Free The Glass Prince by Sandra Bard

Chapter One
     
     
    Daniel
Everwood decided to kidnap Luke Eren Berkeley as an afterthought. Well, he certainly never
planned it out.
    He never
employed a driver, as he believed in being able to get from point A
to point B without the help of someone else. As much as he enjoyed
being an awe-inspiring celebrity, he didn't enjoy being crammed
into the close confines of a vehicle.
    Daniel
had been driving from
his Tower to the florist—his florist did home visits, but even
Daniel wasn't so self-contained he could stay in his Tower forever.
He needed an excuse to leave the place and breathe in some fresh
air, and that’s when he saw Luke.
    He
stopped his car, rolled down the window and put his head out,
feeling incredibly awkward . Daniel Everwood never stopped for anyone. People stopped
for him.
    " Hey Luke...
er," he remembered what Luke had been called at home "... Eren?" he
called. The young man, who'd been engrossed in fiddling with his
phone, looked up quickly. His eyes lit with recognition, but there
wasn't any joy in it. He appeared to be weary.
    " Mr. Everwood,"
Eren said from the pavement, a good five feet away from Daniel and
refusing to move closer. Daniel found it absolutely annoying. Why
wouldn't he come closer? Daniel frowned as two more people walked
over to join Eren. And what was that ghastly noise in the
background?
    " What're you
doing here?" Daniel asked.
    " Waiting for a
bus," Eren informed him, looking at something behind Daniel. "You
know, the bus is behind you."
    Ah, that
explained the noise : the
annoyed bus driver was honking for him to get out of the way.
Daniel threw a look over his shoulder and made an impulsive
decision. He unlocked the car door and drew back. "Get
in."
    " No, I think…
I'd rather not." While he didn't expect Eren to jump into the car,
he was irritated that the boy hadn't even moved a step
closer.
    " I can't be here
all day," Daniel snapped. "I'll drive you wherever you're
going."
    " No, need to
bother, really," Eren hedged. He took a step back and Daniel
scowled.
    " Get in the car.
You're holding back the bus."
    Eren looked at
Daniel with an expression of disbelief and Daniel braced himself
for some verbal comeback, but in the end, all Eren did was nod,
move towards the car, pull open the door, and get in.
    As they
pulled out of the bus stop, the bus drive r stuck his head out of his side, "Fucking
asshole, you are—"
    Daniel
slowed the car and looked back, then snapped his
fingers . The windshield
of the bus erupted in a series of glass spikes that had the driver
rearing back in horror. Daniel smiled as he turned around to face
the road. His good deed for the day was done.
    He faced
his silent passenger and smirked . "Where do you want to be dropped off?"
    " I don't want to
make you late for anything," Eren replied quickly. "Just down the
block."
    " You could have
walked that distance, not taken the bus," Daniel told him. He was
clearly being lied to and he didn't like it. He turned to Eren and
glared. "Now, where were you going?"
    " To the movies
at CinemaCity, I'm meeting Annabelle there."
    Daniel
gripped the steering wheel tighter . He looked at Eren and snarled. "Seriously, you
can do better." Annabelle didn't even know just how special Eren
was.
    " Excuse
me?"
    " Your girlfriend
is not good enough for you," Daniel explained tightly. "She's
rather plain and… not very—"
    " Fuck you," Eren
snapped. "I'm sick of this. I think you're stalking me: you show up
at my work place, you show up at my house and now you're… you're
insulting my girlfriend. You have no right to say anything bad
about Annabelle. She's one of the nicest people around. Just
because all you have is your stupid Tower and your friends are
avoiding you, it doesn't mean…" Eren trailed off, probably
realising he'd said far too much.
    Daniel
let go of the steering wheel as glass shards formed in his palm. They ripped through
the leather glove of his left hand and emerged as a jagged mess of
layers of