HIDDEN GEM

Chapter 10

Emerald/Victoria

"That's correct Harry and Charles I'm very excited to marry your cousin, right my love?"

His arm snaked around my waist making sure to put more pressure on it than necessary.

"Remember to stay obedient or I'll be very busy down the chamber today." That bastard whispered in my ear effectively sending cold chills down my spine.

"Right, I'm very excited." He pinched my side earning a squeal from me. " I can't wait for the wedding..........Darling."

"Well Charles and I know when to take a hint and we can clearly see you guys can't keep your hands off each other, so we'll pretend that we didn't see anything, oh look Charles our carriage is here." Harry practically dragged Charles off to their carriage and I was hopelessly left with the devil himself.

"Thank god all the smarts went to you, I'm sure if those twins combined their IQ it'd still be in the double digits." I went to walk away from him but he just tightened his grip on my waist even more, making sure that it brought me pain to even move.

"Now now, we're in the eyes of the public. We wouldn't want to cause an accident would we? Your parents wouldn't like that very much." With the mention of my parents something in me snapped and I willingly allowed him to guide me to our carriage.

The thought of disappointing my deceased parents seemed to get to me, and he knows that.

The carriage was decorated beautifully with gold accents and bouquets of red roses. If I wasn't in such a compromising situation I'd take my time to appreciate it.

"I heard that you were giving my mother some attitude this morning."

The carriage carried us as we were driven out of the castle gates. As soon as we emerged from the ginormous walls loud cheers greeted our arrival.

"I wasn't exactly in the mood to be having a casual chit-chat right after I was kidnapped." I say through a smile as I made sure to wave at the naive and innocent citizens. If only they knew how much I wanted to get out of here.

"You listen to me, you were not kidnapped. That bastard was the one that kidnapped you, I was simply bringing you back to where you belong. So you better choose your words wisely because as of right now that exact same bastard who stole you away from me is awaiting a beating as soon as this parade is over." I bet none of these civilians would ever guess that under that smile is a man capable of hurting the innocent.

"He has no fault in any of this. Let him go and I'll do anything you please." I knew I was sacrificing a lot but I love this man and he doesn't deserve any of this.

"How sweet, though that offer sounds oh so very tempting, you're already gonna do anything I please. How do I know that you ask? Well since you're very willing to sacrifice your precious pride for that scum I know you're willing to do anything for me as long as I have him in the palm of my hands and that little endearing speech of yours just confirmed that. Now smile, the cameras are looking."

Sure enough there were rows of cameras taking pictures of us from every angle, and Ernest trying to look like the gentleman he wasn't came closer to me and shielded my eyes from the bright flickering lights, earnings oohs and awws from the crowd.