The Most Powerful Of Kings (Mills & Boon Modern) (The Royal House of Axios, Book 2) by Jackie Ashenden

Author:Jackie Ashenden [Ashenden, Jackie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mills & Boon Modern
Published: 2020-08-20T14:49:18+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

ANNA SPENT THE following couple of days furious and trying very hard not to be. The nuns had always cautioned against allowing negative emotions such as anger or jealousy to rule her and she’d thought she’d managed to overcome those weaknesses in herself.

But every time she thought of that moment in Adonis’s—no, the king’s—office, where he’d suddenly turned from a passionate man back into the cold, emotionless king, it made her so angry she could hardly stand it.

She might have been a virgin, but she wasn’t stupid. And she might be sheltered, but she knew good sex didn’t equal love. Even exceptional sex, though she had nothing to compare it to and, for all she knew, sex was like that for everyone every time.

So, she’d felt close to him. So, she’d wanted to know him. So, he’d made her feel things about herself that no one had ever made her feel before. So what?

Those were all feelings that had been prompted by physical pleasure, that was all.

She hadn’t fallen magically in love with him. In fact, right now, she didn’t even like him.

She tried to do what he’d told her, which was to forget all about what had happened between them and concentrate on Ione instead. But she found that at odd times she’d suddenly find herself remembering his hands on her skin, or the way he’d felt inside her; the pleasure that had bloomed throughout her entire body; the look in his blue eyes and the way her chest had tightened in wonder; the strange sadness that had gripped her as she’d thought about him being a mountain and having no one.

And something whispered to her that there was a reason she’d been so angry with him and so offended in the aftermath. A reason she hadn’t protested at his cold dismissal.

It was because she was disappointed—worse, she was hurt. And even worse than that, she knew she had no reason to be. He’d been clear about what the sex would be between them. It was she who hadn’t understood how it would affect her.

You were wrong. You are a fragile flower.

But she didn’t want to think about that, so she didn’t. Instead, she pursued her determination to help Ione. Adonis—the king—had sent word that her evening reports on Ione’s progress would now be given to one of his aides rather than to himself, and he refused all requests for an audience as he was very busy at present.

It was enough to make her think that he was avoiding her, though she couldn’t imagine why. Had it been that the passion between them had touched something in him, too? And now he couldn’t be around her? But then, why would that be?

Whatever he was doing, it irritated her. So she went to Prince Xerxes instead, laying out her reasons for wanting to take Ione into Itheus without her usual contingent of soldiers.

Xerxes was—unlike his brother—understanding. He was also charming and so ridiculously handsome that he made Anna feel a little like a starstruck teenager.

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