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

Something about import tariffs on agricultural goods. Important

King stuff.


more than to abandon this paperwork

our mate.

had just three days to prepare for the biggest responsibility

taken on, and I was sitting here like some lovesick teenager who couldn’t

forced myself to pick up the next document, which was security protocols for the ceremony. This one I actually needed to pay attention to, considering how many important

one of them could be

of my thoughts. I

face that told me

at the thought of Ella’s pillow hitting him square in the

so hard that my chest had nearly burst with it. I liked that fiery side of her, the way she always gave Gabriel

to talk,” Gabriel said, closing the door behind

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

You spent the night fucking the woman we’re investigating for treason.” Gabriel’s


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of his hatred for Ella. “Do you have any idea how

jaw clenched, but

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