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Lucy Monroe

FORBIDDEN: THE BILLIONAIRE’S VIRGIN PRINCESS

CHAPTER ONE

LINA MARWAN stood on the edge of the bridge, her eyes shut as she searched for her center

A slight breeze caressed her sun warmed skin It was a beautiful day to be alive She released the railing and nothing stood between her and open air…a fifty-foot drop to the rushing waters of the river below

Adrenaline coursed through her at the thought of what she was about to do Her breaths came in short pants and sweat forers into fists and then released thes into a more relaxed rhythm

Loud voices fro to attain Opening her eyes, she looked back over her shoulder and saw him

Sebastian Hawk

The last person she expected to see at this moment in her life The last ain Before, or after, death God wouldn’t be so cruel as to put her and the deceitful bastard in the same part of heaven

Well, there was nothing for it He was here and it would only be ahi him come for her

She faced forward again, spread her ars and let her body fall forward as the sound of Sebastian’s roar echoed off the ravine’s rocky walls

Soaring through the air like a bird diving for its prey, ht years before flooded Lina’s mind in a reel-to-reel play of her time with Sebastian Hawk

Headed toward the University Center, Lina rushed across the quad She was late for the , but it couldn’t be helped She’d had to ditch her bodyguard Again He was reading a book on Ancient Egypt on the ground floor of the library He believed she was in a study groupin one of the rooms on the second floor If the poor man kne many hours he spent in the library while she was elsewhere, they would both be in a lot of trouble

He was easy to fool Too easy for her ego In his e attested unequivocally toShe did study, just not nearly as much as he believed However, like her father and far too uard did not believe a woe effort into the task All of the guards in her current security detail were si

When she had discovered the benefits to this particular forrateful for her father’s insistence on supplying her bodyguards from her home country for the first time

Raised in America since she was six, she’d often chafed at the attitudes exhibited by her Marwanian guards Then she had arrived at university and discovered how easy it was to gain terinned Life ht not be perfect, but it certainly was fun

Her grin changed to a grimace as she ran into a rock wall dressed like a man

She bounced backward, landing right on her burass “Ooof”

“Are you all right?” Oh,The rock wall had a voice that

She looked up…and up…a couple of inches over six feet of rippling ray A dark, ht at that moment, their expression was perfectly readable They were lit with concern For her

Nice

Her smile returned and she stuck her hand out “Fine Thanks Give me a lift?”

His lips quirked “Certainly” He reached toward her and their hands connected

Starbursts one off, she wasn’t sure Because the ainst his and her senses went supernova Her dazzled brain registered that his mouth was still curved in that half-curve She wondered what he’d look like with a full-blown s, probably She probably wouldn’t survive it

“You sure you’re okay?” he asked, looking really concerned now

And darned if she didn’t really like that “Wonderful”

“You don’t need help to re?”

“No” Did she look like she needed help?

“Then, o? Not that I mind the close contact” Warm amusement laced his words