To Love The Lawyer {Be My Princess Fanfiction}

Chapter 8

"Your Highness, about the party tomorrow..." Jan hesitantly spoke up to Prince Joshua at the breakfast table.

Prince Joshua paid him no special attention as he responded. "Yes?"

Halle listened to the two of them speaking as she ate. She had been here for almost a whole week now, and this was the first she had heard of a party. Was there to be another party held at Nobel Michel Castle again or something...?

Jan stopped beating around the bush and got straight to the point. "We need to discuss your outfit so that I may place an order today."

"I see." Prince Joshua nodded firmly with an unchanging expression.

Halle blinked a few times as she looked over at Prince Joshua. "Is there going to be a party?"

Jan's mood seemed to immediately brighten by her innocent question, and he nodded with a smile. "Yes. It's---"

"That's enough, Jan." Prince Joshua looked a little angry as he barked at his butler, and Jan fell silent at his sharp tone. "There will be a large number of guests from other kingdoms coming. They mustn't know we have a commoner staying here." He narrowed his eyes firmly to Halle. "Do you understand?"

"I see." Halle's mood didn't seem to be affected at all by Prince Joshua's curt declaration, and she shoveled a bite of her breakfast into her mouth. "I understand."

She was a little disappointed, but it was a royal affair, after all... Not that she cared too much for parties or anything, but perhaps she could have seen Prince Roberto there. She found it was strange he hadn't called her in a while, or blown up her voicemail box with several worried messages lately. Usually, the blubbering Prince worried about her whereabouts more than her own mother ever did, and she felt a little strange about not seeing him in so long.

Although, that was the last she would hear about the party until later this evening.

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Halle sighed in relief as she lifted the finished stack of papers into her arms and handed them over to Jan. It only took her a week to finish filling out all of the departure papers, but she did it. Somehow.

"Thank you." Jan accepted the paperwork from Halle, and he looked upon her profile with a new-found level of respect he had for the woman. "I'm impressed you managed to finish all of these in such a short time."

Halle was starting to have mixed feelings as Jan spoke. The only reason she got them done so quickly was because she was wanting to go home as soon as possible...

Although, Halle still did want to go home, despite the fact that she was actually starting to enjoy her stay here in Dres Van. She missed her job, Sergio, and her little apartment... Halle went from being a workaholic who worked seven days a week to being stuck in a foreign country for seven days and counting, unable to do anything work-related. She was so behind on her cases, and there was nothing she could do about it. She was on track to be made a partner at her firm, and she was worried that if she didn't get back soon, someone else at Garrison & Harper, her law firm, would swipe the opportunity from her.

But she did really like it here in Dres Van as well...

Jan frowned slightly as he looked down on the stack of papers. "It will take at least three days for these documents to be processed, but it could take up to a week." His calm, resonating voice snapped Halle from her thoughts.

Halle's eyes grew wide as she let that sink in. "Does it really take that long?" Even as she spoke, there was a small part of her that felt relieved. Maybe she would have a chance to get to know Prince Joshua better, then...