Page 137 of Happily Ever After

Cliffhanger

Two days after the suicide

of Prince Pierre Grimaldi of Monaco.

The helicopter rose into the air, fanning Quentin Sault and the other Secret Service and palace associates with dust and salt water spray. The wintry sun shone down on the helipad high above the Mediterranean Sea and sparkled on the cold, azure water, chilling him to the bone.

The heavy coffinwas placed on a casket carriage. Secret Service agents pushed it by the rails, rumbling over the asphalt.

It didn’t matter. A little jostling couldn’t hurt him now.

Claude Brousseau said to Quentin, “I can’t believe we’re having another royal funeral so soon.”

Quentin nodded, acutely aware his own failure had caused this one. He’d replayed the scene in his head a thousand times. In each one,he’d been a little quicker to leap and take the bullet to his own head, or he’d understood the desperation in Pierre’s voice and talked Pierre down before he’d leaped at Dieter Schwarz.

Grief lanced through him, every time.

But he couldn’t show it. He was, after all, a professional.

Quentin Sault drew a deep breath of the salt sea air and turned to Mathys Vitale. “Who’s going to tell PrinceMaxence?”

~~~~~

Maxence Grimaldi was born to be the “spare” to the princely throne of Monaco. The throne was promised to his older brother.

Maxence didn’t care.

Traditionally, younger brothers who won’t inherit the throne have chosen a career in the Church: a life of sacrifice, charity, good works, sobriety, and chastity.

But in this modern age, why would a man like Maxence Grimaldi—wealthy,educated, and cultured, tall, handsome, and ripped, and hot as sin—want to be a priest?

He must be hiding something.

Runaway Billionaires: Maxence

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Have you read the first three books in the Runaway Billionaires series?

The ones that comebeforeMaxence’s story?

Casimir “Cash” van Amsberg and Arthur Finch-Hatten

are Maxence Grimaldi’s best friends.

During schoolat Le Rosey,

the three of them were inseparable.

They even got full-back tattoos together.

Now, when one of the three friends is desperate,

the other two show up to haul him out of trouble.

The first friend to get in life-threatening trouble

is Casimir.