Claimed For The Desert Prince's Heir / A Shocking Proposal In Sicily. Heidi Rice

      Alice Evershot

      Devereaux Scholarship Team

      The request was not at all what she needed right now. But she would have to attend the event tonight and make a good impression—any chance of getting her PhD funded was not something she could afford to pass up.

      But when the alarm on her phone buzzed again, making her jump, she realised Alice Evershot’s request had managed to take her mind off Raif and that one seminal night in the desert for ten full seconds—a record for the last month.

      Drawing a breath into her lungs, she reached for the test stick, finally ready to face what the rest of her life might hold.

      The breath was released in a shattered gasp as she read the result.