His Pregnant Christmas Princess by Leah Ashton

Author:Leah Ashton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-09-06T18:38:15+00:00

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Ana was absolutely not ready to face her mother.

Yes, the whole reason for her wanting to get back to Vela Ada quickly was so she could talk to her mother—but it wasn’t supposed to be here. Straight off the plane and out of sorts after spending two days alone with Rhys.

On the plane she’d kept telling herself she’d be fine once she was back at her own place and had had a few hours to herself to get her thoughts in order. After last night’s revelation—that she couldn’t regret meeting Rhys—and then having the most vivid dreams of her life, of memories created in the very bed she’d been sleeping in, she could barely look at Rhys without blushing.

So she really wasn’t in the ideal headspace to have a significant conversation with her mother.

‘How could you just disappear like that?’ her mother asked. ‘Without a word? I was so worried! Palace Security wouldn’t even tell me where you were. Why would they do that? Why, Ana?’

Her mother directed an accusing glare at Rhys, who had stepped closer to her. Close enough that they looked kind of like a couple—which probably wasn’t helping the situation.

Ana took a step away and immediately regretted it. There was something about having tall, broad Rhys by her side that made her feel better about everything.

But she wasn’t going to step back again now. They weren’t a couple.

Prince Marko and Princess Jasmine came to a stop beside Ana’s mother. Even dressed casually in jeans, the couple looked as polished as always. Jas had confided in Ana that she had also found the transition to Princess difficult, but Ana honestly found that hard to believe. Jas was the darling of Vela Ada—while Ana had managed to embarrass the royal family once already as a runaway bride, and was about to do it again with her pregnancy.

‘Vesna...’ Prince Marko began, addressing her mother in a low and soothing tone. ‘How about we all go back to the palace to discuss this?’

Ana had known her entire life that she was actually Marko’s cousin, but it hadn’t made her any less starstruck when she’d first met him and King Lukas twelve months ago. They might be blood relatives, but she’d grown up seeing the Prince and the King as celebrities she’d read about in newspapers, magazines or on social media.

She’d even watched the televised wedding of Marko to Princess Jasmine only a few months before Prince Goran had died, and had oohed and aahed over Jasmine’s dress, not to mention the whole fairy tale of Jasmine’s transition from bodyguard to princess.

But at no point had she imagined she would one day be part of that glossy, photographed, televised world.

Ana’s mother was having nothing of Marko’s attempts to calm her.

‘Ne razumijem!’ she continued, meeting Ana’s gaze—I don’t understand. ‘Ne razumijem,’ she repeated, but more softly this time. Sadly.

Ana noticed the red rims round her mother’s eyes and the dark shadows beneath them. Seeing the worry she’d caused her mother made her feel ill.

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