The Drakon Baby Bargain by Tara Pammi

Author:Tara Pammi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarlequinUKLtd
Published: 2017-05-01T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

IT TOOK GABRIEL all of two hours to locate his wife.

He looked in the direction in which the groom pointed and came to a standstill at the sight in front of him. With a nod, he dismissed the groom and another staff member, feeling strangely possessive of her.

Without that brisk, matter-of-fact quality to her, she looked fragile and lonely and a rush of protectiveness filled him.

She sat atop a huge pile of hay, her arms around her knees tucked tight against her chest. As if she meant to scrunch herself into nothingness. Shards of sunlight filtered through the wooden slats of the barn, picking out the bronze and gold highlights in her hair. Bathed in the sunlight, she looked like a golden goddess—untouched by cynicism, all soft edges.

“Princesa?”

She looked up, her eyes wide and round in her face. Wariness filled her expression, a sudden tension in the slender set of her shoulders. “Why do you insist on calling me that in that mocking tone? It says you think I’m anything but.”

“Does it matter if I think you a princess or not?”

“No,” she said, half to herself. “Did you need something? Is Angelina looking for me?”

“I don’t need anything, but Angelina’s worried for you.”

“She’s sweet, but I didn’t think it was proper for her to see me like this.”

“I defer to your superior judgment on that.”

“Why are you suddenly being nice to me?” she said, not even looking at him.

“I have been ordered to be nice to you. With the fiercest of threats.”

“Ah...now I get it. This is Angelina’s doing.” As if he did not give a damn about her.

“If I had known you were...unwell, I would have come after you myself.”

“Please, all we have is honesty, Gabriel. Don’t take that away too.”

“Relationships are not my strong point and ours...our relationship hasn’t been easy or straightforward from the beginning.”

“Because you decided that I deceived you. Because you’re incapable of trust.”

That kiss had stood between them from the beginning. He had unburdened himself, thinking her a stranger. But what if she’d been telling the truth and all she’d wanted was a simple kiss?

What if the truth was really that simple and that complicated?

Even as she pretended to be happy with her lot, that version of Eleni had been so vulnerably open.

I wanted to be someone else for one night.

And he’d taken it away from her. “I was angry that day. I had just found out what Monique had hidden from me. I came to the ball wanting to be anyone but myself. Women and deceit seemed to go hand in hand in my head that night.

“I knew the Princess of Drakon. Finding out that the enchantress I had just kissed was that princess was a shock. Like nothing was the same or sane in my life anymore. I don’t think I even realized how much I had begun to count on you. How much your presence meant.”

“You’re just saying that now.”

“No. There was always a quiet strength about you, even back then.

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