Pregnant with His Majesty's Heir by Annie West

Author:Annie West
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-02-01T17:26:48+00:00

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What had just happened?

With dazed eyes Aurélie looked from the withdrawing butler to Lucien’s serious expression.

Inevitably her gaze slid to his mouth, to those lips that had taken her to the edge of paradise.

What a kiss!

She’d been putty in his hands, not just acquiescent but collaborating in her own seduction.

Because Lucien had insisted it wasn’t over between them.

Because he knew to the day how long they’d been apart. Her stupid heart had dipped and shivered when she heard that. It had seemed impossibly romantic.

He had the power to undo her defences with a look, aside from the caress of his lips and that hungry, confident way he’d hauled her to him as if she was his.

But none of that meant she belonged here! She didn’t. She never would, no matter what her wayward body felt.

She stepped back, only to discover his arm still around her waist.

‘Where are you going?’ he murmured and Aurélie hated herself for loving the deep gravel note of his voice, as if his body hadn’t yet accepted the news that sex wasn’t on the agenda.

‘I can’t stay here.’ She didn’t try to break his hold, knowing it was futile. Instead she jerked her chin higher and met his stare with what she hoped was cool confidence. ‘I don’t belong.’

‘I want you here, which means you belong. No one else has a say in that.’

‘Not even me?’ Aurélie wished she could shake free of the fog engulfing her. It was hard to think because Lucien had kissed her and said he wanted her.

But then he kissed like a fallen angel, with all the skills of a born sensualist and the ruthless determination of a man used to getting his own way.

‘You’re being deliberately obtuse. Of course you have a say. That’s why you’re here, so we can talk. Among other things.’

One look from under heavy eyelids, one suggestive comment and her body fired with longing. Flames licked through her veins, flaring in deep-seated places that made her shift and look away.

Aurélie moved back, out of his hold. ‘Now who’s being obtuse? You’re a king. You meet with the Prime Minister! I’m a waitress. I’ll never belong here.’

‘You have something against royalty?’

‘It’s not that.’ He was deliberately misunderstanding. ‘You can’t be serious about us...marrying.’ There. She’d said it. ‘It’s preposterous.’

His dark eyebrows furrowed into a deep V. ‘You don’t believe in equality? You think you’re less than me because of who our parents were?’

‘It’s not about being less or more. It’s about being...’ she searched for the right word ‘...incompatible. I don’t belong in this rarefied world.’

Blazing amber eyes held hers. ‘I never thought you such a snob, Aurélie. Next you’ll be saying our child doesn’t belong here.’

‘That’s different—’

‘Of course it’s not. It’s all about what we want and what we believe. And what we choose to teach our child.’ He paused. ‘As for being incompatible, we’ve just proved that’s a lie.’

Aurélie closed her eyes, summoning patience. ‘I don’t mean I think you’re a better person than me.

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