Falling for the Secret Prince by Alison Roberts

Author:Alison Roberts
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-07T13:40:11+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

THE CHRISTMAS CHARITY fundraising gala was still days away but Emilia had already had far too much time to think about it.

To think about Domenico.

Not that she’d seen much of him since the night they’d had dinner together. Even when their schedules could have allowed them to meet for a run in the park, the weather had been cold and wet enough to prevent that happening. There’d even been sleet one day and weather forecasts were predicting snow before Christmas. Trauma team callouts had been few and far between as well and Emilia had missed two of them because she’d been in Theatre and the cases had been complicated enough not to be able to let her senior resident take over. Their paths had crossed yesterday in the ICU when Emilia had been making one of her regular visits to follow the progress of Roberto’s recovery from his leg injury but that had been a strictly professional interaction. Until, that was, Dom had tilted his head and lowered his voice as if he was saying something about the notes Emilia had made in Roberto’s patient file that he didn’t want anybody else to hear.

‘Got that dress yet?’ he’d murmured.

Emilia had shaken her head. ‘Haven’t had time to go shopping,’ she said quietly. ‘And I’m not really sure I want to go. I don’t even know how to dance.’

The amused glint in Dom’s eyes had told her that he thought he knew exactly what was bothering her—that, like him perhaps, she hated doing something in public unless she knew she could do it very, very well.

‘You’re coming,’ he’d said softly. ‘You’re going to show the world that you’re capable of doing anything, Dr Featherstone.’ His lips twitched. ‘Even wearing a dress...’

So, here she was. In one of Seattle’s largest department stores, in the area devoted to evening dresses and ballgowns. With spacious changing rooms and a huge, gilt-framed mirror for anyone who wanted to come out of the private cubicles to get the full effect of the gown they were trying on.

‘Do you need some help in there?’

‘No... I’m good. I don’t think I like this, though.’

‘Come out and look in the big mirror. It can make a difference.’

But the classic ‘little black dress’ Emilia was trying didn’t look any better from a distance, even when she held her hair up to pretend she had a sophisticated evening updo to go with it. The black fabric made her skin look far too pale and there was rather too much of it on show with that short skirt length.

‘It makes me look like a member of the Addams family,’ she sighed. ‘Or like I’m on my way to a Hollywood funeral. It’s not right for a Christmas ball, is it?’

‘Hmm...’ The grey-haired senior shop assistant—Margie, according to her name badge—pursed her lips as the gaze she had focussed on Emilia became thoughtful. ‘It’s not the Seattle General Christmas gala that you’re going to, is it?’

‘It is.’

‘Lucky you. That’s the most A-list party we get around these parts.

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