Chapter Seven

She wanted him to pull her close, kiss her again.

Put his tongue inside her mouth and his erection deep inside her body

She wanted to feel what she felt last night again.

It's one night stand, Toyin. One night stand

' What I can't work out is how you got here , ' he bit out

' A royal princess traveling all the way from Antiochda to Australia without anyone knowing. '

Toyin snatched her hand away from him. ' Am sure you should know everything by now, if you know the press are coming here's

'Not that ' Massimo said coldly

' My brother was away on a hunting trip, ' she said slowly. ' So I left a note that I was leaving and not to look for me. Then I persuaded one of the palace pilots to fly me to the west coast of USA. '

"Smuggling you out of there will have meant the end of his career at the palace" Massimo said

"I didn't force him to agree! He was happy to do it."

She must have paid him lots of money, he thought.

" He took me to one of the smaller parts of California ports and introduce me to a friend of his, who had a big boat big enough to cross the Pacific." She continued, 'And that's what I did '

She frowned. " remembering how hurt her ego and pride had been after the scandal

"And here I am " she said sarcastically

She walked to the wardrobe and pulled her rucksack and started dumping her things inside

" What do you think you're doing?"

"What does it look like I'm doing? I'm leaving."

" Where are you planning to go?" He asked

" I haven't really thought about it."

" Well, start thinking! " He said

" I don't even know why you bother asking, Jerk" she cursed annoyed

He received a call, looking at her annoyed he hung up. " That was my assistant on the phone. He said your presence in my Outback home is generating a lot of interest on the news. And to think that I'm just about to mount a deal in Malaysia's biggest cell phone networks and there's been a lot of opposition to the deal "

His mouth twisted. " So thanks very much for that. "

" I'll be out of your life soon Massimo so can you stop talking already. " She brushed her hair from her face, her cheeks flushed

And Massimo was reminded of last night again: how tight she had felt, the way he kissed her cries of pleasure.

He visualize pushing her on that bed and ripping open the ugly cotton trousers and doing it to her all over again.

Last night was a one night stand, but shouldn't a one night stand last for hours at least , he thought, if I calculate I still have hours left. Massimo willed himself to stop thinking of these.

Instead he focused on getting on her nerves again

" If only it was that easy, ' he growled.

" What do you think of my reputation if I leave you to fend for yourself among the rabble of news-hounds who are due to arrive? "

" You might not care about my reputation, sweet heart, but I do. And am not letting you go anywhere on your own.

" You wish" she retorted

"Am sure, you don't want to go back to the palace yet, don't you?

And how long so you think you'll last out there before you're surrounded by the press and body guards? "

" Come with me to England, we can do one another a favor at the same time " he said

" And what kind of favor is that? " She narrowed her eyes suspiciously

" My nephew christening " he said

I don't want to go definitely not with this fowl mouthed peacock.

But I don't want to go home, not when the people of my country are going to be looking at me with sympathy.