Falling for the Princess by Sandra Hyatt

Author:Sandra Hyatt
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-09-19T04:00:00+00:00

Seven

Rebecca sat in the car given to her for the evening by the chief of security. It wasn’t one she’d driven before. And never before had she sat so uncertain for so long.

Out of a desire to preserve the architectural heritage of San Philippe, there were no true high-rises in the city. So it was easy enough to look up at Logan’s riverfront penthouse apartment.

But what if Logan’s yes hadn’t actually been in response to the question she’d wanted to, but hadn’t quite asked? What if his yes had been “yes, I’ll teach you to row a boat.” He hadn’t called her or made any attempt to contact her to discuss her question. Admittedly, it had only been a matter of hours since she’d asked it but if she didn’t act now she’d lose her nerve. His windows revealed nothing. All she could make out was that lights were on inside. She looked from those uninformative windows to the phone clutched in her hand.

Spineless. Time to either go through with her plan or go home.

Men were supposed to like the hunt, the thrill of the chase. She knew that much. Desperate women who threw themselves at men were desperately unappealing. Then again, she didn’t need Logan to like her, she just needed him to…help her.

On the ancient bridge spanning the river, couples walked hand in hand. Women leaned heads on partners’ shoulders, so trusting, so gently intimate. Two looking almost as one. And here she was sitting alone in her car.

Following the photo session and then the meeting, her father had wanted a private conversation with her this evening. But she’d figured she’d face an inquisition over Logan so she’d cried off, explaining she’d already arranged to see Logan, knowing that her father would be in Switzerland for the next couple of days. She was becoming quite adept at evasion, at telling…things that weren’t quite the truth. In her head she could almost hear Logan challenging her to call it what it was—a lie.

The only person she was practiced at lying to was herself. For so long she’d pretended she didn’t have wants and needs of her own. In the time she’d known Logan he had made her far too conscious of her self-deceit. And more than anything else he made her conscious of those wants and needs.

She lifted her phone then closed her eyes and doubt flooded in.

She couldn’t go through with it. What was she even doing here? What had she been thinking? She was not, and never would be, a normal woman. She’d never walked with her head resting on a man’s shoulder. Because she couldn’t depend on a man like that. She couldn’t trust Logan—or any man—like that.

Because if you didn’t trust someone they couldn’t betray you. Trusting someone gave them power over you.

And Logan was too much an unknown quantity. Too unpredictable. Too uncontrollable. She had too much to lose.

A light rain began to fall, refracting the light on her windshield, obscuring the world outside, making it shimmer.

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