Surprise Baby for my Billionaire Boss by Jessica Brooke & Ella Brooke

Author:Jessica Brooke & Ella Brooke [Brooke, Jessica & Brooke, Ella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Billionaire Romance
Published: 2018-01-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Three

Emrys watched Caitlyn’s face carefully as he began to speak. He’d suspected that if he could lure her to him, she might not be able to make herself leave. This worked in his advantage, though that was all the advantage he would be getting here. Now, she sipped at her wine, tilted her head to the side, and eyed him curiously. It was a bit uncomfortable to have her sharp green eyes turned on him. His discomfort was inevitable, he supposed. It was good after all this time to simply feel it, instead of waiting eternally with the guilt of knowing her hurt was out there somewhere, intangibly existing in the abstract.

“Well? Are you going to explain?” Caitlyn pressed.

“I’ll try. I’m not sure you can really understand what the pressures of being in line for a throne are like.”

“You left me because of stress?” She pursed her lips and held her flute to the side.

“No.” Emrys sat and folded his hands on the table. “I did study acting at Oxford. That much was true—”

“I know. It’s on your Wikipedia page. But you didn’t just say you studied there. You said you were from England.” Caitlyn set her glass down so hard that a little champagne spilled out. “Why did you lie? And why didn’t you just tell me at the end it had to be over? It would have still hurt, but it would have hurt a lot less!”

“I didn’t know, Cait.” Emrys pinned her down with his gaze.

“You didn’t know you weren’t English? I can’t help you with that.”

Emrys slapped his hand hard against the table. “Let me finish!”

Caitlyn jumped and straightened in her seat. “Do finish, Your Highness.”

Emrys looked upon the hardness of her face. It didn’t suit her. What suited her was the rosy flush of her cheek in excitement, breathless sighs on her lips, and stars in her eyes.

“At the time, I believed I could do as I liked. I could go train as an actor, I could live my life, I could love as I wished. I enjoyed being an ordinary man. But when I returned home that summer, my father told me that I was to be married.” Emrys spread his hands at Caitlyn’s expression of alarm. “She wasn’t too thrilled about the prospect either, believe me. Miranda had another man in her life at the time, but both of us were compelled by our parents to take our engagement seriously. They’d announced it before either of us had heard a word of it.”

“That’s awful. What, did you just arrive home to find yourself at an engagement party?” Caitlyn leaned forward curiously.

“Not quite so dramatic, but near to. I arrived to be told by my father what was to happen. And we went along with it for a time. Miranda and I both played our roles well enough.” Emrys sighed. “I was so deeply ashamed, my Caitlyn. How could I keep trying to love you when I knew I had to marry soon? How could I ask you to tolerate my marrying another?”

Caitlyn touched his hand.

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