The Christmas Princess by Patricia McLinn

Author:Patricia McLinn [McLinn, Patricia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-07-17T06:00:00+00:00

Leslie also talked with Bette Monroe that morning. Bette’s questions were less direct than Tris’, her concern about April just as genuine.

The other woman kept the call brief, ending it by saying, “If there’s anything I can do or Paul can do, or if you want to change the plans to come here for Christmas… Dad Monroe’s leg might let him travel by then.”

“Not comfortably, the poor man. Thank you, Bette, but I don’t see us changing the plans. Seeing that clip, April looks so wonderful, I can’t imagine there’s anything seriously wrong. I do wish she’d talk to me about whatever’s happening. But if she does need help, I know you’ll both be there for her. So does she.”

She felt reassured by the call. Bette had that effect on people.

The next call had a different effect.

“What is April Craig Gareaux doing with a monarch of some country I have never heard of?” demanded her grandmother, in full Grande Dame mode.

Leslie stifled an urge to chuckle at Beatrice Craig making it sound as if Bariavak had committed a crime by not previously having come to her attention. Chuckling was not advisable when Beatrice was on a high horse that would make a Clydesdale look puny

“I don’t know. You should ask April that question directly.”

There was a pause. “She has not yet returned my call.”

“Nor mine.”

“Hmph.” Beatrice’s high horse shrank to pony size. “What is that girl thinking?”

“I don’t know that, either,” she said evenly.

“And no opportunity to ask her, since she’s not coming tomorrow for the Craig Christmas. All because of that upstart Warrington woman and her son. As if coming here would be lowering themselves. Yet they send April off cozying up to a mere king. Upstarts.”

Leslie was almost certain her grandmother’s last phrase was aimed at the Warringtons, not Bariavak’s royal family. But rather than risk asking for clarification, she merely assured her grandmother that her branch of the Craig clan would be in Charlottesville for the festivities the next day.

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