For Dutys Sake – Lucy Monroe

“She is no starry-eyed teenager to expect flowers and poetry from a marriage such as ours.” “I think you are missing the point here,” Cemal said. “There isn’t going to be any marriage.” “And this pleases you?” Zahir accused, stunned by the possibility. He was no man’s idea of a poor son-in-law choice. “Not at all, but I know my daughter well enough to know that once she sets a course of action, she sticks to it.” Zahir didn’t disagree. Cemal and Lou-Belia had wanted Angele to attend finishing school in Paris rather than university in the States.

Angele had gotten her degree from Cornell. Neither had approved her decision to get her own apartment, but Angele had lived on her own since her sophomore year at university. Zahir had never given much thought to what he considered Angele’s minor rebellions, particularly when he had approved her choices both times. He had not wanted her to marry him without having had a chance to live at least something of a normal life. Now, he thought he’d been a fool to encourage the blatant independence. Had he spent more time getting to know her, he would have realized what such choices might wrought.

“We can put out our own press release saying hers was a hoax, perpetrated by our enemies,” King Malik suggested. Cemal shook his head. “She threatened to do a live interview if we did that.” So, Cemal had tried to dissuade his daughter from her intended path. And all Zahir could concentrate on was the truth that such persuasion should not have been necessary after the previous night.

Those hours out of time fed Zahir’s anger and an unfamiliar tightness in his chest. “So, we have no choice,” Faruq said with a worried glance at his son.

She could not speak to respond, merely shook her head. He was the incredible one, playing her boldly like a sitar’s strings. “Making love to you will be my greatest pleasure.” She forgave him the smug tones edging his voice. They were well earned. Besides, his words weren’t smug at all. He could have said it would be her greatest pleasure, and they both knew that would be the case. She was a virgin, after all. OceanofPDF.com ROYAL BRIDES This month: FOR DUTY’S SAKE An innocent princess and her promised husband…

Zahir is the crown prince of a desert kingdom, master of all he surveys, including the world’s most beautiful women. Angele has waited for him and marriage for ten long years. Maybe a wedding is no longer in the cards, but can they still share that unforgettable moment when he will claim her as his woman? Coming soon: The story of Asad and Iris He’s the Sheikh of Kadar—she’s an American geologist.

He loved her once and lost her. Can he win her back, to his bed and his side…as his wife? Don’t miss these latest installments of ROYAL BRIDES Lucy Monroe’s enthralling sheikh saga! Available wherever Harlequin books are sold or online at eHarlequin.com. OceanofPDF.com Lucy Monroe FOR DUTY’S SAKE OceanofPDF.com FOR DUTY’S SAKE OceanofPDF.com For Abigail and Jordan, a very special niece and nephew-in-law. I’m so proud of both of you, all your accomplishments and the love you two share.

May it bless you and may you live out your own HEA with true joy and a fulfillment of the dearest dreams of both your hearts. OceanofPDF.com Contents PROLOGUE CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT CHAPTER NINE CHAPTER TEN CHAPTER ELEVEN EPILOGUE OceanofPDF.com PROLOGUE Did love die? Angele had asked her mother that question once, after realizing her father, Cemal bin Ahmed al Jawhar—foster brother to the King of Jawhar and her own personal hero—was a serial adulterer.

She’d been an extremely naive university freshman. So certain was she of her father’s integrity, she had at first believed the tabloid story about him stuffed in her student mailbox was a hoax, a cruel joke played by someone who would never be called a friend again. To this day, she did not know who had disliked her so much they’d felt the need to shred her illusions and with them, her heart. Her first hero had tumbled from his pedestal and shattered at her feet, and he had not even known.

Not to begin with. Her still beautiful Brazilian former supermodel mother had looked at Angele in silence for several seconds.

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