Sixty:
Jack Cartwright
I hadn’t expected to end up in the Netherlands. I hadn’t expected to be Fiona’s guard while she was engaged to someone else. Much less, the Prince of the Netherlands. Nor had I expected that Prince to try to get us together. But that was what happened. Then, there was the issue with Lord Bram trying to hurt her. Everything was a mess. I was still in the Netherlands, and I was still a guard.
But now, I was a guard for whoever the palace saw fit to assign me to. Not Fiona. Which made my being there even worse. Because I would have to see her and I wouldn’t get to be near her. I had come so close. For one moment, I thought that we might get the chance to be together. But that wasn’t going to happen, I learned.
Now, I was staying in the guardsmen’s do
