MARRYING AN ARROGANT PRINCE , MY DREAM . HELL NO !

CHAPTER 4

EDWARD :

I opened the door to my father's study and stepped inside. He was seated behind the huge mahogany desk looking over some papers. His office never fails to intimidate me and I think our ancestors had intimidation in mind when designing this office. My father didn't notice me yet so I silently entered inside and made my way to the couch near the windows and sat down.

"Good evening, father."

I finally greeted him and he looked up from his papers and he had a stern look on his face. I know what was going to come is not going to be good .

"I'm really disappointed in you, Edward. I know you are acting childish and you are doing this as a strange act of rebellion against me. I love you. You are my son no matter what. But you are also a prince and you have a responsibility to the kingdom and your people. What you did was not acceptable. You can't just marry some girl like that. What if the press gets a wind of this. Our family name will be seen in every news outlet and gossip rag. They will accuse the royal family for not being honest with their people and will say that the prince is not fit to rule the country. And I know you very well to guess that you are not gonna stay married to her for long. But once someone marries in our royal family they can't be divorced like normal people. It's unheard in our family. So the divorce is not going to happen. So I suggest that you work it out with her. It seems your sister spoke with her and really likes her. Your mother heard from your sister about her and wants to meet her. So, I'm warning you right now to not create a mess again as this time you will be cleaning up your mess. "

I look at him shocked. How the hell did he know that I'm gonna divorce her after a year? I only thought of divorcing her a while back. Am I that obvious? God, I had to get out of here before I say something I regret or make my mother cry. I controlled my anger at him trying to dictate every aspect of my life and turned my head to look at him.

"I'm not gonna divorce her, father. I'm going to make it work with her."

I lied with a straight face. It's easy for me to lie to him as I got used to it lying to him to get out of trouble when I was young. Sometimes he catches me in my lies and punishes me by cutting my privileges. I quickly got up and excused myself. When I was about to leave he called me back.

"One more thing. The people don't know about the marriage. So, its better to have a real marriage this time with everyone present and with a real priest. I will make the neccessary arragements. Inform your wife and I will inform your mother and sister."

I'm dead. Seriously dead. Now I can't get rid of her like I thought and can't divorce her either. Great going father you know I can't divorce her if I married her before the whole kingdom. I groaned internally but smiled at him and left the room.

CATHERINE :

"No , Dad. Please don't leave me here. I'm sorry. I'm scared. Please open the door."

I sat up on my bed and looked around me. I'm not in a dark room anymore. It's just a nightmare. I looked around me and the room is dimly lit by the moonlight. I'm in a bed with Edward. What the hell! Why is he sleeping here with me? Tears were leaking down my eyes. I quickly wiped them away frustated. No matter how many times I try not to cry thinking about those days I can't help myself. We were a happy family once. There are only three of us just my Mum, Dad and me. But it all changed the day Mum died in an accident. Dad blamed me for that as Mum was taking me out to buy dresses for my birthday and a drunk driver crashed into our car. We hit the guard rail and Mum died instantly. It took a while for anyone to find us as it was night time. I started getting scared of dark from that day. It took me years to be comfortable in a car.

I got out of bed and washed my face. After that I stepped out of the room. I can't sleep no matter how hard I try everytime after that dream. It's always the same one I don't know why. I started walking not knowing where I was going in particular. I occasionally opened some doors which are not locked and finally reached a big door and opened it. It's a big library. I think it's the palace library. There are so many books neatly arranged in floor to ceiling shelves. I think I'm in heaven. I can't sleep after dreaming so I normally read a book to get my mind off of things. I walked around the library and started searching for some interesting book. I found Wuthering Heights and took it out. My mom always used to read that to me whenever I was sad as it was my favourite book.

I sat down with my back to the wall and opened the book at random and started reading it. I didn't notice the time and when I was halfway through it I felt like some one is staring at me. I looked up to see a guy who is looking like Harrison Ford standing at the door of the library. I simply stared at him. I don't know who he is but if he is inside the palace at this time of night in his pajamas then he must be living here. He started at me some more and cleared his throat.

"What are you doing here?"

"Um . . . I'm not able to sleep. So I wandered around and found the library. Sorry, Am I not supposed to do that?"

"You can do that as you are a princess now and this is your home."

"I'm a princess?"

"Well you married the prince, didn't you?"

"If you put it like that then sure I'm a princess."

He smiled down at me. He gave me his hand to help me up and led me to one of the chairs and we sat down. He looked at the book in my hand.

"It's a nice book ."

"I know. My mom used read that for me."

" It's one of my favourite books."

"Me too. I'm sorry I didn't introduce myself before. I'm Catherine."

"Henry."

"Nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you too."

We sat in silence for a while and he too got a book to read. I couldn't help but stare at him he really does look like Harrison Ford. He saw me staring at him and raised an eyebrow. I blushed at being caught staring and started blabbering.

