A DASH OF TEMPTATION.

aughter. This wasn’t so hard, he thought. He never complained when it was

Bonnie Rimmer yelled back. “I’m standing up for

ther” Robert said, “When I said ‘stand up for yourself’, I didn’t mean defyin

ld, but you are not that old. It’s not eighteen, sixty four any

lot of offense. You act like

man I barely know, so yes. You are se

to make someone do something is by making then think the idea was theirs. That way, they felt like they were in control. He placed a hand on her shoul

umped to her feet. “Maybe I don’t

mean that”

e about the kingdom enough to ge

say that? You

ot even imagine spending the rest of my life with him. You can’t make me do this, Dad. If I ever get married, it’s not going to be for duty so you better drop the topic because I can’t t

rned t

less marriage….o

er. She was sure she heard him wrong. “What? You were ma

ant with

idn’t you and mom ever sa

mother wanted nothing to do with me. She said I had big eyebrows and a low IQ. Anyways, one day I got very sick with fever and your mother…she stayed by my side and she took good care of me. For the first time, I appreciated her. Then the appreciation grew to respect. Respect grew to l

she couldn’t imagine a time when they weren’t in love with each other. Through out

hing about love. Why didn’t yo

. “By the time we had you, we had fallen madly in

il n

up. “Look dear, just think about it….mayb

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crazy and ridiculous. What the h

d her damp palms against her colorless cheeks and sighed. The neatly arranged cascading raven curl

e bay window of the bridal suite. She’d grown up here. Never left home or traveled on her own except for school and royal stuff. She was never

father had succeeded in convincing her that this was the right thing to do ….again. So here she was. She was getting married to a man she

s since her grandmother had died; two months that had passed excruciatingly slow and yet flashed by in the bl