Crown of Thorns

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Once upon a time I believed in fairytales. </strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I happily lived my quiet life working in a small bookshop and often enjoyed quiet dinners with my uncles the men who raised me after my parents died in a tragic accident. The most adventure I saw was between the pages of a book and those were always fiction that is until a handsome stranger swept into my world literally knocked me off my feet. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He said he was a prince. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He promised me happily ever after. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And he carried me away from New England to his small European kingdom where it seemed every secret dream had come true. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But dreams can be nothing more than lies. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Because life is not all fairytales and there are no handsome princes only dangerous secrets and the devil himself. </span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He isn't my happily ever after. </strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He's the King of Lies. </strong></p><p></p>