“My darling, you have driven me almost mad,” he sighed. “Even now I can hardly believe you are real and I will not wake up to find this is a wonderful dream.”
“I just had to save you from the Russians,” Latasha murmured.
“Why did you not tell me before?” he demanded.
For a moment Latasha hesitated.
Then she said,
“I did not think you loved me and because I loved you so much, I thought it would be an unbearable agony if you married me only because I was Royal.”
Prince Kraus gave a strangled laugh.
“I fell in love with you from the first moment I saw you, and I knew after you had massaged my forehead that what I felt for you was different from anything I had ever known.”
“You love me – you really love me?” Latasha asked breathlessly.
“I have been going nearly crazy, trying to work
