Cinderella: Hired by the Prince by Marion Lennox

Author:Marion Lennox
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780373176762
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-08-09T16:00:00+00:00

Eleven weeks and two days after setting sail from Auckland, the Marquita sailed into Cepheus harbour and found a party. As they approached land, every boat they passed, from tiny pleasure craft to workmanlike fishing vessels, was adorned in red, gold and deep, deep blue. The flag of Cepheus hung from every mast. The harbour was ringed with flags. There were people crowded onto the docks, spilling out of harbourside restaurants. Every restaurant looked crammed to bursting. It looked like Sydney Harbour on a sunny Sunday, multiplied by about a hundred, Jenny thought, dazed, as she made the lines ready to dock.

‘You reckon they’re here to welcome us?’ Gordon called to her, and she smiled.

She’d become very fond of Gordon. When she’d first met him, the morning after Ramón had left, she’d been ready to walk away. Only his shy smile, his assumption that she was coming with him and his pleasure that she was, had kept her on board. He reminded her of her father. Which helped.

She’d been sailing with him now for almost three months. He’d kept his own counsel and she’d kept hers, and it had taken almost all those months for her emotions to settle.

Now…approaching the dock she was so tense she could hardly speak. Normally she welcomed Gordon’s reserve but his silence was only adding to her tension.

There was no need for her to be tense, she told herself. She’d had a couple of surreal weeks with royalty. In true princely fashion he’d rescued her from a life of making muffins, and now she could get on with her life.

With this experience of sailing round the Horn behind her, and with Gordon’s references, maybe she could get another job on board a boat. She could keep right on sailing. While Ramón…

See, that was what she couldn’t let herself think. The future and Ramón.

It had been a two-week affair. Nothing more.

‘What’s the occasion?’ Gordon was behind the wheel, calling to people on the boat passing them. But they didn’t understand English, or Gordon’s broad mixed accent.

‘Why the flags and decorations?’ she called in Spanish and was rewarded by comprehension.

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