The Greek's Forbidden Princess by Annie West

Author:Annie West [West, Annie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarlequinUKLtd
Published: 2017-09-30T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

THINK ABOUT IT?

She did nothing but think about it!

All through the long, sultry night Amelie couldn’t wrest her mind from Lambis’s proposition. Even this morning, busy with Seb, her thoughts kept straying to the idea of an affair. A hot, passionate, purely physical affair.

Her body said Yes. All but screamed it, as that betraying heat settled tight and low in her pelvis and a throb of anticipation started up at the apex of her thighs.

Yet her heart and her head warned of danger. From the first she’d felt drawn to Lambis, sexually and emotionally. Till she’d had to smother those feelings.

When, last night, he’d revealed he’d tried love and it hadn’t worked, regret had pounded hard in her blood. Regret for his pain. Surely that was dangerous?

Yet the idea of an affair with Lambis was alluring.

Her thoughts circled as she tried to use logic and failed dismally. She wanted to take a risk on transitory, utterly selfish pleasure.

She’d spent her life being dependable, responsible and, in her youth, obedient. Her one act of rebellion had been when she was a university student. Even then she hadn’t managed to escape the demands of duty or, more specifically, her father, by leaving St Galla to study. He’d insisted she stay close and act as his hostess so she’d studied locally, never quite accepted by the other students since, between lectures, she regularly appeared at official events in diamonds and jewels.

Only Jules had treated her like anyone else. Jules, the quiet medical student who’d wooed and won her. His lovemaking had been tender rather than ardent but she’d been so in love, so wrapped up in thoughts of their future together, she hadn’t minded.

Not till her father stepped in, declaring it impossible a royal princess should marry a commoner. Amelie had defied her father, only to discover Jules had backed off, cowed by her father’s bluster and, she realised later, a hefty payout to help him set up his medical practice. He’d dropped her unceremoniously, telling her he’d been wrong; clearly people from such different backgrounds couldn’t make a marriage work.

So much for love.

Since then she’d guarded her heart. Until Lambis strode into the palace and she felt herself spin out of control, losing the battle not to fall for him.

The second time she’d put herself on the line, shoving aside pride. She hadn’t waited in the hope he might declare an interest, but had made the first move. Only to be rejected.

Love clearly wasn’t for her. The way Lambis had turned from her had been the final straw. After that she’d begun to think seriously on the Prime Minister’s suggestion, more frequent in the last couple of years, that she accept an arranged marriage. It was why she’d consented to meet King Alex of Bengaria. Now, with the pressure to marry before being made Regent, an arranged marriage was more than ever desirable.

If she could stomach a loveless marriage. Surely it wouldn’t be as difficult as her parents’ marriage? King Alex was supposed to be a fine man, an honest man, not a philanderer.

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