Her Royal Happiness by Lola Keeley

Author:Lola Keeley [Keeley, Lola]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783963246036
Goodreads: 60028462
Publisher: Ylva-Publishing
Published: 2021-12-07T17:54:14+00:00

“You like her, am I right?” Annabel said, sneaking up on Alice as she settled into one of the large leather sofas in the sitting room. James had disappeared to read bedtime stories to the children, and Caroline had returned to her solitude at Buckingham Palace. “All this ‘Sara or otherwise’…you really do like her.”

“Say what?” Alice stalled by taking a sip of her brandy. She used to loathe the stuff, but had built up a tolerance having been offered it after dinner so often. Now the sharp and smoky taste was a comfort on her tongue.

“Sara. This may have been a favour to us, but somewhere along the line you ended up smitten, I think. I can see it whenever we talk about her.”

“Just the novelty of someone out of the ordinary.” Alice refused to make eye contact, knowing she would give herself away. “How often do we get to know anyone beyond a handshake and some small talk, really?”

“Even so. A few dinners in London would have kept the press happy, but you went all out. Spending time with Libby, that impressive little flying date. You were rather bringing your A game, and now that you can walk away… I suspect you don’t quite want to.”

“Don’t you have anything better to do than speculate about my love life? Besides, you heard Mummy. She’s scouring the peerage for a forgotten lesbian daughter somewhere. The token queers of the aristocracy are about to be foisted on me like piano lessons were, and probably with just as much success.”

“Does Sara know you might be interested?”

Alice felt her cheeks flush. Damn.

Annabel cackled on noticing. “Well, that answers that question. Has anything happened between the two of you?”

“Perhaps. Nothing significant. But all it led to was a conversation about how she has no intention of being in the public eye, which the fucking paparazzi followed up perfectly by deciding to stalk her this week.”

“Have you tried calling in a favour? Warning them off?”

“As much as humanly possible, yes. But you know they’re a law unto themselves. They always make just enough money for the risk to be worth it, even more so if the decent ones have been scared away.”

Annabel took Alice’s glass and topped up both of their drinks from the decanter on the table. “And have you thought about convincing her?”

“What do you mean?” Of course, Alice had thought about convincing Sara. It was all she could think of. She leaned forward, waiting for Annabel to arrange herself cross-legged on the other end of the sofa. With her hair pinned up and make-up faded after a long day, the princess looked quite like a regular mother-of-two relaxing before bedtime.

“You cannot imagine how reluctant I was to join this circus when James started chatting me up. I was quite content to be the university girlfriend that was kept on the hush-hush, fully expecting him to ditch me as soon as we graduated, and he had the world at his feet.”

“Still took him long enough to get serious about it all, though.

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