Alle Kapitel von I am utterly in love with the Grand Duke : Kapitel 1 – Kapitel 10

SHEBA'S PovI wasn't born into wealth. In fact, I came from a pretty average family, the kind where you learned early that if you wanted something, you had to work for it. Nobody was waiting around to hand me opportunities, and I certainly wasn't born with the kind of connections that could open doors for me. So I worked.....hard I worked when I was tired. I worked when I was afraid. I worked when everyone around me thought I was aiming too high. I learned very early not to expect anyone's help and that mindset stayed with me as I grew older. I stopped waiting for people to believe in me and started proving them wrong instead. I built my career from the ground up, one decision at a time, one risk after another. Years later, I had become the biggest woman in the industry. Money was no longer something I worried about. Neither was recognition. My name was known, my face appeared in magazines, and people who once wouldn't have given me the time of day now fought for the chance to

SHEBA'S POV Just like clockwork, a knock fell on the door, I jumped. My eyes were still fixed on the woman in the mirror when I heard the sound again. I stared at the door, for a few seconds, I didn't say anything. I was still trying to understand what was happening. Who is this woman? and why am I in her body? How did I even get here? Was it some kind of witchcraft? How on earth did I die and end up inside another woman's body? The questions kept piling into my head, each one more ridiculous than the last. I turned back toward the mirror. The unfamiliar woman stared back at me. She was beautiful. Far too beautiful. Her features were delicate, her skin flawless, and everything about her looked completely different from the woman I had known my entire life. She didn't look like me at all. Now I was standing in a strange room, wearing clothes I had never seen before, looking at a face that didn't belong to me. "Your Highness?" The voice came from the other sid

SHEBA'S POV After a lot of thinking, I decided that the first thing I needed to know was exactly where I was in the novel. If I knew what point in the story I had entered, I could figure out what needed to happen next. More importantly, I needed to find a way to reach Ezra.....That was my priority. Ezra first. Everything else could come afterward. I also needed to avoid Preston, that idiot prince. Thankfully, that shouldn't be too difficult. My father loves me, and from what I remembered of the story, his kingdom was the one with the real advantage in this alliance. They were the ones who needed this marriage to happen. Which means I have leverage. I still couldn't understand how that entire situation had played out in the original story. It always baffled me. His kingdom needed this marriage to strengthen its position, yet that idiot had the audacity to cheat on the princess and eventually contribute to her death.A fool, that's what he was. An absolute fool.

SHEBA'S POV There were so many hands on me. Some were working on my hair, others were attending to my feet, while another pair carefully adjusted my dress. I simply stood there and allowed them to do their work. I still haven't gotten used to this. Back in my old life, getting ready meant choosing my own clothes, doing my own hair, and leaving the house when I was satisfied with how I looked. Here, preparing for dinner required an entire team. As the maids moved around me, my mind drifted back to what I had read. Luke Floyd That was the prince's name. In the novel, when Luke first arrived, Alera didn't feel any love for him. She had been neutral, she didn't thrown herself at him or desperately tried to win his affection. But after their marriage, things changed. She began yearning for his affection, she wanted her husband to look at her the way he looked at Evelyn, that slut.... But she never begged for his love, she never humiliated herself for it. All she did was

Her words left the room completely silent. For a moment, nobody seemed to know what to say.The men from Firildia had clearly not expected this. In fact they expected that they only had to contact the king but now..... Alera simply sat back in her chair, watching them with a satisfied smile. Did they really think they were going to get through this so easily? In the book, they had still needed to convince the king even after the proposed marriage had been discussed for some time. But now? The king wouldn't even have to consider it, Alera had already given him a valid reason to refuse and the best part was that there had never actually been any rumor about Luke's relationship with Evelyn. She had simply used what she knew from the book. Apparently, her knowledge of the story was going to be far more useful than she had initially imagined. The silence was eventually broken by the count. "Your Highness, I assure you that that is just a fling." Alera turned her attention toward h