"What is this?" He asks in a calm voice, but his expression betrays anything but calmness.As he throws the magazines in front of his parents, there are several gasps heard throughout the room.It's the headline at the top that has me completely lost—not the photographs.April Dale and Theo Perer are engaged."That I'm getting married to a woman I don't want to marry?"His question causes me to fight a deep pain in my heart. I was aware that he had no desire to wed. It wasn't him who was in love. As I was."Have some respect for your future wife and the future daughter-in-law of this family." His mum loses it.With a flash of rage in his eyes, Theo approaches his mother and declares, "Starr is the only lady I will ever marry. And nobody else.He doesn't say anything more as he storms out of the room, and I watch him leave, staring at the door until I am no longer able to see him.

He moaned, "This is so wrong," and attempted to pull away, but she surprised him by resting her head on his chest and putting her tiny hands around his waist. A deep moan leaked out of him as he felt every barrier he had constructed come tumbling down.She muttered, "This can't be wrong," her little voice faltering as though she were going to cry. She said, "This feeling can't be wrong," and then lifted her head off of his chest while maintaining eye contact. "I love you, Uncle Lorian." He gave a grumpy "Damn it, stop calling me that," and grabbed her face with his hands before kissing her.Damn the lectures, damn the repercussions, damn society.He was a vampire ruler, and she was a human. He was thirty-five and she was eighteen. She was meant to be his niece, and he was her uncle.Good Lord, Lorian was unaware of Roosevelt's existence until his sister was involved in a tragic accident that rendered her unconscious. Roosevelt was his sister's adoptive kid, and he was supposed to take care of her after his sister went into a coma. However, as he spent more time with her, an unanticipated attraction started to develop between them. Will Lord Lorian be able to control his overwhelming, forbidden desire?