Hello my lovely readers.

Here is finally another chapter. I hope you will like it. 

And again I am reminding you that if you didn't read Prince and Doctor there are spoilers here to that one.

Chapter 2

"Shall we Princess?" He asked me offering me his hand and shining his smile at me. The beginning sounds of piano, accordion and drums were beating as I was starring at him still angry at my father. Now the man who broke my heart was trying to dance with me. I really wasn't in a mood to be dancing with him now. Or ever. I looked around and everyone were staring at us.

"Come on Princess. You will not leave me hanging in front of everyone. You are too polite for that." He said took my hand and yanked me on his body at the rhythm of the slow and passionate music.

"Tango. How appropriate." I said to him looking straight into his eyes. The tension between us could be cut by a knife as I stayed glued to his body for a while as the passionate music was our backround. What was it that his body and presence was waking me up and making me lust for him. His eyes were dancing with amusement. And then we started to slowly move to the rhythm of the music. His hand on my lower back was giving me goosebumps.

"It looks like princess is not getting what she wants from her daddy." He said as we were dancing backwards and he swirled me and yanked me backwards to his body. How dare he to tease me? He is always making fun of me being daddy's girl and he knows very well I don't like to be reminded of it especially from him. He always treats me like I was a spoiled brat. So I took a step back and stepped right on his foot with my heel. 

"That's non of your business." I hissed and I swirled back to face him and I saw as he grimaced with pain. I showed him my satisfied smile but he again took me into his arms and he bended me backwards to the rhythm. We were staying for a few seconds in that position and I was starring into his magnetizing eyes. His lips were so close. I wondered if they were still so soft as I remembered.

"That was not nice." He said.

"That's what you deserve." I replied getting out of my thoughts about his lips and he frowned. We continued dancing. I made few tango steps around him and he responded with his.

"I guess you didn't forget what we learned on the dance lesson." He said smiling at me as I daringly moved my leg up his ankle and quickly back.

I was taking dance lessons when I was seventeen. He was always visiting my brother Henry. One day when James and Henry were already attending University James stopped by at the palace during the weekend to see Henry. That day Henry was not in the city so when James was already at the palace he stopped by to see me when I was having the dance lesson. My trainer quickly used the situation and made him my partner for that day. At my surprise he agreed and that is how we learned the tango. I was a stupid girl secretly crazy in love with him. He was older than me and already attending the college. It was like dream come true for me when he agreed. The best friend of my big brother and my secret love was actually dancing with me.

"I have a very good memory." I replied to him hinting at our history. And as on point I saw her. Meghan Ashworth. I didn't even notice her here. She wasn't invited. So the only reason for her to be here was that she is someone's plus one. As we were moving around to the music I saw as she was walking to us.

"I guess you are going to get into trouble with your date." I said to James as he swirled me and he looked at me confused. Of course he had to bring her here too. The two of them were on and off item for years. But only few people knew about them.

"What?" he asked me and stopped when Meghan finally approached us.

"Nice moves." She said and looked at him with lust.

"Meghan." He said looking at her surprised. She caressed his hand which was a clear sign of ownership. She wanted me to back off.

"I will leave you to take care of your girlfriend." I said to him and I walked away from the dance floor.

How dare he to flirt with me and make me lust for him again when he is here with her? Why is he trying to get to me today? I had a pretty calm life and we were avoiding each other since that night. Why did he had to mess with my brain like this? As I was walking to my table I took a glass of champagne from the waiter who walked around me and I quickly drunk the whole glass. I sat down at the table.

"That was a really nice dance." George who was sitting at the table with his friend Mia said to me.

"Where did you learn that?" Mia asked me.

"I had some lessons." I replied and took another glass of champagne from the waiter. George and Mia are Eva's friends and we actually got close in the past weeks. They are really great people and I am really happy I gained some friends who are not caring only for the status. It is refreshing to be in the company of people without all that fuss around them. And it is cute to see George being still a bit starstrucked at my company.

"Who is that woman who interrupted you?" George asked me and I only took a sip from my glass.

"That's Meghan Ashworth." Mia said disgusted. I wasn't in the mood to explain who she was.

