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"I'll check up on you once a week and when something is wrong call me." Mal said as she personally drove Regina to her new home. "Mal I think I can handle myself." Mal sighed. "I know you can but as good as he looks, everyone has a crazy side." Mal always had been protecting over Regina, always checking up on her after she spend the night with specific clients, and now she even drove her to her new temporary home, while their were plenty of drivers available to get that job done.

"If he goes crazy, which I doubt, I'll call you." She comforted her friend. "What did you tell your parents?" Regina swallowed. "I didn't tell them anything, I can still cancel all this after a week, so until it's certain that I'm going to be his fiancé I won't tell them." She knew she had to tell them eventually, the chance she signed the contract after this week was pretty big. She just wasn't ready for their reactions.

"Here it is." Mal said after she stilled the car in front of a large gate. The house behind his was huge, immense, their where several cars parked before the house and their were also a few people standing outside of the house.

Without saying anything else they got out of the car. She recognized Mary-Margaret standing next to the three people that were obviously waiting for her arrival. "Regina, so good to see you again." At Regina's surprise the short brunette wrapped her arms around her. "Oh hey good to see you to." Regina said slightly overwhelmed by the sudden contact.

"I'd like you to meet a few people." Mary continued as Regina looked around the property, searching for Mr. Locksley. "This is Mrs Lukas, but we all call her Granny. She'll makes sure you get the best food you've ever tasted." Regina politely shook the woman's hand as she smiled at her. "This is Ruby her granddaughter, she'll keep this house as clean as possible and she helps Mrs. Lukas around." Regina again introduced herself by shaking her hand. "At your service." Ruby smiled brightly. "And last but definitely not least we have August Booth, the butler of the residence." For the last time she handed someone her hand. "A pleasure to finally meet you."

His comment got her confused and she quickly looked at Mary who just nodded and so she smiled at him and tolled him the same. After that she said goodbye to Mal, hugging her tight, unsure of how her life would be these next couple of months.

After Mal left everything went in high speed modus. August got her bags and brought them to her room, Mrs. Lukas or Granny offered to make lunch for her and Ruby was certain to get to know everything about her by asking about a million questions.

"Ruby why don't you gave Ms. Mills some time to settle down." Mary said in a slightly stern tone, to Regina's surprise it worked and the girl left the room, leaving Regina and Mary sitting at a coffee table in a giant room with more space than furniture.

"They don't know about the deal?" Regina whispered, afraid someone would overhear them. "No I told you just you Mal and Mr. Locksley." Regina nodded, wondering what and how much he had told about her. "And where is Mr. Locksley himself?" She asked another question, finding it rather strange he wasn't present when she had arrived.

"He'll meet you at dinner tonight, he said he looked forward to it and hoped you would make yourself at home." She nodded again, taking in the giant white room she was sitting in. "So what do you think?" Mary asked with a even bigger smile than she had before. "It's a bit overwhelming, surreal even. But I think I can get used to this."

After Mary-Margaret gave her the grand tour Regina ended up in her bedroom, it was bigger than her entire apartment and she wondered why Mr. Locksley would want to live in such a big house all by hisself. She thought about the next six months, she was definitely gonna buy a bigger apartment with all the money she got out of this. But still it felt weird to get paid for being his fake plus one to parties. She normally would get paid doing other things than being someones fake "

"Oh I'm sorry, I didn't know you were in here." Ruby said as she already wanted to close the door before Regina stopped her. "No problem, I'll find another room to sit in." Regina said smiling at the young woman. She stood up from the bed and walked to the door. "Are you sure? I can come back later.." Yet again Regina smiled. "I believe there are more than enough rooms in this house, I'm sure I can find one to sit in." And then she left her room and wandered over the hall.

How could a man be happy in this house, she felt lonely already and she just arrived. Maybe he's unhappy, or so focussed on his job that he is barely home. Regina looked around, there were a few rooms Mary didn't show her. His bedroom to start with and another few rooms Mary had ignored. It got Regina curious, did this well known business man had something to hide? Some dark secrets the world couldn't know.

Regina chuckled, she only arrived a few hours ago and she already went crazy. It were going to be six long boring months.

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"Mr. Locksley is ready for you Ms. Mills." August said when he found her in her room. "You can call me Regina." She said politely and followed him into the giant dinner room. And that's when she first saw him, well his back, she first saw his back. "Ruby what did I tell you.." Regina saw how the girls face turned red. "I'm Sorry Mr.." She shook her head, obviously struggling. "Robin." She corrected herself. "Can you ask Granny to make two plates ready? You can bring them outside."

Regina looked at the enormous table full of food and wondered how Mrs. Lukas was gonna put all of that on one plate. "And why don't you eat from all of this, give yourself a break." He said mention August and Granny too. "Thank you sir.. eh Robin." Ruby quickly excused herself.

