Thank you to everyone for your comments on 'Fate' and I hope you enjoy this new story. It was inspired by the Royal wedding last summer and challenged by a friend of mine and I ran through a few ideas (Royal and maid? Pregnant royal?), before this concept jumped into my head so hopefully you like it.

Let me know, with your reviews!

Ang

Prologue

"I don't know what to do with her anymore…" King Joseph Montez of Ecuador sighed as he sat in his drawing room, taking whisky.

"The same with my boy," King Jack Bolton of Massachusetts agreed as he sipped his spirit.

"Is it because they are second-born do you think?" Joseph tried to work out where they each had gone wrong with their children; borne of royalty and raised strictly but somewhere, something had gone awfully wrong.

Jack nodded. "It's not easy for them…"

Joseph reddened in the face. "It still does not excuse Gabriella's behavior…she has had many warnings, been to many therapists and classes and yet she still insists on flouting every palace rule…"

"Troy, too," Jack agreed. "He behaves like a delinquent from the streets…"

"So what shall we do?" Joseph wondered, perplexed.

"That's why we're here, isn't it?" Jack mused. "To invent the ultimate punishment."

Joseph's face lifted with his brows. "I have an idea…"

"Well do share, old man," Jack encouraged.

"I have an island off the South Pacific. It is abandoned- owned by me and with no transportation except of that I arrange. I suggest we send the pair of them to paradise and let them live in hell…"

Jack frowned, a little nervous at the ethnic man's strong words. "What do you mean?"

"Army sergeant Buck Taylor runs the harshest drill camp I know, let's put him out there with them and see how they deal with authority then…" The darker- skinned man smiled in satisfaction.

"Do you not think that's a little…over the top?" Jack hedged, imagining his wayward son trapped on an island with an Army Sergeant and a misbehaving princess.

"Do you not think they have brought us enough shame and embarrassment?" Joseph arched back and Jack thinned his lips and sighed.

"You're right."

"We have failed them and we must put things right before it is too late…they will never marry while they run mischief in our own back yards…"

Jack shook his head. "Troy already sabotaged an engagement with Princess Georgia of Kentucky," he conceded.

"How many more ruined engagements?" Joseph wondered. "How many more tabloids? How many more times do I need to be told my daughter is out in the night clubs dancing half-dressed?"

Jack smiled thinly. "Believe me; Troy has had his fair share of misdemeanors."

"Then let us show them who is boss…"

"Do you think this is the right thing? Putting them out there together?" Jack hedged.

"They both have a love for the party-life, let them bond over assault courses and army food."

Jack licked his lips and cast his ice-blue eyes up to Joseph's rich brown ones.

"I'll send Troy on the next boat." He confirmed and Joseph nodded.

"The Royal Island awaits its inhabitants…" Joseph smirked. "Let this be a lesson learned."