Matrimony With His Majesty
"SINCE the last two major college riots, we have to take what happened today seriously,Alex. I'm urging you to move yourself and your loved ones to one of your residences in the mountains away from the public where you're not so vulnerable."
"We've been over this ground before, Leo. I refuse to let fear rule our lives."
"then at least consider permanently closing off public access to the castle and estate. there are too many radical student elements out there wanting to bring down the monarchy. they never stop thinking up new and ingenious ways to wreak havoc for the sheer hell of it."
"I agree there have always been those fringe elements in society, but I'd rather employ more security than shut myself off from the people."
In Alex's six years as king of the Romanche-speaking Valleder Canton in Switzerland, Leo had kept everyone safe, freeing Alex to attempt to do the job his father had done so superbly over a thirty-year period as sovereign.
He eyed Leo, the forty-year-old widower who'd been Interpol's top agent before becoming Alex's head of state security. They'd grown to be close friends.
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