A Kiss for the King by Barbara Cartland

Author:Barbara Cartland
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781782130796
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
Published: 2012-07-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Anastasia awoke to find that she was alone.

For a moment it was difficult to remember what had happened the night before.

Then she recalled that she had talked to the King until gradually she found her voice getting slower and slower, and she must have fallen asleep even while they were still talking.

She turned her head now.

In the faint light of the sunshine coming into the room from the sides of the curtains, she could see the dent in the pillow where he had rested his head.

When he had left her, he must also have deliberately turned back the bedclothes to make it look as if he had been sleeping in the bed.

It had been a sensible idea, Anastasia thought, and would undoubtedly deceive the servants in the Palace. But she could not help wondering if anyone else had ever spent such a strange wedding night.

She had been relieved beyond words that the King had not been angry, as she had feared he would be when she had explained her feelings to him.

Now, lying in the great bed where many reigning Queens had slept before her, she wondered if they had been beset by a similar problem and if they too had been married knowing their husband cared for someone else.

An image of the Comtesse le Granmont came vividly to her mind. With her slanting, sensuous black eyes and her curving red mouth that seemed to suggest far more than she said in words, and the grace of her long neck and sinuous body Anastasia could see her attraction for men.

‘She is so chic, so polished, so absolutely sure of herself,’ Anastasia thought unhappily, and realised once again how young and ignorant she was.

But the King had been kind and understanding when she had told him she felt it would be wrong for them to make love together.

Hidden at the back of her mind had been the fear that he might overrule her arguments, not with words, but by insisting on his rights as her husband.

She had known that in that event there would be nothing she could do, no one to whom she could appeal for help. Yet she wondered now if it would have been as alarming or indeed as horrifying as she had told herself it would be.

But that was before she had seen him – that was when she had thought of him as stern, aloof, hard and inhuman.

In actual fact he was none of those things.

He was fascinating and attractive, and yet at the same time Anastasia admitted that she was still a little frightened of him.

She found herself wishing that she knew more about men and had more experience of them.

Then she thought she would know instinctively what she wanted, what she should do.

But what did she want?

The question seemed to leap out at her almost as if someone had spoken the words.

And she knew the answer.

She wanted to make the King fall in love with her.

She wanted him to love her, not the

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