"Don't you have somewhere else to be?" Luciana asked the man who wouldn't leave even though she was now lying on his bed and trying to sleep. But how could she possibly sleep under his watchful gaze?
"No, I have nowhere else to be," Prince Nicholas shamelessly said, a mischievous smirk dancing across his face.
"I thought the general and his son came to see you," she said.
"They can wait; it's not every day that you are so obedient; it's making me feel like I'm in a dream; I want to savor the feeling a while longer," he said.
Luciana wanted to say he had forced her to be obedient, but she valued the rare freedom Nicholas had given her and had no intention of making him take it back.
"Nick, it won't be good to keep them waiting; they must have something important to report," Luciana said gently in a coaxing manner.
Nicholas studied her face as if making sure she wasn't planning anything in that head of hers and nodded.
