Chapter One

“You have to be serious.” Her voice was a mixture of embarrassment and frustration. “You can’t possibly spend the whole day with me.”

Alexandru only raised a brow. “Why not?”

“B-because you have duties,” she sputtered. “That’s why.”

He traced her lips, something he liked to do because he knew how sensitive they were. At her shiver, he murmured, “The only duty I care about is what you want me to do for you.”

She shivered even more, knowing that so many women would have sold their souls just to have someone like Alexandru say that to them. And yet those words were for her, the one who didn’t deserve him.