Alpha's Secret Mate
"Once we've rooted out the insurrection in our lands, you have my promise—no, my oath—that you and Nicolette will be married. Status be damned!"
"A good promise, so long as I don't die in the process," Andreas brought the neck of the wine bottle to his lips. "But I suppose what fun would there be if there wasn't a challenge to be had?"
"The eternal optimist still, I see."
To Tartarus with it. I grabbed a book at random off the shelf, a small black leather-bound novel I'd never seen before. Someone must have had it sequestered in their rooms for a long read. Well, here was hoping it wasn't a tome filled with gallows' humor.