Chapter 51

"When?"

She asked, having a hard time swallowing and turned to study the house. It looked new, but also not lived in.

"I-I umm,"

He gave a frustrated growl and covered his face with his hand. Her mouth parted at the sudden display he was giving. Not the strong and confident King that everyone feared but the nervous and somewhat embarrassed man before her.

A small smile made its way across her face, him struggling to say something meant he was opening up to her, which she could guess was extremely hard for him.

He was trying.

She reached out and took the hand covering his face and held it to her face and she kissed his knuckles before intertwining their fingers. She gave him an encouraging smile. He looked up at her, his blue eye peering at her from under thick black lashes, and strands of hair fell forward. He was far from looking innocent, but at the moment he looked like a compassionate man about to confess something he'd kept to himself.

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