"She visits the restaurant quite often and she always demands the best table even when it is occupied. She is terrible customer and she thinks she is someone better than the rest of the people." Mia said disgusted. Mia works in James's restaurant so it is natural she knows her.

"Listen. Is there something between you and James?" George asked me when I was taking another sip from my already third glass of champagne and I almost choked.

"What? No! Of course not." I said and Mia started to laugh.

"Have you seen the two of them together before? They hate each other." She said and continued laughing. It is true that she witnessed some of our mockery before.

"Sorry. I just had to ask. You seemed to have a good chemistry." George said.

"Besides. James has a different girl like every minute." Mia added. Well thank you for backing me up Mia.

"Well you never know. There is a thin line between love and hate." He said. Oh George. If you only knew.

It was already evening and the celebrations were almost over as Henry and Eva left one hour ago to their honeymoon and after that almost everyone already left. Philip and Emily went home to Kensington Palace early as they wanted to be with their baby girl Rosie. Thankfully she was doing really well now. Her heart was beating stronger each day.

I was sitting at the stairs outside the palace looking into the peaceful lit garden and the night sky. I wanted to be somewhere calm so I went to the other side where there were no wedding guests or service. And I let my mind wonder.

My brothers are already happily married. I just had to think about mom. How proud she would be at this moment. And what would she think about me? Would she be proud of me too? I sometimes wonder that if she was alive if she would let me have my own company. I think she would want for me to go after my dreams. I am happy that at least my brothers are living their dreams. They are doing what they love and they found their other halfs. And here is me. Princess Emma. Doing only her princess duties. Not allowed to be doing what she really desires to do. Or at least not doing it for everyone to see. And she doesn't even have the love of her life.

I took a sip from my glass of champagne. I drank a bit too much tonight. But I wasn't totally drunk. I could walk straight. I just wanted to somehow forget about my life at this moment.

"You did a great job with the wedding." I heard a familiar voice behind me interrupting my thoughts. I closed my eyes.

"Not again." I whispered to myself and turned to look at him.

"What do you want James?" I finally said. He was leisurely leaning at the marble railing looking at me.

"I just wanted to make a compliment." He said and came to me and sit down on the stair next to me. I was already tired of his behavior today and I was not in a mood to tease him. I took a deep breath of the fresh air.

"What is wrong with you today? Why are you trying to talk to me suddenly?" I asked him directly and looked at him. I was really tired of his behavior today. But he was silent.

"Shouldn't you be with Meghan now?" I asked him as I returned to stare at the beautiful view of the garden.

"Oh. You think she came with me." He said and laughed and made a gesture as being offended. I looked at him surprised. "I don't have a plus one today. This is my best friend's wedding. I don't have someone special who I would like to share such important day with." He said and I had to laugh.

"Come on James. You are not a romantic type of a guy. You don't care with who you are as long as it's a woman." I said and he smiled bitterly. I was realizing he was too close to me and my body was reacting in a way I wished it didn't. So I quickly stood up and took a deep breath.

"Maybe I do care." He said and stood up too facing me. I laughed at his comment.

"You can say that to someone who doesn't know you." I replied amused but I was getting nervous as he came closer to me.

"And maybe I do have someone I want to be with today." He said smiling at me and magnetizing me with his eyes. He was dangerously too close to me. I could feel my heart beating in my throat and I felt a little light headed. Maybe it was all the champagne.

"Then why aren't you with that person right now?" I asked him my voice a bit raspy.

"Maybe I am." He said and made one last step to me and closed the gap between us. I had nowhere to back off as I was already leaning at the railing. My chest was about to burst as my heart was beating like crazy. He placed his hand on my waist and leaned his head to me looking straight into my eyes. My nose was filled with his intoxicating cologne. His lips were almost touching mine. I could feel his breath on my lips. My mind was now switched off.

"I want to be with you." He whispered. He folded a strand of hair behind my ear and finally kissed me. His lips were as soft as I remembered them. I lost my control. I didn't even tried to fight him. My body just surrendered the moment his lips touched mine.

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P.S. :I love the Tango scene of Antonio Banderas in Take the lead. A bit of inspiration for the Emma and James Tango.:-))

https://youtu.be/GSsfP8nRvYg