CHAPTER 14

  Prepared to let loose the full force of his anger, Casper stilled, diverted from his mission by her captivating green eyes. Holly. He knew her name now. She was dressed in an oversized, pale pink tee-shirt with a large embroidered polar bear on the front. Her hair tumbled loose over her shoulders and her feet were bare. It was obvious that she'd been in bed, and she looked at him with shining eyes, apparently thrilled to see him. "Your Highness?"

  She looked impossibly young, fresh and naïve and Casper wondered again what had possessed him to get involved with someone like her.

  She had trouble written across her forehead.