Awakened On Her Royal Wedding Night (Mills & Boon Modern) by Dani Collins

Author:Dani Collins [Collins, Dani]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mills & Boon Modern
Published: 2023-07-01T18:36:04+00:00

Felipe didn’t want to wait. His body didn’t. Pleasuring Claudine and feeling the intensity of her response had nearly put him over the edge behind the sealed fly of his trousers. He longed to lose himself in her for hours. Days.

But therein lay the issue. He would lose himself in the process. He had known this lust between them was powerful. Now he knew exactly how all-consuming it could become, and that simply would not do.

As they entered their royal suite overlooking avenue Montaigne and the Eiffel Tower, Claudine’s maid appeared in the door to the bedroom they were sharing.

Felipe had interviewed Ippolita himself before giving her the opportunity to prove herself to Claudine. She had been suitably intimidated by him and very earnest in her admiration for his fiancée. She didn’t speak English and he had encouraged her to keep it that way, to help Claudine learn Italian, but also because it was useful in situations like this when he wanted to speak to Claudine without her maid following every word.

“You head to bed,” Felipe said to Claudine. “I have calls to make.”

“I thought—” Claudine’s cheekbones scorched red. Her confused gaze searched his.

“Run a bath,” he told Ippolita in Italian, who nodded and hurried away.

“I don’t understand.” Claudine’s brow pleated with hurt. Tension came in around her mouth. There was accusation there, too, and defensiveness in the way she folded her arms so tightly across the breasts he had worshipped. “Did I do something wrong in the car?”

“Not at all. I enjoyed our interlude as much as you did. This is not a rejection, Claudine.” It was an exercise in self-discipline.

“What then? A power trip?” Her troubled expression hardened into a glare, one sheened by angry tears. “I thought we were sharing something. Ourselves, maybe, but you were actually proving how helpless you can make me feel?”

She had been delightfully at his mercy, yet sensuously demanding in the way she had pressed his hand to her mound and moaned into his mouth. It had been exquisite.

“I wanted to give you pleasure.” He had reveled in it. “It’s as simple as that. You asked what you should expect from our marriage and I showed you.”

“Yes, I’m beginning to fully grasp what I should expect—to be treated like a toy.” A strident note had entered her voice. It annoyed him.

“I do not view you as a toy.” He was well aware she was a fully grown, hot-blooded woman. “I’m merely avoiding any slip-ups that could result in a pregnancy that is not seen as wholly legitimate.” That wasn’t entirely a prevarication.

Behind her shock, a shadow of profound injury moved across her expression.

“You’re still worried that I might be carrying Francois’s—”

“No,” he said firmly. “But a pregnancy test is probably a good idea. The pageants might discourage you from having relationships, but that doesn’t mean there haven’t been any men in your recent past, does it?”

“I’ve actually never had a man in my ‘past,’” she snapped, putting air quotes around the word. “Recently or otherwise.

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