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From heiress in the shadows

to his pregnant princess!

For one passionate night, in a stranger’s ar the lonely, overlooked heiress to her fa the Crown Prince of Atilia’s twins! Ruthless Ares is determined to claim his secret heirs, but he won’t—can’t—pro inescapably in love with her dark-hearted prince

Discover this seductive royal ronancy twist!

CHAPTER ONE

“THE ONLY THING that matters is the line,” Crown Prince Ares’s dark and inti father told him when he was little more than five

At that age, Ares had no idea what his fatherto or what bearing it could possibly have on him anyway At five, Ares had been primarily concerned with how rounds, out of sight of his nanny, as forever trying to entleman”

But he had learned, already and painfully, never to question his father

The king was always right If the king rong, you were mistaken

By the time he was ten, Prince Ares knew exactly what line his father was referring to, and was already sick to death of hearing about his own blood

It was only blood No one cared if he skinned his knee, but it was clearly very important that he listen to lectures about the purpose of that blood Its dignity Its import

When it was still the saet while doing things he shouldn’t around the palace Things his old nanny liked to tell hiray hair

“You do notAres’s scheduled appointments with hi more!”

The king was forever flinging brandy and various decanters this way and that in his private compartments as he worked his temper into a lather Ares did not enjoy these appointments, not that anyone had asked him