T-Girl fairy tale 7

“We thought that you had run away! Mother was furious and said good riddance, but I hoped that you would come back if for no other reason than to take me with you!”

Evelyn pulled away and as the tears streamed down her cheeks she began to kiss him all over his face, but Jared’s heart was black. He felt hugely guilty for being with that other woman, yet it had been incredible. He felt as if his very soul were being torn to shreads as these two women vied for his heart.

“What of Patrice? Did she find what she went to the ball to obtain?”

“Oh yes!” Evelyn said with an emphatic nod. “She had her way with a middle aged Duke in one of the hallways behind the ballroom and by the time she was finished he had agreed to take her back to his estate with him. She is there now. Only I and mother returned.”

“What of you, couldn’t you find a rich Duke to bed and wed?”

Evelyn leaned back up against Jared and said softly,

“I was with the son of a rather rich Duke. I worked him away from the crowd then worked myself into him, but my heart wasn’t in the task and I couldn’t persuade him to keep me. Mother berated me all the way home and told me I would wind up a spinster living with her. In truth all I could think about was you. Everything just feels so right and easy when we are together that I always want it to be that way.” She pulled back away from him and pleaded, “Please don’t be angry with me! I want to run away with you! I was only doing what Mother told me to do, but I will never follow her orders again!” she spat out.