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“Why, thank you, kind Prince,” responded Alexandra coyly, “Please, call me Alexandra.”
“I will, Alexandra, and yourself, please call me Nicolas.”
“Too skinny,” the unwanted input from the other side. Hugo snapping at her. “Only joking, Your Highness, of course. I just preferred your lovely body before you lost weight.”
Alexandra seethed inside but chose not to react. Her body was judged every day of her life, this man that was supposed to want to love her, to care about her, had no right to join in with the scrutiny.
She smiled as though unaffected, “Oh, I guess I had better have a second helping of supper tonight then?”
Later that evening, Erin was dozing on her bed fully dressed when she woke to hear raised voices in the drawing room.
“You are an embarrassment Hugo. This sham relationship between us, it cannot go on. Your drinking is worse than ever.”
Erin recognised Alexandra’s elegant voice instantly.
She recognised Hugo by name. Lord Hugo. According to the newspapers and magazines he was Alexandra’s sometime boyfriend and potentially her future husband. She was occasionally photographed with him. Yet, having been in the Princess’s service for weeks now, this was the first that Erin had seen of him.
Erin sat up and listened in to what was happening, edging closer to the door, her curiosity ripe.
“For fuck’s sake Alexandra, when are we going to take this further? What was this silly play off with that blonde Swedish idiot all about at dinner? You are supposed to be with me. This has been planned our whole lives, that we would grow up and marry. You will never find someone more suitable for the role. You think there are loads of men around that want to live in your shadow? You think it is everyone’s ambition to be emasculated like that? Well I’ll tell you right now, it isn’t. I’m not delighted by the idea, but I have been prepared my whole life to be your husband. I am prepared to give up my own ambition and desires for you. To support you as you become Queen.” Lord Hugo’s voice was angry and his words were slurred from the alcohol.
“I don’t want it, Hugo. I don’t want to be with you. This is over between us. This. Us. It is over.” Alexandra wanted finality. Erin felt like she was prying into Alexandra’s most private moments, but she couldn’t help herself. She continued to listen in behind the door.
“Over?” Lord Hugo laughed loudly. “How can something be over when it never actually begun? We have been together 5 years Alexandra. For the cameras. You kiss me for the cameras, you hold my hand for the cameras. In private, nothing. You won’t even spend your evening with me if you can help it. You need to lighten up. You need to actually try it. You aren’t seventeen anymore, this virgin crap is wearing terribly thin.”
Erin heard commotion and a bang and something fall and smash on the tiled floor. She heard Alexandra gasp.
“Get off me. Get your hands off me.” Alexandra’s voice sounded panicked.
There was a split second when Erin had to choose whether to burst out and interrupt them or not. Was this her job? Or would Alexandra consider it interfering in her personal life?
She waited.
She heard Alexandra gasp and cry out and there was more commotion. Erin burst out of her door into the hallway. She saw Lord Hugo pinning Alexandra against the wall, his big figure blocking her exit, his left hand tightly gripping Alexandra’s wrists. The weight of him pinned her back. The skirt of her long red dress was pushed up around her hips and his right hand was ferreting underneath, pushing between her legs.
He turned his head when he heard Erin’s entrance and he laughed.
“Get the fuck out of here, this is between the Princess and myself.” Hugo’s voice was loud and intimidating. Erin imagined his hot sour breath on Alexandra’s beautiful face.
“Call your fucking dog off, Ally.” Hugo spat at Alexandra.
Her eyes looked to Erin, fear and desperation in them.
“You heard the Princess. Get your hands off her,” said Erin more confidently than she felt. Lord Hugo was a powerful man who didn’t want to be told ‘no’.
“She is my fucking girlfriend. I’ll do what I like. What are you going to do about it? Shoot me? I always said having a stupid little girl playing as a bodyguard was a dumb idea, but you wouldn’t listen Ally, would you?” Erin watched in horror as he pushed his right hand further into Alexandra’s underwear forcing his fat fingers inside her. Alexandra screamed and tried in vain to resist, her strength no match for his.
In seconds, Erin responded. She wrenched his right arm away from the Princess, taking him momentarily off balance and then pulled it into a painful hold up behind his back. Hugo shouted and let go of Alexandra who collapsed to the floor.
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Erin had complete control over him now, as he moved to resist she just lifted the arm lock slightly and he yelped in pain.
She walked him to the door of Alexandra’s suite of rooms and said to him, “If you get out of here right now, I won’t call the rest of the security team. Never ever treat any woman like that. Never ever treat the Princess like that again.” Erin tightened her hold, causing him intense pain. “Do you agree to leave quietly if I release you?”
“For fuck’s sake. Yes, whatever. Just let go of my fucking arm. I’ll have you done for assault.” Hugo stammered in shock.
Erin let go of him and opened the door. Her eyes, aggressive and threatening as she used her body and the door to usher him out, closing and locking the door quickly behind him.
