CHAPTER 9

  With cold detachment, he realised that he was now going to have to brief his security team to get her out of here, but before he could speak she gave him a reproachful look and sped to the door.

  "Do not leave this room," Casper thundered, but she ignored him, tugged open the door, slipped between two of his security guards and sprinted out of sight. Unaccustomed to having his orders ignored, Casper stood in stunned silence for a few precious seconds and then delivered a single command to his Head of Security. "Find her."

  "Can you give me her name, Your Highness?"

  Casper stared through the door. "No," he said grimly. "I can't."

  All he knew was that she clearly wasn't as innocent as he'd first thought.

  Feeling nothing except a desperate desire to hide from the world, Holly sprinted out of the room, shrinking as she passed a television screen in time to overhear the commentator say, "Looks like the opening score goes to Prince Casper."