Crowned for My Royal Baby by Maisey Yates

Author:Maisey Yates
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-06-09T13:26:18+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

Marissa

I WAS MARRIED, and I was a queen.

And still, my predominant concern was the fact that I was going to a private island dressed in a very brief gold dress that left little to the imagination with a man who I was going to have a very hard time resisting if he put his mind to doing any sort of seducing.

I felt the strangest things in that moment, and I had no idea what to do with them. I was...sad and terrified and filled with guilt at leaving Lily, but there was also a strange sense of exhilaration inside of me.

I hadn’t spent even one night apart from Lily since I’d given birth four years earlier. I didn’t know what it meant to be away from her. And now I was going to a private island for a week with only this man for company. No responsibilities. Nothing.

It was an invitation to the kind of sin that I had only gotten a taste of all that time ago. If only things weren’t so complicated.

Being pampered the last couple of weeks had reminded me...that I was a woman.

Kissing Hercules twice in the last couple of weeks had reminded me that I was a woman.

Not just a mother. Not just a caregiver. But a woman. One who was sensual, and who had...needs, whether or not I had tried to suppress them. And I had tried.

Lily was well cared for, and the island was certain to be beautiful, and if it wasn’t for the fact that I didn’t trust myself, everything would be fine.

But Hercules was so big, so hot and hard and beautiful, and I had been reminded yet again today when he had kissed me at the wedding. But at least then I’d had layers of wedding gown in between our bodies, and now I had been reduced to the flimsy article made of netting and gems, and it felt like his heat, his body, was that much closer to mine.

“How come you stayed in a tux?” I asked as our plane touched the ground.

“Because you didn’t choose anything for me.”

The grin that he treated me to was wicked, almost light, and it made my heart lift, because I had not seen him look like that in...

A long time.

“Can you really leave for a week after being crowned King?”

“Yes. Everything necessary to create a smooth transition was put into place some time ago. And I knew that I would be away. Everything is set in motion. And we are a twenty-minute plane ride away. It’s not as if we can’t return home quickly if need be.”

Considering that Lily was on another island, it was a comforting thought. “There was no one else here,” he said, as the door to the plane opened.

“Well,” I said, “the pilot is here for now.”

“He will be leaving with the plane.”

He stepped out of the door and held his hand out toward me, his right foot on the second stair. “Come with me.”

I had taken his hand once before, and I had followed him wherever it led.

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