Forbidden Love with My Prince Stepbrother

Tess arrives at the palace when her mother marries the king and becomes the new queen. Her stepbrother is Prince W, whom every woman in the kingdom talks about and who takes that as his due. Walking in on him one afternoon, Tess finds him charming the royal tutor, and in the same stretch she works out that he has been altering his exam marks. It is the first time anyone has caught him at anything. Rather than buy her silence, he decides to make a game of it. He wanders past her in a bathrobe, drops his voice low next to her ear, corners her between the library shelves and tells her he is teaching her a lesson. She tries to keep distance and keeps turning around into him. She plays dumb and he escalates. Late one night he comes into her room drunk, leans over her mouth and tells her he was never taking revenge on her, he was courting her. Then footsteps come down the corridor outside, and they belong to the queen.