The Prince's Royal Wedding Demand by Lorraine Hall

Author:Lorraine Hall
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2022-10-26T17:31:34+00:00

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Frediano studied the small dinner table the staff had put together. It was arranged as the royal wedding dinner would be, if on a smaller scale. At this very table, King Carlo had once carefully and patiently taken Frediano through everything he would need to know to be a prince, and so now Frediano would do the same for Ilaria.

My wife.

She had much to learn, and he wasn’t convinced she was all that eager to, even with his generous donation to her little farm. He’d thought it would be simple enough to use his money and power—that was what most women in his acquaintance were interested in, after all—to give her what she wanted.

He would need to delve deeper. Learn more about her to better understand her. And once he understood her, it would be easy enough to consummate the marriage and then return to the palace with his obedient bride in tow.

Satisfied with this plan, pushing away all the doubts that had plagued him as nothing with Ilaria had gone according to plan, he waited for her to arrive.

He glanced at his watch, expecting the time to be later than it was. Instead, he was ready early, like some eager schoolboy.

He supposed he was eager. Eager to solve the problem that was Ilaria. She mystified him. He did not know people whose causes weren’t themselves, outside of his grandfather, who, like him, lived for Vantonella and upholding the Monetellero name.

Surely Ilaria could not be as good and charitable as she behaved. There had to be some flaw there, and he needed to find it.

He heard her footsteps before she appeared. Normally, he would not turn to look at her. He would have stood still, staring at the window wall and the glorious mountains his parents had thought they could tame, and waited until she was either compelled to speak or make some noise.

But this week was not about him. It was about getting to the bottom of Ilaria, and if she was not a woman won over by orders and bribes, he would have to attempt something wholly out of character.

Softness. He wasn’t sure he knew what that looked like, but he would try. Had to try. He would stop at nothing to get what he needed from her.

So he turned as she entered the room from the hallway. He smiled at her. She was dressed modestly and somewhat casually in dark slacks and a soft red sweater that clung to her generous curves.

She did something to him and Frediano did not know how to stop it. But he would. By the end of this week, he would. If he had to learn her inside and out, glut himself on her until there was nothing left between them. Whatever it took, he would do.

“When you approach a member of the royal family, you are to curtsy,” he said, and not as an order but as a gentle reminder. He even smiled encouragingly at her.

“Am I not a

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