Anastasia's POV ~

I wake up and groan.

"Mary!" I call dryly

"You're awake, Your Highness" She says and hands me a cup of water and a pill.

"Your Highness." She says as I swallow the pill

"Yes?"

"Her Majesty is outside."

"Mother? Why?" I say getting up quickly and putting a robe over myself

"Let her in."

My mother in all her glory walks in but stands close to the door.

"I heard about your little encounter with Her Highness, Princess Dominique." She says coldly

Last night was a blur for me but I just nod

"Mmm-hmm, What of it?" she looks at me for a moment and sighs

"Are you well now?"

"Yeah, I'm fine."

"Very well. Behave better next time." She says and leaves my room

What the hell happened last night?

I try to remember back but I only get a few images

A party, A ring, and A... very hot Princess.

Images of Dominique's body on mine yesterday fog my mind and I shake my head.

I call for Mary and she helps me get ready and I knock on Dominique's bedroom door.

Nobody answered until her maid came up next to me.

"Your Highness?"

"Where is Princess Dominique?"

"She's in a meeting with His Majesty."

"A meeting?"

"Yes, The Princess handles a lot of Queen responsibilities to train her."

"As the Future Queen?"

"Yes."

"Okay, Would you tell her to come see?"

"Yes, Your Highness,"

I walk back to my room and check the time.

The ball started at 1 and it was 9:45.

I took a shower and started getting ready.

I called Mary in and she started helping me get dressed.

Oh.

They'll probably tell her soon, right?

The reason why I even got so drunk yesterday...

I should go see her before she has to find out from someone other than me.

I was dressed and Mary had given me a blue rose in a corsage type bracelet.

"This is...?" she nods

"His Highness, Prince Julian will wear a similar one on his suit while he puts the ring on your finger," she says

"In public?" I cringe at the thought

"Yes, miss. It was planned that he would win the hunt and the tournament in your name and your engagement would be announced, " I click the heel of my shoes continuously on the floor in an attempt to control my anger

"So this was already planned from the beginning..."

We heard a bell indicating that the ball was about to begin and we walked towards the large double doors and the guards opened the door.

Mary stays behind and I walk into the giant ballroom.

This one was different from the one we stayed in on the first day as it was much bigger and way fancier.

I couldn't even stand in the ballroom for more than a minute before someone dragged me away into a back room where they had Julian sit down and fix his appearance.

"Where's Princess Dominique? She won too didn't she?" I say as they sit me down and begin to completely destroy the beautiful hairstyle Mary did for me and start all over with an over-the-top one.

"She's still in a meeting with Father. He feels bad." He says simply and before I could say anything else Dominique walks in with a face that could bury you six feet under and that's coming from me

She sits quietly in the chair next to her brother and they start messing with her hairdo and her makeup as well.

They finished with her first since Dominique was already a natural beauty and they didn't need to do much for her to look absolutely gorgeous.

She stands up and finally unclenches her jaw and looks towards me

She makes this weird face as if she didn't even notice I was here. She makes a small grin and walks towards me.

"When did you get here? Why are you here anyway? This is supposed to be only for the winners of the Hunt and the Tournament."

"Uh-"

"Leave her be, Nikki. She's a guest. Father brought her in to make you feel better."

"Oh, I don't need his pity, " she says her face back how it used to be once she came in

She sneaks a peek at me again and gives me a small smile before heading up on a stage with Julian by her side.

I go to stand up and leave but one of the ladies stopped me

"You cannot leave, Your Highness," she says bowing so low I could see her whole back

I look at the girl menacingly before looking over at the stage and Julian and Dominique are just standing there smiling for entertainment.

"I will not go up there while she is there as well, " I declare menacingly

She would not look up and rather just scurried out of the room and looked for my mother.

"Hello, "

"Your Majesty, Queen Allyson, " I say and bow slightly

"You have to go up there. It has already been decided that you too shall marry so why are you making it harder than it needs to be."

"She's up there too you know, she was looking forward to this."

"Who? Dominique? She will be fine. I have moved your engagement announcement to the end of the ball. Be here in time or else." She leaves as I hear applause from the ballroom and I scoff at the Queen that had just left.

