The Prince's Royal Dilemma by Brenda Harlen

Author:Brenda Harlen [Harlen, Brenda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2008-12-22T23:00:00+00:00

As Rowan trudged up the wide staircase toward his apartment on the fourth floor six days later, he couldn’t help but resent the seemingly endless social engagements that stretched ahead of him over the next few weeks. As if his usual 101 daily responsibilities weren’t enough, he was somehow supposed to find the time to choose a bride and plan a wedding. The rare free evenings that he’d enjoyed prior to learning of parliament’s mandate had become a thing of the past, and though tonight had only been his fourth date, he was already tired of the process.

After the fund-raising dinner with the American heiress last week, there had been a performance of the national ballet with a photographer who claimed a distant connection to Italian royalty, then a charity ball with a widowed countess who had clearly married the first time for wealth and status and was prepared to do so again. Then tonight’s fund-raising dinner with the admittedly lovely but uninspiring Stacy Phillips.

All of the women had been attractive, and certainly they all satisfied the criteria enumerated for a royal bride, but not one of them intrigued him enough to want to spend a second night in her company, never mind the rest of his life.

He wanted someone he could feel comfortable enough with to put his feet up and watch a movie, or share quiet conversation and a slice of leftover cake in the kitchen long after everyone else had gone to sleep. Someone he could talk to about the things that really mattered and the things that didn’t. Someone who would share her own opinions, even if that opinion was that he was acting like an arrogant pompous ass.

He wanted, in a word, Lara.

Beyond the physical attraction that he’d felt from the beginning, he found that the more time he spent with her the more he genuinely liked her. She was smart and kind with a generous heart and a surprising sense of humor. She made him smile when he hadn’t had anything to smile about in a long time. And she made him wonder—about the taste of her lips, the scent of her skin and the sensation of her naked flesh against his own. Definitely not anything he should be wondering about when he had a country to run and a wedding to plan.

He stifled a yawn as he started up past the nursery. All he wanted to do now was fall into bed and sleep until morning. A quick glance at his watch warned that morning wasn’t so very far away. Well, a few hours’ sleep would have to do. He’d been existing on no more than that for several weeks now.

He paused with his foot on the step and strained to listen more closely to the sound that had caught his attention. Was that…singing?

He turned left instead of right and made his way down the hall. As he did, the sound became more audible.

He realized that he was hearing the song Alexandria had

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