Player's Princess (A Royal Sports Romance)(164)

I should say he destroyed all of them but one. The very last of the advanced prototypes is locked away, just in case he ever needs it. It was my idea to save it, even though he argued with me for days that not even one of them could be permitted to exist, that if it fell into the wrong hands it would start all over again.

Lastly, the government of Kosztyla entered into an economic development partnership with Solkovia, and the two states have approached the other countries in the immediate region to discuss forming a regional defense and economic agreement, kind of a miniature European Union. One day my son—presiding over a democratically elected parliament and impartial court system—will lead this union to even greater heights. My prince is content knowing that he has stopped the cycle of madness and oppression that made his land known throughout the world as a hell on earth.

As for me, I cannot imagine myself being more in love. Every day he comes up with some grand new gesture to prove his affection for me, and though we’ve agreed that six children will be enough, I doubt it will be for lack of trying. I feel sometimes that I am the luckiest woman on Earth, despite the sadness of the chain of events that brought me here.

So, it is with an honest and joyous heart, thinking of the happiness my prince has brought me, and a hint of pride that I was able to see the goodness beneath that black steel and bring it out into the world where it belongs, I can write the words I never thought I would ever apply to my own life.



“…And they lived happily ever after.”



Mostly. It’s freaking cold in that castle in the wintertime, and he won’t stop using the damn hearths and just turn up the thermostat like I tell him to.