I Know You're Out There Somewhere
I had this sitting in my Docs for a few years, decided to clean my pc and this popped up. Figured why not share this, might be a one shot.
Leo Rhys sat at a bar in New York, eyes scanning his surroundings; looking for one person in particular.
He glanced down at the paper in front of him. This was the correct address, but she is nowhere to be found.
Leo sighed and drained the last of his scotch. His eyes scanned the bar once more, desperate for a clue as to where she could be.
Leo stormed into the bar she used to work at and recognized Daniel from a description Bastien had given him. Overcome with emotion, he shoved her former coworker against the wall, demanding answers.
“I’m sorry!” Daniel said to the former Crown Prince. “Riley came back to New York after your brother’s coronation, but she only stayed for a month. She was staying with me, you see. When I got home one day, all of her belongings were gone. Her phone was off and everything. I haven’t seen her since.”
Leo replayed the conversation in his mind over and over.
Riley Brooks was gone without a trace.
In Cordonia, a man sat in complete darkness of his study, the weight of the world on his shoulders causing a migraine. He drained another glass of whiskey.
Where could she be? Leo has been gone for three weeks and I haven’t heard anything.
Just then, his phone rang.
“Yeah?”
“I’m sorry, but I can’t find her. None of her coworkers have heard from her for months. I have one lead I’ll follow, but it doesn’t look promising.”
“Thanks, Leo,” the man sighed.
Bastien Lykel hung up his phone before slamming his fist down on the desk. God damn it, Riley? Where are you?
On the other end of the castle, the King and his Queen sat on the same couch, but on opposite sides.
“It’s been a year,” the Queen hissed. “We need to produce an heir.”
Liam snorted. “You may be a Queen, dear, but you are nothing without me.”
The Queen bit her tongue, tears pricking her eyes.
“I’m well aware we need an heir. I’d like to sire one, as well,” the King said as he drained his scotch.
“Then why can’t you have sex with me, your wife?” She demanded, angry tears spilling down her cheeks.
Liam shook his head. “I tried! Remember?”
She did remember. They had been kissing and she had been hopeful that he had gotten over that American. He pulled back and shook his head.
“Get out,” he had said.
The rejection still stung six months later.
“If you can’t get it up for me, imagine her face, and give me the result,” the Queen said as she stood. “I’m ovulating this weekend. We should try for then,” she said as she left her husband’s quarters.
Riley Brooks is still ruining my life and she isn’t even in the country.
In a small California suburb town, a woman sat in her studio apartment, reading the headlines for one Trend Magazine.
“One year and still no heir: is the Queen barren?”
Her eyes scanned the article; she almost had closed the tab when one thing caught her eye:
King Liam has refused to make a statement. Is he still in love with Lady Riley Brooks of House Beaumont? Only time will tell.
The woman set her phone down and her stomach churned. She had given up that the King had loved her when he chose Madeleine; when he allowed her to be dragged out of the ballroom.
She attempted to come back to court, but she couldn’t stand to see her on his arm.
Three weeks after his coronation, she had felt unwell. She took a pregnancy test out of caution and was surprised to see two pink lines.
She had every intention of telling him but found him arguing with the Queen-in-waiting.
“I don’t care if you fuck her in private, but you will not eye-fuck her in public! You will not humiliate me like that!”
The king did not come to her defense.
That was the last straw.
She followed the tour to New York, using the Crown’s money to take her home.
The King’s true love begged his guard and friends not to tell him that she was leaving.
She stepped off the plane in New York and never looked back.
Her phone buzzed and her heart sunk at the notification.
You liked that article from The Trend. Here’s another one.
Her finger hovered over the notification, but instead of deleting it, she unlocked her phone and read it.
Dated the day after she officially left court.
Lord Tariq comes Forward.
She clicked play on the video and her world stopped. The video ended and her heartbeat wildly in her chest.
He knew. He knew and he hasn’t called me! He’s known for a year!
Sobs wracked her body as she felt betrayed by her love once again.
King Liam wasn’t even there, but he broke Lady Riley’s heart all over again.
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