The Mediterranean Prince's Passion (The Royal House 0f Cacciatore Book 1) by Sharon Kendrick

Author:Sharon Kendrick [Kendrick, Sharon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction, Forever Love, Bachelor, Single Woman, Sensual Story Theme, Hearts Desire, Multicultural & International, Life-Changes, Second Chance Reunion, Honesty & Trust, Home & Family, Lifetime Love, Romantic Schemes, Beautiful & Feisty, Love-Family & Forever, Foreign Country, Action & Adventure, The Royal House 0f Cacciatore, Royal Mediterranean Prince, Island 0f Mardivino
Publisher: Harlequin Presents; Original Edition
Published: 2010-05-14T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

ELLA glanced around her hotel accommodation with a combination of excitement and disbelief—because the ‘room’ she had imagined staying in was actually a suite—and nearly as big as the ground floor of her home in England!

She let her eyes drift over to the floor-to-ceiling windows, which commanded a breathtaking view of the sapphire sweep of the sea beyond. Tiny cotton wool clouds batted playfully at one another in the vast blue arena of the sky, and sunlight glinted off the sleek lines of distant yachts.

On the other side of the bay she could see hills clothed in dark green, with ice-white villas set like jewels within them. It was a combination of natural beauty and vast wealth—a world accessible only to the very few—and in any other circumstances she would be pinching herself and enjoying every second of it.

She ran her fingertips over the petal of a waxy orchid, telling herself that she would be crazy not to enjoy at least some of this once-in-a-lifetime experience.

She dressed for sightseeing, putting on a pair of flat strappy sandals that matched her ice-blue sun-dress, and tying her hair back in a blue ribbon. She finished off with a wide-brimmed straw hat, and as she checked herself in one of the mirrors she could see the image she presented was cool and contained. Good. Long may it last.

The day was bakingly hot, but a light breeze stopped it from being oppressive and the hat had been a good idea. Nico had been right about the walking bit, for the hilly streets around the harbour were all cobbled—picturesque, but hardgoing. She peered in all the shop windows, where stores selling luxury goods and clothes jostled next to those selling boat accessories. So far, all pretty predictable.

There were pavement cafés galore, and she found an empty seat and sat outside one, ordering an extremely expensive cup of coffee. She sat sipping cappuccino and watching the people come and go. The main cause of congestion really did seem to be centred around the art gallery dedicated to Juan Lopez. At one point two coaches disgorged their contents at the top of one of the quaint streets, and as they surged forward it felt a bit like being outside a football ground before the match started.

Ella got out her notebook and wrote for a little while, and then went off and found a bookshop.

Inside, it was dark and deliciously cool. There was a whole section about Juan Lopez, but Ella’s attention was distracted by a part of the shop given over entirely to books about the ruling family of Mardivino.

Here there were biographies and picture books, family portraits and single portraits. In a sweet little tome entitled Just Like Us, she found a photo of Nico as a baby—a chubby-faced little cherub, wearing a cascading lace christening robe, being cradled in the arms of his nurse. Maybe that was normal for Royal princes, but she happened to know that his mother had died when Nico was just a baby.

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