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Viktor and Silas looked at each other, then stared at me as Viktor spoke. “He’s the crown prince of Liechtenstein. The next king.”
“He’s what now?” Crown prince? Next king?
“What?” I knew what all of those words meant singularly, and I knew what they all meant as a team, but I didn’t understand their correlation to Henryk.
“I told you she didn’t know,” Silas said, nodding at Viktor like he had indeed said I didn’t know. I had too much information to unpack to worry about the fact they seemed to be enjoying too much that I hadn’t known.
“How could you not know?” Viktor demanded. “Look where you are, Erin. The wealth. The royal castle. The servants.”
And now I felt stupid. How had I not known? “I thought...” I snapped my mouth shut. I’d been busy imagining a billionaire crime lord. Prince hadn’t even been a thought.
A door closed behind us, and Silas and I twisted to look at Henryk striding into the room with a leather briefcase in hand.
“You’re a prince?Theprince?” I stared at him through narrowed eyes. Even though he’d never confirmed or denied anything—I hadn’t asked—I felt lied to.
“I apologize for not telling you myself, Erin.” He shot a pointed look at Viktor. “But my parents and my steward assumed you wouldn’t sign the divorce papers if you knew who I was.”
Hissteward? Oh. Francis.
Henryk reached the table and nodded at the guys. “Viktor. Silas. Thank you for coming all this way.” He was about as warm as an icicle.
While they did a group round of handshakes, I sat digesting this revelation. Jet lag, hangovers, and big shocking news were not happy bedfellows.
Henryk is a prince. The next king.
I stared at him. “You were just an ordinary kid in that playground all those years ago.”
He smiled down at me but there was a coldness in his eyes now that hadn’t been there earlier. And while I couldn’t blame him because he didn’t really know me, he hadn’t kissed me like he didn’t trust me.
Annoyance bit into my shock, and I tightened my lips as Henryk said, “My parents are the king and queen. It wasn’t a choice. And I was aprinceback then, too. but on the playground I was Henryk.”
Viktor glanced at me then at Henryk. “Your place is incredible.”
“Thank you.” Henryk didn’t sit down. “If you would all join me in the office, we can get this paperwork signed and you can all be on your way.” And the hospitable man of yesterday was gone. I didn’t particularly care for his replacement.
“Why don’t you sit down and we can all have a drink first?” Silas looked at me like I was going to jump onto the let’s all have a drink bandwagon. I wasn’t. “We haven’t seen you in twenty years.”
Henryk glanced from one of us to the other. “I’d rather just get the paperwork organized.”
Viktor glanced at me and I shrugged. What else was I going to do?
“All right, then. Let’s go get divorced.” Viktor stood and held out his hand to me.
I glanced at Silas, then at Henryk. “Okay. Let’s do it.”
The shock was slowly wearing off and I realized the warm, sexy man I’d kissed last night had left the building. Yesterday, he was the grown-up version of the boy I’d played with as a child. Today, Henryk was a prince, official and distant. For me, it was time to stop daydreaming and move on. This wasn’t a Cinderella story and I wasn’t cut out for the part.
My legs wobbled when I stood, and I gratefully took Viktor’s hand and smiled up at him. “Thank you.”
Henryk walked across the room, and we followed.
“I can’t believe this,” I whispered to Viktor.
“Which part?”
The giggles took over. I stopped walking and laughed. Big belly laughs and they all stopped to stare at me.
“Erin?” Henryk cocked his head at me.