I left the room and made my way to the ballroom.

It was a lively ball and everyone was dancing and celebrating.

Julian and Dominique were swarmed with guys and girls but mostly girls since apparently guys weren't really comfortable going up to Dominique.

I go up to Grace and we stand side by side as we watch them get swarmed by the girls but Dominique seemed to take it pretty well. On the other hand, Julian seemed a little overwhelmed.

"She doesn't really seem like a princess anymore, does she?" Grace mumbles to herself but I heard her

"Well apparently you know her better than I do but even I know that she can be a princess and anything else she wants to be at the same time."

"Y'know I heard--"

"Okay, now you're just trying to make her mad."

"Shh, this is actually good." I give a look and sigh before she continues

"I heard Prince Julian is going to announce his engagement today. Oh and that Princess Dominique will be getting shipped off to boarding school for royals because apparently she wanted to go for vacation for a while away from the palace but she couldn't leave all her princess responsibilities behind so she's going to a school far away for a few months."

"What? Where exactly did you hear this?"

"I have a few friends in the Rodask Castle, "

"Friends?"

"Don't worry, I have 'Friends' in all of the royal palaces,"

"You should not be telling me this. I'm not Dominique."

Grace looks at me curiously before laughing

"You are so- Hmm, you admire her."

"Admire? Who? Dominique? She's- casual" I say

" She may sleep around but she's a good leader and I think you know that better than most people."

"Still-" Grace cuts me off

"Or have you never seen a righteous king with multiple concubines?" She says looking at the line of thrones where the kings sit silently judging everyone however the seats were currently empty since they would rarely make an appearance but I am guessing My father and His Majesty King of Rodask would come when the engagement would be announced

Speaking of which, "Grace, when will the ball end?" I ask

"Uh- It's scheduled to end at midnight but it's only 3 so people can leave and come when they like but they have to come back in time for the announcements at the end of the ball,"

"At midnight? That's such a pain, " I groan

At least Dominique won't find out about it until midnight so I can tell her beforehand

Dominique was currently chatting with my mother and a few other noble ladies but she excused herself and escapes into the balcony away from all the noisy people

As I approach the balcony I see her staring into the moon.

I go and tap her on her shoulder to get her attention and to get her back to reality.

"You scared me," she says casually with a small smile on her face.

"Sorry, Your highness, but what are you doing here all alone?" I ask formally

She gave me a gentle smile to let me know that she is fine, but I'm not convinced. She was quieter than normal.

"What's wrong?" I ask concerned

"Did my mother freeze you to death?"

"Your mother? Your mother's a sweetheart." she says

"What?" I say laughing

She smiles,

"You two are alike, " she says

"We're nothing alike. Only thing we remotely have in common is our looks, she's just a cold bitch."

She laughs.

"Anastasia, you are her. She's almost exactly like you. I'm pretty sure that's why I liked her so much when I first met her. You calling her a cold bitch is like calling yourself one." she says and I make a weird face

"I am one though."

"Hmm, yeah, it's one of the things I find very very hot about you though" she says, backing me into a corner

"really?" I say biting my lip before giving me a sexy smirk. Jokingly of course.

"Really." she says grabbing my waist

She just smiles, takes me by my hand and pulls me closer, as I get closer to her I feel the tension between us.

She tilted her head forward and kissed me, her soft lips on mine felt amazing, but pulled away before anyone saw us.

She looks into my eyes as if telling me that whatever we do next is up to me.

I grab her hand and we leave the ballroom and go into one of the guest bedrooms far away from the party

As soon as the door closes she pushes me up against the door and kisses me passionately and desperately. I return the kiss eagerly.

I hear a moan come from her and it encourages me to take that as a sign to continue.

I start to suck on the side of her neck and she bends her neck back to give me more access. As I'm doing this I take the chance to unzip her dress and she lets it fall and steps out of it.

I take a step back to admire her beautiful body.

she was wearing a black lace bra with matching panties, damn she looks so sexy.

I take my dress off and throw it to one side of the room. As soon as I do this she pulls me to the bed and starts to kiss me more intensely.

