By not clearing up the misunderstanding as soon as it happened she’d been partly responsible for the rumour spreading. A feeling she had never experienced had settled firmly in the bottom of her stomach, hard and cold, and wound its way up through her chest and caught in her throat. She suddenly felt exceptionally stupid, not just because of her lack of thought but the idea that she could ever pass as an actual princess. She’d thought it all sounded like a fairy tale.
Not once had it occurred to her that the Maravish princess might actually be at Rosewood. ‘I bet it didn’t even cross your mind once what this means for the real princess, did it?’ Selfishness was the exact opposite of her nature. She prided herself on being kind, on being welcoming, helpful. Lottie flinched as if she’d been slapped. ‘You are so selfish – it’s unbelievable.’
She willed herself to say something, anything to break the oppressive silence before it consumed them both.Įllie laughed humourlessly. She was truly furious and Lottie could feel the intense anger radiating towards her – that same storm she’d felt when she first saw Ellie at the school entrance. The awkward silence as the two stared each other down was only broken by the soft ticking of the clock above the door. The tension in the room was so thick Lottie was sure she would suffocate under it.
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