Though I’d asked before, I needed to repeat my question: “Are you one of them?”Smiling, he chuckled. “No.” He took a sip of his morning tea. “You want some?”“Yeah.” Getting up, I followed him to the kitchen. “Then what did you mean about an offer I can’t refuse?”“You’re gonna be challenged, Kelle...
Shock coursed through me. She’d disarmed me with her stories and I’d let my guard down around her. Now she was showing me things about myself, things that I’d neither dreamed nor imagined.Me, a king? And worse, married? What could she have been thinking, telling me these things? I was just a kid ...