A Very Royal Roommate

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>Sometimes a crown changes everything...</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>When her childhood best friend shows up to rent the entire second floor of her soon-to-be bed & breakfast she has no idea he's actually a prince-or that their old falling out is about to turn into something far more complicated than a simple roommate situation.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Tahlia:</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>After watching all my best friends find love and move out of the Big House I'm left alone with a huge house that requires a lot of upkeep and dreams of turning the place into a B&B.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Then Callan Irwin shows up on my doorstep.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The same Cal who was my best friend growing up.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The same Cal who broke my trust right before high school graduation.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The same Cal who apparently needs a place to stay for reasons he won't name...</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>And hey I need the money so I hand him the contract and hope for the best.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Living with him is electrifying though he still tells terrible jokes and laughs too loud at them. But now his smile makes my stomach flip and his good looks have me abandoning reason.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>But I teach junior high and I </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>know </em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>there's something he's not telling me.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Between our shared early-morning walks late-night conversations about fixing up the house and the way he takes care of me when I'm sick he's starting to rebuild my faith in him.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>And when he looks at me in a way more friendly way than just roommates I almost forget the terrible things he did to seventeen-year-old me.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>We seem to be from opposite worlds but maybe some childhood friendships are worth salvaging.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Maybe some enemies can become friends...and then more.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>And maybe just maybe my perfect happily ever after moved upstairs when I wasn't looking.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Now I just have to figure out what my very handsome roommate is hiding from me...and hope it doesn't shatter us all over again.</span></p>