A Royal Entrapment: The Young Royals Book 3 by Emma Lea

Author:Emma Lea [Lea, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-02-28T18:00:00+00:00

Priscilla

“May I cut in?” I felt Dom stiffen in my arms as Piérre’s voice intruded on our moment.

Reluctantly, Dom stepped away from me, his eyes on me, asking me silently if I was okay with it. I gave him a barely perceptible nod and a confident smile and turned to Piérre.

“My Lord.” I gave him a shallow curtsey and saw his undisguised smirk.

Dom stepped away as Piérre took me in his arms and waltzed me away.

“To what do I owe the pleasure of your company, my Lord?” I asked him.

“I do so like it when you are agreeable instead of the hellish shrew that you’ve been lately.”

I clenched my jaw to physically stop myself from retaliating.

When I remained silent, he smirked again and then spoke, “I thought it only appropriate that I dance with my fiancée.”

“My Lord,” I said, the grip on my temper quickly eroding, “As I informed my father earlier and as I have continually reminded the both of you over the last twelve months, I am no longer betrothed to you and I have no intention of continuing this farce of an engagement.”

“You’re really not in a position to do that,” he said simply, no concern whatsoever in his tone.

“I’m not in a position to refuse your advances?” I spluttered indignantly, “Am I not in control of my own choices regarding my own person?”

“Your father and my father signed an agreement—”

“So everyone keeps reminding me, but, my Lord, I was not party to the agreement, nor did I give my consent. We no longer live in an age where father’s have control over their daughter’s love lives, this is, after all, the twenty-first century, is it not? I haven’t accidentally tumbled through a wormhole and found myself back in time?”

It was Piérre’s turn to grit his teeth, but he didn’t hold back his retort, he just kept the volume down which came over quite menacing. “You will learn to curb you tongue around me and show me some respect or there will be consequences—”

“Consequences! Ha! What do you intend to do? Take me over your knee, my Lord? I can most assuredly tell you that I will not tolerate such brutish behaviour—”

“Once we are married, you will behave or you will feel the sting of my belt buckle.”

“Threatening violence now? I do believe you forget yourself, my Lord. You are a visitor to this country, here by her Majesty’s good graces and I would not advise you threaten one of her closest friends if you do not wish to be unceremoniously tossed back over the border and into France.”

He stopped dancing and grabbed me roughly around the wrists, pulling me close so he could growl harshly in my ear. “Now listen here you little tramp. You are mine and I will not have you speak to me this way, nor will I have you gallivanting around like some trollop dancing and carousing with other men. This shrewish behaviour will come to a stop or I will remove

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