The Inadequate Heir (The Bridge Kingdom Book 3)

by Danielle L. Jensen

“I know you desire to save everyone, my darling, but it’s not always possible. Sometimes one must choose, and when one is in power, the sacrifices are a hundredfold harder.

The wind blew softly over them, and her nose caught the subtle scent of spice, the smell of which filled her with the absurd desire to move closer. To breathe deeper.

“If one only knows one’s own mind on things, does one really know anything at all?”

Though she’d had her share of lovers, it had never felt like this. Like she’d been made for the man whose lips consumed her, and he for her. Never had she felt such an insatiable desire that cared not for sleep or obligation or the rising threat of dawn, only for having his body against hers, in hers, his tongue, his fingers, his cock pulling her over the edge so many times she lost count. No matter that it might be to her own ruin.

Matters of the heart do not bow to logic or reason. Anyone who does not understand that has either never lived or is devoid of a heart themselves.”