SHE MIGHT HAVE BEEN BORN TO RULE, BUT SHE WAS MADE TO OBEY ME. The King sold his daughter to settle his debts. He delivered Princess Brianna to my gates to be taught. He expected me to train her for another man's bed. He made a fatal mistake. I am Malachi Flores, and I do not surrender what I have claimed. I lace her into corsets until her breath belongs to me. I teach her the rhythm of my discipline and the sweetness of total surrender. She arrived a defiant royal. She will leave my estate as my pregnant bride. Now the crown wants her back. Her father demands his currency. They are too late. I have already marked her. I have already claimed her heart and her body. I have planted my heir inside her to ensure she can never escape the life I have chosen for her. I will destroy every man who tries to take my new bride from her new husband.