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Okay, so maybe that hadn’t been exactly how the day had unfolded, but who said she couldn’t use some creative license and remember the fun parts And with Grayson’s lips pressed to hers, this was the best part of all

When he pulled back, she looked up at him “What was that for?”

“So you don’t have to lie to anyone When they ask why you slipped away, you’ll have a very good reason” His voice arm and deep

She wasn’t quite sure what to say In that moment, she wasn’t sure she trusted herself to speak Her heart was still beating wildly in her chest

“What?” He studied her for ato say?”

She sed hard “Yes Let’s look at this note”

Under a light along the sidewalk, they stopped Annabelle carefully removed the note frorate in her hands, but luckily it didn’t

When she had it unfolded, she asked, “Can you tell what it says?”

Grayson studied the paper “There’s soht I can’t et back to the palace”

And so they set off for home Annabelle didn’t knohich had her stoe or the very unexpected, very stirring kiss

This was impossible

The next hed and leaned back on the couch in the palace’s library They both studied the note

The paper was old and weathered And worse yet, soive up And he couldn’t blaive up either

“What are we going to do?” Annabelle asked, sitting down beside him

“Find a solution” He opened his laptop and started typing keywords into the search engine about recovering writing froly, results were immediately available “At last an answer”