Chapter Twenty

Book:Impossible Mates Published:2024-5-1

We follow Taylor up to our bedroom, which was huge, she tells us where everything was before leaving. I just walk over sitting on the bed while Ryan walks around his hands on his hips thinking, this has happened so quickly, one minute I was having a picnic with Martha and Harry, now the next thing I know I’m in a huge castle, only to find out my parents are the King and Queen!
“Okay, I feel like this has happened so quickly that we haven’t had time to process what’s just happened,” Ryan says finally breaking out his thoughts, he stops in the middle of the room looking at me.
“Yeah I know, we’re acting so calm when really we should be freaking out,” I say, he just nods running his hand through his hair.
“Wait your parents said they don’t know how it came out that you were their daughter,” he says pointing at me, I nod not understanding what he was getting at “you know what that means don’t you? The guy you and Harry went to see did end up telling them, he’s probably got an award, most likely money” he says, wait he’s right Recce said he was gonna tell people where I was, so he could get some award for finding me.
“That jerk!” I say standing up annoyed crossing my arms “he seemed so nice before, guys are jerks” I say, Ryan walks over to me with a smile.  
“If that was true, then I’d be a jerk,” he smiles standing in front of me, I smile my arms remaining crossed.
“It appears so” I smirk, he laughs leaning in for a kiss but before our lips touched the door knocked. 
“May I come in?” a woman’s voice asks, I look up at Ryan who just sighs walking over to the bed. 
“Yes you can com-”  I say before I could finish my sentence the door opens and in walks a smartly dressed woman, holding a short dress in one hand and a dress shirt and trousers over the other. 
“Great, I’ve been informed that you are due to have dinner with your parents, uncle and cousins tonight, “she says, walking into the bedroom placing the shirt and trousers in Ryan’s lap “you have to be dressed appropriately,” she says looking me up and down before passing me the dress, making her way over to the door but stopping “I’ll be back in 30 minutes to check everything is right”she tells us, before closing the door behind her.
Once the door closed, I turned to Ryan who was still sat on the bed smiling.
“Okay what just happened?” I ask as he stands with the clothes in his hands.
“Honestly I have no idea, but it seemed like we have dinner reservations,” he says, but I still wasn’t happy that woman insulted me with her eyes!
“Whoever that woman was came in and criticised my outfit,” I say looking down at myself, I was still wearing my denim shorts and my white top, I don’t see anything wrong with it.
“You look great, but I don’t think that is a good look for a dinner with your fancy parents,” he tells me, which annoyed me even more.
“You know I should just wear this, if I’m that important to those people they won’t care what I choose to wear,” I say, but h/ takes the dress out my hands and holds it up so we could have a look. 
“I mean yeah you could do that, but it would mean you couldn’t wear this, I mean you’d look incredible,” he says, I have to admit I would regret if I didn’t wear this dress it was really pretty, it was white with a lace top and a silky skirt, it looks like it would stop just above my knee. 
“Okay I’ll wear the dress, but it isn’t for them it’s because I know I’ll look incredible,” I say taking the dress from him making my way to the bathroom to get changed,  I knew Ryan was smiling behind me.
I was putting the dress on when I hear the bedroom door open, the woman from before voice echoing.
“Hurry, dinner starts in 15 minutes and you’re only half of the way ready,” she shouts, I take a look at myself in the mirror but I could even think, wow I look good, as she starts to knock on the door.
I sigh walking over opening the bathroom door, where the first thing she does is look me up and down taking my hand dragging me back into the bedroom, she didn’t even say hi or said I looked good, she just looked me up and down.
“Now we have to pair this dress with jewellery,” she tells nw moving my hair trying to take the necklace that Ryan gave me for my birthday off,  but like he said it wouldn’t budge.
“I want to keep the necklace on, it was a gift from my mate,” I say, but like always she opened her annoying mouth.
“But it doesn’t go well with the dress,” she says looking at me in the mirror that we were standing in front of us, but I shake my head. 
“I don’t care, it was a gift from my mate so it’s staying whether it matches the dress or not,” I say, she just sighs and moves to get me shoes as she does, in the mirror I see Ryan leaning against the door frame with his arms crossed smiling.
“Here white heels, at least one thing you’ll be wearing will match,” she says handing me the heels before she walks out the room annoyed. 
I put the heels on as Ryan walks towards me still smiling.
“Thanks for keeping the necklace on,” he says grabbing my hands in his, the smile still on his face.
“I love the necklace, it’s going nowhere and besides I wasn’t gonna let her take control of my whole outfit was I?”  I smile, he leans in about to kiss me but once again the door knocks just before our lips could touch.
“Dinner in 2 minutes,” the annoying woman who keeps coming back says from the other side. 
“We better go your parents are waiting,” Ryan says trying to pull away, but I stop him.
“They’ve been waiting for 16 years, they can survive two more minutes” I smile crashing my lips onto his.