Surprise Heir for the Princess by Kate Hardy

Author:Kate Hardy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-01-10T15:57:00+00:00

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Liam made another print of a photograph from the bluebell woods shoot, this time making a really tight crop.

Vittoria di Sarda was beautiful.

Beyond beautiful.

Even with the wrong hair and the wrong eyes, she captivated him. It was in the curve of her mouth, the tiny laughter lines beginning to fan out from the corners of her eyes, the way she tilted her head.

And how he wished he’d taken some shots of her, this morning. When he’d been teasing her with her favourite poem, and she’d laughed up at him from the pillow.

The only images he had from that were in his mind’s eye, and it wasn’t enough. How long would it be before the images faded, before he forgot the feel of her skin against his and the scent of her hair?

He never usually let himself get that close to his girlfriends. Balancing his family and his job was hard enough; he’d found adding a relationship and all its demands into the mix led to feeling guilty that he wasn’t focusing well enough on any area of his life.

And now he’d fallen for a woman who was completely out of his reach. He’d fallen for the woman with her cool, calm, collected carapace. He’d fallen even harder for the woman beneath that carapace: the woman who’d asked for an on-the-fly photography lesson and cheekily taken his portrait, the woman who’d walked barefoot at the edge of the sea with him.

The woman who’d kissed him underneath the stars.

‘A rose by any other name would smell as sweet...’

The words bounced into his head. Forget the name. Vittoria was still a princess and always would be. But roses... He wanted to photograph her in a rose garden. He wanted to kiss her in a rose garden. He wanted to scatter rose petals on the crisp white sheets of a wide, wide bed and make love with her by the light of the moon.

And how weird was it that his aim of being the best portrait photographer of his generation suddenly felt so empty and pointless? The images weren’t enough for him any more. He wanted something else: he wanted Vittoria. In his arms. Always.

‘It’s not going to happen,’ he told himself out loud. ‘So just snap out of it and get on with your work.’

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