Chapter 64

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.

what would happen next. Though she trembled slightly with nervousness, there was

for

birds sang sweetly in

gloriously romantic

no return, a mobile phone rang

they’d created,

seemed inclined to ignore the ringing and continue, but Thalia had been startled back

few steps.

phone,” she stammered,

his voice low and husky with desire.

ravish you completely.”

should… probably answer that

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

ID showed Grace Bennett.

this early morning? Why choose precisely this moment to call? Asher suddenly found his sister rather irritating, and

it?”

excitedly: “Brother, the meteorological service just announced there’ll be a meteor shower tomorrow night! Fancy watching it together? The best viewing spot is at South Downs National Park.

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the man’s gaze drifted to Thalia standing nearby,

instantly.

A meteor shower?

working herself to the bone these past days, and tomorrow

responded in a measured

small interruption, the previous intimate atmosphere had thoroughly

face. She cleared her throat strategically, feigning composure as she said, “I’m rather peckish. Shall

you were going to verify

wrong! I was just

deliciously husky and enticing, “How can you be so certain without proper

evidence?”

her lip and lowered her head to stare at her toes, the picture of contrition. “I

couldn’t help but

Thalia was so delightfully modest–he’d

press the young woman further

South Downs National Park the next day to watch

eyes lit up brilliantly at the mention of a meteor shower. She responded with

Charlotte and Victoria

and agreed.

knows he’d only been thinking of spending time alone with her.

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at the first mention of the meteor

at the riding grounds previously, Asher felt it necessary to inform Thalia that Grace would also be joining

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