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His father shrugged “If it gets you settled? Yes”

“No,” he gritted out, tired of this saument they’d had ahow to run it I don’t need anything else distracting me”

“And yet you still wish to court Alicia?”

Leo barely refrained fro his eyes at his father’s outdated term for what he felt for Alicia “I like her, and I enjoy spending time with her, and want to be her friend That’s all”

Well, that wasn’t all

Every tiht of her, the desire he felt for her grew more and more insistent If he wasn’t careful, it would consuain and see all the ways she’d changed underneath those tantalizing dresses and loose, flowing shirts she alore If he regretted anything, it was that it had been too dark to see a da in that hallway

If he had it to do all over again…

“Then think of what made her like you, and vice versa, and then recreate it,” his father said, interrupting his thoughts “And after you try again, bring her to ht”

“I don’t know if she’ll come,” Leo warned

“She’ll come Just tell her I requested to see her…” He pointed a shaking finger at hiray, and he looked exhausted “After you do so romantic intended to win her over, that is”

Leo hesitated, but really, what did he have to lose?

She already hated hiree to pretty ot hio take a nap while I’ ‘romantic’”

The older man shook his head “I’m not tired”

“I don’t care You nap, or I don’t try harder” He paused a beat “And I don’t meet that other princess tomorrow, the one that you slipped into h you’re clearly pushing for Princess Genevieve”

Holding his hands up, his father winced “Very well, then I’ll nap”