The Royal Pregnancy Test (Mills & Boon Modern) (The Christmas Princess Swap, Book 1) by Heidi Rice

Author:Heidi Rice [Rice, Heidi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mills & Boon Modern
Published: 2020-10-29T16:56:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

THE CHRISTMAS BALL was Severene’s premiere event of the year and one of Europe’s most sought-after social occasions. Dignitaries and VIPs, politicians and A-list celebrities were flown in from all over the globe to attend. The palace ballroom—considerably larger than the one in Monrova—glowed with the twinkle of a thousand tiny lights, the walls festooned with ribbon and garlands, silver baubles and gold leaves, to ring in the festive season. A thirty-foot fir tree from Severene’s pine forest stood like a beacon in the far corner aglow with green fairy lights and scarlet bows.

Beautiful people danced to a thirty-piece orchestra in the main ballroom, and mingled in the adjacent antechambers while being served cordon-bleu cuisine created by a battalion of Michelin-starred chefs and vintage champagne and wine curated by a world-renowned sommelier.

Juno floated through the evening on a wave of desperate hope and frantic excitement—while burying the unanswered questions deep.

As soon as Leo’s hand had folded over hers at the top of the wide sweeping staircase, where they were the last guests to be announced, and he led her down onto the marble floor of the ballroom, she’d made a conscious decision to live for the moment and deal with the decisions she had to make on an as and when basis.

She would play it by ear. Figure out what was the right thing to do when she needed to, and not before. Tonight was about living the dream and forgetting about the reality. Whatever happened it would be her last night with Leo; tomorrow she had to return to Monrova and, whether she told him who she really was or not, she could never see him again.

Whatever she did or didn’t tell Leo though, it gave her a giddy thrill to know that no one here even suspected a girl from Queens was masquerading as a queen among them tonight.

See, Father, for all my wild ways, I could have made a good queen. Just not your sort of queen.

Leo monopolised every one of her dances, and she could see the assembled throng going glassy-eyed at the romantic couple they made. Him in his red dress uniform, and her in a ball gown of rich emerald velvet that matched her eyes.

Their romance might be fake, but tonight the fairy tale felt real. And even if none of these people would ever know who she really was, she would know. And that was enough.

He’d helped her to prove her father wrong. And that mattered, even if tonight was their last night together.

She would miss him. In many ways he was the ultimate Prince Charming, handsome, dashing, demanding, unknowable, larger than life in every respect. But she couldn’t fall into the same trap as her mother—believing she could have more—when this was all there was.

She’d seen the press photos from the Christmas Ball over the years, a ball her sister had rarely attended, and locked the yearning to be here inside her—determined to believe she didn’t want the life that had been denied her.

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