The Prince and the PA by Maisey Yates

Author:Maisey Yates [Yates, Maisey]
Language: nld
Format: epub

Chapter Five

Tonight I’m going to be your lover.

Bastian’s words echoed through her, reverberated along every fiber of Karen’s body as they drove back toward the Kynosian palace.

Was she really going to do this? Sleep with him? In his fiancée’s home?

Karen bit her lip and looked out the window, watched the trees and the ocean pass by, dark, indistinct shapes at this hour, with a streak of silver provided by the moon.

She was a terrible person. Because she was doing this. And if she thought of Evangelina as the enemy, as the woman who was stealing away the man she loved, then she almost felt justified. The princess would have him forever, after all, and Eva didn’t love Bastian any more than he loved her. All Karen wanted was one night. One night to get her through the rest of her life. To keep her warm in her empty bed. That didn’t seem so extraordinarily selfish.

The limo pulled into the massive gates of the castle and started slowly up the road around the immense cobblestone drive that passed by the front entrance.

“People can’t see us coming in together,” she said, panic weaving its way through her words, tightening her throat.

“Karen, we’re always together, people won’t think anything of it.” He put his hands over hers, and if she hadn’t felt the slight tremor in them, she would assume he was entirely unaffected. But he was shaking, too. That made her feel oddly comforted.

“Somehow it seems different now.”

“It is,” he said. “But until we get upstairs, behind closed doors, it isn’t. So I want you to let me open your door for you, and I want you to follow me inside. Take out your phone and pretend you’re scheduling something. Then when we’re in my quarters, I’m going to close the door. When I do that, I want you to kiss me.”

She nodded, words deserting her entirely.

“All right. Let’s go.” He climbed out of the limo and rounded to her side of the car, opening the door for her. She got out and tried to keep her distance. Difficult to do when everything in her wanted to melt against him. “Come with me.”

She moved into position, at his right side, trailing just slightly, her phone clasped tightly in unsteady hands. She unlocked the screen and started typing something, like she was making an entry into his calendar. He was saying things, too, giving orders as he often did. And she kept her eyes glued to the screen, typing as she walked, hearing nothing of what he said. She wondered if he was conscious of what he was saying.

Their footsteps echoed in the vacant halls. It had to be two in the morning by now. Still, in a palace the size of this one there was always someone around, always some staff member ensuring things were running as they should. The staff in Kyonos was loyal to the Drakos family, and that meant they were loyal to Evangelina, not Bastian. Discretion was essential.

Not for the first time, she felt like a jerk.

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