The Playboy Prince's Baby by Sparks Ana & Valentine Layla

Author:Sparks, Ana & Valentine, Layla
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-12-08T00:00:00+00:00

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As it turned out, the drink got my brain to settle down and start doing some real problem-solving, and by the time I was on my second glass of whiskey, I was actually thinking through the meeting with a clear head.

Javier, it seemed, was under some intense pressure from people in his administration about yours truly. I still wasn’t sure why they cared about me so much, considering I was just the spare, but evidently they did, and that was all I really needed to know. Because it meant that my carefree days of traveling the world were over.

Unless I wanted to do that traveling without the money and power of the Taranan throne behind me.

And although I hadn’t gone out of my way to take advantage of that power, and God knew it hadn’t saved me from getting into trouble with the law enforcement in at least a dozen countries, the fact was that I still enjoyed some privileges out there, thanks to my family name. And I knew I’d had protection from some of the more unfortunate repercussions of my ways. I’d also never had to worry about money or security a day in my life, and I was man enough to admit how valuable that was.

And above it all, running through the entire ordeal, was the fact that I didn’t want to let my brother down. If he needed me here, I wanted to be here for him. If he needed me to settle down and make myself more available to him, then I would do it. He’d supported me my entire life—despite the occasional warrant out for my apprehension—and if he was finally admitting that he needed me, too, then I wasn’t going to turn away from him.

That didn’t, however, mean that he was going to get to choose the woman I married. Because I might be royalty, but I wasn’t actually the king, and that right there meant that my marriage was both not as vital as his, and more flexible.

As far as I was concerned, she didn’t have to be a royal. If I was going to get married and spend the rest of my life playing partner in crime to a woman, I was going to take my time and find her myself. Not let my brother and mother force her on me.

At that moment, my phone started buzzing from across the room.

Thankful for the interruption, I jumped up from the couch and went to retrieve it. And when I saw who was calling, I grinned widely.

“Erika,” I said by way of greeting.

I hadn’t spoken to her in a month. And though there was a good reason for that—namely, that I hadn’t yet figured out how I was going to get back to the US to see her, and was a coward who hadn’t wanted to call her until I had an update—I had to admit that I’d been thinking about her almost constantly.

Thinking about her, and dreaming about her. Long,

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