Temporarily His Princess by Olivia Gates

Author:Olivia Gates [Gates, Olivia]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, fullybook
ISBN: 9780373732449
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Eight

“What did you say?”

As the exclamation rang in her ear, Glory sighed. “You heard right, Mom. I’m getting married. To Vincenzo.”

Silence expanded on the other end of the line.

Which was to be expected. She herself still couldn’t believe any of this was really happening.

After she’d told Vincenzo last night that she’d marry him of her own free will, she hadn’t known what to expect.

Or she had. She’d expected him to be elated, or relieved, or best scenario of all, to resume his mind-melting seduction.

He’d done none of that. He’d just taken her hands to his lips, murmured a cell-scrambling “Grazie mille, gloriosa mia” then he’d silently led her to her guest quarters and bid her good-night.

After a night of tossing and turning and pacing her quarters, which looked like something out of a fairy tale, he’d come knocking with a breakfast tray. He didn’t stay, said he had too many things to prepare. He asked her to invite everyone she wanted and to make lists of what she needed for the wedding. It would be in a week’s time.

The first person she’d thought of had been her mother.

And here she was, pretending this was real to the person she was closest to in the world. But there was nothing to be gained by telling her mother the truth. Her mother had suffered too much, and God only knew how long her remission would last this time—or if it would. She would do and say anything to make her mother as happy as possible for as long as she could.

Glenda Monaghan’s silence thickened until it weighed down on her. “Mom, you still there?”

A ragged exhalation. “Yes, darling. I’m just…surprised.”

Her mother had been apprehensive about her first liaison with Vincenzo. She had feared Glory would end up plummeting into the huge gap in power and status between them. But on meeting Vincenzo, Glenda had thought him magnificent and later waxed poetic about the purity and clarity of his emotions for Glory. She suspected her mother had entertained dreams that her daughter would become a princess and had looked devastated when Glory had informed her that the relationship was over.

Glenda must be stunned her dream was coming true after all these years, and so suddenly. When they’d talked four days ago, none of this had been on the horizon.

Glory gave her mother a pretty little story about how she and Vincenzo had met again, rediscovering how they’d once felt about each other and resolving the issues that had separated them. This time, he’d popped the question and wanted to get married right away so he could start his new post with them as husband and wife.

By the time she’d told all those lies, Glory was almost panting, but she forced herself to go on. “Vincenzo will send his private jet for you. If you can come right away, I’d love it! If not, come a couple of days before the wedding if possible, to help me with all the last-minute things. All you need to do is buy something pretty to wear and pack a bag for two weeks or so.

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