SIXTY

“You did good,” Cahir commended as we entered our luxury suite. “You think?” If I had a tail, it’d be wagging but no matter how much I tried to hold back my happiness, it couldn’t be helped. The part of me that was starved of affection and validation surfaced despite how I tried to hide it.

“Your smile is pretty.” An unfamiliar warmth spread through me, and then that fluttering in my stomach started back up.

“T – Thank you.” I ducked my head for no apparent reason but then I raised it back up, feeling ridiculous.

“I should make you smile more often,” he muttered to himself but those words made me

blush even more. “Now you see I am not useless, after all.” The words slipped from my mouth with no thoughts as I tried to understand why I felt like hiding behind my hair from what he said.

I was deep in thought when I noticed the uncomfortable silence in the room and felt a gaze piercing my face. Raising my head and pushing my hair from my face, I met Cahir’s eyes boring into me.

“Who said