Crowned For The King's Secret (Mills & Boon Modern) by Kali Anthony

Author:Kali Anthony [Anthony, Kali]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2023-11-08T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

SANDRO WASN’T SURE how Victoria would react to the news. She had every right to be furious. The ground he had to make up now was vast. The distance was something he didn’t believe could be breached easily, but he had to try. He had a child with a woman whom he’d grossly misjudged.

This morning watching her with Nic in the garden, mother and son, it was so...wholesome. Bringing forth sensations that he couldn’t explain. He’d been transfixed at the pure joy of it all, leaving him with an ache in his heart. Had he ever experienced such simplicity as a child? If he had, he couldn’t remember much of it, those happier days clouded by the memory of being torn away from all his support, from the people he knew loved him. Yet here was a woman who loved her child fiercely, and he’d torn her away from everything she’d loved too.

He needed to reset because of what his security had discovered. Because of what he was furious they’d allowed to happen in the first place, because they were his eyes and ears and should have known.

The risks weren’t hypothetical any more. Not mere suppositions and guesses. This was what was imperative for her to understand.

She put her knife and fork down carefully, deliberately, her eyes narrowing.

‘You mean, more evidence than my phone records, the details of my meetings with your representative, my legal agreement regarding Nic and our custody arrangements?’

It was so much more than that. Much worse.

‘Yes. Knowing the date you contacted the palace made it easy enough to find the staff members on the palace switchboard that day. All calls are usually logged. Yours wasn’t.’

‘So you believe me? That proves I’m not scheming with your cousin. I can go home now.’

Sandro put his knife and fork down with a clatter. He wanted to shout, Never! Yet he’d been clear that she wasn’t a prisoner here. Instead, he reined in any emotion, refusing to examine why he was so happy when she’d shown an interest in Santa Fiorina’s animal-rescue organisations, in caring for the kittens in the walled garden. It suggested something longer-term...

‘No.’

‘What do you mean, no? Wasn’t this whole thing...’ she waved her arms about, vibrant and expressive ‘...because you believed I was scheming with your cousin? You can, I don’t know, interrogate this staff member. That’ll prove everything and I can go back to England.’

He shook his head. ‘It’s not so simple. The woman who we believe took your call resigned a month after Nic was born, to travel overseas. She died in an accident—’

‘That’s terrible.’

‘In suspicious circumstances. She’d received a strange windfall of cash. Told her family it was a work bonus, but she was never paid one by the palace. We believe my cousin eliminated the only other person who knew of Nic’s existence, whom he couldn’t control.’

Victoria’s skin paled. The warm spring breeze took on a cold chill.

‘What does that have to do with me?’

‘Whilst my cousin is free, you’re in danger.

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