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She raised an eyebrow. “I’m still not entering into some arranged marriage.”

“Nobody arranged anything for us. We should both choose this marriage because it’s the right thing to do. It is the only honorable course of action. My country and my people expect no less from me.”

“Marrying for protocol’s sake? Living some happy royal farce for the media?”

Her face had been on his mind every day since she’d left him. Her body—sans clothes—had been a major player in his dreams.

“If I married for protocol, according to the wishes of the Council, I would marry for alliance. I would marry a princess for her father’s wealth and influence,” he informed her.

“Sounds good to me. You should try and keep this

Council happy. They sound important.”

“They’ll be happy that I finally secured an heir. This might not be the marriage they had in mind, but they won’t protest it.”

“I protest it. I’m not entering into a fake marriage so you can parade my son around as your heir.”

“Nothing about our marriage would be fake, I promise you that, Isabelle,” he told her before he kissed her.