Denmark's Final Arranged Marriage

Chapter Six - Encounters

I shut my bedroom door behind me, my body still pressed to it as I slowly took in what had just happened and what I had just done. I inhaled deeply as my body slowly slid down against the sealed door until it reached the floor.

"What did you just do?" I muttered the question to myself still not knowing the answer as I looked down to my exposed body which was covered by nothing more than a pair of black lace panties and matching bra and though a part of me wanted to thank Gina for pushing me into wearing these the other part of me wanted to scream wondering how I had just exposed myself in front of not one but two complete strangers.

I quickly stumbled up to my feet as I made my way over to my bed jumping into it and under the covers without a second thought, "No, no" I muttered to myself out of embarrassment I mean I wasn't ashamed of my body in fact I always considered myself to have a rather nice body it's not like all those years of swimming were for nothing and though I did always think my shoulders to be slightly broader than I would like they were still fine and I had always been comfortable with my body but the idea of exposing it like this in front of two strangers was just a bit too much for me at least for the time being it was.

God knows the things I would have to do to get out of this marriage by the end of the six months period.

I turned on my side while still under my covers and stared at my cell phone which was nicely set on the nightstand to my right and though I knew I should call my brother and the girls to let them know I was okay I really couldn't build up the courage to talk to them at the moment.

I looked at the time and was shocked to realize I had been lying here for over an hour, I sighed as I flopped myself down on my back again just staring up at the drapes draped over the canopy bed.

"You're an ass you know." I heard a now-familiar voice say as I turned to look in the direction of my door, the voice was coming from the hall. I winced slightly as I narrowed my eyes in that direction slowly beginning to crawl myself out of bed as I reached for the bathrobe that was hanging over one of the chairs and threw it on before coming any closer to the door my bare feet being as silent as can be.

"I know this but what's that got to do with anything?" I heard another even more familiar voice which was unmistakable to me sadly, Carson.

I heard their footsteps come to a halt as I bit down on my lower lip a puzzled expression washing over my face; Why had they stopped there? Were they coming to check on me? No way.

I continued to listen in but nothing happened at least until the sound of a door opening, "Well for one thing your attitude towards the poor girl." Noted the first voice which was now unmistakably Shaw's which meant the 'poor girl' in his analogy was no other than me.

I heard a familiar scuff and couldn't help but roll my eyes at it with a silent sigh, "You don't honestly believe she didn't know about this do you?"

"C'mon these families prepare their daughters like a pig for slaughter from day one, what makes this one any different?" He questioned and he was right I mean as much as I didn't like being compared to a pig getting ready for slaughter that was pretty much what my mother had done only I was completely oblivious to it.

I heard a heavy sigh followed by a light grunt, "I know that but you have to keep in mind that's normally the case in Denmark when born under a title not in America when born in bloody, Boston!"

I placed my hand on my forehead before running it down over my head realizing I still had the hairpins in my hair that had been holding a side of my hair off my face. I pulled out the few hairpins that had been holding my hair in place and put them in the robe's pocket not even having realized that everything had gone silent; Had they realized I was eavesdropping?