The Not So Secret Baby (6 page)
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Authors: Amarinda Jones
Tags: #Literature & Fiction, #Erotica, #Romantic Erotica
“No, you hide much, Isadora. The one thing I know for sure is you love the prince and your thoughts are for him and the babe. As for Anthony, they’ll fight each other, but Anthony is destined to die another way.”
Am I imagining it or did the room suddenly go cold at her words?
“How?”
“As he’s supposed to.” Old Katie replied cryptically.
Whoa.
This woman was like no other Izzy had met. “You
are
spooky.”
Old Katie chuckled. “And you are exactly what the Prince of Inis Daire needs. Marry him, Isadora.”
“He hasn’t asked.” This was odd, considering he had all but told her she was staying as it was fate.
Marriage? When did I start thinking about that?
“Then ask him.”
Izzy arched her brow. “To marry me?”
Do I want to marry
? Two weeks ago she would have said oh hell no. Marriage hadn’t been a goal she sought. But now? With the baby and the man?
I don’t bloody know
.
“Yes.” Old Katie’s voice was decisive.
“But what if he says no?” Staying on Inis Daire had been discussed, but Sinyn wanting to marry her? She didn’t want a man who was forced due to circumstance.
“And what if he says yes, Isadora?”
“Will he?”
Old Katie shrugged. “I cannot say.”
Yeah right
. “But you can see into the future.”
“Aye.”
“So tell me.” Izzy needed to know which way to turn.
Stay? Go? Invest in a bulletproof vest?
Old Katie smiled and walked away.
* * * *
When Sharon Donnelly walked into the kitchen ten minutes later, Izzy took a couple of paces back and rested her hand near the knife block. “You’ve got some balls to show up here.” That or she was crazy as a loon and didn’t care about the consequences of her actions. Izzy hadn’t given any thought to what wealth the Sinyn or Inis Daire had. She came because of him and their child. Izzy could just as happily leave without knowing those details. She did suspect that there had to be significant power if this woman was so keen to get rid of her and a child who would inherit over any possible child she might have with the second in line to the Donnelly throne.
Sharon smiled at Izzy. “I heard crazy Katie say I tried to kill you.”
“Did you?” The other woman’s smile didn’t go to her eyes. They were hard and unflinching as they glared at Izzy. Everyone else was out hunting Anthony down. How had she slipped past them to get into the house?
“Why would I?” Sharon asked.
Izzy made herself stay calm. She had faced bullies down at school over her odd, patched clothes and the stigma of always being the new kid. Sharon was just a grown-up version. “I don’t know. You tell me.”
“You’re not wanted here.”
It was good they got to the point fast. Izzy hated pretense. “By you and your husband?”
“Yes, we had a good future to look forward to.”
Ah, greed.
“I have nothing to do with your future.”
“Your bastard child does. That is, if he really is Sinyn’s.”
Izzy wasn’t about to discuss or confirm her words. That the woman was here confronting her answered the question. She watched as Sharon moved towards her. Izzy had never physically attacked anyone in her life, but if Sharon even looked like she was going to harm her because of the baby, Izzy would yank a knife out of the block and fend her off.
“You’ll never be happy here.”
“Are you?” Izzy doubted it. Awaiting a monetary deathwatch had to be frustrating.
“Yes, because I belong here. You’re a foreigner,” Sharon pointed out.
“That’s funny coming from a chick with a slummy Cockney accent. You’re hardly a local, Sharon.”
“Leave Inis Daire,” Sharon snapped at Izzy.
“Or what?” Izzy’s finger touched the hilt of one knife.
“Just leave before you find out.”
****
Katie appeared as Sharon left. Neither of them spoke. They just glared at each other. “She’s a hard woman, that one.”
“You heard everything?” That surprised Izzy. Wasn’t Sharon the woman Old Katie declared had tried to poison her? The seer seemed to be taking it all quite casually.
“Aye.”
“Why didn’t you say something or come into the kitchen?”
Old Katie shrugged. “Because she wasn’t going to try and kill you just now.”
Now?
That was comforting. Not. “Riiiight…”
“Nor will she ever.”
“Good to know,” Izzy murmured, more confused that ever.
Old Katie came to stand before her, peering into her eyes. “Despite your fear and confusion, you feel it don’t you, Isadora.”
“What?”
“That Sinyn and Inis Daire are your home.”
Izzy considered that for a moment.
If I left Sinyn and Inis Daire tomorrow, how would I feel? Could I go back to my old life? Do I want to?
She gazed into the knowing eyes of Old Katie. She knew the answer as well as Izzy did. Sinyn was her home. “But what about the people who want to kill me?” That made it a little less homey.
“Years from now when you’re surrounded by your children, none of this will matter,” Old Katie declared.
“Children?” One seemed like a big enough event.
“Aye, you and the prince have quite the sex life.”
Izzy blushed. “Katie, try to
see
less, will you?”
“I enjoyed the odd threesome in the past myself. And Connor? If I was ten years younger…”
“Way too much information, old woman.”
Chapter Ten
“Anthony denies all knowledge.”
Izzy looked up from the old, delicate book she was scanning. She would have read it but for the fact it was in Gaelic. That didn’t dim her enjoyment. It was touching something so ancient that appealed to Izzy. “You have a nasty bruise on your cheek.” That Sinyn had gotten into a fight with his cousin didn’t surprise her. She closed the book and stood up. “Does it hurt?”
“No.” Sinyn walked towards her. “Anthony broke two of his fingers. He always was a lousy boxer.” He took the book from her hands. “I don’t like that Sharon came here. Are you okay?” Sinyn reached out his hand and cupped her face.
The look in his eyes held a level of caring and love Izzy had never experienced before “She didn’t scare me.”
