The Prince of Dragons

Chapter Six

(Talia's POV)

Today is Friday. Today is the last day of our cruise. Today is the day I meet my benefactor for dinner.

The entire morning I was freaking out. I had been told to be ready by 6:00pm, and that someone would come get me.

Ashley had made it her mission to make sure I look presentable.Since it was 12:00 she told me to take a shower and to deal with my anxiety. She was going to get something then come back to get me ready for dinner.

(Two Hours Later)

I managed to calm down a bit and take a shower. After I finished in the shower, Ashley knocked on the door. I wrapped myself in a towel and opened the door for her. She walked in a told me what she wanted to do with my hair which sounded pretty simple. She was going to blow dry it, straighten it then put it in a pretty but presentable bun.

"Ashley, I'm so nervous. I think I'm going to puke."

"No, you're not. If anything you're going to gag. You're going to do just fine. It's just a dinner." She tells me.

She then leaves to get a chair and places it down in front of the mirror. I sit down and let her do my hair. She blow dried it then straightened it then put it a bun with a braid wrapping it. After she finished with my hair she did my makeup given me a natural look. I love makeup but I can't do a lot of the eye shadow designs I see on YouTube.

After all that I got my dress on and Ashley helped put the necklace on. I looked at the time and it said 5:45. I was expecting my escort to arrive right about now.

"What are you going to do while I'm at dinner?" I ask Ashley.

"I'm probably going to order some dinner and binge watch some Netflix shows" she tells me.

"I should've known" I say while smiling.

A few seconds later there was a knock at the door. I head over there and opened the door. There was a man in a suit at the door.

"Ms. Jones, My name is Charlie Anderson and I will be escorting you to your dinner reservation."

Just after he finished talking I heard coughing. I turn to see Ashley "choking" on water. I raise an eyebrow at her.

"Oh, don't *cough* worry. *cough* I'm good." she says while still coughing.

I turn to back to Charlie who had a concerned look on her face.

"Will you excuse me for one minute?" I say and walk to Ashley.

"Holy shit, girl. Whatever is going on, I want in. Like you're practically surrounded by hot guys." Ashley says.

All I did was smile at her.

"I'll be back in a few hours."

"Have fun," she says.

I headed back to the door and left with Charlie.

"Is your friend alright?" Charlie asked.

"Oh, Ashley's fine. She's just not used to me having this kind of attention."

"Hmm, interesting."

The rest of the walk was pretty much silent, I'm glad it was silent. I was starting to freak out again and I think Charlie noticed.

"You're nervous, aren't you?"

"Yea, I've been nervous all week."

"There's nothing to worry about. You'll just have some light conversation and some dinner, that's all."

I really wish it was as easy as he put it.

We finally made it to the dining room. To my surprise there was no one there, I guess my benefactor wanted an extremely private dinner.

"He really went all out, didn't he?" I whispered.

"Only the best for his guest of honour," Charlie said.

How the hell did he hear me, I was pretty quiet. There was no way he could've heard me.

"He should be here any minute now" Charlie told me as we wait.

I then heard footsteps and turned to see who they belonged to, my eyes go wide with shock to see Jace approaching us.

"Thank you for escorting her here Charlie" he says giving Charlie the cue to leave.

"Now, shall we proceed?" He says extending his hand.