Secrets of a Prince (The Princes of New Sargasso #3) - Carol Moncado Page 0,3
about who he was when his identical twin brother had asked him to by doing some sort of twin telepathy with him.
“I’ll see you to the valet,” Prince Joshua, who was pretending to be Prince Caleb, told her.
“I have a room in the resort this evening,” she told him, her grip on his elbow tightening slightly.
“Then I suppose I will have to escort you to your door.”
That fit with her father’s plan nicely, though Minnie wasn’t certain she could go along with the second part of his plan.
Out of the corner of her eye, Minnie noticed Prince Caleb, who was pretending to be Prince Joshua, and Rosie slip into an alcove. A second later, they were kissing each other as though their lives depended on it.
She never had understood why they broke up in the first place. Though she’d never been close to either one of them, they’d seemed perfect for each other.
At the coat check, she showed her ticket and received her swag bag, complete with the precious, newly released copy of New Moons Rising.
She also passed over her raffle ticket which entitled her to pick up the leather-bound set of all six books. The prince carried the set for her, though Minnie longed to take them out of the protective casing and run her fingers over the spines then stay hidden away in her hotel suite for days as she devoured the whole series all over again - saving the new book for last.
Then savoring it as long as she could.
Instead, she’d leave them in their packaging which would maintain their resale value.
That might get her some leniency if she couldn’t go through with the rest of her father’s plan.
Rather than going to the main lifts, Minnie directed Prince Joshua through the lobby to a much more discreet one. After glancing around to make sure no one watched, she pressed the up button.
“Protecting my reputation?” he asked with a smirk she could hear but didn’t see because she kept her gaze on the doors.
“Your brother is making out with Rosie. That’s enough scandal for the New Sargassian royal family tonight.”
The door slid open, and she gave another scan of the area before stepping in with the prince-dressed-as-a-knight and pressed the button for the top floor.
“I’m surprised you didn’t come as Prince Joshua of Odzoo,” she told him as the lift started to rise.
“You mean Prince Caleb? That’s who I normally dress as.”
“Of course.” She’d nearly forgotten he was pretending to be his brother.
Did they usually dress as the opposite Odzooken prince? Was that what Rosie meant when she talked about being able to tell them apart by the colors they normally wore?
Which meant... Princes Joshua and Caleb had costumes.
Minnie stifled a gasp as it all came together.
The two well-costumed princes who’d fascinated TriluniCon the last few years, but whose real identity no one knew. They’d brought a Prince Patrick with them to the last Con.
They had to be the twin princes - and probably Prince Gideon, who now dated the heiress to the Trilunium estate.
She’d had no clue.
No one did.
The door slid open on the top floor of the resort.
Minnie didn’t wait for Joshua to escort her, but led the way to her suite. Her keycard tapped against the lock gave the green light.
“Come in for a nightcap?” she asked as she opened the door.
“I don’t know...”
“It’s a whole suite,” she told him with a toss of her hair. “You don’t even have to go anywhere near the bedroom if you need to use the facilities.”
He didn’t answer but followed her inside, the door closing behind him with a solid click.
What would his security team say?
Prince Joshua pulled his phone out of his pocket. “Making sure it’s turned off,” he explained. “I did earlier, but I’m a little paranoid about making sure it is when I don’t want my security team to bother me. I only do it when I’m somewhere that’s already secure, though. So unless you’re planning to poison the fifth son of the king, I’m safe right?”
Was that a wink her direction?
It was another slip. Caleb was fourth. Joshua, fifth.
In the kitchen of her suite, Minnie found a bottle of red wine. She poured two glasses, much fuller than a waiter would fill them.
“Unless you want something harder?” She took a sip of hers as she handed the other glass over.
“This is fine.”
Sitting down while in costume wasn’t the easiest. Prince Joshua’s knight costume looked even less comfortable than her Queen Emily one.