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Highness.”
    “Anastazia,” he returned gruffly.
    Stazzi turned sharply on her heel and marched across the room, anxious to get away now. Desperate to try to get her thoughts in order. To rationalize her response to His Highness Prince Alexandre Sylvain Claude St Sebastien.
    But something drew on her, pulled inside her, daring her to glance back at him when she reached the doorway. Half of her expected him to be watching her departure; the other half hoped he wasn’t.
    He was.
    The lighting in the room was such that she couldn’t read the emotion in those glittering green eyes, but she saw something else. Something unexpected.
    A man alone.
    Not just alone, but lonely?
    For the first time, it occurred to her that being the absolute ruler of his own island couldn’t be all champagne and roses. Alexandre’s parents were both dead, and he had no siblings. Gerard St Sebastien was the only close family he had left. And wasn’t he just a barrel of laughs!
    There was no one, at the end of a long day, for Alexandre to just sit down and talk with, eat a companionable dinner with, go to bed with.
    Oh, come on, Prince Alexandre of Androcco isn’t alone or lonely. No doubt once I’ve gone, he’ll get out his little black book and give one of the women in it a call and invite her to come and spend the night with him.
    Whereas Stazzi desperately needed to leave here, to get some perspective back into her life.
    And forget all about princes from sun-warmed Mediterranean islands who said they wanted her…

Chapter 4
    “I never liked him anyway.”
    “What?” Stazzi stared bleary-eyed at Lissa as the two of them sat opposite each other at the breakfast bar in their apartment the following morning.
    Lissa was eating her toast with obvious enjoyment, while Stazzi nursed a cup of black coffee. The thought of eating anything made her feel nauseated.
    “Will,” Lissa dismissed airily. “I never liked him, or the way he sometimes looked at the two of us as if we’re from another planet, just because we share the same sense of humor and laugh at ridiculous things. Judgmental prick,” she added with feeling.
    Stazzi slowly put down her coffee mug. “I never noticed that…”
    Her friend grimaced. “Well, you wouldn’t, because you were too busy hoping that he was ‘the one.’ Oh, I’ll grant you that on the surface, Will had it all. Handsome. Charming. A lawyer. Owns his own house. Understated but expensive car. No scary mother-in-law to cope with, only an elderly father.”
    “I like his father.”
    Lissa snorted. “I’m sure he liked your father too.”
    Stazzi frowned. “Are you saying Daddy, who he is, was the reason Will went out with me?”
    “Not the only reason, no.” Lissa smiled ruefully. “You’re gorgeous, let’s face it.”
    “Thanks…I think.”
    “Your parents don’t like him, you know.”
    Stazzi’s eyes widened. “Did they tell you that?”
    “Maybe,” Lissa admitted with reluctance.
    “Why didn’t they tell me?”
    “Because you’re their only child, and they would never deliberately hurt you.” Lissa shook her head. “But the fact your father is an impoverished duke rather than a rich one, and that even the title will eventually go to some obscure male relative, will have been deciding factors for someone like Will. He wants money to go with the prestige.”
    “I can’t believe I missed all this about him.”
    Lissa sighed. “Believe me, Stazzi, you may not think so now, but you’re better off without him. He has such an inflated opinion of himself. You would have had to take a subservient role all the time if you’d married him. In Will Granger’s opinion, only Will Granger matters.”
    “Why have you never said any of this before?” She felt slightly punch-drunk, completely dazed by Lissa’s blunt insights into the man Stazzi had thought she was going to marry.
    Had thought.
    Because that was no longer going to happen.
    She’d called Will as soon as she left the hotel the