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Thalia’s face went scarlet in an instant. She turned away, attempting to deny everything with what little dignity she could muster. “What on earth are you talking about? I would never say something like that…”

The corner of Asher’s mouth quirked upward. “No?”

“Of course not!” Thalia’s voice grew progressively quieter, her confidence waning with each word. “I mean… I couldn’t possibly have… not in front of everyone…”

Bloody hell.

Fragments of memory were beginning to resurface.

Last night, she had… possibly… perhaps… Oh god, she really had said those things, hadn’t she?

“I was talking absolute rubbish!”

The soft morning light filtered through the windows, illuminating her crimson–flushed face.

Thalia bit her lip, utterly mortified. “You know I was completely sloshed. I was just babbling nonsense. You wouldn’t hold a drunk person’s ramblings against them, would you?”

She didn’t sound particularly convinced of her own argument and added in a small voice: “When

someone’s intoxicated, they can’t fully control or recognize their actions. In legal terms, that’s considered diminished capacity…”

Asher’s shoulders shook with quiet laughter.

“Are you giving me a legal lecture now, counselor?”

In reality, intoxicated individuals weren’t legally classified as having “diminished capacity” at all–Thalia

was merely grasping at straws.

Knowing she was on shaky ground, Thalia let out an indignant “hmph” and attempted to wriggle free from Asher’s embrace.

His arms remained firmly around her waist. “Trying to escape? Have you forgotten how thoroughly you teased me last night? You can’t simply wind me up and then disappear.”

The scent of shower gel lingered on his skin–Thalia recognized it as her own usual brand.

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Asher leaned in and claimed her lips, his elegant fingers threading through her hair. They kissed with urgent passion, like a summer storm or a howling winter gale–powerful and impossible to resist.

“Lia,” he murmured against her lips, “may I?”

The faint morning light gradually brightened, and even the air between them felt charged with electricity.

she trembled slightly with nervousness,

Asher and yearned for this deeper intimacy

sang sweetly in the

a gloriously

as they reached the precipice of no return, a

created, the sound was

He seemed inclined to ignore the ringing and continue, but Thalia had been startled back to reality. Blushing furiously,

few

stammered, gesturing vaguely.

with desire. “Why are you running, darling? I promise I

you

probably answer that first…”

reached for his phone, the heat in his eyes cooling back to his

ID showed Grace

call? Asher suddenly found his sister rather irritating, and

it?”

Fancy watching it together? The best viewing spot is at South Downs

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the man’s gaze drifted to Thalia standing nearby, his

instantly.

A meteor shower?

like that. She’d been working herself to the bone these past days, and tomorrow being the weekend–it was the perfect opportunity for taking her

in a

the previous intimate atmosphere had

her throat strategically, feigning composure as she said, “I’m rather peckish. Shall we order some

glint. “I thought you were going to verify

quickly backpedaling. “I was wrong, completely wrong! I was just talking absolute rubbish,

was deliciously husky and enticing, “How can you be so

evidence?”

her head to stare at her toes, the picture of contrition. “I just know I was

help

delightfully

the young woman further and dutifully ordered breakfast.

their meal, Asher told Thalia about going to South Downs National Park the next day to watch the meteor

anticipated, Thalia’s eyes lit up brilliantly at the mention of a meteor shower. She responded with

Charlotte and

smiled and agreed.

only been thinking of spending

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Thalia enjoyed having people around, and at the first mention of the meteor shower, she’d immediately thought of

at the riding grounds previously, Asher felt it necessary to inform Thalia that

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