To Love The Lawyer {Be My Princess Fanfiction}

Chapter 4

Halle was tough; hard as nails, even. But after the day she had, her reaction to the stress of it all was perfectly understandable.

She looked around the regal, unfamiliar bedroom she had been dropped off in by Jan, staring at all of the exquisite furniture with tears beginning to well up in her eyes. She was still dressed in the evening gown Jan had procured for her this evening, and with no belongings on her person whatsoever thanks to the little airport incident earlier today, she realized she was in a situation similar to that of being stranded alone on a deserted island with absolutely no means of escape.

She had won her case today, and then was arrested at the airport when all she wanted to do was go home. Her purse and phone were both confiscated, and any lawyer knows losing your phone is the worst thing that can happen to you, because that little rectangular object controls both your life and your schedule. Then, Alberto had shown up and whisked her away to Nobel Michel Castle, where Halle had then proceeded to scold Prince Roberto for landing her on Homeland Security's "no fly" list for God only knows how long. And then somehow she had been talked into being Prince Joshua's date for the evening, which seemed to be going well at first, until...

She couldn't forget what horrible things he had said to her just moments ago. She was a tough cookie, but any woman being spoken to so horribly by such a bitter, rather frightening man would be hurt by such cruel words. Halle may seem distant and shallow at first glance, but honestly? She was the kindest person you would ever meet, and you wouldn't find any woman with a heart bigger than hers. So being yelled at and berated by Prince Joshua earlier took its toll on her kind soul.

It wasn't her fault that she had accidentally entered his kingdom illegally and was now stuck living here at Dres Van Manor until this all got sorted out in the next week or so!

Well...it sort of was her fault, but...that was beside the point!

The twenty-three-year-old let the stress of today finally overpower her, and as the heavy weight sitting on her shoulders seemed to push them down, she threw herself onto the large King-sized bed. She buried her face into one of the pillows as she sobbed as loudly as her aching lungs would allow her to, hesitantly recalling just how everything had managed to go oh so horribly wrong just a few hours before.

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Four hours earlier...

Nothing impressed Prince Joshua. He was a very uptight, serious man who was often referred to as a stick-in-the-mud by none other than Prince Roberto, and he didn't particularly care about women at all.

But wow, did she look impressive in that dress.

Prince Joshua looked stunned as he watched the smiling woman before him descend down the stairs in that glittering, floor-length, champagne-colored dress that had a plunging gap in the back that came down to her hips. The front of the dress wrapped around her neck, and a slit in the right side of her dress came up to her thigh, revealing more of her pale skin. Halle's caramel hair was twisted up into an intricate up-do, but her bangs and a single strand of her curled hair were left out to frame her face. She wore a pair of platform pumps the same color of her dress that rose her height by five inches, and a pair of glittering earrings adorned her ears as well as a diamond necklace around her neck.

"Hello..." Halle awkwardly greeted Prince Joshua at the bottom of the stairs, shooting him a fleeting glance. She felt super awkward being the date of a Prince other than Prince Roberto, and dressed like this, no less. Halle didn't even know she could look like this.