"I'm so sorry for staring at you like that but you look like Harrison Ford that I couldn't help myself."

He laughed out loud at that. Why do I have to say such wierd things? Stupid Catherine. After a while I got tired and got up to go to bed.

"Can I borrow this book? I will return this after reading it."

"Sure."

"Thank you, Henry."

"Don't mention it."

"I better leave now."

"Yes, good night, Catherine."

"Good night, Henry."

I silently made my way to Edward's room and sat in the balcony and finished reading the remaining book. I saw the sun rising in the distance. It's a really beautiful sight. At first slight rays of orange and yellowish red started coming from behind the trees then slowly it became bright red and orange and its really beautiful. I just kept staring at it. I never saw a sunrise before and it's breathtaking. I came into this world with the sound of the familiar voice of Taylor Swift. My ringtone. I searched for my mobile by following the sound of the song and found it in Edward's jeans pocket just as it stopped ringing. I went into the balcony again with my mobile as I didn't want to wake up Edward because he will no doubt take my mobile from me again. I checked my mobile to see that I have nearly 20 voicemails. I checked them one after another and all were from my friends and they sounded worried. The last one was from Emily and Danny and both of them were angry and worried. I sighed. I have to tell them. But what can I say?

Hey, guys. You remember when we went to Vegas, there when I was alone I met a guy and he drugged me and married me. Trevor and Danny will kill Edward even if he is a prince. I thought of thinking of something to tell them later. I went into the room and looked around but Edward was not there. I heard the shower running and sat on the couch to watch tv for a while. After five minutes Edward stepped out of the shower into the room. I didn't dare to turn my head around and sat there glued to the tv. I heard movement in the closet and rustling of clothes. He came out after getting dressed and stood in front of me. Guess he learned his lesson that I will hit him if he does something.

"You are going to have breakfast with my mom today."

I nodded and hoped that he will just leave me alone. I don't want to deal with him early in the morning.

He left after a while to maybe attend his duties as a prince. I got dressed in a dress Emily bought for me once. I know that I'm going to meet a queen and I hope the dress I'm wearing is appropriate. I stepped out of the room and found a guard waiting for me. He led me through different corridors and I tried my best to remember the way. Best not to get lost when alone. At last he bowed and left me near a big door. I opened the doors and stepped inside. There is an elegantly dressed lady sitting in one of the chairs drinking tea. She looked radiant and had this brownish black hair and electric blue eyes. I just stood there not knowing what to do.She got up after seeing me standing at the door and hugged me real tight. After a while she released me and smiled kindly at me.

"You must be Catherine. I'm Julianne, Edward's mother. You can call me July or Mum if you want and comfortable to call me that."

I just stared at her. She was not how I imagined a queen or Edward's mother to be. I thought that she would criticize me and will be angry for marrying her son without telling them and that too doing so in Vegas. But she is just like my mother and she reminds me of my mother.

"Did Edward tell you about the marriage arrangements?"

She asked me this question all of a sudden.

"What?"

I came into this world from thoughts of my mother with that question. She continued talking before I could answer her.

"Ok. It's no big deal. We are already making arrangements for your marriage. You kids married in Vegas. We didn't get a chance to see the marriage and the people of this country should know about it. It's their prince's marriage after all. There will be a marriage again in around a month. We have so much to do."

She kept gushing about the marriage and my dress and all the other arrangements. I just stared at her. This is not happening. I'm just dreaming and I will wake up in a moment. That's all I'm thinking in that second. What should I tell her that her son drugged me and married me? Every one is thinking that I married him willingly. What should I do now? I groaned internally. This is so not my day. I have to talk to that arrogant bastard and get to the bottom of this. I want to rip his head off and maybe kick him in the balls again. I want to wipe that stupid smirk off of his face whenever he looks at me.

After spending the entire morning and afternoon with her telling her what kind of a wedding I dreamed of I made my way to Edward's room with the help of a guard and fell on the bed and waited for Edward. At last his royal highness graced me with his presence. I was fuming by that time.

"What the hell were you thinking?"

I shrieked. He looked at me surprised and confused maybe because of how loud I'm shouting.

" What do you mean?"

"Don't talk to me like you don't know you jackass."

"What is it?"

He shouted back at me. Oh no he didn't just shout at me. I will kill him.

"The marriage, I mean our marriage, in a month? Your mom was telling me all about it the whole morning and asking me for my opinion."

"What's the big deal about it?"

"What's the big deal about it? You tell me. Marrying you once is the biggest mistake of my life and marrying you again in front of the people of your country and the whole world? Not happening"

"Oh, just calm down."

"You want me to calm down."

I shouted again. I didn't know when he got this close to me. He was standing right in front of me. May be in my fury I didn't see him. And just like that as I'm preparing to start shouting again he crashed his lips on mine. What the hell! Ok that's one way of shutting up someone. I just acted out of instinct and kicked him again in the groin and ran out of the room .