Christina Dodd - Princess 02 by Someday My Prince

Author:Someday My Prince [Prince, Someday My]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-10-17T14:57:59+00:00

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Riding with seeming random carelessness, Laurentia urged Sterling toward the edge of the pack.

Actually, she positioned Mr. Sharparrow between her and Dom, effectively blocking Dom’s view, and when she had the Englishman’s attention, she smiled at him.

He checked in surprise, and she surged ahead, cutting around one of her huntsmen and off to the right as soon as the cliff dropped away. At once she slowed Sterling, turning him to face the galloping pack of hunters and bring him to a halt behind a tree.

Mr. Sharparrow rode past, looking frantically around, but her brown velvet riding costume matched her brown velvet gelding and helped her blend into the granite cliff. The other riders continued on their way, hallooing and laughing. She caught a glimpse of Dom, too, as he rode past, his gaze intent and narrowed.

He’d be back. He was an intelligent man. When he realized she had vanished, he would reconstruct her actions and remember the cliff. He’d curse her and come for her, and once more he’d be angry that she had not kept him informed of her intentions.

She smiled. The fingertips inside her riding gloves tingled, and excitement curled in her loins.

Yes, he’d be angry and she had no doubt she was a fool for inciting him. Yet she wanted to prove her competence in at least one arena, and a princess learned early to evade her entourage. It was the only way she ever had privacy, and in recent years it had proved to be a practical skill.

More than that, some stubbornness inside her refused to let him have his way about everything. With a man like Dom, if she didn’t establish her independence immediately, he would run roughshod over her for the rest of her life.

For the rest of her life. The phrase echoed uneasily in her mind, and as the sounds of the hunt faded in the distance, she avoided the thought with action, turning Sterling toward a cleft in the rocks and urging him forward.

Only three paths led to her cottage. She alternated routes to avoid obvious signs of use, yet without hesitation she guided Sterling between the two boulders behind her. The path took an abrupt upward swing, but Sterling had been chosen for more than speed. He had also, time and again, confirmed his deft footwork and patient nature as he carried her to the rendezvous that had dominated her life these last five years.

She concentrated as the trail narrowed and steepened still more, but when it smoothed out she could think again, and irresistibly her mind returned to Dom. To Dom, to the course she was pursuing, and to her own expectations.

For the rest of her life. What was it she expected from this unlikely mercenary? Mating, marriage, a family? A helpmate, a lover? A life as normal as was possible for a princess and the heir to the throne?

Was that what she wanted?

“Yes.” She whispered the word to the wind. “Yes, Dominic is what I want.

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