The Unexpected Journey-A Prince Harry Fan Fic

Chapter 178

Once the decision was made to go after the photographer, once Harry called Thomas and gave him the green light, the plan of attack began flying into motion. As promised, Harry had called and spoke to Hannah. And then he had sent attorneys to Colorado to talk to Hannah, wanting to be sure she understood exactly what moves they were going to make, exactly how they were going to proceed.

He would never forget the phone call he got late one evening, hours after the attorneys had arrived at Hannah's home.

"Do you think I'm stupid?"

"Sorry?!" Harry had flinched at her words, stopping on his way up the stairs, causing Maddie to nearly run into the back of him.

"Did you think I didn't understand the conversation we had yesterday?" Hannah rephrased the question. "We spent two hours on the phone Henry."

"I..." He stammered with wide eyes, looking to Maddie for help. "I remember."

"And I thought we had reached an agreement.

"We did. I just..."

"Just thought you would send a team of lawyers to explain it to me again?"

"There are only four of them. That hardly qualifies as a team..."

"How many players are on the field per team in a polo match?" Hannah was quick, her words were sharp even though he swore he heard a hint of laughter.

Swallowing back his pride, he sighed. "Four."

"That's right." Hannah laughed. "You sent a Polo Team to..."

"Yes. Yes, okay. I did," he cut her off. "Listen Hannah..."

"Ooohhh..." Maddie chuckled, shaking her head at him.

"Henry Charles..." She started, her voice lowering. But Harry wasn't going to back down, not on this.

"Mrs. Forrester," he cut in once more, ignoring the way Maddie snickered next to him. "I did not send the team to Colorado to insult your intelligence or to imply in any way that you didn't understand what we've spoken about."

"Did you just call me..."

"But I think we can all agree that out of the three of us," he glared at Maddie who wouldn't stop laughing. "I have the most experience in what we're about to jump into. And..." He reached out to pinch his wife's arm lightly. "And I love all of you way too much to have you come on board without having a third party explain it all to you without my...biases."

"Aww..." Maddie's head tipped to the side, her eyes dancing as she smiled up at him.

"Now," he took a breath. "I apologize if it upset you. That certainly wasn't my intent. I just, I wouldn't be able to live with myself if you agreed to all of this simply because I talked you into it."

The line went silent for a moment and Harry held his breath, his eyebrows raised as he waited for Hannah to respond. "Fine," she sighed and he exhaled. "Fine."

Fine," he smiled.

"At any rate, I'm glad you sent them."

"You are?" He chuckled, continuing up the stairs as he relaxed.

"Mmm," she was smiling, he could tell. "They gave me a few things to think about..."

"Oh?" Harry followed Maddie into their room.

"Yes. In fact, I've made a few decisions."

"Decisions?" Harry stopped in the middle of his room. "Decisions about what?"