CHAPTER 8

NEOLA

"Your grace, you can't just ask a stranger to marry you

just like that!" I stared at him as I tried to appear taller than usual on

the chair I was sitting on.

"Well, you are not a stranger to me anymore," his

voice slither down the nape of my neck as he whispered on my ear. "Oh

really?" I push his head off and he let out a sigh.

"It was true, love , you weren't a stranger to me

anymore...in fact, you remind me of someone I really knew. Someone that I have

known from the past," His fingers paused beneath my elbow before he...