Around seven she wakes up and gets out of bed quietly, not wanting to wake Nick. She puts her robe on and goes to the bathroom. She washed up and headed down stairs and put on some coffee for Nick and made breakfast. She looked at her phone and notice an email from someone she doesn't know. She opens it and what she read has her almost drop her phone on the floor. There is a number that she must call. After the phone call, she starts to make a plate and head upstairs and wake Nick. He opens his eyes.

"Good morning, beautiful." He rubs his eyes and yawns.

"Good morning handsome. I made breakfast." She said and put the tray down on the nightstand and sat down beside him. They ate breakfast and talked about the future.

"Now I'm sure you want to take time to plan your dream wedding so anything you need just let me know and i'll help with it. I don't want to be one of those guys who has the bride plan it and have no say in the wedding. I want to do it right."

"Well you pretty much do everything right, so I don't see you failing at this. I can't wait to have you help with it. There is something important I need to discuss with you." She takes his hands and looks into his eyes.

"What is it?" She takes a deep breath and let it out slowly.

"Ok so here goes, I'm not originally from the US."

"Ok...where are you from?"

"I'm from Sweden and that's not all," His eyes popped out of his head.

"What else?"

"Well see, my family comes from a long line of royalty. My great great grandmother came here to the US to be with her husband. My country has been without a ruler for a very long time."

"So, what does that have to do with you suddenly?"

"Well, I got an email last night and read it this morning. My country is in dire need of a lot of help and I'm to return right away to become a crown princess and take care of my people. And..."

"And what?!" He sorta shouted, making her jump a little.

"And, you can't come with me. I have to leave my life here behind me."

"NO! You can't just up and leave! We are having a baby and getting married Mallory! You can't just do that!" He said with tears falling from his eyes.

"I'm so sorry, I really am. I don't want to go. I don't want to be a freaking princess and leave my life, with you, behind. I'm so happy here and to just leave is not something I want to do but I have no choice."

"How do you even know that this is real?"

"There was a phone number in the email, I called and it's true. They know everything about my whole family and past."

"When do you have to leave?"

"Today. I have a flight booked I guess for noon."

"That's like a little over two hours from now."

"I know. I promise, as soon as I get there and figure things out, I will either come back for you or send for you to come there. I will not live without you in my life, I won't not be your wife. I will spend the rest of my life with you, I swear it to be true. This isn't goodbye Nick. it will never be good bye, I just need you to promise to trust me and to wait. I know it's selfish to ask but I love you. I want to be with you and only you." Tears are falling from their eyes as he takes her into his arms.

"It's not selfish. It's not like you knew this was going to happen. I just wish you would have told me the truth about who you really are."

"I know, and I will never keep anything from you again. I'm sorry." She said looking down. He put his hand on her chin and had her look up at him.

"I love you, I will wait as long as it takes. Hopefully before our baby is born to be with you again. You and our baby are the only thing that matters to me."

"I love you baby." She wraps her arms around him and hugs him tightly and sobs into his neck. He does the same and they hold each other. When they calm down, he looks at her.

"Come now, no more crying. You have a country to save my dear princess Mallory."

"Oh no pressure huh?" She says laughing a little.

"Exactly. You got this. You are going to kick some major ass."

"I hope so. I gotta get ready and pack. I don't have much time."

"Not even enough to have a little fun before you start on your journey?" He says as he places kisses down her neck. She moans softly.

"Maybe enough time for that." She says as she lays down. They make love and when they're done they take a shower. She gets out and gets dressed and starts packing. Around eleven they make their way to the airport. They get to the area where she must leave Nick. She turns to him and takes his hands.

"I love you, I will miss you so much. I will call when I can. We'll text, email, skype and call as much as we can. This isn't goodbye, this is see you soon. I love you Nicholas and you will always be on my mind." "I love you too sweetheart, you take care of you and our baby first before anyone else. I am going to miss you like crazy. Are you sure it's ok if I stay at your place occasionally?"

"Of course. I'm taking a part of you with me, so you can sleep in my bed anytime."

"Good. You better get going or I won't be able to let you go. I love you I love you I love you so damn much." He takes her into his arms and hugs her tightly. When he lets go she can still feel his arms around her. He leans down and kisses her passionately and softly. When they part, she looks into his eyes, "I love you." She says and turns around and walks away. "I love you too!" He shouts, she turns around and smiles and blows him a kiss. She turned back around and kept walking away from him, tears falling from her eyes. She gets to the gate and hands the lady her ticket and heads to the plane. She's seated in first class. She takes out her iPod and puts her headphones on and listens to Nick's music and gets her phone out and sends him a text. "I'm in first class sitting here listening to your beautiful voice and missing you already. I love you." She hits send and closes her eyes. The next thing she knows, she's getting woken up.

"Excuse me miss, it's dinner time, would you like anything?"

"Oh, yes please. What do you have?" She hands her a menu. She looks over it and decides. "I would like the chicken dinner please with a glass of sweet tea."

"Sure. I'll let them know." She smiles and walks off. She looked at her phone and saw a few texts from people.

