Cinderella Unmasked by Bonnie Dee & Marie Treanor

Author:Bonnie Dee & Marie Treanor [Dee, Bonnie & Treanor, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, General, Fiction, Fantasy, Suspense, Adult
ISBN: 9781605047324
Google: DBHKlp2gHGAC
Amazon: 1605047325
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Published: 2010-06-01T05:00:00+00:00

List in hand, Sebastian left his office to go to the kitchen and confer with the cook about the upcoming banquet and Euphemia’s special diet. He descended one of the back staircases and as he turned the corner, his attention was on the paper he carried, so he ran into the woman coming from the opposite direction.

His eyes widened to meet Ella here in the servants’ area, although he shouldn’t have been surprised. Her Highness was likely to be found in any part of the castle, her sensibilities not too refined for her to be involved in the mechanics of how her household was run.

His heart pounded from the mere sight of her. She was dressed in a simple yellow frock that matched her hair, which was wrapped in a white head scarf. Curling tendrils escaped the scarf and framed her face, flushed from the heat of the kitchens. She was absolutely adorable. It was all he could do not to grab her and kiss her right there at the foot of the stairs.

“Highness.” Sebastian bowed and stepped aside so she could pass.

“Sebastian, just who I need to see.” She smiled, and his breath stopped. His chest ached as if he had pneumonia. His symptoms were getting worse. Fighting his attraction to the queen had long been a trial. Since the events of the balls it had become absolute torture.

“What may I do for you, Madam?” He forced his eyes to meet hers rather than stray to her plump cleavage displayed by the scoop neck of her dress.

Her expression as she gazed at him was caught between a smile and a frown. “There’s no need to speak so formally, Sebastian. I’d hoped we could talk for a bit.” Flip. His stomach jumped like a fish on the surface of a lake. This was it. She was finally going to confront him about everything that had happened between them. She knew. He knew she knew.

She laid a hand on his arm. “Let’s step outside. I’m sweltering hot from the kitchen.” He felt the light touch of her hand even through the sleeve of his jacket. She burned him.

Sebastian glanced at the woman beside him, enchanted again by her disheveled appearance.

Was this how she’d dressed before she became a queen? He could scarcely picture her drudging away in her stepmother’s kitchen. Ever since he’d known her, she’d been a royal, far out of his league. But today, this minute, as they walked together with her arm linked through his in the weak sunlight of a cloudy day, he felt like her equal, even her partner. Long before she’d been a queen, Ella had been a merchant’s daughter and then a servant in her own home.

She wasn’t a star to his earth, but a mortal woman with the sexual needs and the desire for love of any woman.

If he stopped walking, turned toward her and bent his head only a little, he could kiss her.

Would she pull away or curve her hand around

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