RONAN'S POV
Content Warning:
This chapter contains themes and dialogue that include incest innuendos. Reader discretion is strongly advised.
My finger made slow, lazy circles on Ewan’s bare back. His skin was warm under my touch, smooth in the way I liked it. For a while, we didn’t talk. We didn’t need to.
Then his voice came, soft and tired. “What now?”
I didn’t stop tracing. “We wait. Mother will work something out.”
Ewan turned to look at me, the corner of his mouth twitching. “We can still leave, you know.”
I stopped moving my hand.
He went on, “We don’t have to keep getting dragged into her games. We’re not children anymore.”
I pushed myself up on one elbow, eyes narrowing. “Don’t be stupid.”
His brows pulled together.
“This—this politics—it’s all we have,” I said. “It’s wh