"Hey baby, I just got home. I miss you already too. Have a safe flight and call me when you can. I love you." She smiled at Nick's words. She reads the other texts and replies to them. When she's about to reply to Nick's her phone shows a new text. "I know you're thirty thousand feet in the air and might not be able to check your phone but had to let you know that I'm going to take a nap and dream of you. I love you." She smiles and replies.

"Hmm don't have any fun unless I can see...I fell asleep listening to your beautiful voice and just got woken up a little bit ago to have dinner. Have a good nap, I love you." A couple minutes later she gets another text, they exchange a few more before he goes to sleep, and her dinner arrives. She eats and goes back to sleep until she is woken up again, this time it's way into the night.

"Excuse me ma'am but we are about to land so would you please fasten your belt and sit up right for the landing."

"Of course, thank you." She does as she's asked and when the plane lands she gets off and heads out into the airport. She saw a man holding her name on a sign and she walked over to him.

"I'm Mallory."

"Princess." He bows his head and looks down.

"Are you alright?"

"Yes Princess. Come, we have to get your luggage and take you to the palace."

"Alright." She followed him, and they wait for the luggage to start coming out onto the belt. She starts to grab hers and he stops her.

"I'll get it Princess."

"Mind I ask if you please stop calling me that?" He looks at her with a puzzled look.

"You can call me Mallory, you don't have to keep calling me Princess. What is your name?"

"It's Henry ma'am."

"Ok Henry, if you're not comfortable with not calling me any kind of formal name, I suppose ma'am is better." She smiled at him. He returns the smile and they head outside. He leads her to a black sedan and he opens the door for her.

"Thank you, Henry."

"My pleasure ma'am." He shuts the door after she gets in and puts her luggage in the trunk and gets in and they leave. She put her window down and looked at the city as they drove.

"Wow, it's so beautiful and so lit up at night." She says as she looks at everything as they pass it by. She is in awe at the sites that she takes her phone out and takes pictures. She sends them to Nick.

"I made it! It's so beautiful here." She sits back and looks at the sites as they head to the palace. When they get there, Henry opens her door. When she steps out, her jaw drops.

"OH MY GOSH! It's so beautiful!!" She looks at a huge palace, it's blue and white, so white it's sparkling. It looks like there are diamonds on the sides of the palace. The top of it has two points that are blue and look like they have lights in them. There are a lot of windows and a huge lake of water and a huge garden. She noticed all this as they walk along the path into the opening of the wide area before heading to the doors.

"This is like a dream." She says to herself as the doors open.

"Hello, welcome Princess." A tall middle-aged man welcomes her inside.

"Hello and thank you." She walks inside and turns around slowly looking up at everything in her view.

"Wow." She says and you can hear it through the wide open space. "This is breathtaking."

"I'm pleased it's to your liking Princess. I'm sure you had a very long day and would like to rest."

"I'm actually alright. I slept a lot on the flight over here. It was a fourteen-hour flight so not much to do but sleep."

"Of course, Princess. Would you like a tour?"

"Oh, no you don't have to do that. It's late, you should get some rest. I'll just walk around and take in everything. Just show me where I'll be sleeping, and you can go rest."

"Of course, this way please Princess." He leads her up a grand staircase and down a very long beautiful hallway.

"This place is amazing."

"It is. It's over two hundred years old."

"Oh wow. As I understand, there hasn't been any kind of royal to rule over the people in a very long time, correct?"

"That's correct. When your great great grand-mother left, she left everyone behind in a state of panic. We have done our best to keep the country afloat, Prince Karl has done his best, but the people need a Princess."

"Prince Karl? Is he of the royal family here?"

"No, he's from Italy."

"My goodness. Is he Italian?"

"No, he was born here but grew up in Italy. You will meet him tomorrow, he's a very pleasant young man."

"Ok great." They arrive to her room. "Here are your chambers Princess. Everything you need, you should find in here." He opens the door and they walk in. "Wow." The room is bigger than her kitchen and living room combined. It's so pretty with light pink, light blue and white. "This room is so pretty I'm afraid I'm going to mess it up just by moving." She said laughing.

"No worries Princess, this is your home, the whole palace, inside and out is your home. Treat it as such."

"Thank you...um what is your name?"

"Oh, my apologies Princess, my name is David."

"David, it's very nice to meet you." "Pleasure is all mine. Do you need anything else before I turn in Princess?"

"Yes, I want to thank you for everything and to have a great night David."

"Of course, Princess. Good night." He bows his head and leaves her room. She sighed and sat on the bed, looking around at everything. She changed into shorts and a tank top and slippers. She opens the door and starts walking down the hall when she hears someone in one of the rooms.

She stands close to the door and listens. "She seems wonderful Prince Karl. She has a great vibe about her and she is beautiful. I think you will be pleased when you meet her tomorrow." She heard David talking to the Prince.

"Wonderful, I can't wait to meet her. I'm going to go down to the kitchen, go to bed David." She heard them, and she moved quickly to the other side of the hall and started walking again fast before they came out of the room.

