The Forbidden Prince

The Forbidden Prince Read Online Free PDF Page B

Book: The Forbidden Prince Read Online Free PDF
Author: Alison Roberts
interest had been piqued. How many people were there in his world that quietly came and went, making life easier for himself and his family? Advisors and bodyguards. Cooks and cleaners. He’d never served anyone so he had no idea what life would look like from that kind of perspective. He was ashamed to realise he hadn’t even given it much thought.
    Until now...
    So that kind of job could change the way you saw the world... Was that what he needed to do?
    There was only one slice of pizza left.
    â€˜You have it,’ Raoul said.
    â€˜No, it’s all yours. You’re a boy. You need to eat more.’
    â€˜How about we go halves?’
    Mika’s face lit up. ‘Okay.’ She tore the big triangle into two pieces and then eyed them up.
    â€˜That one is bigger,’ Raoul pointed out. ‘You have it.’
    Mika hesitated for a moment then she picked up the larger piece and took a big bite out of it before putting it down again.
    Raoul snorted with laughter. ‘Okay, now they’re the same. I choose this one.’ He picked up the piece that now had a semicircle of tooth marks where the point of the triangle had been, his hand grazing hers as it passed. Or maybe it hadn’t actually touched her skin—it just felt like it had—because she didn’t move hers further away. His gaze met Mika’s over the slice as he bit into it...and there it was again...
    That feeling of a connection he’d never felt before.
    Was this what having a real friend was like?
    Oddly, it was as exciting as that first flutter of physical attraction could be.
    Mika washed down the last of her pizza with the last swallow of her beer. She sighed with contentment and then leaned back in her chair.
    â€˜Right, mister. What are we going to do with you?’
    The expression on her face was a mix of concern and a determination to fix things. She was fiddling with the charm on her necklace in a way that suggested it was an automatic accompaniment to a process of deep thought.
    The irony wasn’t lost on Raoul.
    â€˜Why do you wear a dolphin charm?’
    Mika’s fingers stilled. She was staring at him with those huge eyes and Raoul felt that he’d stepped over a boundary of some kind. He’d asked a question that had personal significance and, right now, she was weighing up whether or not to trust him with an honest response.
    â€˜It’s a symbol,’ she finally said softly. ‘Of being wild and free. And...and happy.’
    The wistful note in her voice went straight to Raoul’s heart and struck a very unexpected chord.
    Mika was searching for happiness, as everybody did, but she was already almost as wild and free as one of the beautiful creatures his homeland had been named for. She didn’t have to step into a life that was pretty much set in stone—a life that meant personal happiness was unimportant compared to the greater good. If happiness was there, as it had been for most of his life, it was a bonus.
    Raoul envied her. Okay, there was a twinge of sympathy that she hadn’t yet found her ultimate happiness, but she was free to create it. To go anywhere and do anything that might help her reach her goal.
    As if she knew she might have revealed too much, Mika lifted her hand away from the charm and pushed her fingers through her already spiky hair.
    â€˜What are you going to do?’ she asked bluntly. ‘I can’t go home and leave you out on the streets. Not when it’s my fault you’re in this predicament.’
    â€˜What would you do, if you were me?’
    She probably didn’t notice that her fingers strayed back to the dolphin charm. ‘I guess I’d find somewhere to stay and then I’d find a job. If you can get one like mine, you get at least one meal a day thrown in as well. It all helps.’
    Raoul nodded. Something was falling into place in his head. Impressions and ideas that had been accumulating over the
Read Online Free Pdf

Similar Books

Discord’s Apple

Carrie Vaughn

Bachelor Father

Vicki Lewis Lewis Thompson

Fire & Ice

Alice Brown, Lady V

Betrayal

Michael S. Gardner

The Last Bookaneer

Matthew Pearl

The Shockwave Rider

John Brunner

The Mystery at the Dog Show

Gertrude Chandler Warner