Royal Baby: His Unplanned Heir - A Prince's Secret Baby Romance by Layla Valentine & Ana Sparks

Author:Layla Valentine & Ana Sparks [Valentine, Layla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

As the cab wove through the Manhattan traffic, Eva wondered if a person could actually die from curiosity; Ari had said nothing about where they were going, or what he wanted to show her, merely insisting that he would explain when they arrived at their destination. “If you’re not angry with me, or upset at me, why can’t you tell me what you’re about to show me?”

“Because that would ruin it,” Ari said simply. Eva thought she could see amusement in his eyes, but he glanced out through the window in the next moment. “I have some things I want to discuss with you, as well, but we need to get there first.” He looked at her for just an instant before turning his attention out through the window once more. “We’re almost there.”

“I feel like I might actually die from not knowing,” Eva said. “I got practically no sleep last night, and then the whole thing with the Al Akanish people…” She shook her head.

Ari turned his head and held her gaze for a long moment.

“Okay,” he said finally. “I will tell you one thing about what we’re doing.”

“Please.”

“You didn’t give me much of a chance to reply to you last night, about what you said,” Ari explained.

“Well—it wasn’t just that I didn’t give you a chance,” Eva pointed out. “There was the whole issue of the eavesdropper that interfered.” She frowned. “Why would you need to reply?”

“For a lot of reasons,” Ari said with a slight smile. “I wanted to answer to a few of the things you said.”

“Go ahead, then,” Eva said, feeling a mixture of confusion, doubt, and hope.

“The first thing is that I want to apologize—deeply, truly apologize—for giving you the impression that things were nothing but business between us. At least…on my end.”

“You know how I feel,” Eva protested. “I told you.”

Ari nodded. “I do know how you feel. But you don’t know how I feel, because I didn’t get a chance to explain.”

“I’ll be quiet then,” Eva said wryly.

“I wanted to tell you that I feel the same way,” Ari told her quietly. “If I had thought that you actually wanted to see me—really see me, not just as my pretend wife, but as the woman I love—then I would have told you right away, instead of trying to invent an excuse to keep seeing you.”

Eva stared at Ari in shock.

“You—you have feelings for me?”

Ari grinned. “You cannot be a very good con artist—or all that great at reading people—if you couldn’t tell that I am absolutely and stupidly in love with you,” he said.

“You’re in love with me? But we’ve only known each other for a week!”

Ari laughed. “Eva, we spent that week getting to know each other well enough to pretend to be married. I think we know each other well enough to know if we’re in love.”

Eva considered that for a moment and then laughed, shaking her head.

“You’re right,” she agreed.

Before she could say anything more, Ari’s arms wrapped around her, and he pulled her face up to his for a passionate kiss.

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