Hired For His Royal Revenge (Mills & Boon Modern) (Secrets of the Kalyva Crown, Book 1) by Lorraine Hall
Author:Lorraine Hall [Hall, Lorraine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2023-03-31T18:30:00+00:00
She slept with her hand fisted at his heart, the ring on her finger sometimes catching the moonlight that slithered in through the curtains.
Lysias didnât sleep because a dark pain gripped him in its iron clutches. He knew if he slept, he would dream.
And he would dream of the monsters that even now he was trying to slay.
So he did not sleep. He lay in this foreign bed and felt the easy rise and fall of Alexandraâs breathing.
Alexandra, Al, was a problem. She was perfection. The way she matched his passion for her. The way she had stood up for him. The whole of who she was...
She was a distraction he couldnât afford, and yet neither could he afford to set her aside. Her acting as his fiancée was an integral part of Lysias getting everything he wanted, of causing Diamandis the most amount of pain. He needed the princess she would play in order to take Diamandis out at the knees.
So something had to be done. He would need to be more careful. More guarded. He did not think resisting her was necessary per se. After all, that was simply...physical. Chemistry. A natural consequence to sharing so much time and space, and the beauty that she was.
He had simply not factored in that there would be an emotional response to returning to Kalyva. That seeing Diamandis would remind him of the time before. And while he had predicted many of Diamandisâs moves, the king trying to put Lysias in his parentsâ old living quarters had been a cruelty he had not seen coming.
So he had learned his lesson. Expect pain and suffering and cruelty. Really, it was his life motto. It was ridiculous heâd been caught so off guard.
No matter. Diamandis would pay for it all.
Lysias couldnât forget himself just because his fake princess was...whatever she was. In the end, it did not matter. All that mattered was maintaining a certain wall of distance, of control.
It would be simple enough. There was much to do.
The king would demand a DNA test, and Lysias had to ensure all his men were in place to falsify the results. Something he had been working on for years, but even he could not have predicted the perfection that was Al. Without a past, there would be nothing to cast doubts on the falsified results.
But this was only a part of his plan. This was only a distraction. Perhaps it was even pettyâmuch like Diamandisâs attempt to put him in his parentsâ quarters. The main part of his plan was taking Diamandisâs kingdom away from him.
For ten years, he had been finding not just people in the palace to betray Diamandis but people in the council, in Kalyva. It had taken time, subtlety, patience.
He finally had enough support to get a no-confidence vote. And AlâAlexandraâwas the twist of the knife. While Diamandis was reeling over finding out his sister was alive, Lysias would tip the domino to ruin Diamandisâs life.
He had much to do, and none of it included watching his fake fiancée begin to thrash in her sleep.
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