Taking Our Bride

By Isla Chiu

"We royals don't marry for love, Cecilia," my mother told me when I was a child. I was naive and thought I would be able to prove her wrong, but here I stand, getting ready to marry Prince Leonard, who by all accounts is a decent man. But do I love him?

The answer is no. However, marrying him will help save my country.

If only my heart didn't already belong to two men...

***A sexy story featuring a dutiful princess, two alpha males, and a good amount of smut!***

WORD COUNT: 7,300

• Language: English
• Publisher: Isla Chiu
• Release date: Jun 3, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463128596

Isla Chiu

When I manage to tear myself away from taking Buzzfeed quizzes and watching unhealthy amounts of TV, I write romance and smut. My works feature alpha males, sexy times, and/or my sarcastic sense of humor. I hail from Cleveland, aka the best freaking city in the world, and believe LeBron James is the perfect human being. Despite all of my efforts, I have never truly been able to quit caffeine. My problematic favorites include Taylor Swift and Gone with the Wind. I love to hate/hate to love k-dramas. If I say I’m on a diet, I’m just lying to you and myself. One of these days, I'm going to get hypertension from an excess of salt, both literal and figurative. If I'm awkward around you, I probably don't know what to say to you and/or I think you're hot. And despite what anyone says, Forrest Gump so deserved that Oscar over Pulp Fiction. 

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Chapter 1

WE ROYALS DON’T MARRY for love, Cecilia, my mother, Queen Emilia, told me when I was ten. I was naïve and thought I would be able to prove her wrong, but here I stand, getting ready to marry Prince Leonard, who is a decent man by all accounts. But do I love him?

The answer is no.

I sit on the sofa, placing my head in my hands. I try to tell myself that though I don't love Leonard now, I can grow to love him. Then I remind myself that I have to go through with the wedding for the sake of my country. My beloved Gramalia is near financial ruin, thanks to the stock market crash and the selfish wastefulness of my younger brother Prince Matthew, who spent taxpayers’ money on lavish renovations for his mansion and three expensive weddings that all ended in divorce because of his inability to be faithful.

Marrying Prince Leonard will help save my country. His kingdom Duoqian is one of the world’s wealthiest nations, and an alliance can bring Gramalia back to prosperity.

If only my heart didn’t already belong to two men...

Stop it, I say to myself. I can’t think about them. About how much I wish they were here with me, about how much I love them, about how much I wish I was marrying them instead of Leonard. The fate of my country is far more important than my love life. Sometimes, I wish I could be more selfish like my brother, who thinks of his desires first, of the good of the kingdom second (or eleventh).

Cecilia.

My heart races. I must be hallucinating. Because I swear it sounds like...

I look up, gasping. In front of me stand Asher and Eugene.

Aka the two loves of my life.

What are you doing here? I ask, trying to suppress the bubble of joy that is rising in me.

The real question is what the fuck are you doing here? Asher hisses, his dark green eyes lit with anger. It is everything I can do to not run to him and touch his silky blond hair and kiss his plump lips.

I’m getting married, I answer, attempting to sound as calm as possible.

Eugene glares at me. But not to us. Christ. Impossibly, he’s