As she walked into the room with the Prince following, it flashed through her mind that they might be husband and wife putting their children to bed.
Then she told herself that she must be demented to imagine that the Prince would ever do such a thing even with his own children.
As Eloise told him where her bedroom was, she saw him carry the small girl through the doorway, her arms still round his neck and her fair hair brushing his chin.
‘I suppose this is a new experience for him,’ Alana thought almost savagely.
But it somehow hurt her to see him doing anything so simple when she knew how very different his life was in every way.
She put Billy into his cot, tucked him up warmly and kissed his cheek.
His eyelids were already beginning to close as she lifted up the side of the cot an
