Stranded With His Runaway Bride (Mills & Boon Modern) by Julieanne Howells

Author:Julieanne Howells [Howells, Julieanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2022-08-31T18:30:00+00:00

Who knew what time she’d finally slept? Not till the early hours at least, because she remembered a faint light creeping beneath the curtains.

Kept awake by the storm, which if anything had got worse.

But also kept awake by thoughts of the man she’d pushed away and fled from. Twice in one day.

She’d tossed and turned, she’d climbed out of bed and paced the room just to burn off some of the restless energy that coursed through her body.

She couldn’t get that kiss out of her mind. Her lips burned with it and the promise of so much more from the man who was sleeping just on the other side of that wall.

Violetta grimaced. How could she have let that happen? How could she have allowed herself to...to...want Leo?

She ducked back beneath the covers and screwed her eyes shut for good measure. It made no difference to the fact.

She wanted Leo. His hands on her. His mouth on hers. She wanted everything he was and more.

She had not expected to like him.

Prince Sebastien, with his lazy smile and easy charm, was the likeable von Frohburg. Not stern, aloof Leo. Yet last night she’d spied a different man behind the mask, she’d caught a glimpse of his vulnerabilities. She saw his aching loss, his mistrust of women and what the bitter experience of growing up with his father had instilled in him. Along with the biting need to reclaim the grand duchy that his forebears had bred into him.

But that wasn’t who he was, not at his heart. Beneath that dark facade, there was warmth and fun and kindness, if only he could allow himself to show it.

Violetta flung herself over in bed. All that should matter to her was San Nicolo and its people. Leo might have talked reasonably about her plans for radical change in her country but when it came down to it, he’d stand against it. Just as her uncle and father had. Powerful men always thought they knew better.

If she let him in then she’d be betraying all the people of San Nicolo who, like her, dreamed of a different future. Brighter, bolder, freer. Where you got to choose your own destiny. Getting tangled up with the Prince of Grimentz was a sure-fire way to lose all hope of that.

There was movement next door. The sound of the shower cranking on, followed by a muffled, but expressive curse as cold water hit warm skin.

Violetta couldn’t help but smile.

Then the smile faded.

On the other side of the wall, in the small en-suite bathroom, His Serene Highness would be naked. Those beautiful hands working soap across his torso. That strong body sluiced with water and suds.

She’d been chilled in the night and, not wanting to explore the costume attic with its groaning timbers and in the pitch dark and moaning wind, she’d returned to the kitchen and grabbed Leo’s wedding shirt from the back of a chair where he’d left it to dry.

Now she tugged the fabric closer to her nose and inhaled.

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