Humble Position
The prince’s attractive face and piercing blue eyes came to my mind and I immediately wanted to see him and then I started longing to feel the warmth of his embrace and the heat of his body against mine. The sound of the word love sounded so foreign and unfamiliar to me and that made the warmth that I felt deep inside my chest slowly transform into a sense of uneasiness. Honestly, I didn’t remember the last time that I remembered hearing that word or feeling a sense of its meaning.
“You look troubled…” the duchess said observantly.