Wedding Party Collection: Marrying The Prince: The Prince She Never Knew / His Bride for the Taking / A Queen for the Taking?. Кейт Хьюит

how he had. He’d been doing it his whole life, just as his parents had been doing it with him. And he’d hated it all, hated how it hurt him, yet he’d thought with Alyse it would be different. It had been his choice and he would be in control.

      And so he would. Starting now.

      ‘Sometimes needs must,’ he said brusquely. ‘But at least we won’t lie to each other.’

      ‘So what exactly are you proposing, Leo? That we ignore each other for the length of our honeymoon? Our marriage?’

      ‘Our honeymoon is over,’ he answered, and he watched her pale.

      ‘Over?’

      ‘We head back to Maldinia this morning.’

      ‘This morning.’ Alyse stared at him, her face white. Then she rallied, a spark of challenge firing her eyes so Leo felt a reluctant surge of admiration for her spirit. ‘So we had a honeymoon of all of two days. How do you think the public—the press—will react to that?’