Chapter One

Summary:

Modern day Princess Rose of Turkey is told she will not become queen unless she finds a husband before she turns nineteen.

She is encountered by three possible fiancées, player Adrian Ivaskov, safe Edison Castile, and rich bad boy and the prince of a wealthy nation, Dimitri Belikov.

Being a princess is not all its cracked up to be. Little girls dream of becoming a princess for the reasons of wealth and beauty. No one ever dreams of becoming a princess for the forced marriage or the making decisions for a whole nation. I, Rose Mazur don't want to be a princess, but I really have no choice. My father Ibrahim Mazur is the King of Turkey while my mother, Janine is Turkey's Beautiful queen. The two of them together are unstoppable, fearless. And even though I speak my mind and I will always say my opinion, I don't think I will ever be able to rule our great nation…

"Rose. Rose…?" my best friend Lissa Dragomir says, snapping me back to the present.

"Huh? Sorry I guess I just spaced out," I replied looking back into my coffee mug. We were in the towns smallest and least paparazzi filled coffee shop. Just as I was about to tell Lissa my thoughts about becoming queen, my Blackberry Style beeped saying I had a new message.

I opened the message:

Rose I need you home immediately; Lord Ivashkov arrived to the house early and wants to meet you, PRONTO!

Love mom3

Great! That's exactly what I need right now early guests. My life was dictated in every way, who I saw, where I went, who I went with. Every moment was photographed and recorded. I hated how I didn't get to find someone and fall hopelessly in love like most other girls.

"So rose how do you think Adrian will be?" Lissa asked as we slipped out the back door of the café.

To be honest I didn't know what to expect to out of him. If the rumors were true then I probably would not like him.

"Well," I said "if he is anything like the media says then he will probably be too busy to have an actual conversation with me before he has to jet of to the next strip club."

"Oh come on don't be such a downer" Liss says as I hopped into the passenger seat of her vintage mini cooper. "He's really hot and he can make anyone laugh I wouldn't mind running into him once or twice."

"Ha Ha, I wish you would be serious for once, this is the rest of my life I'm talking about. Not some walk through the park of quick affairs and hot dates. I have to choose someone. You know divorce is strictly forbidden no matter how many times I'm am cheated on I have to suck it up and procreate against my will. If anything he has a lot of money which means tons of Gucci and endless amounts of Prada shoes. Arg! I would give it all up for real love. I don't even want to be married at nineteen; I mean I haven't even lived at all. I-"

"Rose, you know I love you but we've been over this a million times, but give them a chance who knows? If you knock down some of that thick brick wall you've built maybe you'll actually like one of these guys. Besides we are here so there is no avoiding it now. Go in, freshen up, and go see that hot piece of men meat that is so not patiently waiting for you. And remember what I said…let some of the wall down you never know what might happen." Lissa was so insightful sometimes.

"Okay, I'll try, I love you. Wish me luck."

She blew me a kiss and drove off looking like Barbie in vintage couture.

I didn't know what to think of all this. Much less start to think about actual love. As I walked through the fancy double doors and said hi to the doorman I wondered why my father thought I couldn't pick someone myself.

"Ugh," I ran straight into a man on my way to my room. "Sorry I didn't mean to run into you I-"Suddenly I looked into the most beautiful emerald green eyes I'd ever seen. I took a step back and looked at the smirk on Adrian Ivashkov's gorgeous face.

"Hi, Rose? Can I call you rose? Wow you are even more ravishing in person. You really are yummy. I'll bet we will have a grrreat time together."

I gave him a look that had to say i was peeved. I mean this guy was hitting on me and we had met not ten seconds before, this couldn't be good. I tried to raise my eyebrow like Lissa always did but failed miserably and asked, "Why are you in this part of the hall? No one's allowed here."

"Uh well your lovely mother sent me to find you, she says she wanted to give us a few minutes to get to know each other before dinner. Is there somewhere we could go and talk?"

I think I visibly gulped. "Yeah, we can go to the office across the hall and sit."

We walked to my dad's office and sat in the two chairs that were kind of ugly and very uncomfortable. Adrian looked like he wanted to say something but didn't. After a few awkward moments of silence I coughed and said "so is there anything you want to ask me? Since we could be getting married…"