Robyn Donald - By Royal Demand by Anja

Author:Anja
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-05-07T17:54:47+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Hot with guilt as though she'd been caught peeping through a keyhole Sara straightened up. ‘I'm sorry if I'm intruding ' she said. ‘1 took a wrong turning inside and found myself here and it's so pretty.

. . .' Her voice trailed away as she met Gabe's level gaze.

'The only good thing my bastard cousin did when he took over Illyria ' he said without inflection was to protect the family heirlooms. 1'11 take you to your room.'

He stood back to let her go ahead. She glanced through an open door as she went and was surprised. No comfortable study this but a modern office set up with computers and enough electronic equipment to staff a complete business.

'This way' Gabe said taking Sara's elbow and steering her towards a door. Are you looking for something'?' The way out. But she wasn't going to tell him that. Ignoring the tiny rills of pleasure his light touch summoned she said crisply ‘1 noticed the flowers through a window and decided to see where they were.'

He appeared to accept that but at her door he said in a coolly satirical voice 'Give up Sara. Even if you get out of the castle you won't get away. And if you try again 1'11 lock your door on you all the time.'

With a glittering, defiant look she opened the door and went inside shutting it behind her. She waited for the click but none came' he had to be completely confident that she wouldn't get away.

Baulked she stared around at the horrible decor and thought of the dining room, its furniture fitting the ambience of the castle without pretension and entirely suitable.

She started to make sketches then remembered Gabe's savage comment about the usurper looking after the family heirlooms. After a moment's thought she pulled the bell-rope.

Five minutes later she was listening to the butler say 'Yes there are storerooms but I'm sorry I have no idea what's in them.'

‘Very well then. Thank you.' No doubt he was still smarting from the telling-off he'd got about letting Marya come up in his place.

And if anyone knew of the contents of those storerooms it would be Marya she thought grimly.

BY ROYAL DEMAND

ROBYN DONALD

47

HARLEQUIN PRESENTS 2559

Somehow she wasn't surprised when a knock interrupted her a few minutes later. She called out score in and braced herself.

Marya entered saying without preliminaries 'You looking for old stuff?' 'Yes I am ' Marya nodded. 'Grand Duke say is OK. So come.'

'Grand Duke'?' As they went down in the lift Sara said ‘I thought the dictator abolished all titles in Illyria. Has the Prince restored them'?' Dark eyes half-closed the maid shrugged. Always Grand Duke for us but Prince Alex decide to-to make official'?' She looked at Sara for confirmation that she'd found the right word. When Sara nodded she said slush after you engage to Grand Duke. Two-three days after.'

'Really'?' A cold emptiness beneath her ribs warned Sara that she wasn't going to like the implications of the maid's offhand comment.

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