Chapter 0282

“I hate that,” I murmur, working to press myself closer to him, even though that’s not really possible. “I hate the idea of you scared, and alone, and talking to girls when I was just like… half a city away.”

“But you were engaged,” he says, his voice strange- I think a little amused? I don’t know. I can’t quite parse it.

“You knew about that?” I ask, looking up at him wide–eyed,

“How could I not?” he asks, grinning at me. “You were all over the media – – and it’s all anyone would talk about, especially as it got close.”

“Well,” I say, smiling myself a little too and reaching up to stroke my fingers through his hair. “What did you think about it?”

“You’ll be disappointed in me, Ari,” he murmurs, lowering his face and taking a sniff of my hair. “I didn’t really think about it. It was all very far from what I had been instructed to think was important, what I could understand – a royal wedding…” he shakes his head. “I didn’t have a way to understand it, why it was important.”

little, my smile deepening.

me like he can’t hold my eyes while he

with

faint blush on his cheeks. “I saw a few pictures on

his shirt, wanting him to

to equate the lowest–ranked

((

was prettttty,” I sing, a little

heat coil in

crap,” I say with a sigh, staring up at him, starry–eyed and swept away by

more I want to know, and I’m being selfish,

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