Chapter 191

Alexander

I couldn’t concentrate on a damn thing.

My coronation was just days away, and there was so much to do. Event preparations, transition

documents, letters and emails and meeting after meeting. I wasn’t going to be getting much sleep for the foreseeable future, and I knew I would have to buckle down and focus if I was going to be mentally

present for any of it.

But every time I tried to focus on anything of the smallest importance, my mind drifted back to last night.

To Ella. To the feeling of her body beneath mine and her head thrown back and her hair cascading over

this very desk that I was now sitting behind.

We’d made love once. Twice. Three times. First here, right on this desk, then on the sofa across the room,

and then in bed. I would have done it again had we not both passed out from exhaustion last night, tangled up together beneath the sheets.

Fuck. I scrubbed my hands over my face and tried again to read the same paragraph I’d been staring at

the past ten minutes. Something about import tariffs on agricultural goods. Important

King stuff.


yet my wolf stirred restlessly, wanting nothing more than

our mate.

coronation was in three days. I had just three days to prepare for

like some lovesick teenager who couldn’t

protocols for the ceremony. This one

them could be a target, or

the door pulled me out of my thoughts. I looked up

told me everything I needed

smirk at the thought of Ella’s pillow

morning… I couldn’t help it. I’d laughed so hard that my chest had nearly burst with it. I liked that fiery side of her, the way she always gave Gabriel a run for his money even though I knew he was mostly just

closing the door behind him and taking a seat across from

briefing and leaned back in my chair. “Go ahead. Judge me all

the woman we’re investigating for


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sneer that spoke volumes of his hatred for Ella. “Do you have any idea how dangerous that

jaw clenched, but I

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