It's Getting Hot in Heir by Jenny Gardiner

Author:Jenny Gardiner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: contemporary romance, Modern Fairy Tale, European royalty, Wealthy, Romance, Romantic comedy
Publisher: Jenny Gardiner Books
Published: 2016-05-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

They went to a small café down near the beach. The season hadn’t quite started yet, despite some warmer weather promising nice days to come. But the café was open and they were even seated on the sidewalk in front and able to watch people wander by on the beach.

“I like this place,” Gab said as she sipped a chocolate milkshake through a straw. “I mean who’d have thought you could get a real live chocolate milkshake right here in Monaforte?”

Edouardo smiled. “I actually expected you’d be more impressed with the hamburgers on the menu.”

She clapped her hands. “It was a toss-up between that and the fries,” she said. “I have to say, I sure do miss my American French fries. So close to France but so far from good old American fries.”

“So how’d a nice European girl like you turn into a yoga guru?”

Gabriella sighed. “It’s a long story.”

“If you hadn’t noticed, I don’t have anywhere to go. Or at least no way to get there.”

“You have a point there.” She smiled. “So I had a serious boyfriend at university. Or at least I was under the impression we were serious. We’d talked about marriage. We’d talked about having children together one day. We even talked about moving in together after we finished school. So I guess it was natural for me to make the leap that we had a somewhat defined future together.”

“Only he had other ideas.”

She nodded. “Yep. Took off for a job with the Royal Guard.”

“And that was mutually exclusive from being with you?”

She frowned, staring into her milkshake as the waitress delivered their food. “This looks amazing,” she said, trying to divert the conversation. She started eating her food, and Edouardo just stared at her.

“What?” she said.

“You left me dangling,” he said. “What happened with the Royal Guard?”

“That’s no life for a married man,” she said with a shrug. “You’re traveling with members of the royal family all the time. No chance to put down roots. He knew it. And I sort of did. Only he wasn’t exactly the most diplomatic about telling me.”

“What do you mean?”

“Well, one day he was gone. He left for training, didn’t so much as mention it, and that was that.”

“That was crap of him.”

“Tell me about it.”

“So how does this tie in with you being a yoga guru?”

“Oh,” she said, taking a bite of her burger. “That.”

He nodded.

“So I sort of drowned my sorrows in food,” she said. “I got really fat. Even my Italian mother was telling me to stop eating pasta. It was that bad.”

“That’s outrageous!” Edouardo said with a laugh, squeezing her hand so she knew he was just joking.

“Right? Well, it’s hard to kick the pasta habit when you’re living in Rome. Eventually I ran away to America,” she said. “That sort of sounds like I ran away to join the circus, doesn’t it?”

“Were you any good on the trapeze?” he said, winking at her.

“I’d have probably broken the thing, I was so overweight,” she said.

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