"Robin she's here." August said, obviously more comfortable with calling Mr. Locksley by his first name. He then turned around and Regina quickly understand why he was one of the most wanted bachelors. He was one of the most handsome man she had ever met. "August can you give us a moment." August did as his boss say and before Regina knew it they were alone.

"Ms Mills, It's a pleasure to finally meet you." He took her hand in his and brought it up to his face before he placed a kiss on it. "The pleasure is mine and you can call me Regina." He let go of her hand and took a moment to look at her, even more beautiful than the pictures he saw of her. "You can call me Robin and I hope you find that easier than Ruby." He said and it earned him a smile, one of the most beautiful smiles he'd ever seen.

"And I'm sorry about this.." He said, waving at the table. "They went a little overboard, I prefer to keep it a little more.. simple." Regina nodded and looked at the fully decorated table once again. "Now if you don't mind I'll go upstairs to change into something more comfortable, I'll be back in a minute, there's a lounge outside.." He wanted to explain where she could find it but she nodded. "I'll find it." She smiled again and he did the same before he walked away.

"I'm sorry to let you wait." He said when he returned in a simple white shirt with a pair of jeans. She was surprised by his outfit choice, she had expect him to be that kind of businessman who even slept with a tie on. But this.. this looked good on him, really good.

"No problem." She said, watching him as he sat down next to her. "So how was your day? I'm sorry I couldn't be there when you arrived, I hope everything went fine?" All her expectations were washed away. He wasn't as much of a self-absorbed jerk as she thought he would be, he actually was pretty.. nice. "Everything went great, thank you for the room it is beautiful." She stroked a strand of hair behind her ear.

"I'm glad you like it, if there is anything you need, just talk to August he's in charge of basically everything here." She nodded again. Ruby came walking outside, carrying to plates. "Ah thanks Ruby, just put them on the table." Ruby did and quickly walked back inside to come back a few seconds later with cutlery.

"Are you comfortable with eating on a couch?" Regina chuckled, no one would belief her if she told them Mr. Locksley just said that to her. "I am, are you?" She returned the question, getting more comfortable every minute. "I'm pretty comfortable as long as there is food." Regina smiled at the ground and watched as he took a plate and handed it to her before he took his own plate and placed it on his lap. He then handed her a fork and knife.

"I hope you like chicken." He said and then they started to eat. "Mary told me about tomorrow's dinner party." Regina started. "That's right, would you like to come with me?" His question surprised her. "Isn't that what I get paid for?" He smiled as he took another bite of his food. "Well you just got here, I thought maybe you'd like some time to adjust?" She smiled softly, nothing like she expected.

"I'd like to come with you, although I do have some questions." Now he was the one nodding and so she went on. "What do we tell people, I mean there are going to be a lot of questions I think." Robin chuckled, loving the fact she already wanted to prepare for that. "Mary came up with a story of us meeting on the street, I spilled my coffee on you and we instantly fell in love, something like that." Regina laughed, laughed hard. And Robin's face instantly lit up at the sound of that.

"Seriously? No one is going to believe that." She said amused. "Do you have a better idea?" Regina thought for a moment. "I could be friends with Ruby, met you when I came to pick up Ruby for a friendship thing?" Robin thought about it and then spoke. "We can't Ruby knows it's not true.." Right Regina forgot, his staff didn't know either. "Speaking of that.. Isn't it weird for them that I have a own room?" Robin winked at her. "Not that I want that to change.." She immediately added. "Mary told them that we are ehm.. waiting until we get married?" He said and for the first time she saw that he blushed.

"Well I guess that's.. believable?" It stayed quiet for a while. And then they both started to laugh. "This is absolute madness, believe me I've never done anything like this in my whole life." He started which only made her laugh more. "Believe me, pretending to be someones fiancé is not something I do on a regular base either." Again there was a silence.

"But we'll make it work." She said, seeing he was slightly worried, hoping she could comfort him. "Thank you for doing this." He said. "I really hope we will make the best out of it." She looked him in his eyes for a moment, already feeling comfortable in his presence.

"More questions?" He asked, as he put his plate back on the table. "When we are in public, how do you want me to act around you. I mean.." Now she was the one blushing. "I know what you mean." He smiled. "Well, if it's okay with you I want it to look as real as possible, kisses, touching, everything that normal engaged people would do." She nodded, he really though about this. "I can do that." She did way worse with some of her clients, a few kisses and holding hands were nothing.

"Oh and Mary helped me to pick out a dress for tomorrow, but if you don't like it you can go shopping tomorrow if you want?" Regina felt like some sort of princes, shopping dresses, going to fancy dinner parties, being engaged to this handsome successful man, well it's a fake engagement but still he will hold her hand tomorrow, kiss her cheek, maybe even her mouth.

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So there's Robin, not the tough businessman you guys expected I hope ;)

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