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

King stuff.


stirred restlessly, wanting nothing more than to abandon

our mate.

three days. I had just three days

and I was sitting here like some lovesick teenager who couldn’t think

ceremony. This one I actually needed to pay attention to, considering how

them could be a target, or

my thoughts. I looked

that told me everything

thought of Ella’s pillow hitting

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

door behind him and taking a seat across from my

in my chair. “Go ahead. Judge me all you

the night fucking 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

jaw clenched, but I

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