The luncheon wasn’t at all pleasurable to Danika, as she had predicted. And it took longer than she wanted it to last to the point that she had to pretend she was too tired to go on with the fake conversations going on around the table and the King offered to show her back to her chamber, which she was sure he wanted an escape too.
They walked side by side in utter silent that the only thing that were evident to them being together was the soft sounds of their shoes along the long corridors of the palace, which she found alluring and beautiful to look at. He cleared his voice softly and she turned to look at him, “I guess you must've had something to tell me, Your Majesty.” Her lips itched to call him with his first name, to show him that she wasn’t going to regard him with the respect h
