Captured (Gowns & Crowns #2) by Jennifer Chance

Author:Jennifer Chance [Chance, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: best friends romance summer international, modern royals romance, summer vacation holiday romance, royal family sexy series, new adult contemporary romance, billionaire royals prince, princess best friends international greek european romance
Publisher: Elewyn Publishing
Published: 2016-01-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Lauren hugged her purse to her side almost like a shield. She felt awkward, uneasy, and she never felt that. She and Dimitri had had sex—but that was all it was. People had sex all the time. That was what two consenting, uncommitted adults did when they were attracted to each other. They got naked, and they had sex.

And my God, getting naked with Dimitri had been so much more everything than she’d expected it would be. Even now, with him walking beside her so confidently, so casually, she was pretty sure he was drawing all the wrong conclusions about why she was reacting so lamely. He undoubtedly thought he’d blown her away sexually, and he wasn’t completely wrong there. But he also presented a danger to her that no guy had in far longer than she cared to consider.

He was strong, stubborn, competent, capable.

And she could almost see him holding his own against Henry. Almost. The possibility of it, though, was heady stuff, filling her with ideas of a life of freedom, of normalcy. A life she knew she couldn’t have. Not until she’d solved the Henry puzzle once and for all.

Until then¸ there would be nothing normal about her life.

And yet…

“Lauren! You are here. Dimitri, go help your mother. We must talk.”

Dimitri’s grandmother took her by the arm and hustled her around the villa to where a clearing opened out onto a bold promontory. The view was spectacular. Had it been daylight, she would have been able to see for miles out to sea, and now, in the darkness, there was a canopy of stars that blanketed the earth, an awesome counterpoint to the few winking lights of yachts far out in the water. It was breathtaking.

“He is treating you well? He is being good to you?”

“What?” Lauren looked down, surprised, at the old woman who was now poking her in the arm. “Oh. Yes, yes, of course. Dimitri is very good to me.” She realized a second later what the woman meant and tempered her smile. “We’re not dating, though. You should know that.”

“Oh, he says the same thing. You are tiresome with your youth and your words.” She waved her hands. “He is a good man, but he needs a strong woman. You are that.”

Lauren smiled too widely, not her typical practiced expression at all. She didn’t care. “Well, thank you, but we’ve only recently met. I’m in Garronia on vacation.”

“Then you must come back when you are ready to live here. You see this house? Dimitri built this house. With his hands, and his father’s hands, and his grandfather’s hands. It is a good house, and it will be his one day.”

Her affection for Dimitri was fierce, and Lauren was suddenly at a loss for words. She looked up to the sturdy whitewashed house, lit up with torches and laughter, and tried for a moment to picture herself there, instead of in her apartment in New York City or her flat in London, or her cute little pied-à-terre in Paris.

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