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and—”
     
    “Your first time?” Mia interrupted. “But you’re old .”
     
    “Mia!” Casey was horrified.
     
    Garrett and Jackson laughed and Alex joined them. Bending down slightly, she met Mia’s gaze and said, “It’s horrible I know. But I live very far away from here, so this is the first chance I’ve ever had to visit.”
     
    “Oh.” Nodding her head, Mia thought about it for a minute then looked at her mother. “I think we should take Alex to the ghost ride.”
     
    “Mia, that’s your favorite ride,” her father said.
     
    “But she would like it, wouldn’t you, Alex?” She turned her eyes up and gave her a pleading look.
     
    “You know,” Alex said, “I was just wishing I knew how to find the ghost ride.”
     
    “I’ll show you!” Mia took her hand and started walking, fully expecting her family to follow.
     
    “Guess you’ll be spending the day with us for sure, now,” Garrett teased.
     
    “Looks that way.” She grinned, delighted with this turn of events. She was in a place she’d heard about her whole life and she wasn’t alone. There were children to enjoy and people to talk to and it was very near to perfect.
     
    Then she looked up at Garrett’s blue eyes and told herself maybe it was closer to perfect than she knew.
     
    “And after the ghost ride, we can ride the jungle boats and then the pirate one.” Mia was talking a mile a minute.
     
    “Molly, honey, don’t pick up the bug,” Jackson said patiently.
     
    “Bug?” Casey repeated, horrified.
     
    Still holding Mara, Garrett came up beside Alex and said softly, “I promise, after the ghost ride, I’ll ride herd on my family and you can do what you want to do.”
     
    The funny thing was, he didn’t know it, but she was already doing what she had always wanted to do.
     
    She wanted to be accepted. To spend a day with nothing more to worry about than enjoying herself. And mostly, she wanted to meet people and have them like her because she was Alex Wells.
     
    Not because she was Her Royal Highness Princess Alexis Morgan Wells of Cadria.
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    She was driving Garrett just a little crazy.
     
    And not only because she was beautiful and funny and smart. But because he’d never seen a woman let go and really enjoy herself so much. Most of the women who came and went from his life were more interested in how their hair looked. Or in being sophisticated enough that a ride on spinning teacups would never have entered their heads.
     
    But Alex was different. She had the girls eating out of her hand, and, without even trying, she was reaching Garrett in ways that he never would have expected. He couldn’t take his eyes off her.
     
    That wide smile was inviting, sexy—and familiar, somehow.
     
    He knew he’d seen her before somewhere, but damned if he could remember where. And that bothered him, too. Because a woman like Alex wasn’t easily forgotten.
     
    At lunch, she had bitten into a burger with a sigh of pleasure so rich that all he could think of was cool sheets and hot sex. She sat astride a carousel horse and he imagined her straddling him. She licked at an ice cream cone and he—
     
    Garrett shook his head and mentally pulled back fast from that particular image. As it was, he was having a hard time walking. A few more thoughts like that one and he’d be paralyzed.
     
    Alex loved everything about Disneyland. He saw it in her eyes because she didn’t hide a thing. Another way she was different from the women he knew. They were all about artful lies, strategic moves and studied flirtation.
     
    Alex was just…herself.
     
    “You’ll like this, Alex,” said Mia, who had appointed herself Alex’s personal tour guide. “The pirate ships shoot cannons and there’s a fire and singing, too. And it’s dark inside.”
     
    “Okay, kiddo,” Jackson told his daughter, interrupting her flood