Virgin Princess's Marriage Debt (Mills & Boon Modern) by Pippa Roscoe

Author:Pippa Roscoe [Roscoe, Pippa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-03T13:09:04+00:00

As the water poured over her skin, her heart still racing from what they had shared, still pounding before she’d even lifted her eyes to the scattered stars across the still night sky through the large windows of her room, she marvelled at the stretch of unfamiliar muscles across her body. Languid, but poised, as if already wanting Theo again.

She had meant what she’d said. She had known what she was asking for, asking of him. But she had not realised that it would make her feel… She shook her head in the shower, scattering drops of water from her hair. What did she feel? It was too much for words.

But there were words she did know. She knew that they needed to talk. Needed to confront the past…or as much of that night, ten years before, as she would be able to share. Because whether he’d wanted to or not, he had given her a moment of choice, of control. And as a result, it had become vital that she explain, vital that he knew that she hadn’t had a choice when she’d left that night. That she hadn’t purposefully set him up as he clearly believed. She couldn’t tell him everything, the secret that locked her heart tight against the truth of her father’s diagnosis, the secret that was to protect her country from instability and chaos, one so deep she wasn’t sure she’d ever be able to reveal it. But she hoped that she could give him something…give him some sense of resolution about the past. Give him some truth amongst the one lie she still maintained.

She left the shower, wrapping herself in the large towel and retrieving a lightweight trouser suit, readily accepting any armour she could against the conversation that she knew would follow, any protection against Theo’s impossibly penetrating gaze.

She dressed and went to sit beside the large windows, peering through the darkness to the elusive shadowscape of her beautiful country. The rolling hills she knew lay beneath the deep night, the mountains in the distance, and all the sleeping inhabitants of Iondorra in between. She heard him stir behind her, the sound of his roughened palm against the smooth silk of the chaise longue, consciously or unconsciously reaching for her, she wondered.

‘We should talk.’

‘Then I should have coffee.’

She gestured to a coffee machine in the corner of the living suite of her rooms. Soon, she heard the spluttering, juddering sound it made as it filled the air with the fragrant, almost bitter taste of coffee that instantly made her mouth water, and turned to find him standing there in his suit trousers and nothing else. She pushed down the distraction of the smooth planes of sun-darkened skin across his powerful torso. They needed to have this conversation. If there was any hope…

‘If we’re going to marry—’

‘If?’

‘If we’re going to marry, then we need to clear the air. We… I need to tell you about that night.’

Nothing in him moved, not a muscle or a flicker of his eyes.

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