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They reached the stairs leading up into the house. Sergeant Naples held the door leading into the kitchen and living area.
Kiera didn’t wait for his answer but pranced up the stairs, hitching her skirt up a few inches and showing those legs off to their full advantage with the now above-knee-length skirt and high-heeled ankle boots.
“Fabulous,” he muttered to himself. “Absolutely fabulous.”
Kiera glanced over her shoulder at him and grinned.
Trouble. He was in trouble, and shewastrouble.
The only thing he knew at this point was he wanted to break his stupidly-made vow to his commanding officer. How had he ever promised to never pursue the princess?
A few hours ago, he would’ve laughed at his current self. At this moment, and for the foreseeable next hundred years or more, Princess Kiera was the only woman he wanted to pursue.
He was in big, big trouble.
ChapterFour
Kiera thoughtthings were going well. Mason was giving her significant looks and teasing with her like the champion he was.
They’d settled into the gorgeous, open home perched on the edge of a cliff. She was used to living with a view; her family’s castle was set on a hill and was twelve stories, but this home was thousands of feet above its picturesque mountain valley.
Faith and Hope’s home was warm, decorated beautifully for Christmas with several festive trees, tasteful decorations, and numerous lit garlands. She, Sarah, Mason, and Sergeant Naples each settled into one of the upstairs bedrooms. Looking around, she was grateful for the spacious suite with her own bathroom, sitting area, and a balcony overlooking the Lauterbrunnen valley. The valley of the seventy waterfalls was breathtaking in any season.
Sergeant Mueller and Private Silva took downstairs bedrooms. They would each take turns patrolling and resting when they were at the house, and both would watch Kiera unobtrusively while they were out.
Security was such a part of her life that she didn’t question it or try to scheme like she would in other areas of her life. The guards were only there to keep her safe. After her mum’s death and the many attacks and scares the year after for her family, she liked safe. At least as far as not being attacked by people with evil intent. She still loved her stunts and risk-taking. Risks where she was in control.
Some of her dates weren’t thrilled about being shadowed by large, armed men at all times, but it was normal for her. This security detail was of the utmost importance. Macey had helped her in her scheming when Kiera told her sister-in-law that Mason was the only man for her. Macey then planted the idea in Chad’s mind of having Mason pretend he was dating Kiera and another guard pretend he was dating Sarah, and then she’d encouraged Ray to accept said plan.
The sun was already setting as Kiera finished unpacking and freshening up. She hated the early sunsets and darkness of winter. She should’ve insisted on a trip to the Canary Islands, but then she wouldn’t have gotten Mason assigned to her security. As a captain, he was too important for regular security details. Warm weather, sunny beaches, and more hours of daytime light were not worth missing out on him. She did fancy snow skiing, especially with Mason.
She didn’t want to change out of this dress. ‘Red popsicles are my favorite.’ Mason had said that. Then she’d heard him murmur that her legs looked, ‘fabulous,’ a pause and then, ‘absolutely fabulous.’
Her heart melted. He’d flirted beautifully, glanced at her often on the helicopter ride, and being in his arms as he lifted her from the helicopter and then steadied her had been heaven.
She rubbed her hands together as she often saw him do and let out a happy cry.
“Princess Kiera?” A hard rap came on the door.
Mason!
She ran to the door and flung it open. There he stood in all his twinkling, blue-eyed glory.
“Yes, Captain Henson?” She leaned against the door frame, blinking up at him.
“Everything all right, Fearless Princess?”
“Better than all right.” She swept her hand around, indicating the house but mostly him. “We’re here and it’s going to be epic.”
A slow smile grew on his lips. He crossed his sinewy arms across his well-built chest. He was strong and tall, but leaner than her brother Ray and some of the burlier guards like Sergeant Mueller. “The skiing?”
“The company,” she countered.
He lifted his eyebrows and sadly didn’t rise to the flirtation. “Why did you scream out, Fearless Princess? I thought nothing scared you.”
“Nothing does.” At least he’d dropped the ‘little’ from her title. She wanted him to say Kiera, no princess attached, in a husky sort of groan, right before he kissed her, right after he kissed her, or maybe when he took a short break from kissing her to look over her face and admit how in love with her he was.
“The scream?” he reminded her. His blue eyes seemed to see right through her kissing dreams.
