Wed For Their Royal Heir

JACKIE ASHENDEN writes dark, emotional stories with alpha heroes who’ve just gotten the world to their liking only to have it blown apart by their kick-ass heroines. She lives in Auckland, New Zealand, with her husband, the inimitable Dr. Jax, two kids and two rats. When she’s not torturing alpha males and their gutsy heroines, she can be found drinking chocolate martinis, reading anything she can lay her hands on, wasting time on social media or being forced to go mountain biking with her husband. To keep up-to-date with Jackie’s new releases and other news, sign up to her newsletter at jackieashenden.com. Books by Jackie Ashenden The Italian’s Final Redemption The World’s Most Notorious Greek The Innocent Carrying His Legacy The Wedding Night They Never Had The Innocent’s One-Night Proposal The Maid the Greek Married Pregnant Princesses Pregnant by the Wrong Prince Rival Billionaire Tycoons A Diamond for My Forbidden Bride Stolen for My Spanish Scandal Discover more at millsandboon.co.uk. Wed for Their Royal Heir Jackie Ashenden www.millsandboon.co.uk ISBN: 978-0-008-92859-9 WED FOR THEIR ROYAL HEIR © 2023 by Jackie Ashenden Published in Great Britain 2023by Mills & Boon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. This edition is published by arrangement with Harlequin Books S.A. This is a work of fiction. 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Trademarks marked with ® are registered with the United Kingdom Patent Office and/or the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market and in other countries. www.millsandboon.co.uk Note to Readers This ebook contains the following accessibility features which, if supported by your device, can be accessed via your ereader/accessibility settings: Change of font size and line height Change of background and font colours Change of font Change justification Text to speech She’d come to take back what he’d stolen from her. She was a mother and, while she might not have the first idea how to be one, she certainly knew how to fight and so she’d fight for her son. Clinging to that thought, Solace forced away the fear and steeled herself as she stared straight back into Galen’s burning blue eyes. “Yes,” she said coldly. “I took some pictures. Of you and I.” His hands on her wrists tightened. “Why?” She swallowed, her mouth dry, her heartbeat like a drum in her head. But when she spoke, her voice was steady. “To blackmail you with, of course.” There was no point pretending anymore, and in a way, it was a relief that finally the moment was here. She’d come a long way in six months and her plan had ended up being wildly successful, and soon the awful mistake she’d made would be fixed. The look on Galen’s face was terrible. “Blackmail me for what? Money? Power?” “No.” Solace held tight to her own rage. The rage that had dragged her out of that pit and put her feet on the path that had led here. “I couldn’t care less about money or power. What I want, Galen Kouros, is my son.” Three Ruthless Kings Romance cannot be ruled... At university, royal friends Galen Kouros, Khalil ibn Amir Al-Nazari and Augustine Solari were known as the wicked princes, causing mayhem wherever they went! Now, they’re the three ruthless kings, each responsible for a whole nation, wielding more power than many could comprehend. But even from their gilded thrones, there is one thing these kings are about to learn they cannot control... Solace Ashworth is back and there’s one thing she wants from Galen...their son! Read on in: Wed for Their Royal Heir Look out for Khalil’s story: Khalil hasn’t forgotten the contract Sidonie Sullivan signed years ago. Now he’s about to make her his queen! And discover Augustine’s story: Rumors abound that Winifred Fox is carrying playboy King Augustine’s baby... To all those who will never pick up a Harlequin Presents. So long, suckers! All the more for us! Contents Cover About the Author Booklist Title Page Copyright Note to Readers Introduction Three Ruthless Kings Dedication CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT CHAPTER NINE CHAPTER TEN EPILOGUE Extract About the Publisher CHAPTER ONE THE CLUB DIDN’T have a name. It didn’t need one. Just as the three men lounging on the metal catwalk up above the dance floor didn’t need any introductions. Solace Ashworth knew who they were. Kings. They’d once been the three Wicked Princes—or so the media had dubbed them back when they’d been at Oxford university—causing mayhem wherever they went. Now they’d ascended their thrones they were wicked no longer. Or at least one of them wasn’t. They were all tall and broad-shouldered—clearly, they fed baby kings much better than they did poor nobodies—two of them with short