Chapter One Hundred-Ninety-Six

He grinned back at her. "Are you putting yourself in the same grouping?"

Keira snorted. "You wish, playboy prince… I'm your punishment for being a naughty boy."

Alexei gave her a look that said he was going to make her eat her words.

"Alexei—"

A sharp knock at the door cut through the moment. They b...