Royal Captive by Marton Dana

Author:Marton, Dana [Marton, Dana]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-06-01T05:00:00+00:00

THEY WERE HOLED UP IN a villa in Porto Paphos, owned by one of Istvan’s cousins, the duke of something or other. Her rooms had an unobstructed view of the sea out front and of an amazing pool out back. The grounds were shaded by date palms and inhabited by more cats than Lauryn had ever seen in one place. She liked cats.

They were all over the island, but seemed to especially prefer the estate.

Valtrian guards, borrowed from the embassy, took up residence on the lower floors, securing the building.

The top floor was reserved for her and the prince. They each had a suite of their own, plus another to be used as a war room. It was already furnished with giant maps of the island, two computers and stacks and stacks of papers. They had received a list of art and antiquities dealers on the island—legitimate and illegitimate—the name of every cop who could be bribed, the location of every nook that could be used as a hiding place for someone trying to lie low with stolen treasure.

When a prince asked questions, people responded.

Everything and everyone responded to the prince.

Including her body.

Those kisses in his bedroom—where they could have led… It didn’t bear thinking about. Except that, despite her best efforts, she hadn’t been able to stop thinking about it, about him. She’d run because her own response to the man had scared her. Her casual attitude to his touch, to his seduction, had all been pretense once she recovered from melting completely.

She’d also run because no matter how much he was getting to her, she couldn’t allow him to get the upper hand. No man was going to control her, not in any way. He needed to understand that, the sooner the better.

Putting her under house arrest, indeed.

But then she saw him at the harbor. And felt his frustration, shared it. She could have started investigating on her own. But the truth was, she needed his help. And if she was totally honest, she liked working with him.

And so she had walked up to the prince. She could only hope she wasn’t going to regret it.

She listened to Miklos on the phone, on speaker. He and Janos had arrived earlier that morning, helped to search the ship, then arranged for a quick extradition of the crew to Valtria and took them back, along with the ship’s captain. Miklos would be handling their questioning there. The princes were adamant about keeping as much of the case under wraps as possible.

“The crew is not talking. Yet,” Miklos added with optimism. “I’m working with them. Janos found a couple players in Valtria with good enough teams, we think, to pull off the heist. One boss is the guest of Great Northern Penitentiary at the moment. We’ll go after the others. Shouldn’t take too long between the five of us.”

“The twins are back?” Istvan asked with surprise.

“Lazlo cut his honeymoon a few days short,” Miklos said as if it was no big deal.

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