“IT’S TIME you took a wife.”
Ezekiel managed to keep his surprise hidden with some difficulty. That blunt statement was not what he’d expected when he received the summons to his father’s office.
A discussion of family business, perhaps, or questions about happenings at the palace, like some news of General Nikolaus’ choices—since Father seemed to hate every one of them since Nikolaus married to Prince Kaillen—was what usually precipitated a call to his father’s presence.
He’d never imagined that Father would bring marriage up. Ezekiel had seen no indication that Father was even thinking in that direction.
Father had said plenty as he’d pushed the General to marry, and plenty more when he had married a man instead of the woman Father have chosen for him, but he’d never said a word ab
