Chapter 77

“Believe me when I tell you that our time together is not a borrowed time, you love me, I love you, and I am going to make it work,”

He continued as he stood in front of her. Now there was not much space between them.

“There is no line to cross, Sophie, the line faded that day in the emerald house when I kissed you, whatever it was that was the barricade faded that day, when we kissed, I knew, even though I tried to tell myself that it was just sex, tried to lie that I wasn’t feeling anything, it didn’t work. Patrick, Roseline? they both saw through me; the first time I slept in the dungeon with you? Patrick gave me an earful, and asked me if I was in love with you and all. I told him he had nothing to worry about but Patrick was right to have been worried because even though I didn’t know it then, I already felt something for you,”

Lance confessed and paused to just look at her and admire the beauty of the woman who stole his heart.

“Why would I, a king, go as far as sleeping in t