****
Sinyn nodded. “No, you’re made of sterner stuff.” That’s what he liked about Izzy. She could be sweet and vulnerable but also strong in her opinions and actions. He sat down beside her. “Come here.” He patted his lap. Sinyn wanted to feel her body against his. He found great comfort in her arms.
Izzy stood up and sat down on his lap facing him. “Are you trying to make me so dependent on sex I’ll never leave?”
That had been his initial plan. Now Sinyn wanted more. He was looking at binding this woman to his side by good, old-fashioned love. “Did I indicate we were going to have sex?”
Aye, she was smart
. He knew he held her in sexual thrall as she did him. That moment with Connor? It was like using a sex toy to thrill her. In the end it would always be the two of them despite who may be invited around to play. He didn’t need Old Katie to tell him that.
She placed her hand on his zipper. “No but you want it and I’m ready for you so…” Izzy unzipped his trousers and drew out his dick.
Sinyn growled as she ran her hand along the shaft in a gentle milking motion. He pulled at her skirt to gain access to her pussy. His hand touched the wet flesh between her legs and his dick jerked in excitement. That first thrust inside a warm, inviting vagina was always a thrill.
Izzy lifted up to accommodate him. The head of his dick was just pushing inside her when his bailiff Tom knocked at the door. She pushed down on him regardless.
Yes?” Sinyn yelled, none too please at the interruption. He wanted to fuck his women. Business could wait.
“Sorry to interrupt, but they’ve found Anthony’s car in the lake.”
Sinyn jerked up in surprise. He caught Izzy against him as she started to fall backwards. “Where is he?”
“Not sure but they think he may have drowned,” Tom reported.
“Fuck!” Izzy was agog.
“Not this time, sweetheart, but hold that thought.”
* * * *
“Anthony is gone,” said Old Katie as he walked into her cottage.
Sinyn had left Izzy to talk with Connor and gone to see what the old seer knew. He had relied on Katie’s knowledge since he was a boy. He’d never had cause to doubt it. Sinyn needed Izzy safe and close to him. She was more precious to him than anything Inis Daire could offer.
“Who did it?”
Sinyn didn’t want to believe it was suicide. It was the first thought he had on hearing Anthony’s car had gone into the lake. He didn’t hate his cousin nor did he wish death upon him. Anthony had been weak and greedy. The complete opposite of Sinyn. Blood ties didn’t always unite kin. After their respective parents died, it had been sad to think that grief and history hadn’t brought them together. He thought of Izzy and his child. They were the family he craved.
“Sharon got rid of her husband in a fit of madness,” Old Katie told him. “It was why she was never destined to have babies. There is too much madness in her blood. She poisoned Anthony because she despised his weakness and then pushed the car with her husband in it into the lake.
Sinyn wanted to say he was surprised and shocked, but knowing Sharon as he did, nothing surprised him. “I don’t understand. If he’s dead she gets nothing, so why do it?”
“The mad need little reason.”
“Where is she?” Sinyn wanted Sharon locked up and away from Izzy.
“She will return but it won’t be what she hoped for.”
Sinyn had many more questions to ask, but he knew from past experience Old Katie only said what suited her. With his thoughts on the woman he loved, he went to find Izzy.
* * * *
Izzy was half asleep in his bed with the television on.
Sinyn smiled and walked over to turn it off.
She opened one eyes and looked at him. “I was watching that.”
“The TV was watching you.” Sinyn went to the bed and sat down. “Why are you in my bed?”
Because it felt right and I wanted to be with you
. That’s what Izzy wanted to say. She had been working herself up all day to say it, but admitting need wasn’t something she was used to do. “Your bed is bigger. Have you got a problem with sharing?”
“Nope, not at all.” Sinyn pulled one of his shoes off. “Anthony is dead.” He threw it across the room.
“Dead?” Izzy was agog. Typical man. A woman would have rushed in straight away and told everyone the news.
“Yes.” The other followed the same path.
Izzy watched as Sinyn pulled off his shirt. He seemed to be taking the news very calmly. She wondered what he was thinking. “How do you feel about it? Anthony was kin, after all.”
“He was a stranger to me.”
Yeah, that’s what happened in some families. Her own was no different. He mother had been so dependent on drugs that in the end Izzy doubted if she remembered she had a child. But that was the past. She’d moved on. The future and what Sinyn was feeling mattered to her now.
“I’m sorry. What can I do?”
“You being here with me is just what I need.”
He said the sweetest thing. Simple words like that made her feel like she made a difference to his life. “Sinyn…”
“Yes?” He unbuckled his trousers.
“If I stay…” She watched as he pushed the fabric down his muscular legs.
Oh yeah, I’m staying.
“If?” He kicked the trousers free from his ankles and pulled back the bedding ready to climb in beside her.
Izzy smiled at the now naked man.
This is going to be my life. I like it. A lot
. “I’ll need to go back home to Australia several times a year. It’s hard to explain, but as at home as I am with you, I also know I need to visit Australia. It’s in my blood.”
Sinyn stood and looked at her. “You’re at home with me?”
“Yes.” Her gaze moved down his body to his jumping dick.
Yum.
“You love me?”
Her gaze went back to his. “I know it’s probably all too soon but being with you has made me realize that being without you would be much worse. So yeah, it appears I love you.” The smile he gave her made Izzy feel more alive than she had in years.
“My love, you can go any time you like, as long as you come back to me.”
“I promise.” She held out her hand to him. “Now, come to bed with me. I need someone to snuggle with, and you’re the best snuggler I know, prince.”
Sinyn laughed. “You’re sweet.” He watched as Izzy sat up and pulled the nightdress over her head. His gaze rested on her bare breasts. “And sexy.” He climbed onto the bed bedside her.
She reached out and wrapped her hand around his penis. “May I please suck your dick, your highness?”