Chapter 2

Prince Marcus Walker, her future husband and her father’s latest business partner, someone who could ensure more fortunes for generations to come, should have been a dream come true. He seemed to have everything a woman should want in a man. He was handsome, wealthy, charming. Oh, so very charming. …But for some reason he wasn’t what she wanted…and truth be told, she didn’t even know what she wanted.

Maybe he was even too charming… Bonnie thought and frowned…in an annoying kind of way.

Prince Marcus had turned his attention on Bonnie the instant he’d seen her at her father’s birthday a year ago. Marcus had been exciting and different…but he wasn’t to her, and she didn’t quite understand why most of the ladies had their heads spinning over him. Maybe she was just different, but given his interest, her father had probably been thrilled and most definitely been charmed by him.

Right now, she was neck-deep in sleepless grief over having lost her grandmother, Bella Rimm