When all this is over, what next?

Brielle's palms were sweaty with nerves, and she found herself unable to look directly at him. They stood face to face, awkwardly looking away from each other-one to the left, one to the right-creating a somewhat comical scene. Silence hung between them. "I..."

Brielle's heart leaped again at the sound, her fingers curling into a tight fist out of sheer anxiety.

Spit it out already. This is killing me, honestly.

Her brows furrowed in frustration, almost wishing she could speak for him!

King hesitated for another minute before blurting out, as if throwing caution to the wind, "I'll just tell you a secret!"

After that, his face turned so dark it seemed like it could drip ink.

Why can't he just say it? Damn it. Is Max interfering again?

"Brielle, I..."

Brielle's breath hitched once more, only to hear him say, "I'm just tired, I want to rest."

pulled Brielle with him, and walked down the

"What does that mean?"

before when he wanted to talk about the wedding but couldn't. What's so hard about saying he wants to be with Brielle, to marry her? Just now, he wanted to ask her if she'd marry him, but when it came to the crunch,

yourself

in his

deeply, opened his eyes, and suddenly grabbed Brielle's

fancy a

turned her head towards the window, ignoring him. King's mouth twitched slightly, silently retreating into

in his mind.

allow him to propose to

about

Premier Palace, King wanted to explain to Brielle-maybe blame it on Max-but what if she suddenly wanted Max back? His aunt's medicine wasz almost ready, and maybe by

Well, that's just petty. He's learned to play dirty! King was quite indignant but couldn't bring himself to mention it to Brielle, only stewing in his own

a trip

scenery at Premier Palace. As for his parents heading out, he

he gave Brielle a paper talisman, carefully colored in yellow with a marker. Since he hadn't really given gifts before, Isaac was somewhat

at the tiny

her palm, was almost overwhelmed its cuteness. She wanted to hug Isaac tightly and

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