Sitting in her room, her ankle up on a chair, Bella thinks back to how close she and Commander Ackles had been back in the stables. She wonders if him caressing her face and the way he looked at her had just been a spur of the moment kind of thing or if maybe he has the same feelings for her has she does for him.
As much as she doesn't want to admit it, she knows that her feelings towards him have been changing over the last few months, going from seeing him as a possible ally against her father to him becoming something more.
Bella knows that, even if he does feel the same, her father would never agree for her to be with him. Not because he is a Military Commander, but because he is King Josh's brother, and her father would never be able to look past it.
She wishes things were simpler and she had a normal life, one where she could be with anyone she wants to, instead of being trapped in this cat-and-mouse game with her father. Maybe they would have a chance at being together, if she wasn't a Princess or her father wouldn't want to punish King Josh for something beyond his control.
Bella looks out the window and wonders if maybe she can disappear, go somewhere far away where no one knows her and just start over. She shakes her head at the thought and scoffs, knowing that there's nowhere in the world where her father won't find her.
She gingerly stands up, taking the few steps towards her desk, getting ready to write yet another letter to her father, another letter that will be filled with more lies, and thinks about how long will it take for her father to realize what she is doing.
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"Falling"
FanfictionBook 1 in the ''Flying'' series. Arabella Williams is the youngest daughter of a powerful King. When a neighboring King refuses to marry her older sister, Arabella's father sends her to his Kingdom to, unknowingly, work as a spy. But what will happ...
