Chapter Five
An Unusual Honeymoon Journey
Princess Natalie hardly knew how to respond when her parents called her in for a private conference to inform her of their decision regarding her marriage. On one hand, a big part of her wanted to throw a full-on tantrum at being deprived of any input whatsoever in the choice that was going to determine the shape of the rest of her life. And even worse, she was to be spending it with a man whom she knew quite well in the role of her Father’s closest advisor and companion, one who was indistinguishable in her immature mind from the King’s age. She had always imagined that some exotic young prince was going to sweep her off her feet into marriage, and now it seemed that she was to be parceled out to her Father’s best friend, which felt a bit incest
