The Royal Bodyguard by Lindsay Emory

Author:Lindsay Emory
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Entangled, Amara, contemporary, contemporary romance, romantic comedy, royalty
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC (Amara)
Published: 2019-10-16T16:00:00+00:00

Even if I was going back to Drieden, Hugh wasn’t going to get his wish of tossing me behind the palace gates and throwing away the key.

He’d been working for the royal family long enough to realize that wasn’t quite how it worked.

A person had to be invited into a palace, after all. And as I was not officially part of the royal family, I couldn’t simply walk up to the door and use the key hidden under the fake rock in the garden.

(Just kidding. Officially, THERE IS NO PALACE KEY HIDDEN UNDER ANY FAKE ROCKS IN THE GARDEN.)

(It’s hidden in a fake soda can.)

So when we landed at the private airport outside Drieden City and the pilot asked us where the limousine should take us, Hugh was only half frustrated when I told him, “The Hotel Ilysium.”

Hugh got that look on his face that said he was about to argue with me, and I had to shut that down quickly. “It’s where my mother always stays when she is in the city. They have excellent security—you probably know it well yourself.”

“Caroline.” He used my name to make me stop blabbering on. I complied. “I’m on sabbatical.”

“On leave?” I clarified. “From palace security? Since when? You didn’t tell me this before.”

He shrugged. “You’re not the only one who can keep secrets.”

I put my fingers on the window as the fields and houses of Drieden flashed by. How long had it been since I’d seen my native land? The last time I’d driven this route I was on my way out of the country, catching a plane to meet Stavros, tears streaming down my face.

“I don’t have so many secrets,” I sighed. “All I did was fail to give the world a change of address card after Stavros died.” And a few other things. But really, in the grand scheme of things, my secrets were few. Ish.

When Hugh didn’t reply, I turned to him. “But you found me. In Varenna. I wasn’t such a good secret-keeper after all.”

His face was still and serious. “I didn’t find you.”

“Right.” I leaned back into the seat, closed my eyes, embarrassed again that I had inferred that Hugh had cared for me at all, or had bothered himself with a search for me. “That’s right. You were just following Christian, who supposedly stumbled into my path.”

Hugh’s eyes flicked toward the soundproof glass between us and the driver then back at me. “I still don’t feel like you are taking this seriously.”

If he only knew.

Hugh’s jaw flinched. “I tried to find you.”

I felt frozen. “When?”

“A few weeks after the funeral, when no one had seen or heard from you.”

“I don’t understand…”

“Whatever accounts you set up, your holding corporations, they worked. I couldn’t get through. I couldn’t trace your steps.”

A lovely liquid warmth starting melting my ice. He had looked for me.

“So when I tell you again that Christian had the ability to find you and I did not, please get it into your head that this

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