Then Anya had her babies one night and things started to change.