His Forbidden Pregnant Princess by Maisey Yates

Author:Maisey Yates [Yates, Maisey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781474088152
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

HE LEFT HER there in the expansive bed all by herself. Her dress was torn, past the point of fixing, and though he had mentioned there would be a new wardrobe supply for her here, she had no idea where said wardrobe was. Not that she had gone poking around.

She felt too...something. Sad. Bereft, almost, but also boneless and satisfied in a way she never had been before. Or, if she could compare it to anything, it was the way she had felt after their first time. Not happy, no. There was no room between them for something so simple as happy.

It was more like she was lying in the rubble of a building that had needed demolition.

That didn’t make it easy. It didn’t make it less of a pile of rubble. But there was something inevitable about all of it that made something in this a relief.

Even as it was a sharp pain, like being stabbed in the center of her chest.

She needed to call her mother. She knew full well that Luca did not want her to divulge their location. But he had left her. And there was a phone on the desk. Unless he had done something truly diabolical and cut the line, there was nothing stopping her from getting in touch with the one person who truly needed to know that she was okay.

She wrapped herself several times in the feather-soft white sheet, making sure it was secure at her breasts, before going to the phone and with trembling hands picking up the receiver and listening for the dial tone.

It had one. So, provided she could dial off the island, she should be able to get in touch with her mother.

“Let’s see,” she mumbled as she typed in the country code for San Gennaro followed by her mother’s number.

The phone rang just once before her mother answered. “Hello?”

“Mom,” Sophia said.

“Where are you?” her mother asked, panic lacing each word. “Are you safe?”

“Yes,” she said.

It was true that she was physically safe. Emotionally was another matter.

“What happened? You were at the chapel and ready, and Luca went in to fetch you and... Is Luca with you?” her mother asked.

“Luca...” The rest of the sentence died.

“What is it?”

“Luca is the reason that I’ve gone missing,” Sophia finished.

The silence on the other end was brittle, like a thin pane of glass that she was certain would splinter into a million pieces and shatter if she breathed too deeply.

“Is he?” her mother asked finally.

“There’s something I have to tell you...”

“Oh, Sophia,” her mother said, the words mournful. “I had hoped... I had hoped that you had put your feelings for him behind you.”

“It’s his baby, Mother,” she said, the words coming out raw and painful.

More silence. But this one was full. Of emotion. Of words left unspoken. Sophia couldn’t breathe.

“I see,” the queen finally responded.

“We didn’t mean for... I tried... He tried.” She closed her eyes, swallowing hard. “We did try.”

“Just tell me he never took advantage of you when you were younger.

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