Stolen Kiss From a Prince by Teresa Carpenter

Author:Teresa Carpenter [Carpenter, Teresa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Contemporary Women
ISBN: 9781472047946
Google: 7f7EAgAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00FTQ1IP6
Publisher: Mills & Boon
Published: 2014-04-01T04:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

KATRINA BLINKED AT Julian. “How?”

“This is a sixteenth-century castle. There are many secret passageways throughout.”

“So it is okay to invade my privacy?” She walked around him. “Please go away.”

“No.” He crowded her, forcing her farther into the room. “I’m sorry. I never meant to cause you pain.”

“How could it not hurt?” She backed away from him, needing distance, needing to be alone to bind her wounds. “It was the most devastating time of my life. A stupid, shameful time.”

“Katrina.” He took a step forward. She took two back. He stopped, his expression anxious. “What happened?”

“You know.” She wrapped her arms around herself to contain the pain, to hold back the tremors. Unable to look at him, she chose the ceiling instead. Such exquisite crown molding. “He told you. Just go. I am sorry for your loss, but I do not want you kissing me anymore. Despite what you think, I am not a loose woman. I will not be used in that way again.”

“I don’t think that.” He sounded appalled. “How could I believe such a thing of you?” Now he sounded closer.

Damn him. He stood in front of her, too close, too solid, too concerned.

“You are the kindest, most giving woman I know. I think of you as smart, and intuitive, and gutsy. You’re also sexy as hell, which is why I like kissing you.” He cupped her cheek, rested his forehead on hers. “Jean Claude told me there was an incident in your past that resulted in some compromising photos being taken. He assured me all evidence of the documents has been purged, but you still fear they may reappear and cause an embarrassment. Now you tell me the rest.”

“Is that not enough?” She tried to pull away, but he held her fast. With a sigh she gave up fighting. His heat, his strength were too much temptation. “It is best if I leave before the embarrassment can be visited on the House of Kardana.”

“You’re not going anywhere.” His mouth moved across the skin of her cheek. At her ear, he whispered, “Tell me.”

“I was young, stupid, naive. My junior year of university I met a man. He was so hot, so sophisticated. Totally out of my league. Yet he seemed to have eyes only for me. I should have known better, yet he flattered me, wooed me, fooled me. I thought I was in love, but he was a paparazzo intent on using me from the beginning.”

“Bastard,” he grated.

“Oh yeah. As soon as I started seeing him, he began hinting about visiting the palace. But I had a full load of courses, and maybe I sensed something was off deep down because I never took him. Thank goodness.”

Julian drew her to the bed, sat beside her at the foot. “Where do the photos come in?”

She shook her head, and unthinkingly worked her mother’s ring. “He drugged me—at a party—then took me back to my apartment, st-stripped me, and took some really ugly pictures. Some—” she drew in a steadying breath “—some of them included him doing things to me.

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