“This is what you were doing all morning?

  “I’ve been busy.”

  “I can see that.”

  Once Aaron was in cuffs, the room erupted into pure pandemonium. Reporters shouting questions. Flashbulbs going off. But security, was quick and efficient. One moment, Aaron was there, the next, he wasn’t.

  One by one, the new queen called on several people and answered questions clearly and concisely, having fully anticipated all the confusion. She was born ready.

  I just looked at my husband. "When were you going to tell me?"

  "I wanted it to be a surprise. Besides, you were right. We do everything together. And ruling, I would want to do it with you, but so much of it would sit on my shoulders. There would be so much time that I'd be spending with advisors and not with my family. If I could rule by committee, with you and Alexi and Abbie with all of us having input, I could truly be great. But on my own, I don't make the best decisions."

  "Of course you do. I trust you implicitly. My only concern is when you convince yourself that you're all alone. Then you make rash decisions."

  "I know. The point is, we just had a baby. And she's had a tough go of it. I want to be able to sit around and play with her and not have to worry about who's coming to kill her because they want her throne. I want her to have as normal a life as possible. Besides, there was a lot of ego that went into my decision to succeed my mother. I did it because I thought I was protecting Lex, that I was doing the best thing. But it's not the best thing. I'm not cut out for this. But Derrick is someone who could be.”

  "You're amazing."

  He shook his head. "No. You are. You are and always have been my queen. Don't ever doubt that. But you deserve normal and happy, and that's what I can give you by abdicating."

  "Let me just say, you are hardly normal."

  He grinned. "Well, normal with a little bit of flair, because it is still me."

  I laughed. Kaya waved a fist in the air and cooed. Xander leaned forward and kissed her little hand as she gave him a gassy smile. "You see that? My daughter smiled at me."

  "It was gas, Xander."

  He pshawed at me. "You don't know. My daughter and I are super connected. She gets me."

  I just laughed. And he leaned forward, brushing his lips over mine. "You know what today is, right?"

  I frowned. "What?”

  "Today is sex day."

  I laughed. "Is it?"

  "You know you've been counting down too."

  I knew exactly what day it was, but I wasn't telling him that.

  “So when we're done here, and the press has asked all the questions and crowded you and my baby, we're going to hand her to the nanny, and I'm going to fuck my wife. Then we'll talk about all the things that have happened. How does that sound?"

  "Fuck first, talk later?"

  He grinned. "Now you're getting it. I love you so much."

  "You're impossible. And I wouldn't have you any other way."

  "Awesome. So, you just think about what position you'd like to start with, because I have my favorites. But God, I have a lot of pent-up frustration here."

  I could only laugh as I stroked his face and held our daughter. I couldn't imagine a more perfect life. My husband loved me enough to give up a crown. I didn't know what more I could ask for.

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  It began with betrayal.

  And ended in murder.

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  She was never supposed to cross my path.

  She was never supposed to know about the Currency of Secrets or the Oaths of Blood.

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  My so-called brothers killed my friend. I intend to make them pay. And before it's over, I'll bend all the rules of morality, decency and legality. I will borrow and steal to set the scales right.

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  My name is Ben Covington and I know my sins.

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  “You make a really good model. I’m sure dozens of artists have volunteered to paint you before.”

  He shook his head. “Not that I can recall. Why? Are you offering?”

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  I grinned. “I usually do nudes.” Why did I say that? It wasn’t true. Because you’re hoping he’ll volunteer as tribute.

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  He shrugged then reached behind his back and pulled his shirt up, tugged it free, and tossed it aside. “How is this for nude?”

  * * *

  Fuck. Me. I stared for a moment, mouth open and looking like an idiot. Then, well, I snapped a picture. Okay fine, I snapped several. “Uh, that’s a start.”

  * * *

  He ran a hand through his hair and tussled it, so I snapped several of that. These were romance-cover gold. Getting into it, he started posing for me, making silly faces. I got closer to him, snapping more close-ups of his face. That incredible face.

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  Then suddenly he went deadly serious again, the intensity in his eyes going harder somehow, sharper. Like a razor. “You look nervous. I thought you said you were used to nudes.”

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  I swallowed around the lump in my throat. “Yeah, at school whenever we had a model, they were always nude. I got used to it.”

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  He narrowed his gaze. “Are you sure about that?”

  Shit. He could tell. “Yeah, I am. It’s just a human form. Male. Female. No big deal.”

