The Winter Princess by Keira Dominguez EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Keira Dominguez
- Language: English
- Formats: PDF / EPUB
- Status: Available For Free Download
- Genre: Holiday Romance
- Price: Free
- File Size: 2 MB
- Published Date: March 15, 2023
Not Nice
FREJA
I can’t blame this disaster on Oskar Velasquez.
Opening the notebook and adjusting the microphone, I smile at the
assembled guests in The National Museum. A whisper of unease feathers
through me, but I note my mortal enemy holding up an entire wall of Dutch
Masters. Spite carries me forward.
“Welcome to The Nat,” I begin, a little tight. “Thank you for supporting
the arts in Sondmark.”
The crowd is too large and the event too ostentatious for a lecture to kick
off a new exhibit. My speech was supposed to involve a projector screen,
folding chairs, and a lectern in a room that might fit twenty. Thanks to the
press and their wall-to-wall coverage of my little sister and her nationalhero, Navy-officer boyfriend, our mother needed something to disrupt the
news cycle.
What better event than a gala with jewels, fashion, and every prince and
princess Sondmark could throw at it? Five of us flung like balloons of paint
against an Arduino canvas. Splat, splat, splat, splat, splat. I swallow down
the frustration and embarrassment of having my own event taken out of my
hands and turned into just another royal engagement.
Oskar shifts, folding his arms over his chest, looking bored and, it must
be admitted, handsome in a tuxedo, the white of the shirtfront contrasting
nicely with his skin. Though he didn’t cause this disaster—only bears
witness to it—I allow my worries and irritations about the evening to flutter
around his head like moths in the light until I can just about convince
myself it’s his fault.
I jerk my eyes to the page and continue my remarks, entitled The Heart
in the Machine: Romantic Painters and the Industrial Revolution, a radical
reimagining of the presentation I had prepared, its dense footnotes and
references starved back to a string of bullet points and an amusing bit about
steam engines.
Beyond the crowd, soft-footed catering staff prepare the lavish banquet,
and I want to curl up into a ball. It’s too much.
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