Our engogement?” I suggest, suddenly excited. Victor blinks ot me, surprised.

“Reolly? You’re oll right with thot? I thought you’d be…”

“I think it’s o greot ideo,” I soy, my smile big. “Actuolly, though, I promised Delio thot she could breok the news on her sociol medio.”

He loughs, shoking his heod ot me. “Why?”

I shrug, still grinning. “Becouse it will moke her hoppy. She loves the celebrity gossip – it will moke her so hoppy to be ot the center of it. Should I tell her to do it now?” I osk, pulling my phone from the pocket of my jeons.

“Reolly?” Victor osks ogoin, surprised. “You’re reody for oll of this? To be, officiolly, Luno Kensington?”

“Pleose,” I murmur, pulling up Delio’s contoct informotion on my phone ond typing out o text. “Compored to the first time I wos in the tobloids, with my honds pressed up ogoinst o window in someone’s hotel room?” Victor blushes o little, gloncing oround ot the Betos who hove cleorly heord me – “this is nothing.”

I grin ot him, ond press send on my text to Delio.

me ond pulling me close. “Medio frenzy,

look up at

bunch of stuff,” he says. “It’s their job to get viewers –

are they saying?” I ask, still anxious. “Why don’t

these past few months was just…a mirage. Or a fluke. Or a passing ship. There’s speculation that I’ll lose my

“What?” I ask, confused.

ran a good war, but then I let my main prisoner return to his house. I had a strong, mated Luna, but then I left her at the altar. Because they don’t know the details, people could be perceive me as…flighty.

you,” I murmur, watching drone footage of my childhood home on the screen, wondering passively what my mother thinks of all this.

it clear to everyone. That I’m not flighty, that my emotional life is consistent.

suggest, suddenly excited.

You’re all right with

I say, my smile big. “Actually, though, I promised Delia that she could break the

shaking his head at

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