The Pretend Prince by Karr Kim

Author:Karr, Kim
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The Unknown Royals Series, Book 3
Publisher: Kim Karr
Published: 2020-03-17T16:00:00+00:00

NOT FOR SHOW

The Present

Zero to sixty in two-point eight seconds never held truer.

As soon as I turn off the country lane and on to the interstate, I floor it. “Hold on,” I murmur.

Losing those security chaps is so easy. You’d think by now they’d have a Plan B. Yet, no, they don’t.

I go East instead of West, which will cause me to have to circle back on the parkway. It’s a longer path, but worth being alone.

Well, almost alone.

“I was wondering about your tail,” Ophelia smirks gleefully, as she grips the dash.

I shrug. “Had to let them think I was following the rules.”

She laughs that adorable laugh she has, and I hate that it seeps into my soul and makes me want what I should not—more of it.

One quick glance over to the passenger seat, and I’m already regretting looking that way. I can’t help but take in the smooth, bare skin of Ophelia’s thighs, and I can’t stop my dick from twitching at the sight.

In truth, I’m acting like more of a dick than I need to. She is trying to help me, and I was a real douchebag last night. “I know you don’t want to talk about it, but about what happened last night, I’m sorry.”

She turns away, a sadness overtaking her that I hate knowing I put there. “It’s okay, Julius, I understand. Really. This thing between us is only business, and when it’s over, we’ll be done. Last night proved it to me.”

Fuck!

Guilt overwhelms me.

I really am an asshole.

Needing to make this right, or as right as I can, I pull off the highway and onto the turnaround. When I come to a stoplight, I reach over and pull her chin my way. “Ask me anything you want,” I offer, “and I’ll answer honestly.”

Her brows rise in astonishment. “Anything?”

I nod as the light turns green and set my gaze forward. The night is upon us, and the stars above us are bright, as if they’re leading the way for me. The question is—what way?

To heaven?

To hell?

Or somewhere in between?

She clears her throat. Starts to say something, then stops and begins again. “How did you convince the network not to air the finale?”

“That was easy. I threatened to take down the entire Bachelor empire. They misrepresented the candidates, and it was grounds for the biggest lawsuit they would ever see. That and throwing around my title didn’t hurt.”

Out of the corner of my eye, I can see her smile at that last part. “Your turn. Ask me anything.”

She doesn’t want to open that can of worms.

“I mean it, anything,” she insists.

So I do. I ask her more than one thing because I want to know what I wouldn’t give her a chance to tell me three years. I’m finally ready to hear her truth and believe it to be her truth.

Without hesitation, she tells me everything. How she was convinced to take Rainer’s sorry excuse for an assignment, how she fell in love with me, and how she wanted to tell me the truth but knew she’d lose me when she did.

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