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The next thing she knew, his tongue was tangling with hers and his fingers rapped around her hair, pulling it taut and forcing her head at a better angle for him to devour her It was hard It was intense It was a preview of how this man would be in bed, and she couldn’t wait for that to happen She squeezed her hand between their bodies and cupped his hard cock

Do her by the hips and pushing against her froed her wrists and held theainst the Mercedes, so she couldn’t touch hiainst her

It was good—fuck that, it was ah She needed ainst her core What she wouldn’t give to wrap her legs around his lean hips Whoever had invented the pencil skirt should be shot She broke the kiss and grabbed hiet inside and lose the clothes unless you want to strip ainst your car Either way, decide now”

A tiny, high-pitched squeal, almost like feedback, eainst her before quickstepping it several steps away He waved his hand over the tie clip, and the noise stopped They stared at each other, both panting

“What the hell is on your tie pin, Doret and frustration inside her, twisting her gut and sucking out the last of the oxygen fros

Everything about him was hard and tense as he fisted his hands at his side Lust made his blue eyes hazy, and for the first ti heavily

He flicked his gaze fro it back to her…but not her eyes His attention stayed firm on a spot below her eyes, and then he bent at the waist in a deep bow

“Your Royal Highness, Princess Eloise, please accept ies for my most inappropriate behavior” Gone was the cocky billionaire, replaced with a more formal man of the royal court she rehtened, but he didn’t meet her eyes “I’ you since after you arrived in Harbor City ten years ago We were hoping to never disturb you, as was your father’s final wish However, we have solid intelligence that the Fjende, who led the coup on your country, are coaze met hers “Theyyou as soon as you produce an heir, but you shouldn’t worry We’re going to stop them and take back Elskov”

Chapter Four

Everything after Dom’s announcement was a blur A numbness, the sahed down her li to knoas another thing to hear the words she’d feared spoken out loud

They mean to kill you The words were stuck on repeat in her head as he ushered her into the huge log cabin–style château and past the butler who looked like he could bench-press a Huhter body tucked inside a forloves, the sa inside her and revved up her survival-at-any-cost -rubber speed

“We need to talk” She used the imperial at-court voice her father had always affected when soreatly “Immediately”

Dom didn’t ask why He didn’t stop in confusion He took her by the elbow and h the first available door It was the kitchen Once inside he dropped his hand and stole away the one bit of war tiether and inspected her surroundings

The space was rusticof overstuffed chairs and a leather love seat in shocking hot pink sat facing a stone fireplace that took up half the wall There was a spit in the hearth big enough to roast a ourmet stainless steel oven was nestled inside a stone wall, as were the oven’s h-end, beautiful, and utterly iazine spread of what a chichi cabin in the woods should look like If the coup had never happened, she probably would vacation in a château like this, with servants who doubled as security guards and sycophants who pretended to be her friends She ht not have friends now, but at least the feork friend–type relationships she had were on her tero back to her old life, even if she could There was nothing for her in Elskov besidesout on the palace steps and the realization that any sense of security was an illusion

Her gaze landed on Dom, and a frisson of attraction sizzled across her skin The bastard had kidnapped her, and she couldn’t sever that vibrating line of want connecting them The kiss outside had been a ht out There was soerous about hienerically Nordic features of cold blue eyes, light blond hair, and i ancestors Even in a uarded like a fortress, and facing a woman he’d called princess and bowed down to outside, he couldn’t hide the aggressive stance that was as much a part of him as it was of all the people in Elskov Their hoically between Norway and Scotland that had repelled invaders for centuries The Elskovians never learned to fight They learned to hatever the personal cost