  * * *

  His lopsided grin flashed, and my stomach flipped. Stupid traitorous body…and damn him for being so damn good looking. I tried to keep the lens centered on his face, but I had to get several of his abs, for you know…research.

  But when his hand rubbed over his stomach and then slid to the button on his jeans, I gasped, “What are you doing?”

  “Well, you said you were used doing nudes. Will that make you more comfortable as a photographer?”

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  I swallowed again, unable to answer, wanting to know what he was doing, how far he would go. And how far would I go?

  * * *

  The button popped, and I swallowed the sawdust in my mouth. I snapped a picture of his hands.

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  Well yeah, and his abs. So sue me. He popped another button, giving me a hint of the forbidden thing I couldn’t have. I kept snapping away. We were locked in this odd, intimate game of chicken. I swung the lens up to capture his face. His gaze was slightly hooded. His lips parted…turned on. I stepped back a step to capture all of him. His jeans loose, his feet bare. Sitting on the stool, leaning back slightly and giving me the sex face, because that’s what it was—God’s honest truth—the sex face. And I was a total goner.

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  “You’re not taking pictures, Len.” His voice was barely above a whisper.

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  “Oh, sorry.” I snapped several in succession. Full body shots, face shots, torso shots. There were several torso shots. I wanted to fully capture what was happening.

  He unbuttoned another button, taunting me, tantalizing me. Then he reached into his jeans, and my gaze snapped to meet his. I wanted to say something. Intervene in some way…help maybe…ask him what he was doing. But I couldn’t. We were locked in a game that I couldn’t break free from. Now I wanted more. I wanted to know just how far he would go.

  * * *

  Would he go nude? Or would he stay in this half-undressed state, teasing me, tempting me to do the thing that I shouldn’t do?

  * * *

  I snapped more photos, but this time I was close. I was looking down on him with the camera, angling so I could see his perfectly sculpted abs as they flexed. His hand was inside his jeans. From the bulge, I knew he was touching himself. And then I snapped my gaze up to his face.

  Sebastian licked his lip, and I captured the moment that tongue met flesh.

  * * *

  Heat flooded my body, and I pressed my thighs together to abate the ache. At that point, I was just snapping photos, completely in the zone, wanting to see what he might do next.

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  “Len…”

  “Sebastian.” My voice was so breathy I could barely get it past my lips.

  “Do you want to come closer?”

  “I--I think maybe I’m close enough?”

  His teeth grazed his bottom lip. “Are you sure about that? I have another question for you.”

  * * *

  I snapped several more images, ranging from face shots to shoulders, to torso. Yeah, I also went back to the hand-around-his-dick thing because…wow. “Yeah? Go ahead.”

  “Why didn’t you tell me about your boyfriend ‘til now?”

  Oh shit. “I—I’m not sure. I didn’t think it mattered. It sort of feels like we’re supposed to be friends.” Lies all lies.

  He stood, his big body crowding me. “Yeah, friends…”

  I swallowed hard. I couldn’t bloody think with him so close. His scent assaulted me, sandalwood and something that was pure Sebastian wrapped around me, making me weak. Making me tingle as I inhaled his scent. Heat throbbed between my thighs, even as my knees went weak. “Sebastian, wh—what are you doing?”

  “

  Proving to you that we’re not friends. Will you let me?”

  He was asking my permission. I knew what I wanted to say. I understood what was at stake. But then he raised his hand and traced his knuckles over my cheek, and a whimper escaped.

  * * *

  His voice went softer, so low when he spoke, his words were more like a rumble than anything intelligible. “Is that you telling me to stop?”

  * * *

  Seriously, there were supposed to be words. There were. But somehow I couldn’t manage them, so like an idiot I shook my head.

  * * *

  His hand slid into my curls as he gently angled my head. When he leaned down, his lips a whisper from mine, he whispered, “This is all I’ve been thinking about.”

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  About Nana Malone

  USA Today Best Seller, Nana Malone's love of all things romance and adventure started with a tattered romantic suspense she "borrowed" from her cousin.

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  It was a sultry summer afternoon in Ghana, and Nana was a precocious thirteen. She's been in love with kick butt heroines ever since. With her overactive imagination, and channeling her inner Buffy, it was only a matter a time before she started creating her own characters.

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  Now she writes about sexy royals and smokin’ hot bodyguards when she’s not hiding her tiara from Kidlet, chasing a puppy who refuses to shake without a treat, or begging her husband to listen to her latest hairbrained idea.

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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales, is entirely coincidental.

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  COPYRIGHT © 2020 by Nana Malone

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