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“I think the Princess of Acacia is playing a dangerous game.”

“I don’t play games,” Serena replied.

“Asking me to meet you here?” Casimir said. “If I weren’t more trusting of you, I would think this was a trap.”

“How could this possibly be a trap?”

“I think you know how the king and his mother would respond to finding us alone in the palace. It would call your pending engagement into question.”

“We haven’t done anything wrong.”

“Katarina seems to believe my very presence is wrong,” Casimir said.

“She knows her son and I don’t have a relationship. Any male is a threat to the little that we do have.”

Casimir’s eyes traced from her eyes to her lips. “Do you want to make me a real threat to him?”

He was asking if she wanted him to kiss her. She wanted it. Desperately.

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