Page 54 of Royally Tempted

Wonderful.

“So, you two are here looking for soulmates?”

She said it sarcastically, but I could barely concentrate on her words. My eyes were still lost in those eyes, in the dimples at her cheeks, at the soft skin of her neck. The way her hair twirled and twisted up on her head like it was held in place by magic.

I was trying to ignore the darker, fiercer side in me that wanted to pull that hair loose and wrap it around my fist. The side of me that wanted to bruise those lips with mine, and claim that soft neck with my teeth.

The part of me that wasdyingto know what those lips would feel like sliding down my cock.

I shook my head, blinking and realizing neither of us had said a thing to her question.

Jesus we were fucking this up.

“Perhaps?” I said with a smile, shrugging.

She rolled her eyes. “Soulmates, huh? Really?”

Cade laughed. “Is it so hard to imagine?”

“For you two?” She barked out a laugh. “Yes.”

“Humor us. Why?”

“Why?” She grinned, taking a sip of her champagne and shaking her head at Cade and then me.

“Because you’re both princes.”

“And?”

“And rich, gorgeous, sexy princes have a tendency to be looking for one thing, and it's notsoulmates.”

I grinned, my eye catching hers. “So we’re gorgeous and sexy?”

Her face went bright red, her eyes dropping. “That’snotwhat I meant.”

Cade chuckled, sipping his drink.

“I’m not wrong and you know it,” she said quickly. “I know all about your reputations. And I’m sure you’re here at a suitors’ ball looking for desperate, pathetic princesses who think being around the promise of true love is an excuse to give it up to men like you.”

I smirked. Damn she was sharp. I liked that, a lot.

“Our reputations?” Cade raised a brow.

Truth be told, we didn’t really have the reps our friends did, because we’d always kept our personal lives out of the papers.

“Our reps or our friends’?”

She shrugged. “Isn’t it the same thing?”

I shook my head. “I don’t think so.”

She glanced at me. “Company you keep.”

“Touché.”

“Anyways...” She quickly looked away, a wisp of her long blonde hair coming loose and floating near her ear. Damn I wanted to run my finger through that hair. Maybe tangle in it. Maybe pull her into me and claim that mouth.

I cleared my throat.

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