Semua Bab The Prince Obsession With His Male Bodyguard : Bab 1 - Bab 5

“If you are going to keep pretending you did not enjoy having me in your bed all night, Lucian, at least have the decency to stop looking at my mouth like you are imagining what would happen if I kissed you again.”I opened my eyes after saying it and found him already staring down at me.His expression was murderous. I was lying with my hand around his waist, my head on his chest and one leg tangled over his, wearing nothing but his shirt, which had become a rather unfortunate habit over the past few months. Lucian had one arm beneath my neck and the other resting against my hip, and judging by the way his fingers had curled into the fabric, he had been trying very hard not to move.I smiled but he did not.“You have managed to turn waking up beside you into something I now dread, Your Highness, because every morning you seem determined to begin the day by saying something outrageous and then waiting to see whether my discipline survives it.”I pushed myself higher, deliberately lett

I discovered very quickly that there were two versions of Lucien.There was the Lucien everyone else knew, the perfectly controlled royal bodyguard who followed me through meetings, stood behind my chair during dinners, corrected my terrible decisions with that irritating calmness of his, and somehow managed to make even my father believe that I was easier to handle than I actually was.Then there was the Lucien I had known before he decided I was no longer allowed to have him.Unfortunately, everyone else still had the first one.I only had the first one too.That was the problem.At breakfast, he stood behind my chair while I argued with the royal secretary about a schedule I had no intention of following.“I have already told you that I am not spending three hours listening to merchants argue over grain tariffs when I have a meeting with the military council immediately afterward,” I complained, pushing the schedule across the table. “If the merchants want to complain about grain,

I stopped going to Lucien's room.I stopped finding reasons to touch him, stopped leaning too close just to watch his patience disappear, and stopped throwing suggestive comments at him whenever we were alone. If Lucien wanted me to behave like a prince, then fine. I would behave like one.Unfortunately, he seemed perfectly happy about it.During one of the morning inspections, I watched him talking with two guards near the courtyard.“You've been awfully quiet lately,” one of them told me when I joined them.“I have been informed that my mouth is one of the kingdom's greatest security threats, so I am trying to be responsible.”The guard laughed.Lucien didn't even look at me.Later that afternoon, I passed the west corridor and saw Lucien speaking with one of the palace ladies. She said something that made him laugh quietly, and when she touched his arm, he didn't move away.I kept walking.Apparently, he could survive without me quite comfortably.A few days later, one of the prosp