Chapter 0517 " Ididn’t have a clear way out of this. For the sake of international relations, I had to accept. So I did.

I Iplaced my hand in Prince Ronan’s offered one and repressed by shiver as he closed his fingers around my hand.

“T would be honored to dance with you, Prince Ronan,” I said.

Ronan’s eyes narrowed. I was a terrible liar. I probably shouldn’t have tried to sell it quite so much.

Julian, still standing beside me, shifted his gaze from Ronan to me and back again. “Is everything alright here?” he asked.

“If you would please move out of the way, Prince Julian. I would like to dance with Piper now,” Ronan said.

julian looked at me as if for direction, or

confirmation.

\ Careful to keep my face a bright, smiling I mask, I nodded at Julian. — Julian saw through me in an instant, and concern covered his face. But, God, the last thing the werewolf kingdom was another prince lying to a merfolk to get me out of trouble, so I tugged Prince Ronan’s hand and motioned toward an open part of the dance area.

“perhaps we could dance there,” I suggested.

He agreed and with the flick of his strong tail, he was instantly moving forward and dragging me along behind him.

That same flow seemed to set the standard for our dance.

Ronan was strong and aggressive. He'd move and twist without much consideration for how my werewolf limbs differed from his fins and tail.

He pushed where I pulled. He twisted where I tried to go straight.

"It was an absolute failure of a darice: But he didn’t seem to let that deter him.

against his side. Like that, he moved for both of us, no longer simply

not the worst I'd

my limpness for consent, his hands drifted away from my waist, down to the

to grab his wrist and returned his hand

every step of the way.

He placed his hand flat I over me and squeezed. His fingers were clawlike, digging in. I

his hand away, he seemed to only hold on tighter until I was hurting myself trying to

said, my disgust clear in my

I lifted my hand ready to slap him across the face. International incident or not, I did not sign up to be sexually assaulted! Yet just as I was about to slap

familiar, warm one.

a perfect twist, Nicholas spun me away from

released my breast. I winced as I pressed it

to deflect any attempt to steal me back as he had stolen me from

shoulder, I saw that Ronan had other problems now too. After Nicholas had spun me away,

giveyoua hint,” Julian

them like playthings.” Ronan puffed up, shoulders back and

Or perhaps the girls he'd been with had been too

felt bad

of a prince! “Yeah, well, maybe

at him. “Get out of my way!” he

two. But at sea, the merfolk’s tails gave them

tail now, rushing to

demand retribution!”

once he'd

was. His stretched out fins made him appear large and threatening. And

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