The Prince's Forbidden Cinderella (Mills & Boon Modern) (The Secret Twin Sisters, Book 1) by Kim Lawrence

Author:Kim Lawrence [Lawrence, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2023-01-31T18:30:00+00:00

Her interpretation of his comment stopped him dead in his tracks. He wondered how fast that idealistic glow of compassion would fade from her eyes if she knew the truth—that he’d killed Freya’s mother.

The doctors could talk about her ruptured uterus and massive blood loss, but he knew differently.

‘Is that your experience?’ he countered softly, and watched her eyes flare in alarm before the barriers were raised.

‘Oh, I’ve never—’ she began, stopping as she heard the echo of her brother’s accusations in her head.

Jake would have said no man ever reached her high standards, but it wasn’t that at all. She was what some people might call a closet romantic. She really believed in soulmates, that there was someone who completed you out there.

She didn’t think everyone was lucky enough to find theirs, but she didn’t want to settle, which didn’t mean she hadn’t dipped her toe in the dating waters, it was just that she’d never really gone any farther, which had led her to the conclusion that she really wasn’t that highly sexed.

A conclusion that had just been thrown into doubt by a kiss. Not just the kiss, the fact she had not wanted it to stop. The inconvenient possibility that the wrong...very wrong man, and not the man who was her perfect match, would awaken her dormant sexuality had never even crossed her mind.

She had always felt confident about her choices, but her right-and-wrong, black-and-white world view was taking some serious hits and the problem was that once you started questioning one certainty you started questioning everything!

‘I have been very busy with my work, career.’ Able to hear the defensive note in her voice, she brought her lashes down in a protective sweep.

‘Climbing the greasy ladder,’ he drawled, recognising the lie but letting it go. ‘And then you leapt off,’ he added, miming a diving gesture with his long fingers. ‘Curious?’

She compressed her lips and clung to her defiance. ‘I have always wanted to travel.’

‘You really are a very bad liar, but shall we get back to my announcement? As things stand at the moment, when I die Freya is first in line to the throne, but should she have a male sibling he would take precedence.’

This man was so vitally alive, the most alive person she had ever met, to think of him not being around set off a discordant note of denial in her head.

‘Freya does talk a lot about a brother.’

‘You’re telling me I should hurry up? I think I have a few years left in me yet.’

His mercurial mood shifts made Kate feel constantly on edge, and his lazy mockery made her teeth clench. Ego was not an attractive thing even when justified, and his was. His sexual potency entered a room before he did!

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