An Officer and a Princess by Carla Cassidy

Author:Carla Cassidy
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2001-08-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

On the way back, they stopped at a small café for lunch.

“How did you know where Nicholas was?” Isabel asked as they waited for their orders.

“Ben told me,” Adam explained. “We figured Prince Nicholas would want to be kept apprised of what we were doing and might be hungry for news from the palace.”

“He looked tired.”

Adam nodded. “Yes, he did.” He paused to take a sip of his water. “This has got to be hard on him. From what I understand, he, Rebecca and LeAnn are being moved about every week or so to ensure their anonymity and safety.”

“At least they have each other to cling to,” Isabel said, remembering the gentle touch of their hands, the look of intense love that had flowed from her brother to his wife. “That has to be an enormous comfort.”

She opened her napkin and placed it on her lap, her thoughts still filled with the couple they had just left. Once again a yearning filled her and she felt as if she had a hole in her soul.

“Nicholas looks at her as if his world begins and ends with her, and she looks at him the same way. Love can be so beautiful.”

One of Adam’s dark eyebrows rose slightly. “I’ve never heard you express such sentimentality before.”

She felt a blush warm her face and at the same time his words somehow made her angry. It was as if he were negating a vital dimension of her heart, the very feminine part of her.

She leaned forward. “Just because I don’t talk about it doesn’t mean I don’t feel things like that,” she exclaimed vehemently. “I don’t think there is anything as beautiful in the world as the kind of love that lasts a lifetime.”

“Okay,” he said slowly, as if surprised by her outburst.

At that moment the waitress appeared with their orders. As she served them, Isabel gathered her thoughts, wanting Adam to understand the transformations she felt had occurred inside her.

“I think maybe you were right when you said I was somehow trying to prove something to my father,” she began when the waitress had once again departed from their table. “When we started this whole undercover business, I wanted to show him that I was smart enough, strong enough and good enough to save him. I wanted him to realize that he’d made a mistake when he forced me to give up my military career. Now none of that seems important anymore. I just want to find him because I love him, because Nicholas and Dominique love him and because my mother is absolutely heartbroken without him.”

“And because the country needs him,” Adam added.

For some reason, his words once again irritated her. “It isn’t always about the country.” She sat back in her chair and eyed him intently, deciding now was the time to ask him what she’d wanted to know for some time. “Do you have a woman in your life, Adam? Is there somebody special?”

His eyes were dark opaque clouds, impossible to see behind.

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