Cinderella: Hired by the Prince / The Sheikh's Destiny. Marion Lennox
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Название: Cinderella: Hired by the Prince / The Sheikh's Destiny

Автор: Marion Lennox

Издательство: HarperCollins

Жанр: Контркультура

Серия: Mills & Boon Romance

isbn: 9781408919927

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СКАЧАТЬ couldn’t matter. It shouldn’t be his problem. He didn’t even know the little boy…

      ‘I’ll take financial care of the child,’ Ramón said shortly. ‘But I can’t drop everything. I have twelve more weeks at sea and then I’m due in Bangladesh.’

      ‘Your team already knows you won’t be accompanying them this year,’ the lawyer told him flatly, leaving no room for argument. ‘And I’ve found an experienced yachtsman who’s prepared to sail the Marquita back to Cepheus for you. We can be on a flight tonight, and even that’s not soon enough.’ Then, as the lawyer noticed Ramón’s face—and Ramón was making no effort to disguise his fury—he added quickly, ‘There’s mounting hysteria over the mess your uncle and cousin left, and there’s massive disquiet about Carlos inheriting.’

      ‘As well there might be,’ Ramón growled, trying hard to stay calm. Ramón’s distant cousin was an indolent gamester, rotund, corrupt and inept. He’d faced the court more than once, but charges had been dropped, because of bribery? He wasn’t close enough to the throne to know.

      ‘He’s making noises that the throne should be his. Blustering threats against you and your aunt.’

      ‘Threats?’ And there it was again, the terror he’d been raised with. ‘Don’t go near the throne. Ever!’

      ‘If the people rise against the throne…’ the lawyer was saying.

      ‘Maybe that would be a good thing.’

      ‘Maybe it’d be a disaster,’ the man said, and proceeded to tell him why. At every word Ramón felt his world disintegrate. There was no getting around it—the country was in desperate need of a leader, of some sort of stability…of a Crown Prince.

      ‘So you see,’ the lawyer said at last, ‘you have to come. Go back to the boat, tell the woman—she’s your only crew?—what’s happening, pack your bags and we’ll head straight to the airport.’

      And there was nothing left for him but to agree. To take his place in a palace that had cost his family everything.

      ‘Tomorrow,’ he said, feeling ill.

      ‘Tonight.’

      ‘I will spend tonight with Gianetta,’ Ramón growled, and the lawyer raised his brows.

      ‘Like that?’

      ‘Like nothing,’ Ramón snapped. ‘She deserves an explanation.’

      ‘It’s not as if you’re sacking her,’ the lawyer said. ‘I’ve only hired one man to replace you. She’ll still be needed. She can help bring the Marquita home and then you can pay her off.’

      ‘I’ve already paid her.’

      ‘Then there’s no problem.’ The lawyer rose and so did Ramón. ‘Tonight.’

      ‘Tomorrow,’ Ramón snapped and looked at the man’s face and managed a grim smile. ‘Consider it my first royal decree. Book the tickets for tomorrow’s flights.’

      ‘But…’

      ‘I will not argue,’ Ramón said. ‘I’ve a mind to wash my hands of the whole business and take Marquita straight back out to sea.’ Then, at the wash of undisguised distress on the lawyer’s face, he sighed and relented. ‘But, of course, I won’t,’ he said. ‘You know I won’t. I will return with you to Cepheus. I’ll do what I must to resolve this mess, I’ll face Carlos down, but you will give me one more night.’

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