The Prince's Castaway Baby by Layla Valentine

Author:Layla Valentine [Valentine, Layla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-09-29T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

BILLIE

Iget dressed quickly and head out. To my relief, I don’t bump into Jens — Jensen — in the kitchen or the communal area and I manage to get out before he can see me.

I don’t know why all this feels like such a betrayal when I probably should have recognized him to begin with. I don’t really follow celebrity news, but Prince Jensen of Sólveigr is hard to avoid. Really, the mention of Sólveigr should have tipped me off straightaway, but the terrible lie of his name being Jens should have sold me on it.

How could I have been so stupid as to not see right through that? The more I think about it, the more I realize how often there was a sense in the back of my mind that he was familiar to me. And it’s because he was.

And like an idiot, I slept with him.

And like an even bigger idiot, I think I’ve caught feelings for him. Or at least the him I thought I was getting to know. The one who wasn’t a prince. I could tell he was keeping a secret, but this?

I’ve never felt so dumb in my life.

I don’t know where I’m going, and I didn’t bring my camera, so I spend an hour just walking, trying to clear my head. Automatically, like they’re thriving on the irony, my legs take me right to the sea turtle nest.

When I realize where I am, I crumple to the floor, crushed by the flood of emotion that surges through me. Tears flow down my face as I think about Jensen and I lying side by side, wondering if the way we were feeling might be more than what we were admitting.

I guess I was just a fun time. Just something for him to do while he was away from reality.

Even as I’m having that thought, it feels too cruel. I’ve heard hundreds of stories about the Prince of Parties, and I guess part of the reason I didn’t recognize him was because he’s nothing like that, not really.

He’s ridiculous and unassuming, inquisitive and sharp. He’s polite and gentle and so, so hot. It’s hard to imagine the bumbling Jens I’ve come to know being so reckless and callous. I can imagine him being a massive idiot — that doesn’t take much of a stretch of the imagination at all.

But for him to be thoughtless and unkind…

I don’t know what to think anymore.

Which means it’s time to stop thinking. I wish I’d brought my camera after all. At least then I could throw myself back into work. But I don’t want to risk going back because I don’t want to see Jensen. Even less do I want to speak to him.

If my best friend Ella were here right now, she’d be having a ball. She’s the kind of person who does keep up with celebrity gossip, and often she’s the one who tells me about TV or sports or movie stars. She’s always telling me how out of date I am, and she’s right.

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