Chapter 95

• My heart was skipping inside me. I picked up no emotion, just that carefully guarded void of nothingness he seemed all too capable of achieving. “If we,” I paused to choose the right word, “sleep together, I don’t want you to misconstrue that to mean I’d agreed to…”
• “Be marked as mine for whole realms to see?” He finished quietly, with no infliction of emotion at all.
• Nodding, I took a quick breath. I hadn’t thought about this conversation prior to now, or if I had, I was in denial. Now that I’d just laid it out on the table, there was no going back and every nerve in my body tensed waiting for the conclusion.