Chapter 62

• **KORVUS’S POV**
• I walked back to my study, my steps slow, deliberate. A faint smirk played at the corner of my lips, a reaction I hadn’t even realized had formed. I licked the inside of my cheek, still tasting the remnants of the fire Kelilah had attempted to set in my throat. The spice lingered, but it wasn’t unpleasant—it was amusing.
• She had tried to best me, to get under my skin with something so trivial. And yet, here I was, sitting in my chair, thinking only of her.