He lifts my face, his hands on my cheeks, a soft, intimate gesture. “Once we return, I will put the kingdom’s treasury at your disposal. I don’t want to bring you back to a land where you lack the comforts that you have grown accustomed to here. I think it’s time for the North to adapt to the wonders of human technology.”
My lips part as I gape at him. I’m shocked. “Are you saying what I think you’re saying?” The North is so entrenched in its olden ways that for Cedric to even suggest such a massive change is mind-boggling.
“If you are willing to oversee this shift, then yes.” He looks serious, but the corner of his mouth is upturned.
“And if the elders object?”
“You let me worry about them. Handling the noble families is my problem. But I’m not so selfish as to ask my mate and son to
