Reluctantly Royal

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>A marriage of convenience between a dirty-talking prince and the socially awkward scientist who brings him to his knees...</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A marriage proposal from a deliciously handsome and wickedly charming prince sounds like a fairytale.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But for a nerdy scientist with severe social anxietyit's a horror story.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Prince Torin O'Grady with his mischievous blue eyes and cocky grin is always in the spotlight. And he needs to marry me to inherit the crown.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But we have nothing in common. He's a future king. And I'm perfectly happy slogging through mud in my work boots.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>So why can't I stop thinking about him?</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Maybe because he won't stop texting me. And sending me gifts. And making me feel like everything I find awkward and weird about myself is special and amazing.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And there's also that little detail of him offering me my dream job and telling me that together we can change the world.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Well I could probably </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>work</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> for him.</span></p><p><br></p><p>And if I have to marry him <em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>temporarily </em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>to get what we both want then fine. It's for the greater good.</span></p><p><br></p><p>It has nothing to do with the way he kisses me. Or that dirty mouth. Or the <em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>royal treatment </em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>he gives me in the bedroom.</span></p><p><br></p><p>Fine. Maybe it does. Still it's only a year. Then I can turn in my tiara and come back to my normal boring behind-the-scenes life.</p><p><br></p><p>But Torin is determined to turn me from reluctantly royal to royally <em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>his</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>.</span></p>