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“I have never slept with any woman before” It was a heartfelt confession. She could feel her own heart thudding. Should she believe him?

“Guess I was waiting for my wife to be the one,” he added.

Now this statement surely got butterflies in her stomach. It was not his words, his charm, his honesty at the moment responsible for that tickling inside her body, but his motive. She had felt him opening up his heart out to her from the past few hours and at times it scared her off because her husband had started building expectations out of her … out of this marriage.

He had expected her to struggle to get off his grip. But she didn’t. Eleanor simply met his eyes and smirked.

“That miracle is not in your destiny with your present wife then” she answered. “Because women usually give that right to the man, she falls heads over heels for. And sorry, your Royal ego won’t let me ever …ever fall for the man who lied to me for marrying and ruined my career”

His arms automatically loosened and she