The Queen's Baby Scandal (Mills & Boon Modern) (One Night With Consequences, Book 60) by Maisey Yates

Author:Maisey Yates [Yates, Maisey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mills & Boon Modern
Published: 2019-11-28T12:52:33+00:00

Her heart was racing, threatening to thunder out of her chest.

Yet, she had gone with him.

She had allowed him to lead her from the room. She was… She didn’t know what was happening. He flew in the face of everything they had agreed, everything she had decided was appropriate. But he had kissed her, and then she didn’t care. And then the idea of being married to him and not sharing his bed had seemed like an impossibility.

Because from the moment she had seen his picture for the first time in the papers, the idea of not being in his bed had been torture. She had been contending with that part of herself for the past few months.

Badly.

Because what did it say about her? That she was merely another groupie of his? One who had dressed up her motivations for being with him into something a bit more noble, when her reasoning was as base as anyone else’s.

Right now, she felt base. Utterly and completely. Was reduced to a grasping creature made entirely of need and desire. That was all she was, it was all she could remember being. This woman who needed his touch more than she needed anything else.

That kiss the night they’d gotten engaged had been kerosene. And the kiss tonight had been a lit match against it. She was not strong. Not with him. Not with this.

She had stood tall and steady, with a will of iron since she had started to rule the country two years earlier. Before that she had been a model citizen. Studying, completing vast amounts of charity work. She had been strong. She had been for so very long.

She wanted something else now. She wanted to be held in someone else’s strong arms. To let him hold on to her, and in so doing, take some of the weight of the crown, of her duty, off her. Even if it was just for a night.

How twisted was it that even her one and only time being with a man was rooted in a lie she told herself about it being all for her country?

When what it was had been… She had done it for her country. For herself. The baby part. But there had been other ways. But she had been willing to use him first. Before she resorted to science. Because at the end of the day she had wanted him. And it was all fine and good to try to make excuses, to try to tell herself she’d been selecting the finest specimen genetically.

She had told herself a lot of pretty lies.

What she had been was a girl with a crush. Latika had been right about that.

A girl who had a crush and no understanding of how to handle it.

She had spent a life dealing with people who catered to her too much, counterbalanced by constantly feeling opposed and undermined. Great authority, but with a very short leash. It made it difficult for her to figure out how to actually know people.

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