Free Dirty Crown: A Bad Boy Secret Baby Royal Romance (with BONUS book - Rebel Rockstar!) by Marci Fawn

to support me, and that feels horrible.
    It’s taken me almost seven years, but I’ve finally managed to catch a break again and get a few days off from my royal duties.
    I know that I shouldn’t be wasting my time in America, but that’s the only place that I feel I can be. Just in case. I know that it’s pathetic, but I can’t help myself, I haven’t managed to get over Faith and I really don’t think I ever will.
    Even though she left me with no explanation, and I haven’t been able to speak to her since, I still love her. No one else even comes close in my mind, and without any closure to this situation, I don’t think I’ll ever be able to recover.
    As I wander through yet another historical museum, keeping half an eye out in case she’s there, I feel as morose as ever. I have felt like there is a black cloud hanging over me for the last few years, and I’m not sure that it’s ever going anywhere.
    A flash of blonde hair catches my eyes, but I don’t allow my heart to get too excited.
    There are so many blonde women out there, that if I get wound up by each and every one then I’ll end up a hot mess.
    But there’s something a little different about this one, something that keeps my attention that little while longer, and I can’t stop my eyes from flicking back…
    “Oh my God,” the words burst from my lips before I can get hold of myself.
    “Faith?”
    As she spins around, I start to tremble with a weird sense of déjà vu. This isn’t just my imagination, this is real, somehow I’m actually standing right in front of her.
    It’s like a dream – and a nightmare come true – and I’m just standing there staring like an idiot.
    “Is that really you?” I gasp, wanting to step closer, but it feels like my entire body is frozen in ice.
    She looks just as stunned as me, her eyes flickering everywhere and her face heating up in humiliation.
    I can tell that she has no idea what to do with herself, and I feel exactly the same way.
    The rest of the world melts away, almost to the point that there’s no one else there, only Faith and me left. We’re stuck in this bubble and there’s no escape – not that I want to go.
    There are so many questions flowing through me, and I really want to ask them, but my mouth is zipped shut, unable to consider speaking.
    What happened?
    Why did you leave me?
    Do you still love me?
    But then my eyes scan down her body, and I quickly see a mini Faith holding her hand.
    A young girl with the same shock of blonde hair and bright blue eyes. My heart flutters sadly at the prospect that her life has moved on somewhat, but at the same time she’s here alone with no man, which means that there might be a chance for me after all.
    I don’t want to get so hopeful, to think that way, but I can’t stop my brain from automatically jumping to that conclusion. I wish that I could be totally cool and collected, seeing her as only a woman that I once knew, but my heart is pounding too painfully to even begin to think straight.
    Maybe we can be together once more…
    And if not, at least I’ll get the answers that I so desperately need to move on with my life. Until I have them, my life will remain in this weird limbo that it has been.
    Sure, I’m hoping that things will go in the way that I want them, but I need to prepare myself just in case they don’t.
    “Edward?” She eventually responds, tentatively stepping closer to me.
    I feel all of the years that have passed us by shrinking into nothing. All the hurt and the pain just melts away, as she’s back in my life once more. The nearer to me she gets, the more connected to her I feel all over again.
    A million and one thoughts spin through my mind, but I don’t vocalize any of them. I’m too shocked, too stunned and confused to say any of them.
    I’m still just standing here like a dazed and confused mess, wishing desperately that I’d planned a speech or something for this moment. I’ve been praying for it, but