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Chapter One

Gordon Waybrook sighed and shifted his weight in the overly padded seat of the coffee shop booth he’d been sitting in for the last twenty minutes The seat next to hih He’d already sent three wo out in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, trying to pick up women

He was there to scope out his charge, Princess Isabelle VanGuard of Maldeva

All he knew about the wonificent in a way that screa under her clothes as she was in thelanced down at the copy of her official schedule to double-check the tih, coffee was penciled in at four o’clock in the afternoon

Of course, the Princess didn’t have to worry about being on time People just waited for her and didn’t dare to co princess She probably never said please or thank you Just expected life to be handed to her with a shiny silver bow Wait, no Platinum

With priceless diamonds

If she thought he’d bow at her feet and kiss her toes, she had another think coht be royalty and way above his reach, but he was an American

And he didn’t bow at anyone’s feet unless he fucking wanted to

Fifteen minutes and thirty-six seconds later…the royal princess herself walked in As soon as he saw her, he stiffened She wore big brown sunglasses, and held herself so stiffly he couldn’t believe she didn’t faint froy it s were covered in black pantyhose, and she wore heels that looked to be at least three inches high Her blonde hair reached halfway down her back and was flawlessly smooth

She was drop-dead gorgeous

Way too much so for royalty

Tomen, who looked to be assistants of some sort, flanked her, their eyes narrow, and their aze slipping over hi back immediately When she didn’t look away, he raised a brow and stared right back at her He expected her to blush fro at a tatted up dude in a shop…

But she stared right back at him

Not only that, but she sashayed over, too That was the only word for it, because her hips swung like he couldn’t believe Holyto kill hied on his collar Great Now he’d actually have to talk to her and introduce hiuard

“Hello, I’m—”

“Staring atover him “Do we know each other, or do you e women in coffee shops?”

“Well…” Looking her up and down, he se to me, so…?”