Harlequin Romance May 2019 Box Set by Cara Colter Sophie Pembroke therese beharrie Michelle Douglas

Author:Cara Colter, Sophie Pembroke, therese beharrie, Michelle Douglas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

W ARD STOOD VERY still as Maddie searched his face, looking, he knew, for a truth she could hold on to. That everything would be all right.

She had no way of knowing that, as a prince, he often had the power and the resources to make everything right, and so when her shoulders dropped ever so slightly, and her forehead relaxed and a light came on in the deep green pools of her soulful eyes, he felt gratified.

She trusted him. Not the Prince of Havenhurst, but him. It was a first for him, to be trusted not for his influence and status—for what he could do for someone—but for something she saw in him. Ward felt some deep pleasure unfurl within him.

Of course, it was complicated. The very fact that she had no idea who he really was probably negated the heady trust he saw shining in her mossy eyes.

But he shook that off, and he took an imaginary necklace of worries from his own neck and hung it on the branch beside hers.

“You have worries?” she said.

“Aye, everyone has worries.”

“And what are yours?”

It was a simple question. It occurred to him he had never confided his worries to anyone, except maybe ever so casually, every now and then, to Lancaster. What she was offering was different. And dangerous.

He backed swiftly away from the sanctuary he saw in her eyes. They were strangers. He was going to enjoy a day of reprieve from his true identity. End of story.

He tapped the branch. “I’ve left them here. Today isn’t a good day for worries of any kind. Perhaps when I pick them back up, I’ll share them with you.”

This, of course, was a lie. Still, hanging up his worries did not feel like a lie. It felt as if he had also hung up the remaining threads of who he was. Today, he was just an ordinary man. It felt like a gift.

For this brief moment in time—Prince Edward Alexander of Havenhurst—could be normal, experience normal, delight in normal. No one was watching his every move; the mantle of duty had been removed.

And he suspected Maddie needed normal as much as he did at this point in her life. Could they just be two ordinary people, enjoying each other, and these moments they had been given, before surrendering to the rigors and demands of the lives that would call them back?

They came to a part of the trail that narrowed, and they had to scramble over some rocks. Like an ordinary guy he went up first, and then he held out his hand to her. She hesitated, but then, her eyes never leaving his face, she took it.

Her hand felt small in his. And surprisingly strong. He helped her up over the rocks. She let go swiftly, as soon as the obstacles had been overcome.

Oddly, he missed the sensation of her hand in his. Perhaps because, as a prince, this was one of the things he had not experienced often:

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