Marc

come together at last. Only yesterday he looked upon her as though nothing and no one could take him from her and regardless of all the terrible things happ

hings, actually. A brother and a best friend. Bart held her hand while she stumbled through every situation, good or bad, since she reached Caines. S

r her and Aaron, because marriage was a sacred thing. This union had th

be less sullen to the Duchess, who for the present must remain the

hat her life was about to change again? As she stood over the red roses A

ut the laptop and

ed. "I was just abo

in them. Those ever busy, ever problem-solving eyes. Zoey did

ays. I have to ge

at imposing, was more than that. It was urgent,

? What's wr

rching over to her wind

Duke Arden's footsteps could be heard thundering up the stair

is!" Duke A

Zoey's hands, livid. She l

s Between Prince Aa

e together. This couldn't be. Her mind was racing. How could she have been so negligent? This was sure to

and suddenly she understood. When next she knew, she felt his t

," Bart said, mor

have her run off somewhere? She must issue a

nothing," Bar

tone he did not usuall

he knew and Bart, himself being enraged, had onl

she would not get it here. He hardly knew how they woul

er be persuaded otherwise. Not twice. Not when he had gone against h

at to do, but she couldn't move. Had he reall

d do was fall apart. Again and again, it hit her what

ather," Bart said in parting,

e wed. It's the 21st century. Certainly, it may cause some embarras

st really not understand. She wi

rcase that seemed endless and past his mother, who had no doubt come to the same conclusion his father had

ere in

was not often surprised by them. With eyes so green they put forests to shame, jet black hair as soft as silk, a body that seemed made to look good in

liked despite himself not liking many peopl

ness with Copia. Famed for being a separate entity from the crown, Copia's people wanted for nothing. What they could not mak

s mother, Lady Cassandra Beaumont, became rather adama

dy Emily Maine as his wife and they (even with her father needing much p

now titled, her family's equal and his rival had proposed to another woman. He thought this m