Her Royal Husband (Crown & Glory Book 4) by Cara Colter

Author:Cara Colter [Colter, Cara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction, Forever Love, Bachelor, Single Mother, Sensual Story Theme, Hearts Desire, Multicultural & International, The Prince, Royal of Penwyck, Life-Changes, Second Chance Reunion, Honesty & Trust, Home & Family, Lifetime Love, Romantic Schemes, Beautiful & Feisty, Love-Family & Forever, Foreign Country, Action & Adventure, Crown & Glory Series, Multi-Author Collection, Family & Domestic Life-Young Child-Daughter
Publisher: Silhouette Special Releases
Published: 2010-03-04T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

“Your Royal Highness, we’ll just brief you with the details we have.”

Both Jordan and Owen were once again dressed, he in a gray double-breasted suit he had borrowed. Amongst all these well-dressed men, she was decidedly out of place in her old kitchen whites with the chocolate dribble down the front. Still, perhaps it was the outfit that helped make her invisible. She was able to observe without anyone paying the least attention to her.

Jordan had known Owen only as a carefree and somewhat reckless boy. And no matter what he said about duty, she did not understand precisely what that meant to Owen until the exact moment that man—Owen had called him Cole—had come and dropped down onto one knee beside Owen at the pool.

She had watched Owen transform before her eyes, from a young man into a prince. Not a prince in the way she had ever thought of that position: rich, pampered, catered to, out of touch with the real world.

And not a prince as Owen had demonstrated it since she had arrived on Penwyck: a man who could command carriages and conjure ponies and provide scrumptious picnic lunches with the snap of fingers.

No, a prince in a different way.

A prince among men. She had watched his face change, as the news of the mine disaster was relayed to him. His features became grave, somber. She had seen a light flicker to life deep in his eyes and had recognized it as courage, pure and undiluted. She had seen a firmness in the set of his mouth that she had not noticed before. She had watched him draw a deep breath as if he drew strength into the broadness of his chest. He had set his shoulders with resolve, as though he were ready to take on the weight of the world.

What Jordan saw was not just emerging maturity, but something greater, a kind of agelessness. She knew, in that moment, why people wanted Owen to be king.

He had an indefinable quality that the word charisma didn’t quite encompass. It was presence, a way of being.

She watched now, keenly observant, as Owen became the center, as men older and more seasoned than he looked toward him, deferred to him, gave him a respect that went far beyond the title of Your Royal Highness that he was addressed with. Somehow he had earned the deference of these men, and Jordan had the startling thought that somehow, in that wondrous summer of laughter and love, she had managed to miss the essence of Owen.

The thought astonished her. And intrigued her.

A helicopter came overhead, and she looked up at it. Yellow and black, it had the royal crest emblazoned on the bottom of it.

In California he had seemed like just another penniless student. Once they had rented a convertible for a day, explored the twisting coastal highway, and it had seemed so deliciously extravagant.

It hurt to realize even that had been part of the lie, the deception he had played on her.

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