Crowned for the Drakon Legacy by Tara Pammi

Author:Tara Pammi [Pammi, Tara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarlequinUKLtd
Published: 2017-02-28T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

MIA SPENT THE next few weeks trying to carve a routine for herself and to cling only to the outer fringes of the royal family. But the royal siblings, as they were called by the media, sucked her in like a whirlpool.

She could have fought Nikandros, had become adept at handling even the Crown Prince’s sneaky little manipulations to convince her that Nikandros was a catch, but it was Eleni Drakos that seemed to be made of immovable will.

She’d signed Mia up for etiquette lessons. And for a new wardrobe. And history lessons about Drakon and the damned dragon that a band of fierce warriors had apparently taken down a millennium ago.

Despite her numerous shortcomings to becoming a princess according to Eleni, Mia enjoyed the dinners. Even the constant tension between calm, self-controlled Andreas, who rarely betrayed his thoughts and the hotheaded, impulsive Nikandros, who was already chafing at the constraints of “damned bureaucracy” as he called it.

Of course, when Mia had asked Eleni what had transpired between the brothers to make them so wary of each other, she’d clammed up.

But every time she sat down to dinner with them, Mia felt the estrangement with her own sister, Emmanuela, like a physical ache. Her older sister couldn’t understand Mia’s decision for walking away all those years ago, hadn’t understood that for Mia, soccer had been a way to fight the constant disappointments and the soul-crushing hope that came after each of her father’s promises.

Family was everything to them and Mia had simply walked away from it when it had become too hard. A pattern she was beginning to see in every aspect of her life, she thought with a sinking realization. When Brian had died in that accident and Emmanuela had called her, Mia had found it incredibly hard to break past the grief and self-pity she’d suffered. In the end, they’d talked for barely a couple of minutes and like strangers, instead of sisters who’d once adored each other.

Mia had hung up before the topic of their mom had even come up.

But seeing Nik and Andreas struggle to create something new while there was clearly a huge source of tension between them gave her fresh hope.

She was going to have a baby. Wouldn’t Emmanuela welcome the news? Wouldn’t her mom be excited that Mia was finally in a good place, that she was going to be an abuela?

The urge to pick up the phone and call them was an ache inside her. Just as soon as she figured out what she was going to say. As soon as she armed herself with enough courage. For the possibility that Mia had left it too long, had done the unforgivable and it wasn’t possible to mend what had been fractured.

In the meantime, she spent her days steeped in the history and grandeur of the King’s Palace.

With its stunning galleries and frescoes, it was an art education in itself. There were pleasure gardens; Drakonian soil was fertile with a vast array of exotic flowers and trees.

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