I flip us around so I'm on top.

Then I start to kiss while I fondle her boobs, I kiss more down towards her neck and her boobs.

I unclip her bra and throw it to where the other clothes are. I go and start to suck on her nipple making it hard while massaging her other.  While sucking on her nipples my one hand slips down into her underwear and starts to massage her clit.

She moans out my name.

I start going faster but to my surprise she pushes me away from her and flips is over so she is on top

"You're so fucking hot, Dominique Heath" I say breatlessly as she starts kissing my neck

She pulls herself up and kisses me

She looks at me intently with her hair so the side and a beautiful sexy smirk or her face and kisses me one last time before making her way down.

She then goes to take off my bra and her fingers slide themselves into my panties.

She takes my bra off and throws it to the side while licking my nipple.

She starts punching my other one which makes my back lift off the bed a little but she pushes me back down and switches nipples.

Then she starts slowly kissing downwards moving slowly towards my throbbing pussy

"Fuck. Please. Stop teasing me." I moan out as she deliberately makes her way down slowly while licking and kissing all of my body.

She ignores me and slides my panties off me and starts to kiss my already swollen clit.

She sucks and licks while I arch my back and let out loud moans of ecstasy.

I grab her head and move her downwards. She chuckles a bit but moves down and starts licking my folds.

She slides her tongue into my pussy and holds my hips down so I wouldn't move while she's sucking and massaging my clit with one of her hands.

She slides two fingers in and starts fucking me hard while also sucking on my clit.

I let out a muffled moan as I bite my bottom lip to keep me from screaming.

She then puts in 3 fingers and goes fast and hard while sucking and biting on my clit and massaging her boob with my other hand.

I'm going to cum, I think but I'm too busy moaning for words to even come out of my mouth .

My back arched, my fist tightened into the sheets, my head thrown back. I cummed all over her face and she started licking all of it cleaning me up.

My heavy breathing slows while catching my breath but she doesn't let me catch my breath for long before she pulls herself up again and kisses me passionately and straddles me.

I look up at her once she backs away from the kiss and I grab her back and pull her to me.

I kiss her slowly and passionately.

forgetting about what would happen later tonight and what I had to tell her.

...

We laid there on the bed for a few seconds catching our breaths before I feel the beds dip a little and she breaks the silence

"It's 10, we should get dressed."

" I never expected you to be this serious about anything" she turns to her side and looks at me. She starts playing with my hair and twirling it around her finger, smiling.

"From the moment I started fighting my brother I knew that I was going to lose but I won the Hunt and that's enough for me because that's what I was excited for in the first place. Father said he was proud of me too so I don't really need anything else other than this celebration that's for me even if it's only partly so yea I guess that's why I'm serious about getting there in time."

"You're serious about your princess duties too,"

"That's because they're my responsibilities and if I ever want to become a good ruler I should at least take care of those right?" She says with a cute smile on her face

She lets go of my hair and starts getting up and getting dressed

"Dominique..."

She turns around with a small smile as she was putting on her underwear

"I'm... I'm your brother's fiancée. They're going to announce our engagement at the end of the ball tonight." I say looking at the empty space on the bed where she once laid

I hear a thud and I look back at her

Her face fell and a dark expression appeared on her face.

She slowly bent down to pick up her ring that had fallen, still clearly shocked and I start to get up too.

"Uh- I'm really sorry, Dominique," I say trying to reach out to her but she slaps my hand and looks at me with a vacant expression

"You slept with me even though you knew that you're engaged to my brother and it's supposed to be announced the same night," she says more as an accusation than a question

"I'm-"

"Sorry? I don't want your apologies, I want the last 6 hours of my life back," she says as she quickly puts her dress back on and strokes her hair so it just naturally falls into place

"I-"

"Don't bother, I really don't care," she says viciously before grabbing the rest of her jewelry and stuff she hadn't put on off the floor and slamming the door behind her

I put my dress back on and go back to the ballroom. I get dragged backstage almost immediately again and Queen Allyson was already there waiting for me.

"At least you listened and weren't late," she says looking at her watch

She looks at me and shakes her head.

