Chapter Nineteen

I woke up smelling coffee and smiled even though my eyes were still closed. Something tickled my nose and I hit Milo on the shoulder as he tried to move away. “Rise and shine.”

“What’s going on with you?”

“I can’t make my brother a cup of coffee on the eve of his celebratory engagement banquet?”

“You never bring it to my room Milo.”

“I felt like being nice to you today.” Milo got up from the bed and stood looking out of the window.

“You heard me talking to Ally.” It wasn’t a question but a statement because I already knew.

“Isn’t there anything you can do? Get out of the wedding somehow?”

“Yes Milo let me just quickly go barge into the King’s royal chambers and announce that I took his daughter’s virginity even though I can’t remember shit from that night and that I refuse to do the honorable thing and marry her.”

“You can’t remember playing hide the sausage?” If we’d been talking about anybody else, I’d laugh at his choice of words, but this was me we were talking about.

“No dumbass,