RYKER'S POV

I gasped, dumbstruck.

At first, I thought my eyes were starting to fail me.

“What's the problem, Ryker? Why do you stand there?” My father's baritone voice rang aloud.

I smiled, gently shaking my

“Nothing sir,” the lie slipped quickly through my lips as I smiled.

This made no sense to me. Absolutely not. Who could have ever thought Samien was the one my father had been making arrangements for me to marry.

A part of me felt glad. Samien was a beautiful woman no doubt, one any man can wish for.

But it just didn't feel right. For someone who had faked her identity just to get...