"Listen, Princess. You can sleep with whoever you want but make sure my poor son doesn't catch you, okay? It isn't his fault he's getting married to a whore." I look at her, shocked.

I look into a mirror and see my hair.

"I- uh-" she shakes her head for me to stop

"I don't care. Stop. Matilda, take care of this." she says leaving

The girl, Matilda, sits me down and fixes my hair, and sprays me with perfume. She helps me fix the sloppy knots in my corset that I did in a hurry.

Prince Julian comes in but he looks the same as before with almost no damage done so all they do to him is slick back his hair and touch up his makeup as well as mine.

Her Majesty, Queen Allyson, His Majesty, and My Mother and Father all stood up on the fancy stage but only Queen Allyson was talking, and as soon as she said both our names we stood on that stage too.

I looked around the room.

Grace stood there speechless and I was clearly going to get it for not telling her sooner.

I look for Dominique and finally find her in a corner of the room with a glass of champagne in one hand and a redhead in the other.

Where she finds so many girls is a mystery but I couldn't even focus on what the evil Queen was saying because all I saw was Dominique leaving the ballroom and suddenly I looked forward and Prince Julian was on his knees proposing to me.

"... Princess Anastasia, Would you marry me?" was all I heard of what I was sure had to be an incredibly long and rehearsed speech he gave

"Yes..." I say and the ballroom exploded in applause

The nobles and the Royals knew how to behave though so that's all it was, applause.

Prince Julian and I left the stage and went to a room out back but later left that and sat down in an office.

Our parents were there and they were starting to take out some contracts and I signed a lot before me and my parents could leave.

My parents left in a hurry, clearly not enjoying the Rodask King and Queen's company, but I didn't get out in time before Dominique came in.

"You. You are such a hypocrite!" she yells at her father

"Dominique. Control yourself." The Queen says

"Oh don't even get me started with you,  you narcissistic bitch!" she says glaring at the Queen with hatred

"Dom, I'm sorry I didn't-" Prince Julian starts but Dominique cuts him off

"You son of a bitch. Literally. You're such a mama's boy that you can't even say no to her. You're going to become a King goddammit act like it before you burn our kingdom to the ground." she says gritting her teeth

She looks at me coldly before coming up to me with a small push

"You better leave, " she says much softly than her former tone and gently pushes me out of the room

As soon as the soft thud of the door closing was heard I could hear them arguing again and this time there was a crash in there so I decided I shouldn't eavesdrop and headed towards my father's office.

"You should've told me, Father. I had to find out from the Queen of Rodask." I say entering and see that Lucille was already inside. I raise my eyebrow and she sends me a smirk.

"What... Is this?"

"I was just telling father what we should do if The Heath's should cancel the engagement for unknown reasons,"

"You aren't going to-"

"Oh yes we are, " Lucille says and I scrunch up my nose with disgust

"Father, you announced you wouldn't be expanding anymore."

"The gain of new land would only be a bonus it wouldn't be a goal, "

"Shut up! I'm not speaking to you!"

"Anastasia!"

"Father. You're the one that didn't want to alarm the kingdoms if you do this they'll see you as an enemy. Everyone will."

"We'd have a good reason."

"Oh yeah? What reason would that be?"

"Blasphemy to the 1st Princess of the North."

"Blasphemy?! I didn't agree to this marriage in the first place you cannot start a war on my name!"

"Marriage is sacred, sister. And this promise of marriage, in particular, was very fragile."

"Why are you listening to her, Father? You know I'm right. This will only bring bad things to our empire."

"Your Majesty!!" the doors of the office slam open with urgency

"Yes?" Father asks

"The Rodask sent a message to cancel the betrothal!"

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A/N

Hey guys, sorry for not updating for so long I've been busy with school and tests.

I only have 2 weeks left so after that ill try to update more during the summer but then writing won't be a priority either now that I can actually go out without worrying about school and stuff

I'll try to upload a lot these 2 weeks left and some during the summer and if not then I'll probably pick my stories back up the start of the next school year

btw. This chapter ended on a cliffhanger of sorts so ill definitely update to a good spot if I stop writing for a while

~ K ❤️