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Prologue

Sex Love Lies Secrets Money That’s my world now That’s the world I’ve foundaround and disco makes sense and yet it all makes absolute sense I never would have believed that I, Lola Franklin, would have found myself in a world of fairytales Maybe that’s because I didn’t believe they existed And I wasn’t wrong At least, not the fairytales that Disney spins us They don’t exist co is true: I did

Every wo She wants a man ill sweep her off of her feet She wants a man ill love her above everyone else She wants a man ill love her as if he couldn’t live without her She wants a man who can think of no one but her Yes, every wo The real question is: how do you find, tame and keep hireat guy is only part of the battle It’s the tae And it’s an even bigger challenge if that man is Xavier Van Romerius

Chapter One

Lola

“Let me touch you Let me stir the passions in your soul until they became a storm of desire I want your waves to crash down all over me I want your rain to pour in my mouth I want to feel your body move to the earthquake inside I want to make your volcano erupt on top of in” Casper stepped towardsaze What was I doing here, in this room, with this man—this ?

There was a stirring in my stomach as I stood in the cold, poorly lit roo in other parts of the palace There were bursts of laughter, and all I could wonder was if they were laughing at me Lola Franklin, the American slut fiancée of Prince Xavier of Romerius My cheeks burned in sha at ry

There’s always a moment in life that er than others Soone in a blip of time Often, that moment seems to stop time Like now I felt like time had stopped as I stood there with Casper and the traitor

“So, what do you say?” Casper looked at ive you more pleasure than you’ve ever experienced” His voice wasto seduceto s as I stared at his virile body, so obviously wantingand ined hihly Casper was a man ould dominateof how ain, his fingers lightly brushing my hair off of my shoulder as he bent down and kissed the skin next to my collarbone softly His lips ar about this , and defiant My body wanted to let hiet back at Xavier I felt like this was my chance to make him hurt as he had hurt me

“We can azed into ently His breath tickled h hto do with hi down ue oninto ive you more pleasure than you believed possible Let me take you on a journey Let us take you on a journey,” he said huskily and I jumped back suddenly His words broke ure by the door

“No, no, and no” My voice was loud as I answered his questions, but faced right “And you, Tarquin, how could you?” My voice caught as I stared at Xavier’s cousin “I thought ere friends?”

“We are friends I want to be h” He licked his lips and I shivered as he stepped toward lint in his eyes “Don’t you think I’m handsome?”