Extraits

"Am I cold with you? I don't mean to be. All I feel when I'm around you is the need to be closer. The need to have you. When you're close, I feel..." He pauses as if he's looking for the right word. "Whole."

"Maybe you should rethink who you're picking to address you, then. I'm sure there is a line of princesses who would be happy to kiss your royal ass."

When I made the marriage arrangement I had only seen one picture of her. One picture and my life was turned upside down. Surely being next to her won't be so difficult.

Chapter 1 - Alena

"Is that him?" Tabby asks as she comes up behind me to get a better look. Her long dark hair tumbles on my shoulder as she peers at my laptop screen. It's as if she's never seen the man in question. Everyone knows who King Roman is. Well, if you're royalty you do. Right now, there's not a royal alive who doesn't know who he is, because he's decided to take a wife. A wife of his choosing, and I've been chosen.

It's the fate of someone with bloodline. I don't get a choice on who I get to marry, so when my family was presented with the arrangement, it was decided behind closed doors, and papers were signed. I'm officially the promised bride to the King, and that's that.