Noah endured the last week of Louisa’s engagement tour alone. It was better than trying to keep Katya’s lips off of his, and certainly an improvement from the horrible situation he’d been put in.
But Zara’s message had sent him into a tailspin he didn’t know how to recover from. He clung to the tiny shred of hope that he’d be the perfect prince his father wanted, and then he’d get permission to leave this wretched island and make a new one his home.
Zara had said not to text her again, and Noah was planning to honor that. But he could call her or show up on her doorstep to talk to her. He just needed to get a few things in order first, and then he would.
The door he’d been sitting outside of opened, and his sister came out. She looked tired, but upbeat, and she gave him a hug after he s
