Royally Screwed
Royally, 1
Emma Chase
October 18, 2016
Emma Chase, New
York Times bestselling author of the Tangled Series & Legal Briefs
Series, returns with the first of three sizzling standalone books about a
family of racy, irresistible Royals.
Nicholas
Arthur Frederick Edward Pembrook, Crowned Prince of Wessco, aka “His Royal
Hotness”, is wickedly charming, devastatingly handsome, and unabashedly
arrogant—hard not to be when people are constantly bowing down to you.
Then, one
snowy night in Manhattan, the prince meets a dark haired beauty who doesn’t bow
down. Instead, she throws a pie in his face.
Nicholas
wants to find out if she tastes as good as her pie, and this heir apparent is
used to getting what he wants.
***
Dating a
prince isn’t what waitress Olivia Hammond ever imagined it would be.
There’s a
disapproving queen, a wildly inappropriate spare heir, relentless paparazzi,
and brutal public scrutiny. While they’ve traded in horse drawn carriages for
Rolls Royces and haven’t chopped anyone’s head off lately—the royals are far
from accepting of this commoner.
But to
Olivia—Nicholas is worth it.
***
Nicholas
grew up with the whole world watching, and now Marriage Watch is in full force.
In the end, Nicholas has to decide who he is, but more importantly, who he
wants to be: a King... or the man who gets to love Olivia forever.
“I have a plan.”
We’re in the library of the suite.
Nicholas is behind the desk, his hair falling still damp over his forehead from
a recent shower, while James and Tommy stand near the windows.
“Take off your clothes,” I say, dropping
a stuffed backpack at my feet.
He stands, giving me a curious,
dimple-flashing smile that makes my stomach tingle.
“I like this plan.”
He pulls his shirt over his head—and at
the sight of that gorgeous chest and ripped abs, I have to close my mouth to
stop the flow of drool.
“Should I send the lads to their room?”
he asks.
I toss him a Beastie Boys T-shirt and ripped
jeans from the backpack. “They can stay—I’ll get to them in a second.”
Nicholas puts on the outfit, his disguise
for the day. I hold up a thick gold chain with a dangling cross, and he dips
his head so I can loop it over his neck. Then I squirt gel into my hand and
reach up on tiptoes to rub it through his hair—mussing it at the top and
slicking the sides.
Perfect.
“Do you know how to drive a motorcycle?”
“Yes.”
“Excellent.” I pull a helmet with a full,
tinted face shield out of the backpack and hold it up. “Marty’s bike is
downstairs. He said to tell you: break it, you bought…a Ducati.”
Logan steps into the room from where he
was stationed just outside the door, lifting his hand, like a traffic cop.
“Hold on, now—”
Nicholas takes the helmet. “It’ll be
fine, Logan.”
“And,” I say cautiously, turning to the
three big, strong, probably-have-a-license-to-kill boys. “I want Nicholas and
me to go on this outing alone. You guys stay here.”
“Jesus, Mary and Joseph.” Tommy says.
James makes the sign of the cross.
Logan takes another route. “No fuckin’
way. Not possible.”
But the look on Nicholas’s face says it’s
definitely possible.
“No,” Logan insists again, his voice straining
with a faint hint of desperation.
“I
have an itinerary.” I take the sealed envelope out of the backpack and hand it
to Logan. “I wrote everything down for you, just in case—exactly where we’ll
be, every minute.” When he starts to tear it open I put my hand on his. “You
can’t open it until after we’re gone—it’ll ruin the surprise. But I promise it
will be all right. I swear on my life.”
My eyes drift from Logan to Nicholas.
“Trust me.”
And I want him to—so much. I want to do
this for him, give him something he hasn’t had. Something he’ll remember
always: freedom.
Nicholas looks at the helmet, then at
Logan. “What’s the worst that could happen?”
“Ah…you could get assassinated and the
three of us will hang for treason.”
“Don’t be silly,” Nicholas scoffs. “We
haven’t hung anyone in years.” He smacks Logan’s back. “It’d be the firing squad.”
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ABOUT EMMA CHASE:
Emma Chase is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the hot and hilarious Tangled series and The Legal Briefs series. Emma lives in New Jersey with her husband, two children and two naughty (but really cute) dogs. She has a long-standing love/hate relationship with caffeine.
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