Texas is gray for five more seconds, before flooding beautiful, beautiful, unmistakable, Lake LBJ blue.
A source tells The Sun that Henry and the First Son have been at odds ever since their first meeting at the Rio Olympics, and the animosity has only grown—these days, they can’t even be in the same room with each other.
“I don’t know. Doing what we do is fucking hard. But it’s harder for me. I’m the son of the first female president.”
“I’m really going to have you offed,” Henry tells him. “You’ll never see it coming. Our assassins are trained in discretion. They will come in the night, and it will look like a humiliating accident.”
“Autoerotic asphyxiation?”
“Toilet heart attack.”
“Jesus.”
“Ugh! Men!” she groans. “No emotional vocabulary. I can’t believe our ancestors survived centuries of wars and plagues and genocide just to wind up with your sorry ass.”
She flings one arm out emphatically enough to upset an entire potted cactus on her dresser and says, “Because until now you weren’t fucking the Prince of England!”
“Well, you don’t have to like him, you just have to put on a happy face and not cause an international incident at his brother’s wedding.”
“Bug, when do I ever not put on a happy face?” Alex says. He pulls a painfully fake grin, and June looks satisfyingly repulsed.
An ancient issue of J14, opened to a center page. The photograph of Henry, age thirteen.
He glances up. “You knew?”
He rolls onto his side and listens, trails the back of his hand across the pillow next to him and imagines Henry lying opposite in his own bed, two parentheses enclosing 3,700 miles.
“So my full name is . . . Henry George Edward James Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor.”
Alex gapes up at the ceiling. “Oh . . . my God.”
“Truly.”
“I thought Alexander Gabriel Claremont-Diaz was bad.”