She slowed down when she knew they were in the hall and kept looking ahead. She turns the corner and heads down another long hallway looking into the rooms as she passes. She starts passing a room and it catches her eye, so she goes inside. It's a studio. She looks at all the controls and she starts messing with them and starts making a beat. She set it up how she wanted it and headed into the booth and put the headphones on. When she hears the beat, she starts singing. This is the place that feels like home to her since she got here. When the music fades she takes the headphones off and goes back out and sits down and plays it back.

"Beautiful and has an amazing voice." She hears a voice behind her and she turns around and sees a tall handsome man standing in the doorway wearing a pair of shorts, nothing on his upper body though.

"Oh, I didn't notice anyone standing there, I got into it there." He came in and sat in the chair next to her.

"It's ok. You sounded great. Are you a singer?"

"Yes, well I was. I was working on an album back in TN."

"Oh, sorry for having to have you come here." He said looking disappointed.

"It's ok, it's all put on hold until I can make it back to finish it at least."

"Or you can finish it here. As you can see we have the means to make that happen."

"That's true. I'm Mallory by the way."

"I know who you are, I'm Karl. It's a pleasure to meet you Princess." He takes her hand and puts it to his lips and kisses the back of it.

"Pleasure is all mine Prince. Does that ever stop sounding so formal?"

"You get used to it. In no time you won't even realize anyone is saying it. Why are you up so late?"

"I slept most of the way here so I'm actually wide awake. I mean I'm in a whole new country with a whole new life now. I had a wonderful life back home, I'm supposed to be getting married in a few months and a couple more after that, giving birth to our child."

"Oh, you're pregnant and engaged?"

"Yes. He's a wonderful man."

"You do know that you can't marry him, right? You and I are to be wed."

"What?! Why can't I marry him?"

"Because Princess, that life is nonexistent to you now. It's your past. You have so much you have to do and having a husband who isn't from royal blood goes against everything we have built. Your child on the way, I'm not sure how that will work. I don't mean to sound harsh in any way, it's just how it is. I didn't write the rules."

"I understand but it's just a lot to take in. You seem very nice and have to admit, you are very easy on the eyes but, I don't know if I can marry someone I don't know."

"We aren't to be married for some time, so you have time to get to know me. I'm a pretty good guy and I know how to treat a woman like a well, Princess in your case you are one. I also can sing, would you like to sing with me?" He asks smiling and taking her hand. As much as she wants to, she can't say no.

"Sure, why not? What do you want to sing?" He finds a song and hits play. As soon as she hears the music she starts to cry.

"What's wrong?"

"That's Nick, my..."

"Ah, I understand. I'm sorry. I didn't know. I like his music, so I put it on. Instead of singing, would you like to dance?" He steps back, and she stands, and he puts his hand on her lower back, making her jump a little at how much she liked his soft touch.

They start to dance, and he pulls her close and sings in her ear. Tears fall from her eyes and she breaks his hold and run out into the hallway and up to her room. She closes the door and falls on her bed and cries. A few minutes later she felt a hand on her back.

"I'm sorry Princess." Karl says as he sits on the bed next to her.

"It's just dancing to his song and you singing, knowing I can't marry him, it breaks my heart because I love him. I can't hurt him. I can't keep our baby from him. I can't ruin his life because I'm stuck here." She says into her pillow. He doesn't say anything, he just lays next to her and rubs her back, soothing her until she cries herself to sleep. Around seven she heard a knock on her door. She opened her eyes and sees Karl sleeping next to her. She gets out of bed and puts her robe on and opens the door and steps out.

"Yes?"

"Sorry to wake you Princess, breakfast is served, and we have to go over your schedule for the day." David said.

"Ok, let me get dressed and I'll be down."

"Of course, Princess." She goes back into her room and goes to wake Karl.

"Hey, wake up." She said softly as she put her hand on his shoulder. He opens his eyes and smiles.

"Good morning Princess."

"Good morning. Breakfast is served, David just told me. I need to get ready." She said looking at him and then at the door. He just keeps laying there and she sighs, not having the energy to argue. She goes to the closet and gets out an outfit.

She finds a skirt and a blouse and a jacket to match. She goes into the bathroom and start the water for a shower. She takes her robe and clothes off and step into the shower. She puts her hands on her belly.

"Don't worry peanut, I will find a way to get your daddy here and marry him." She takes her shower and gets dried off, blows dried her hair and gets dressed, fixes her hair and make up and goes back out into the room and sees Karl still in bed.

"Wow, you do look beautiful but I prefer the look you wore last night, shorts and tank top, seemed more natural."

"Well thank you but I can't go around looking like that as a Princess now can I?"

"You're welcome and no I don't suppose you can."

"Are you going to go get dressed and join me for breakfast?"

"Do you want me to?"

"Of course."

"Ok. I will meet you outside my room in ten minutes." He gets out of bed, naked! "Oh my gosh! Put something around you!" She shouts hiding her eyes. He laughs.

"Ok you can look now." She moved her hands and noticed he put his boxers back on.

"You slept naked next to me?"

"Yes, I did. It's how I sleep so if we end up in bed together again, you know how I sleep so." He smiles, and she feels her cheeks get warm.

"Go get ready." She said and opened the door. He laughs as he walks out.

"Living with you is going to be fun." He says as he walks into the hallway. She walked out and headed down stairs.