I held onto my phone so tight, I was sure I was going to lose circulation in my fingers. The stupid tears pricked the backs of my lids and I fought for control. I was lying to Penny when I said I was getting over it.
I wasn’t over shit. Just hearing him breathe evoked memories I wished were long dead. Memories that tore at the center of my chest, threatening to break me apart. Memories that were sweet and bitter and painful and beautiful. Memories I couldn’t exorcise.
Memories I didn’t want to exorcise.
And then he spoke.
It was only one word.
But it was a word spoken with a man’s tone, not a boy’s. It was a word spoken with a mixture of reverence and pain, worry and sadness. “Ariel…”
The tear escaped before I could stop it, rolling down my cheek. Why now? I was finally back to my life. Back where I needed to be.
But of course, my past was never going to let me go. “Your Highness.”
“I—I’m sorry.”
I blinked. He was sorry? For what? Was this the apology I’d been waiting for half my life? It took me a second to realize his words had been slurred.
He was drunk. He had to be. “Your Highness, perhaps—”
“I know. I shouldn’t call. But I had to. Just to hear… your voice. Just one more time…”
What? One more time? “Tristan, what in the—” But I didn’t get to finish… he’d already hung up.
To be continued in Return of the Prince…
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They said I’d never come home again…they were wrong.
There is one person worth returning home for. Her. One little problem. She hates me.
She should, I left her behind.
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Even if it means spilling my secrets.
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Tempting the Heiress, Book 2 in the Heiress Duet
COPYRIGHT © 2019 by Nana Malone
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Cover Art by Hang Le
Photography by Wander Aguilar
Edited by Angie Ramey and Michele Ficht
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About Nana Malone
USA Today Best Seller, Nana Malone's love of all things romance and adventure started with a tattered romantic suspense she "borrowed" from her cousin.
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It was a sultry summer afternoon in Ghana, and Nana was a precocious thirteen. She's been in love with kick butt heroines ever since. With her overactive imagination, and channeling her inner Buffy, it was only a matter a time before she started creating her own characters.
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Now she writes about sexy royals and smokin’ hot bodyguards when she’s not hiding her tiara from Kidlet, chasing a puppy who refuses to shake without a treat, or begging her husband to listen to her latest hair-brained idea.