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planned it with my friends, then…My heart rate kicked up a notch.Jules continued talking, but I’d already tuned her out.The only thing I could focus on was not the one, but the thousandbutterflies invading my stomach.
7BRIDGETTRIAL MONTH FOURBy the time graduation rolled around a month later, I’d corralled thebutterflies into a cage, but an errant one escaped twice. Once, when I sawRhys petting Meadow, who’d worn him down with her utter cuteness.Another time when I saw the way his arm muscles flexed as he carriedgroceries into the house.It didn’t take a lot to get my butterflies going. Hussies.Still, despite the annoying critters living rent-free in my stomach, I triedto act normal around Rhys. I didn’t have another option.“Do I get a medal or a certificate of recognition for my incrediblerestraint over the past four months?” It just so happened the last day of mytrial period coincided with my graduation ceremony, and I couldn’t resistteasing Rhys while we waited for Ava to set up the shot on her tripod. Shewas our unofficial photographer for group photos today.“No. You get a tracker-free phone.” Rhys scanned the quad, hissuspicious gaze drilling into suburban dads with beer bellies and WASP-ymoms dressed in head-to-toe Tory Burch alike.“It’s been tracker-free this entire time.”“Now it stays tracker-free.”Apparently, Rhys had never heard of matching someone’s energy. I wastrying to be lighthearted, and he was more serious than a heart attack.Really, Bridget? This is the guy you want to flutter for?Before I could come up with a witty response, Ava waved us over forphotos, and Rhys lingered behind while I squeezed into the shot with Jules,Stella, Josh, and Ava, who was controlling the camera through an app on her
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TWISTED GAMES
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ANA HUANG
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To all the girls who said fuck Prin
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Epilogue32. Bridget33. Rhys34. Brid
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She can never be his...but he's tak
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tried not to notice how good he sme
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accident.You’re overthinking.The
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cheek. I wiped it away angrily.I ha
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RHYS3 WEEKS LATERSome people have s
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Fuck pummeling his face. I wanted t
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driver and caught up with her in fo
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Either fuck me, or I’ll find some
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“You’re going to live your life
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both our minds.Since I couldn’t,
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He’s on vacation right now and le
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Our conversation was depressing me.
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back a huge grin.Ziplining looked s
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“Yes. You should go shirtless mor
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gave her was fake. She was alone, p
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I gave her another hard kiss before
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“Making sure I can take my sweet
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out until just the tip remained.“
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expected such a one-eighty so soon.
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The next morning, I woke up earlier
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PART II
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BRIDGETSIX WEEKS LATER“His Majest
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“Yes.” A small grimace crossed
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at any minute and at the prospect o
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but I had nothing against the actua
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It’d only been six weeks, but it
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here again after six weeks because
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short black hairs on his cheek and
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broken the ice between me and Rhys.
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BRIDGET“MIGHT I SAY, YOU LOOK ABS
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diamond necklace resting against my
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hearing about his clothes and gym e
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received an invite despite not bein
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“It’s not a big deal.” Rhys w
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my gun. Maybe I would’ve pulled i
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I’ll be staying with her until sh
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we were children, and he thrives on
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None. Zip. Nada.I had as much roman
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announcement blared over the PA sys
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princess. Happy?”I tried again.
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BRIDGETTWO WEEKS AFTER MY DATE WITH
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“They’re not random people, the
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it hadn’t been our priority, and
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I closed my eyes and stifled a moan
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We stayed silent until we reached t
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“Please.” She clutched at my ar
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me deeper.“This is for all the ti
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rating shot sky high, nearly rivali
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“That wasn’t a request.”My ni
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him thrusting in and out of me—
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and left, but not before shooting m
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RHYSI WAS ADDICTED.Me, the man who
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“Come here.”“You ordering me
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things in the world I couldn’t wi
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BRIDGET“STEFFAN.” MY HEART THUM
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this weekend for the final preparat
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“Okay, but laws can’t be repeal
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know me so well.”“I do.”“Hm
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Andreas raised his eyebrows. “I
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“Third floor’s not that high.
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BRIDGET“IS EVERYTHING OKAY?” SA
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kingdom…and if it wasn’t alread
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RHYSAS EXPECTED, PRINCE NIKOLAI AND
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“The princess and the duke. Fairy
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Possessiveness and anger gripped me
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BRIDGETMY DRESS POOLED AROUND MY AN
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against my skin. “There’s not m
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“Okay.” A hint of doubt remaine
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I should tell Rhys. He’d know wha
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moments, it couldn’t last.Eventua
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you fix this.” Whenever Elin was
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For a second, I thought Markus had
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RHYS“…REPORTS THE KING IS IN ST
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exercises, so please.” She gestur
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top of that…“It’s not,” I s
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BRIDGETDON’T LOOK AT HIM.If I loo
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Gray thunderstorms stared back at m
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I smiled at the reminder of our aft
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hospitalization died down. As a bon
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“So, it’s done.” She regarded
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RHYSMY FIRST TASTE OF ALCOHOL BURNE
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On the surface, Christian looked li
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ice cream on quiet nights. Someone
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he opened the door wider and steppe
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secrets with them to their graves.
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Unfortunately, I was running out of
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BRIDGETTHE PALACE ASSIGNED BOOTH AS
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classic, if cliche. The Maldives ar
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But it wouldn’t be love. It would
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“Grandfather!” I jumped out of
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certain bodyguard.”The desk blurr
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Baby, we’re way beyond like.I dia
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BRIDGETI’D LOST MY MIND, ASKING A
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I let out a soft laugh as I hugged
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whipped. Watch.” She raised her v
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I didn’t think he would reveal an
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RHYSSHE WASN’T COMING.I stood on
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She froze at my low command, roughe
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vulnerability entered her eyes. “
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eighty of Eldorra’s most powerful
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tightened. “I love you.”Another
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BRIDGETAFTER MY NIGHT WITH RHYS, I
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true.”The murmurs exploded into a
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molten flame. “You did good, prin
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RHYS1 WEEK LATER“Your Highness!
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degrees hanging on the walls.I stud
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I wasn’t here to beat down on Erh
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and will never want your money, you
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Another laugh, another easing of ne
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A deep sound rumbled in Rhys’s ch
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BRIDGETWE SPENT THE REST OF THE DAY
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something more scandalous would’v
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Brisk and efficient to the end.“N
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to-be ex-friends and ex-employees h
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RHYS“YOU CAN’T SIT BY A QUEEN
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match you want to watch?”Football
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her as they would anyone else—war
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box, the knot of nerves in my stoma
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“I will.”Pride seeped through m
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We always end up where we’re mean
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circumstances instead of letting th
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followed soon after. We couldn’t
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TWISTED SERIESA series of interconn
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTSThank you to everyon
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ABOUT THE AUTHORAna Huang is an aut
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