Forbidden: The Billionaire's Virgin Princess
Step into a world of sophistication and glamour, where sinfully seductive heroes await you in luxurious international locations.Can he resist the provocative princess?Sebastian Hawk is a billion-dollar master in business and in the bedroom. He doesn’t allow emotion to get in the way of what he does best. Lina is a princess in need of a firm hand. Life in her gilded cage has made her headstrong and reckless. When Sebastian is called in to give Lina round-the-clock protection, her first instinct is to fight back.But her provocative innocence proves too enticing to ignore, and it’s only a matter of time before Sebastian loses his legendary self-control and beds her…to discover that his feisty royal charge is still a virgin…
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Lucy Monroe started reading at age four. After sheâd gone through the childrenâs books at home, Lucyâs mother caught her reading adult novels pilfered from the higher shelves on the bookcaseâ¦alas, it was nine years before she got her hands on a Mills & Boon>® romance her older sister had brought home. She loves to create the strong alpha males and independent women that people Mills & Boon>® books. When sheâs not immersed in a romance novel (whether reading or writing it), she enjoys travel with her family, having tea with the neighbours, gardening, and visits from her numerous nieces and nephews.
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Dear Reader
Can you believe Mills & Boon is celebrating its hundredth year of publication? I can and I canât. You see, I find it easy to accept that a publisher who has brought so much pleasure to so many (including myself) has done so successfully for an entire century. But in the same vein I find it amazing that a publisher who has been at it so long is so incredibly in tune with current readers. Mills & Boon has allowed me to explore issues facing todayâs woman that other publishers are unwilling to consider. Modern⢠Romance does exactly that.
Call me sappy, if you like, but it brings tears to my eyes to realise that FORBIDDEN: THE BILLIONAIREâS VIRGIN PRINCESS is part of such a legacy. I am truly honoured that Mills & Boon has allowed me to bring Sebastian and Lina alive for readers in this, their hundredth year. Just as M&B has grown and changed with the times, Lina is looking for a modern lifeâeven though sheâs a princess from a very old family. Sebastian doesnât think they have a future, and that eats at a heart already made cynical by life. But in the end I think this modern-day alpha will find that love is a more powerful force than he ever imagined.
Blessings and love to you all as we celebrate M&Bâs centenary!
Lucy
For all the readers who wanted Hawkâs story.
Thank you for writing me. And with special thanks to Mills & Boon for letting this, my twentieth story for them, be part of their amazing 100 years and still going legacy!
CHAPTER ONE
LINA MARWAN stood on the edge of the bridge, her eyes shut as she searched for her center.
A slight breeze caressed her sun warmed skin. It was a beautiful day to be alive. She released the railing and nothing stood between her and open airâ¦a fifty-foot drop to the rushing waters of the river below.
Adrenaline coursed through her at the thought of what she was about to do. Her breaths came in short pants and sweat formed on her temples and palms. She curled her fingers into fists and then released them several times as she forced her lungs into a more relaxed rhythm.
Loud voices from behind her disturbed the peace she was trying to attain. Opening her eyes, she looked back over her shoulder and saw him.
Sebastian Hawk.
The last person she expected to see at this moment in her life. The last man she expected, or wanted, to see ever again. Before, or after, death. God wouldnât be so cruel as to put her and the deceitful bastard in the same part of heaven.
Well, there was nothing for it. He was here and it would only be a matter of seconds before he convinced the officials holding him off the bridge into letting him come for her.
She faced forward again, spread her arms like wings and let her body fall forward as the sound of Sebastianâs roar echoed off the ravineâs rocky walls.
Soaring through the air like a bird diving for its prey, memories from eight years before flooded Linaâs mind in a reel-to-reel play of her time with Sebastian Hawk.
Headed toward the University Center, Lina rushed across the quad. She was late for the meeting, but it couldnât be helped. Sheâd had to ditch her bodyguard. Again. He was reading a book on Ancient Egypt on the ground floor of the library. He believed she was in a study group meeting in one of the rooms on the second floor. If the poor man knew how many hours he spent in the library while she was elsewhere, they would both be in a lot of trouble.
He was easy to fool. Too easy for her ego. In his mind her high grade point average attested unequivocally to many hours spent studying. She did study, just not nearly as much as he believed. However, like her father and far too many other men from her country, her guard did not believe a woman could get the grades she did without putting a huge effort into the task. All of the guards in her current security detail were similarly afflicted in their thinking.
When she had discovered the benefits to this particular formerly annoying trait she had been grateful for her fatherâs insistence on supplying her bodyguards from her home country for the first time.
Raised in America since she was six, sheâd often chafed at the attitudes exhibited by her Marwanian guards. Then she had arrived at university and discovered how easy it was to gain temporary freedom on the pretext of studying. She grinned. Life might not be perfect, but it certainly was fun.
