The King's Christmas Heir by Lynne Graham

Author:Lynne Graham
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2022-07-02T20:55:13+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

THE FOLLOWING AFTERNOON, Gaetano, Lara and Freddy flew to Mosvakia. She barely recognised her own reflection in the luxury washroom on the private jet. Her glamorous powder-blue knee-length dress and light matching coat teamed with toning shoes looked incredibly elegant, although nothing could have prepared Lara for the pomp and ceremony that greeted their arrival.

‘Why didn’t you warn me?’ she gasped, as Gaetano urged her down the steps from the jet to the crowds awaiting them.

Some people were waving with enthusiasm. Many were wielding cameras. Yet more were arranged in a formal line to greet them. Off to one side a regimental band was playing an upbeat thundering tune. The smiles and the music went some way towards banishing her immediate attack of stage fright. It was a celebration, not something to fear, she registered, the tightness in her chest receding and her breath coming a little easier.

A wave of introductions followed on the tarmac, the prime minister, the chief of staff of the army and that of the police force. Those were just some of the people she met. An eye-catchingly beautiful woman with long black hair and bright blue eyes disconcerted Lara by immediately mentioning that she was an ex-girlfriend of Gaetano’s.

‘Although I’m afraid there are all too many of us in that category!’ she joked with such wide-eyed amusement that Lara could only admire her good nature. Her name was Antonella. ‘I’m so happy that Gaetano has found a wife and now he has a son as well. How wonderful! I currently have an intern position at the palace, so you’ll see me again. I do hope we can be friends.’

‘I don’t see why not,’ Lara responded, charmed by that frank speech as Gaetano’s hand at her spine urged her on down the line.

‘What did Antonella have to say to you that took so long?’ Gaetano enquired.

In surprise, Lara glanced up at him and immediately recognised the faint tension etched in his lean darkly handsome features, tightening his high cheekbones and bracketing his narrowed golden gaze. ‘Nothing much. She seemed charming.’

‘Oh, she is,’ Gaetano agreed calmly. ‘She’s the prime minister’s daughter, quite a privileged young woman.’

Someone else grabbed his attention and that was the end of the conversation. Lara had wanted to ask when he had dated Antonella but, on reflection, decided that that would be an unwise enquiry. How would she feel if he told her he had been seeing the beautiful woman during their marriage? And that was perfectly possible, wasn’t it? She suppressed the sense of insecurity assailing her. She didn’t want to turn into an insanely jealous woman, did she?

After all, whether she liked it or not, she had been the one to walk out on their marriage. It was even possible that she had misread Gaetano’s signals that day. She didn’t want to think that about herself. She didn’t want to think that she could have made such a ghastly mistake about his feelings for her. Even so, the anger he

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