The Prince's Forbidden Love. Raye Morgan
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grin. “Kind of. You’re big and scary, anyway.”
He groaned, but she ignored that and went on.
“I begged you to come and see what conditions were like for yourself. Letter after letter. Didn’t you read any of them?”
He shrugged. “In truth, I don’t remember reading anything of the kind.” He frowned, thinking that over. “Perhaps my secretary read them.” He looked up and decided to go a step further. “Read them and thought them too childish to pass on to me.”
“Oh!” Now she was angry. “That’s just outrageous.”
He bit back his grin and pretended to agree. “You’re absolutely right. She should have let me know how things stood.”
“Indeed,” Julienne said indignantly, ready to confront the woman on the spot. “Where is she?” she added, looking around as though she thought she might be lurking in the shadows.
Andre forced back the smile that threatened. “I’ll let her know you were asking after her.”
“You do that,” she said, looking at him suspiciously. “I think she should be reprimanded.”
He shook his head. “Sorry, can’t do that. She’s not working for me any longer. In fact, she recently left on a round-the-world cruise.” His mouth tilted at the corners as he prepared to give her the whole story. “She married an itinerant poker player she met in the casino. They plan to spend their lives aboard cruise ships, traveling from one port to the next.”
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